…used her executive recruiting services. Working Hard All Her Life Gautam’s respect for hard-working women started with her mother. Though her father was the family breadwinner, her mother managed the…
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Cleaning Up Our E-Waste Mess
Entrepreneur Traci Phillips of Natural Evolution is in the business of preserving Mother Earth. Editor’s Note: This story has been updated for publication in The New York Times since it…
Bernidene Thieroff: Helping Clients Gain Control of Their Finances
…This is quite a difficult question to answer as I believe the reason for starting CS Debt Counselling with my mother was because God gave me this huge heart’s desire…
Sarabeth’s Pushing 70 with No Signs of Letting Up
…her mother, crying to her that she felt like a “nobody,” ashamed that she did not achieve the same level of success as her four siblings. Her mother would have…
She’s Working To Break Stereotypes And Make Financial Advice Accessible & Easy To Understand
When Joanna Streames lost her mother at the young age of nineteen, she immediately became not only a guardian to her young sister, but in charge on an entire household….
Carol’s Daughter on the Sweet Smell of Success
The Story Exchange spoke to Lisa Price, founder of Carol’s Daughter, a skin care business that grew from Price’s love of fragrance. Cheered on by her mother, Price founded her…
Coletta Dorado: AZZLY
…Facebook www.facebook.com/azzly platform Reason for starting My mother had an adverse hospital incident that did not have to happen. I watched it. A medical device that was pumping liquid out…
Nathi Eustaquio: Empowering Immigrant Women
…mother… they all give a lot of importance to self-development and understanding oneself. With them I learned that knowing yourself is the secret, because then you can define what is…
10 Great Gifts for Moms, Made by Mompreneurs
…And, they’re all about family. “I wanted to pay homage to my family legacy and pass down to my daughter the wonderful recipes that my great-grandmother, grandmother and my still-living…
In Colombia, a Famous Chef and Her Daughter Aim to Protect Ancestral Cuisine
…love being around that wisdom, that simplicity of seeing life and those community values that sometimes are hard to find in the Western world.” Hernández says she and her mother…
A Foreign Film About Women Making Jam Makes a Surprisingly Strong Statement
…how I felt during that time, how my mother must have felt during that time, and how Fahrije feels — missing her husband and dealing with society and having to…
Peggy Farabaugh: Vermont Made Furniture Focused on Forest Preservation
…of the forest & it’s wildlife. Who is your most important role model? My mother is my most important role model. She has a strength and a kindness like no…
The Woman Who Wants to Change the Way We See Forests
…calls it. Simard is a professor of forest ecology at the University of British Columbia and author of Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Knopf, 2021),…
Finding a Good Life in Pools and Parking Lots
Kryshon Bratton is proof of the life-transforming power of persistence, enterprise and ingenuity. Born in Houston in 1978 to an Indian immigrant father and a professional ballet dancer mother, her…
After Devastating Loss, She Found A Creative Way To Memorialize Her Family
In the summer of 2021 Farah Ahmad’s family was devastated by COVID-19. She tested positive, as did her mother and brother who both eventually passed away from complications of the…