Skutul, who has been harvesting and selling her own honey with her father's help since the age of 10, tends to two more hives in New Hampshire and an additional two in Maine.Karley's business is Soothing Honey and it has become a huge part of her life.
“Being an entrepreneur doesn’t give me a glass ceiling,” said Lea Haben-Woodford, the publisher and owner of Scottsdale-based SmartFem, an online and mobile magazine for women. She said running her company in Arizona has been great, given the state’s typically warm embrace of small businesses.Find out why women in Arizona are ditching corporate life to avoid gender gaps and starting their own businesses. After all, as one business owner says, "there's more job security in yourself than in turning it over to a company."
Being your own boss can provide flexibility that women look for to balance home life and work life. You can dig deeper into your passions, and it’s one of the best opportunities for professional success.Read: 7 startup tips for new female entrepreneurs
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A recent study shows there's one career path in which women's perceived happiness is greater than men's: entrepreneurship.Read the article: Why Women Entrepreneurs Are Happier Than Male Entrepreneurs
In the past year, MoolaHoop helped raise more than half a million dollars for women.Read some of the success stories: Minority Women Find Advantage with Crowdfunding
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[Gina] Rudan pointed out that Entrepreneur Barbie comes at a time when women -- particularly women of color -- are increasingly starting their own businesses due to barriers in the workplace. She said there’s an estimated 10 million small business owners in the United States who are women and a third of those business owners are Hispanic female business owners.Entrepreneur Barbie: Latina Author, Leadership Coach Gina Rudan Touts Mattel Doll's Latest Profession.
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Lee Ann Munger, director of [Seton Hill University's] e-Magnify's PowerLink program, said women from both countries struggle with the balance between work and family life as they advance in every field.Read the entire article: Chinese female business owners not so different, Seton Hill group finds
With flexibility, determination and passion, some are inspired to start their own businesses so they can raise a family and advance in their industry, Munger said.
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Corporate Escape: The Rise of the New Entrepreneur is designed to help anyone leave the corporate world and embark on building their own business as a ‘New Entrepreneur’, it will benefit anyone in a process of change, by helping them develop the courage needed to leave confusion, fear and mediocrity behind once and for all.I have not read the book yet but wanted to bring it to your attention. Go here to buy the book. And visit Maite's site established in 2012.
When Lambert was designing the line, her manufacturing partner told her that crystal-bedazzled boots - which are also platinum - might be too intense for the shoppers at DSW, a discount store that carries her collection. So she had a sample pair made in her size and has been wearing them onstage and in photographs for months. "I just decided we'd see what people start responding to," she said.See what else is cooking for Miranda with her personal brand:
Those jobs aren’t missing because women are unable to lead. They’re missing because women entrepreneurs face greater challenges than men, and that’s not a whine, it’s a fact.
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