The first African-American Olympic all-around champion in gymnastics reminds us that the path to achieving your dreams isn’t easy but attainable through hard work and sheer grit.
Women Empowerment
How to Avoid A Tech Nightmare
Nelly Yusupova is the CTO of Webgrrls, a networking organization that helps keep professional women connected to one another and leverage technology.
7 Secrets to Work-Life Sanity
Do you ever feel like Wonder Woman? I have. As a woman juggling a ton of things I’ve wondered “what the heck happened to my life?” In fact, there have been times when I wondered if I had much of a “life” at all.
Meet Eve, the 8-Year-Old Entrepreneur
Eve Hobsbawm’s story is one that will make you feel inspired or incredibly lazy. The 8-year-old child from London has started her own business, charging customers to solve all their problems.
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.
Social Entrepreneur Pays A Fair Price
Puifung Leung is on a mission to make trade more equitable. She pays farmers a fair price for their crops, which she uses to make drinks and snacks.
Who Inspires Tory Johnson?
Tory Johnson is an award-winning business leader, contributor for ABC’s Good Morning America, and bestselling author devoted to career success. The Story Exchange wanted to know what drives this powerful business woman, who is personally responsible for helping countless women entrepreneurs start their own businesses.
Your Story Exchange: Amanda Aitken, The Girl’s Guide to Web Design
Amanda Aitken founded The Girl’s Guide to Web Design last year after working for 17 years as a web designer.
Immigrant Women And Entrepreneurship
Nola Andaya-Milani, a Filipina entrepreneur and founder of the Migrentrepreneur Woman Blog is a guest blogger for The Story Exchange. She will be exploring topics related to immigrant women entrepreneurship.
Securing Equal Pay? There (Should Be) an App for That!
The Obama Administration takes its first steps towards securing equal pay for women by launching the Equal Pay App Challenge.
The Humility of Sacrifice
You may know intellectually that you cannot have everything you want. I think, to some degree, we all do. But, it’s another thing altogether to know on a cellular level that sacrifice is part and parcel of running a successful, growing business.
The Story Behind The Story Exchange
We’ve just launched The Story Exchange website but our project has been in the works for over a year. Former bank executive Victoria Wang and filmmaker Sue Williams are the principals behind The Story Exchange. They’ve brought us films of ten women entrepreneurs so far and will continue to seek out new stories of amazing women from the U.S. and abroad.