Inventor Shannon Klingman is on a mission to change the narrative on feminine hygiene and bust the myth that the vagina is to blame! As a practicing Ob/Gyn, she had patients who often complained about odor and, most often, they were misdiagnosed with BV...
Kwayera Archer's love affair with entrepreneurship began when she witnessed her mother, a hematologist, using her free time to host fashion shows featuring celebrity designers and performers to raise money for children with sickle cell anemia. After years of traveling...
Allyson Scrutchens knows what it means to beat the odds. The Southside of Chicago native was born to a mother who was, at the time, addicted to crack cocaine, yet Allyson didn't have any symptoms or medical issues at birth. She and her mother, who is now...
Cheryl Polote-Williamson grew up in Savannah, Georgia, with an entrepreneur father, who had construction business. Unlike her siblings, Cheryl didn't want to be part of the business when she got older. She wanted to leave Savannah, and at 15, she left...
We often hear the best way to think about starting a business is to consider your potential customer's pain point and solve that problem. Milana Lechinsky started her business purely out of her own desire to stay at home with her young children -- this was her...
When Erica Mandy's day job got in the way of her aspirations to discover what her entrepreneurial journey was going to be after being inspired by a blog on side hustles, she knew it was time to leave. That, and her growing frustration with chasing stories for the...
Tokunbo Koiki, creator of her own West African supper club Tokunbo's Kitchen, considers herself an accidental entrepreneur. In fact, the Londoner, whose family hails from Nigeria, actually didn't even like cooking until just a few years ago! Today, Tokunbo has feed...
Growing up in Queens, New York, Stephanie Rance always questioned why things were believed to be "this way" instead of "that way," and why she couldn't create something different. Later, throughout her career in the music industry and later in film, that...
Karen Hunter is no stranger to entrepreneurship. She watched her father work seven days a week -- even on holidays -- at the corner store he owned in Newark, New Jersey, showing her along how business was handled. Karen was hooked, and wanted to be a part of the...
Ophira Edut and her identical twin sister, Tali, have been partners in entrepreneurship from a very young age. Since they were seven years old, the two have had a calligraphy business at their elementary school and a paper route in their Detroit neighborhood. They are...
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