I was looking for an outlet of my creative nature and Park City’s Main Street was looking for a shoe store. It was a match made in heaven.
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Michelle Hamman: MotherTongues
MotherTongues just released our first iPhone/iPad app, World Words. It teaches you one life-affirming word per day, with pronunciation and meaning. It is being downloaded around the world!
Laurel Gunnarson: The Didi Jewelry Project
I started this business to help women facing hardship in India through selling their jewelry. I taught jewelry making to women who are working in brothels, HIV positive, widows, and/or facing extreme poverty.
Katie Niemeyer: Handana
Handana does more than protect my eyes: It has become a powerful reminder to cross my finish lines, to persevere.
Donna Haghighat: Shoptimize.org
I take inspiration from the many women and girls who have faced adversity and many challenges and managed to bounce forward.
Lisa Sorrell: Sorrell Custom Boots
I started my own business for the satisfaction of providing quality footwear that fits, and the joy that comes from learning a craft that’s been handed down through generations of other craftsmen.
Bras Free Women From Sex Trafficking
What to do with those old bras stuffed in the back of your drawer? Watch how a suburban mom is using them to save women from sex trafficking.
Entrepreneur Helps Indigenous Women Stitch Up Their Daughters’ Future
In 2004 Ruth DeGolia, traveled to Guatemala to conduct research for her Yale thesis on the effects of globalization in a country torn apart by civil war.
Vienne Cheung, Founder, VienneMilano: A Hollywood Star Crashed My Launch Party
Vienne Cheung is Founder of VienneMilano, a luxury hosiery brand and online boutique dedicated exclusively to thigh high stockings.
Young Entrepreneur: Tara Haughton
The Story Exchange is devoting the month of April to profiling young women who have started their own business. This week we meet Tara Haughton, from Ireland, who founded Rosso Solini at the age of 16.
Entrepreneur Sells the Shirt Off Her Back
Elim Chew started her company selling imported clothing and accessories after she literally sold the shirt off her back at an incredibly high price.
Learning Business Lessons From Mom
Adrienne Ma is taking the lessons she learned from her family’s traditional retail business to the web selling luxury items on her high-end e-commerce site.
Your Story Exchange: Jewels for Hope
Sandy D’Andrea founded Jewels For Hope, a handmade jewelry company, in 2009. The company creates specific lines of jewelry for a number of charitable organizations, and donates a portion of their profits to these causes.
The Queen of Shoes
Rose Yeong ran away from home as a teenager and began selling shoes. She learned the hard way, on the job, and today sells thousands of pairs of shoes each year.