Stacy Francis has made both a business and a mission of helping women achieve financial security. That work began at her own door at age 19, when her grandmother confessed…
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Constructing a Green Company — and Country
…2010 Revenue: $50,000 Employees: 15 Role Model: Mother and Swami Vivekananda Website: kenandbamboooz.com Facebook: facebook.com/ken-bamboooz-now-bamboooz Twitter: @kenandbamboooz Mukherjee’s pitch? India should harness bamboo, which it has in abundance, for environmental…
She’s Using Her Business Instincts to Help Brands Expand and Grow
…what is significant. [Related: This Founder Didn’t Let Rejection or Sexism Stop Her From Building a $130 Million Insurance Startup] My Mother and my father are my role models. The…
Debra Haaland
…was raised in a military family — her mother served in the Navy and her father was a marine who received a Silver Star and the honor of burial in…
Why Women Need Role Models
…the share of total household income earned by a child’s mother, the better nourished the child. -Extrapolating this data, $11.40 per month in a mother’s hands would achieve the same…
A Chronic Pain Diagnosis Helped Her Make the Career Change She Needed to Live a Fulfilling Life
…struggles that they can still be successful. My most important role models are my father and mother. My father and I have had very similar ups and downs in our…
A Scary Experience Inspired This Travel Enthusiast to Start an Airbnb Alternative for Women
…like for women. Yaa Birago, a Ghanaian-born mother of two based in Toronto, came up with the idea for her company after she was subjected to unsafe conditions during jaunts…
A CEO Explains What’s It Really Like to Work in Public Health
…Woods and Pearl Wood, dubbed Sun River Health’s “founding mothers” – who wanted to address the lack of affordable, quality health care in their community. The women received a federal…
7 Books by Women Authors for Your Winter Reading List
…of feminism, #MeToo and mother-daughter relationships, all while confronting our collective addiction to followers, filters and faux realities. 3 Winterland by Rae Meadows (Nov. 29) In the Soviet Union…
For These 3 Founders — and Family Members — Buying Black Is Hella Personal
…— and entrepreneurs. Their mothers, twin sisters from Ethiopia, opened a famed Washington, D.C., jazz club (appropriately named Twins Jazz) over 30 years ago. Related 23 Influential Black Women to…
A Lawyer Aids Immigrants’ American Dreams
Credit: Berardi Immigration Law When a mother and stepfather were kept an ocean apart from their teenage son for almost a year by U.S. immigration officials, Rosanna Berardi of Berardi…
Sarah Wells of Sarah Wells Breast Pump Bags: Stylish Bags for New Moms
…PR Who is your most important role model? My own mother. My mom was the Executive Director of a nonprofit, amazing spouse and a phenomenal mother to three children (not…
Ann marie Houghtailing of the Millionaire Girls’ Movement: A Dollar Out of Nothing
…the worst economic climate of my life, and I had nothing more than $5 and a MacBook. Because I’m a single mother and I take care of my own mother,…
Susan L Combs of Combs & Company: Tackling Insurance Head On
…grew to great success in his career but always stayed true to his roots. He and my mother still live in the town of 1013 people that I grew up…
Michelle Lujan Grisham
…Born in Los Alamos and raised in Santa Fe, she is a single mother of two daughters, grandmother, caregiver of her mother and a widow — who would add to…