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Tastes of Success: Co-Founder of Meal Platform Delivers Homemade Dishes And Business Tips

It is precisely because she is not a good cook that Merav Kalish founded a national business centered on home-cooked meals delivered to your home.

As co-founder and chief marketing officer of WoodSpoon, Kalish has helped solve problems for both chefs and customers craving home-cooked meals reflecting the tastes and traditions of their own homes of origin.

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Find Your Squad: How Founder, CEO Created Startup To Solve Parenting Needs

The third envelope in the class exercise at Goldman Sachs Small Business Program was the key.

Jennifer Beall Saxton, founder and CEO of Tot Squad, recalls the class exercise was to open three envelopes in succession. In the first envelope was a fake check for $50,000. The assignment was to figure out what as a start-up, you could do with that influx of cash. Saxton had plenty of ideas.

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Say My Name: Fang Cheng Leading As Successful, Authentic Tech Innovator

Fang Cheng would not change her name. Not to make it sound less “Asian,” not to make it what investors told her would make her job as a tech innovator and entrepreneur easier.

One advisor told her to change her first name to Fiona. And when she married, another advisor told her to take her husband’s last name, because it was Jewish and not Chinese.

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Live Your Bucket List: Founder, CEO, LGBTQ+ Advocate Does The Work and Wins  

At her first job after graduating college in 1990 at Walden Books, Monica Smith, CEO and founder of Marketsmith, would walk into one of their stores filled with books and magazines and feel overwhelmed.

“It would become my best tool,” says Smith, who was severely dyslexic since childhood and was not able to read effectively until she was 18.

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Who’s Who: 1st Black Female CEO of Global Bio Database Aims For Inclusivity

After delivering her third child at 5:25 a.m. March 18, 2020, by 8 a.m., Erica Lee, the chief operating officer of Marquis Who’s Who, was on the phone with her remote team asking how they were doing with her newly devised COVID plan to work from home.

“I had her, she’s fine, now let’s get you working,” she says she told her team.

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Designing the Future: CEO's 7 Pillars to Successful Business Creation

Seven is considered a universal lucky number for those who believe in numerology.

Seven is an essential number in designing business strategy for Pamela Ayuso, CEO of Celaque, and author of Heptagram: the 7-Pillar Business Design System for the 21st Century.

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Power of Prioritizing: Latina CEO, Founder Advises, Inspires and Succeeds

Melissa Rodriguez, CEO of Mel Rodriguez & Co. and also Social Media Relations, was born and raised in the “witch city where everyone goes for Halloween.” That’s Salem, Mass., of course, where the history includes powerful and magical women.

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How Risky Are You? Discover Your Risk Profile To Be The Best You Can Be

At a time of deep uncertainty when it is risky to board an airplane or even shake hands, international best-selling author Michele Wucker wants you to understand that what you risk, who you are and how you behave personally and professionally around risk are inextricably linked.

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Now and Forever: Telemedicine Founder, CEO Changing The Health of Women 24/7

You’re never too young to start thinking about your health as an older woman.

Alicia Jackson, CEO, and Liya Brook, are co-founders of Evernow, a company focused on helping women live longer, healthier lives coping with menopause with a prescription-based model with telemedicine access to doctors and treatments 24/7.

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Post-COVID Turn Around: Fashion Entrepreneur Designs Win

This is the better life her parents imagined, and it is of her creation.

Ahyoung Kim Stobar, the daughter of an opera singer mother and a nationally renowned professor, TV and radio show host father in Korea, came to the United States from Korea in 1983 as a nine-year-old with her two brothers and parents.

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Moms Facing Hiring Challenges: COVID Fallout, Flex Time Needs Reshape Work

It’s a typical story. Accomplished entrepreneur with impressive degrees takes the child rearing detour and wanting to return to her career, realizes there are so many women like her who want flexible work and just can’t find any suitable positions.

On top of that, a global pandemic surges.

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