Entrepreneur Melissa Mitchner is a native New Yorker, who grew up in public housing in the South Bronx. Raised by her grandmother, who instilled a strong work ethic and sense of responsibility in her, Melissa got her first and only job, when she was 18 years...
In 2009, Shannon Amos decided to leave her corporate position as a television executive at Warner Brothers and start her own production company. Creatively, she felt the game had changed, so she pivoted and became an entrepreneur. In 2014, the...
Michelle Villalobos struggled to make money in her business for the first seven years, although she worked nonstop on building it. Eventually she got to the point when she thought about giving up. The turning point? A mentor who completely...
When Claire Wasserman hosted her first work & money event in New York nearly four years ago to support a friend who was struggling with salary negotiations, she quickly saw the need (and the possibility) of a business that addressed the wage gap...
“Entrepreneurship is something that finds entrepreneurs, sort of like love, in a way,” says Heather Havenwood, CEO of Havenwood Worldwide and author of the book, Sexy Boss: How Female Entrepreneurs are Beating the BIG Boys; While Changing the Rule Book for...
