Ana Fernandez-Parmet Grew a Family and Built a Business Everyone has a unique recipe for success, and for Ana Fernandez-Parmet, it’s always been about putting family first—whether it’s her own husband and children (and now grandchildren) or the women...
Tara Godby knows exactly what Established and Ready to Grow participants want from this NAWBO Institute program sponsored by AARP—because she was one of them just last year. Based outside of Austin, Texas, Tara says she was really an entrepreneur at birth. “People...
Pat Evans has always had a passion for helping under-represented groups, and now she’s turned that into not one, but two successful new business ventures. Her background includes 25 years spent helping to develop smart solutions technology, go to market strategies,...
Margaret Mead once famously said, “Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” Bevan Evans, NAWBO Cleveland member and president of Evans Industries in Canton, Ohio, and her team are no doubt a...
Anna Maria Viti-Welch planned to be a schoolteacher, but after doing it for a year and then working in her family’s business that summer, her father made her an offer she couldn’t refuse. “He said, ‘Just quit and come work for me,’” she recalls. That was 37 years ago....
Kristin Overbey was at a career crossroads. She was working retail, had just finished emergency medical technician school and planned to go on to paramedic school, when her mother-in-law, an entrepreneur, asked her to come to work at Overseas Advantage, Inc. “She was...
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