"My work has been a mix of helping people understand the laws, so they don't have to hire an expensive law firm to figure them out, but also saying: 'This law doesn't make sense; I'll bet if you get together and talk to some of the decision makers at your state house about why they're putting a damper on this economic and health opportunity, then you can get this changed,'" Broad Leib says.
It's a mix of practical help, interaction with people who are also going through the same experience and emotional support.
When the Japanese perfected this approach — with a mix of research help, tax incentives and government "guidance" — American presidents would dispatch negotiators to demand a halt to the practice.
Farther north, in the Finger Lakes region of New York, a mix of skills helped Nancy Irelan and her husband, Mike Schnelle, open the Red Tail Ridge Winery.
She had, that morning, already enraptured an audience of high-level corporate women at a private event for International Women's Day in New York by preaching a mix of self-help, female empowerment and a home-spun, can-do, go girl! chutzpah.
Chosen by mental health experts and young people, the books, a mix of self-help, memoir and fiction, can be recommended by GPs, counsellors and school nurses, and the list of titles will also be available to borrow from public libraries.
But that means that there can be a mix of ways to help out homeless people, from federal assistance to local non-profit programs.
The officials emphasized that a waste-to-energy facility would only be part of a mix of methods to help the city meet its goal of doubling the amount of waste diverted from landfills.
As a result, Clifton had properties that could be redeveloped for the first time in many years and rezoned them for a mix of uses to help stabilize taxes, said Robert P. Hammer, the city manager.
Vestin Rahmani identifies something very pleasing in his demeanour – a mix of eagerness to help and a humble reserve – and says she thinks he will go far in the industry.
In a lengthy speech at Georgetown University last November, he argued that his political philosophy was most in keeping with that of Franklin D Roosevelt, who similarly proposed a mix of public works, help for the poor and banking reform to lift America out of the Great Depression.
