Archive for the 'Inspiration' Category

From Homeless Shelter to Successful Business Owner

Several years ago, Melissa’s life hit rock bottom. She found herself with nothing. She was living in a homeless shelter, jobless, without a car and raising her teenage son. It was while she was in the homeless shelter that things started to turn around for her. Melissa took a class on how to start [...]

Karate Studio

Here’s a story about a woman who became hooked on a hobby and turned it into a profitable business. When Dawn’s two boys dragged her to a family-style karate class in 1984, a passion was born. “I got the hang of things quickly,” she says. Soon the single mom was taking private karate lessons. [...]

Plus-Size Clothing

Nancy Baum, a former plus sized model, was shocked and embarrassed by the lack of stylish clothing she could find. More than once she showed up to a social event wearing the same outfit that another plus sized peer was wearing. Enough was enough! Baum created a website that sells trendy and upscale designer women’s [...]

Success With Bowls

Like many career women, Soli had serious choices to make when she became a mother. A trained architect and artist, Soli worked in New York Galleries and taught photography at New York University. When her son was three years old, however, she wanted to be able to stay home with him–but how to support him? [...]

Cat Pet Product

In the 1980s, Karen worked as a property manager throughout the week and showed Himalayan cats at weekend cat shows. At shows, she saw a lot of money being spent on cat-themed products. She invested $700 in specialty cat shampoos and sold them at the shows and in cat magazines, going from her day job [...]