My top challenge is related with the balance needed to maintain and form a team that works and collaborates with the goal of creating significance.
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!
Coretta A. Owusu: aSuiteStay — From Law School to Starting a Hospitality Business in Ghana
If you go to school to become a doctor or a lawyer and you absolutely hate going to work each day, you may have succeeded in the eyes of everyone else, but not for yourself.
Peggy McHale: Consultants 2 Go, LLC — Covering Resource Gaps in Major Corporations
In one of the worst recessions since the Great Depression, we have navigated our business to double-digit rates of growth and wrote a book about our experience.
Marion Hook: Adobe Rose Inn and ARI Foods — Choosing Entrepreneurship Over Retirement
To many who knew us, our decision seemed foolish and involved far too much risk.
Kristie Kennedy: Kristie Kennedy Empowerment Enterprises — Always in Search of Greater Success
The greatest challenge is to overcome your self-limiting beliefs and negative behavior patterns.
Diane Alverio: CTLatinoNews.com, MassLatinoNews.com, RILatinoNews.com — Providing a Much Needed Voice in the Media
A limited representation of Latinos skews public perception and becomes an obstacle in progress on public policy matters that affect all.
Smriti Dalvi: Florista — Floral Company that Benefits the Flower Growers in India
For me success is a continuous process. When you reach a milestone, you succeed, and then there is another milestone to reach, and then another. It just goes on.
Jordan Bosstick: Volkalize — People Power Discussion
I am from the social media generation, we do everything online, so I felt that I had to create a place online for it to really catch on.
Farah Majidzadeh: Resource International — Basement Startup to Multi-million Dollar Company
Hard work, loving what I do, and learning from mistakes are the cornerstone and the key to my success.
Kim Sawyer: The Locator Services Group Ltd. — Defining Success as Helping Those in Need During the Boston Bombing
Success is creating or recognizing opportunities, which could have a positive impact on our own life, our family, our community and those less fortunate than us.
Kari Warberg Block: Earth-Kind — Living Her Father’s Legacy as an Inventor and Entrepreneur
There was not an effective solution to rodent control that was safe to use around kids and pets for our farm equipment and in our home, so I invented one.
Camilla Ley Valentin: Queue-It — Globally Scaling A Software-As-A-Service Company
After having grown a software company succesfully from 15 to 100 employees, my co-founders and I wanted to create our own business, marketing a cloud computing Software-as-a-Service on a global scale.
Romy Taormina: Psi Bands — Stylish Acupressure Wrist Bands that Relieve Nausea
Because we can’t live life fully prepared, we sometimes just have to jump in with two feet and take the plunge. Sometimes it’s best just not to know what lies ahead.
Beth Cayce: CaraVita Home Care — Allowing Seniors to Stay in the Comfort of Their Own Home
It is my sincere hope that we can help provide continued passion for life in the seniors and families we serve.
Lynn Pechinski: 1st Straw Marketing & Promotions — Started a Business in Response to a Non-compete Agreement
[Success is] Business and personal life balance with the time, good health and financial resources to enjoy time with family and friends.