…her late mother, Connie, who had been a stay-at-home parent until her mid-40s, when “my brother [Ken] came home from college and he had an idea for a company.” The…
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She Started Making Healing Crystal Jewelry for Herself – Now Celebrities Are Wearing Her Creations
…mother was a single mother who was in an abusive relationship with a deadbeat man. She worked her butt off to provide for me and my brother. She taught me…
CJ Johnson: CJ Johnson Writes!– Savvy Storytelling
…an MFA program. But in all honesty, as long as I can say, that I have made my Mother proud of me, then that will be how I know that…
Summer Reading: Ladies Who Launch in Hong Kong by Maseena Ziegler
…Maybe it helped that Sonya hadn’t started her professional life as a designer. ‘My father was in finance; my mother had gone into nursing. In my family, you went into…
Susanne Hemet: From Web Designer to Business Coach
…and when I couldn’t find a job working for a company, a friend gave me a referral of someone his mother knew who needed a website built. I thought, “Sure……
Her Jewelry Designs Are Timeless, Yet Modern
Susie Saltzman is a jewelry designer, solopreneur and mother. Her eponymous line of fine jewelry Susie Saltzman is modern yet timeless. She designs beautiful keepsakes that celebrate unique and personal…
Chavalia D. Mwamba: A Niche Perfumery
…Since becoming a mother of twin boys 2 years ago, I find that any project I undertake must be friendly to my duties as a mother. While pregnant, I put…
Julia Pimsleur of Little Pim: A New Language Learning Program for Kids
…background as a filmmaker, language teacher and mother. Related: Read about another Children’s Goods & Services Entrepreneur here. How do you define success? Success for me is made up of…
Sheila P. Coates: BYOB (Be Your Own Brand)
…I realized it was changing lives and positively impacting people on every level. Between my personal journey, my career branding celebrities and my Mother, who always told me to, “BE…
Donna Karan Opens Up About Fashion, Failure and the Force That Drives Her
…family — her mother was a model and her father, who died when she was 3, had been a tailor — and they shuttled her off to Parsons School of…
They Sat Empty During the Pandemic. Now, Women’s Co-working Spaces Are Making a Comeback
…when she came back on the phone. “It’s just the nature of the beast.” The Newcomers on the Block Mother-and-daughter-in-law Stephanie and Katie Tsuru started SheSpace during the pandemic. (Credit:…
Jamille Jones: Prosperity Ventures– Helping Others Gain Financial Independence
…my life just a bit more flexible. So I struggled through my training courses even while in the hardest point of my life. Both my grandmother and father were in…
She Designed Fierce Female Action Figures. And Surprise! Her Customers Are Men
…TEXT: Her father Maury is a doctor. Her mother Susan was a stay at home mom. TEXT: She died when Julie was 8. Julie: My mother played a huge role…
Sheena Allen of Sheena Allen Applications: An Empowered Female in the Tech Start-Up World
…Oprah is a role model for me in the business world, my most important role model is my mother. Thought I don’t have kids, to be older now and understand…
This Muslim Director Is Flipping the Rom-Com Genre with Her New Film ‘Americanish’
…Heights in Queens, New York, follows sisters Sam and Maryan as they navigate work and romance under their mother’s protective eye, and their cousin, Ameera, who arrives to the U.S….