Starting My Business

Fear of failure?

There are important differences between starting a business and creating your own job. It isn’t about taxes or your “corporate structure.” It isn’t about whether you offer a product or a service [...]

Your story for your business is critical to your success. Perhaps you’ve heard that “story” is crucial to your marketing – and that is true! But “story” is not [...]

So, you want to start your own business? Thinking about quitting your job to become your own boss? Women are leaving Corporate America to start a business at ever-increasing rates, unlike our [...]

Are you thinking about making the leap from executive to entrepreneur? Many female executives are working in jobs  to build someone else’s dream. It may mitigate the risks you face, but [...]

Do you dream of creating a change with a product or service that you create and sell? If your current job is not providing the satisfaction or fulfillment you want from your life’s work, [...]

Why do women start businesses? Because we can. OK, that’s kind of a snarky response, however true. The rate at which women start businesses is dramatically greater than our male [...]

Entrepreneurship is not about limiting yourself – quite the opposite, in fact. Being an entrepreneur means being open to all sorts of ideas. Before that, you need to be willing to explore inside [...]

It didn’t take the first time I tried. Not really. After 20 years as a Fortune 500 executive and being “the first woman everything,” I achieved all that I set out to in my career. Yet I wasn’t [...]