It was when we started receiving compliments from strangers that I realized I was on to something.
1,000 Stories
More than 1,000 women entrepreneurs from around the world have told us about their personal business journeys. Here are their stories, in their own words. Tell us yours!
Irina Chirashnya: Academy of Fencing Masters — Creating Family Bonds Through New Business
After talking to different parents I saw that the need is a real one and I started a journey which is the most exiting one I ever had before.
Shareah Mokhtar: Cartoons and Caricatures — Touching Hearts Through Darwings
I am passionate about my drawing and I am at peace when I am absolutely engrossed in my projects.
Elizabeth Kraus: Be InPulse – Marketing Guidance for Small Business Owners
Small business owners use my annual marketing calendars for small business, salons and spas, restaurants or dental practices to launch a manageable multi-channel marketing effort.
Deborah A. Culp: Journalist, Consultant & Photographer – From Surviving Tragedy to Finding Her Voice
Thank goodness, after 3 years that the rescue took, I jumped in with both feet to take advantage of my second chance.
Gail Romero: Collective Changes — UPDATE
UPDATE: Today, Collective Changes offers just in time business expertise and education using IBM/World Bank Entrepreneurs Tool kit, mentors with business expertise and the opportunity to access credit.
Margaret Brown: The ANROMA Group — SocializeLA.com
I had an idea and I knew I could help other businesses. There was this unwavering passion in me that got me going, and kept me going.
Colleen McCarthy: On Pointe Nutrition, LLC — Former Professional Dancer Turned Nutritional Guru
My biggest challenge has been learning how to balance running a business, having a life and keeping myself healthy at the same time.
Lucy Postins: The Honest Kitchen — Progressing the Pet Food Industry
The food actually spoke for itself in the way it tasted and the health benefits it yielded, so we grew dramatically by word of mouth and grassroots means – one shiny dog at a time.
Valrie Grant: GeoTechVision Enterprises Ltd — From Illness to Recovery to Booming Business
I define success as “growing” and “in business”, it is therefore growing and being a profitable entity which is not dependent on me but a team of committed, hardworking individuals.
Audrey Bell-Kearney: Ms. Boss Media — Single Mom Starts Business to Create a Good Life for Child
I started my business because I was a single parent and I wanted to create a good life for my daughter. I hated my job at the time and every day I went to work I felt like I was loosing myself.
Suzanne (Suz) Mauro: Style Everyday With Suz — Making Pittsburgh Stylish
I feel Success is about enhancing who you are, and unlike fashion, it’s personal. Success is all about the individual…
Donna Joyner Green: Techmoja Dance & Theatre Company — Inspired by Husband’s Death & Her Life-Threatening Illness
I view my success with Techmoja, when the day comes when people realize that true talent has no shape, size, gender or color.
Marjie Krupnick: Maxxable — Female Inventor’s “Ah Hah” Moment
I have always wanted to be an inventor of an item that people will use and need even if they didn’t realize it.
Maria Luisa Castellanos: United Architects, Inc. — A Solid 25 Years in a Male-Dominated Industry
Having been able to last for over 25 years in this business, which is primarily a male-dominated business, and accumulate a portfolio of work which is rather good in my opinion.