Doing Good Makes For a Great Marketing Business

Anne Staines didn’t start out with dreams of owning her own business. In fact, her parents were business owners and Anne often watched them struggle—forced to borrow against their home to make payroll or to pay taxes. “I thought I didn’t want to live that way,” she...

Cultivating Success

A Son’s Health Struggles Lead to Advocacy and Several Business Firsts   NAWBO Kentucky’s Adriane PolyniakSometimes you have to help yourself to be able to help others, and for Adriane Polyniak, a member of NAWBO Kentucky and executive director of Bluegrass Hemp...

She Scaled Her Business During The Pandemic…Really

Here’s Where Degrees in Theology and History Converge   Julie Bogart can offer you an education in more ways than one. For starters, her company Brave Writer can teach you smart and entertaining ways to homeschool your children. Just ask the hundreds of thousands of...

Jinah Kim-Perek Tells a Compelling Story—No Matter the Lens

Jinah Kim-Perek, principal and executive producer of WorldWise Productions, LLC, knows how to tell a compelling story—no matter the lens. This NAWBO member knew early on that she wanted to pursue journalism, working for her high school newspaper and then the Daily...

Stuck on Entrepreneurship

One Young Woman Turns a Passion for Art Into a Thriving Sticker Business   Growing up on a farm in Aurora, Oregon, Karly Bierma and her two sisters were introduced to art early on by their mom, who is a florist. They’d finger paint, draw with chalk and mold Play-Doh....

An Entrepreneurial Passion Starts Simmering in a Family Kitchen

“When life gave me lemons, I turned them into superstar lemon bars and literacy.” —Renate Moore Renate Moore’s passion for food and cooking started early on in her family kitchen in British Guiana (now Guyana) in South America. Renate’s working mom loved to cook and...