Dahcia Bastien became fascinated with the idea of becoming an entrepreneur during college at University at Albany, when her boyfriend-now-husband, Jacques Bastien -- who freelanced throughout school -- defined entrepreneurship as the freedom to create something...
5, 4, 3, 2, 1... If, within just five seconds, you challenged yourself to do the thing you said you were going to do -- to keep a commitment, send that email, make that call, feed the kids, go to the gym -- think of how different (and productive!) life would...
Pam Perry knew very early on that she was meant to be an entrepreneur -- partly because she liked figuring out more efficient ways of doing things and partly because she was fired from nearly every job she had as a teenager. Seventeen years later, Pam is celebrating...
Scareletta Media Founder and Social Stylist Melanie Mackie considers herself an accidental entrepreneur. The United Kingdom native began as a blogger in 2009 sharing tips about social media, long before many were turning to the internet for content and...
If there's one thing that entrepreneurship teaches you, whether you're ready for the lesson or not, it's how resourceful you are -- or not. This is one of the things that life strategist SharRon Jamison loves about entrepreneurship, and what she learned from her...
When Gilda Squire's mom passed away when she was 15, it impacted the trajectory of her life. Instead of graduating high school and going directly to George Mason College--which was her dream, she ended up working for the FBI in order to take care of herself and make...
I don't care how gentle a rejection is, there's always some part of it that makes us say, "Ouch!" I went through this recently after receiving a rejection from an agent about my book proposal for the "Support is Sexy" book. (OUCH!) But, I learned something from this...
Since she was 14 years old, growing up in Littleton, Colorado, Ann Shoket always knew that she would be a woman of the world, one with great power. Though she's not sure exactly where that confidence came from at such a young age, the author and celebrated former...
Born in the Philippines, Maria-Karmina Landicho came to the U.S. at age 3 and was taught from early on by her father that everything was possible; but, as an immigrant, she often felt like an outsider. When she found her parents' typewriter and began to write,...
This week is for the dreamers who are ready to become DOERS. And in support of moving you through that sometimes frustrating process, I'm doing a series this week on the podcast called "Get Out Your Dreams." Each day, we'll focus on a part of the process and...
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