It’s that time of year when you reflect on your accomplishments, celebrate your successes, and plan a path for the future. One thing we all need as we delve into 2017 with our global dream is a healthy dose of inspiration.
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Mariachi is a folkloric tradition as macho as it is Mexican. Eight years ago (2008), Mireya Ramos and Shae Fiol sought to up-end convention and founded Mariachi Flor de Toloache, New York City’s first and only all-female mariachi band. With their bandmates Julie Acosta and Eunice Aparicio,
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Perfect timing. Considering the current political firestorm taking place between USA presidential candidates Trump and Clinton, here’s a different twist. Julie Smolyansky (pictured), the C.E.O. of Lifeway Foods, recalls the moment that fueled her drive to prove critics wrong when her father suddenly had a heart attack and passed away in 2002.
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According to the U.S. Census Bureau 2012 survey of business owners, 39 percent of New Mexico businesses were women-owned and the top ones brought in over $362 million in revenue in 2015. That percentage is expected to rise to a solid 40 percent in 2017.
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Thirty-five year-old social entrepreneur Zahra Karmali poses inside her shipping container turned community project store with a cup of TAK tea on 17th Avenue S.E. in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She’s plying her [global] trade on the diverse community’s main drag.
Her launch,
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International expansion offers growth and the opportunity to not only scale a business, but to diversify as well. And you don’t need a big investment to pull it off. Here are two cases to prove it.
Chris-Tia Donaldson, founder of Chicago-based Thank God It’s Natural,
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Beyonce has said when she sang, “Who run the world? Girls.” Disagree? I doubt it.
Women increasingly inhabit top-ranking roles in traditionally male-dominated industries, lead the international mission for girls’ education and advance the conversations on topics like wage equality.
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Amitabh Kant, Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Government of India, says, “Women [in India] are doing better than their male counterparts in start-ups.” His point is well taken.
Women business innovators recently congregated at one platform in New Delhi (India) to make a pitch to Mr.
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Racing Nellie Bly is based on historical characters, Nellie Bly (a writer, industrialist and inventor) and Elizabeth Bisland (a journalist and author). In 1890, these rivaling journalists from New York City raced each other in opposite directions to beat the record around the world in eighty days.
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These young women disruptors are extraordinary visionaries who are impacting businesses, changing the perception of women the world over and leaving the world a better place.
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