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Weekly Digest: News You Can Use
This week we are featuring a momtrepreneur who brings jobs back to the U.S. and we’ve curated a whole host of opportunities! Read More
Momtrepreneur Brings Jobs Back To US
While taking her kids to school one day, Amy almost got into a car accident while reaching over for a tissue and thus sparked her business idea. Read More
Entrepreneurs and Professionals: A Guide For Grown Ups
Being an adult at work means that we bring conscious choice and awareness to our responsibilities. And I believe the future of work demands that we all need to grow up a bit. During my years as a recruiter, and now as an executive coach, I have seen behavior that wouldn’t be tolerated in the playground, somehow pass for “normal” in the boardroom. Read More
Violet Lim — Lunch Actually
When Violet left her job to be a matchmaker, everyone said she was crazy. Now she’s behind Asia’s premier dating service. Read More
Weekly Digest: News You Can Use
This week, everything from the importance of motherhood to the value of mobile services for women entrepreneurs. Read More
Putting Motherhood First: From Michelle Obama to Entrepreneur Becky O’Neil
For some women, changing to part time work or more flexible work agreements is the way to spend more time with their children while maintaing a career. Others, like entrepreneurs Becky O’Neil and Lyn Lee, told The Story Exchange they started businesses because they wanted to develop their own schedules, on their own terms. Read More
Entrepreneur Remembers Hairdresser Vidal Sassoon
Elim Chew says her success as an entrepreneur is due to the example set by the revolutionary hairdresser Vidal Sassoon, who passed away this week. Read More
Don’t Panic! How to Make Better Business Decisions
In his book, The Mindful Leader, Michael Carroll tells the story of a capsized riverboat in a Chinese village. As all the villagers ran to the river to help, one man, an old fisherman, went off in the opposite direction. Read More
The Story Exchange is Casting for Women Entrepreneurs!
The Story Exchange is looking for successful women business owners and social entrepreneurs of all ages – from 18 to 81 – to be profiled in our high quality videos. In the next two months, we’ll select five women to film from various sectors and parts of the country. Read More
The Young and The Relentless: Entrepreneurs under 25
At a time of high levels of youth joblessness – the latest U.S. figures show that the unemployment rate for workers under 25 is over 16 percent – some are betting that the best chance for finding a job, is creating one. Over the past month, we have been interviewing young women who have started their own businesses to understand how they’ve came so far, so fast. Read More
Opportunties for Women Entrepreneurs
The Story Exchange keeps track of competitions and grant programs for women entrepreneurs. The list below is arranged by deadline date. Read More
Weekly Digest: News You Can Use
We are featuring our first momtrepreneur and a mother’s day gift guide plus much more news & opportunities in this week’s digest! Read More
Mother’s Day Gift Guide
May 13th is the special day for mothers and it’s just around the corner. We’ve compiled a list of great presents from women-owned businesses, submitted to us on Your Story Exchange. Read More
Becky O’Neil, Becky’s Pet Care
After Becky became a mother she started her own pet care business to spend more time with her family. Read More
Seven Lessons from Twenty-Something CEOs
At a recent event hosted by Asian Women in Business, a new generation of CEOs gathered to discuss their experiences of starting a company and provide advice to aspiring entrepreneurs. Read More
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