1 Hour To Inspire 1 Billion Girls: CEO Rupa Dash on World Woman Hour

Growing up in rural eastern India, Rupa Dash would be the first girl in her family to get an education.

“The biggest dream girls would ever see and what she deserves is to find somebody or your parents find somebody who would own a truck and you would get married,” says Dash, co-founder and CEO of the World Woman Foundation, with the mission that “Equality for women is progress for all.”

That is an audacious success for someone who as a young girl explains, “I literally never get out of my home and played outside.”

Ambition / Intention, Entrepreneur, Inspirational Role Models, Women Career Success, Mentors and SponsorsMichele WeldonOctober 9, 2020inspirational women, Inspirational Leaders, Mentorship, career path, women entrepreneursComment

Silver Lining: Inventor, Founder Creates Urgent Solution and Fulfills Her Dream

Lori Greiner, the highly successful investor on ABC-TV’s “Shark Tank,” can offer tips and also learn lessons from Zeynep Ekemen, the creator of Silver Defender, a stretchable film that protects any and all surfaces from germs and viruses.

Ekemen, or Z, as everyone calls her, was at her early morning “Breakfast Club” with business friends in a local Fort Lee, New Jersey coffee shop in 2018, when one of her friends returned from the men’s room grossed out by what he saw.

Career success, Career choices, Ambition / Intention, Entrepreneur, Women Career Choices, Women Career SuccessMichele WeldonAugust 24, 2020women entrepreneurs, women inventors, Covid-19, women in business, How women can advance their careersComment

Risky Business: Founder Entrepreneur Says Risk Breeds Success

Risk is a four-letter word to many, and one to be avoided.

Ambition / IntentionMichele WeldonAugust 6, 2018entrepreneurs, Michele Weldon, Tools, women entrepreneurs, women leaders Comment

Sending Love: BoxFox Founder Gives Tips to Women Entrepreneurs

Inspirational Role ModelsMichele WeldonMarch 28, 2018inspirational women, Michele Weldon, Role Models, women entrepreneurs, women leaders Comment

Try It, You May Like It: Some Jobs Are Opportunity For Women in The Workplace

Butcher, baker, candlestick maker.

The 18th century English nursery rhyme about three men in a tub and their occupations has little to do with what contemporary women in the workplace claim as careers both in the U.S. and abroad. But maybe women planning their career paths should be thinking outside of the box– or bathtub.