Myriam Taylor started her first business when she was just 7-years-old, selling perfumes and oils to her parents and an auntie, who was one of her best clients. Her parents were activists and refugees who came to Portugal in the 1970s from Angola, and as...
As gifted as she is, it still took a while for Kim Coles to realize that as an actor, comedian and author, she is an entrepreneur and her very own brand. In 2010, she finally began to embrace the power and agency that entrepreneurship affords her. But in 2007, Kim was...
L’Oreal Thompson Payton, creator of the blog LTinthecity.com, grew up as a bookish girl in Belcamp, Maryland — obsessed with writing, reading, interviewing her baby sister and dreaming of making a move to New York City some day to become editor-in-chief of...
From the time she was nine years old and her family immigrated to the United States from Nigeria, Luvvie Ajayi always knew there was something different about her. But as a child, she shielded those differences in order to fit in while growing up in her new home of...
When Juliet Hall decided that she was tired of people telling her what to do, that was it — she knew it was time to become an entrepreneur. But the South Carolina native didn’t just jump up and quit her job, she planned her transition...