Cyndie Spiegel grew up in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and remembers the struggles her family experiences to make ends meet financially. But what the Brooklyn resident also remembers are the years that her mom was an entrepreneur as owner of a local arcade, and how that...
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...
Rebecca Gordon was 24 years old when she quit her day job and decided to become a full-time entrepreneur in the astrology space, but she has always had an entrepreneur mindset and a love of astronomy. Still it wasn’t until a mentor pointedly asked...
Faven Ressom’s family is Eritrean, and at age seven, she came to Atlanta from Ethiopia. Though surrounded by family, Faven felt like she was on her own, like she never really belonged because of the struggle to balance her own culture with American culture. Her...
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...
