Hannah Lynne Milojevich’s journey into entrepreneurship started with a “Why not?” She had graduated from college in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 2009 with her undergraduate degree in French and Public Relations. It was the height of the recession when not many jobs...
Nan McKay has worked with every generation in her more than four decades in business and is now sharing these valuable insights through her newest business venture, Nan McKay Connects with its Lead and Succeed Community and Leadership Accelerator Program. Nan is also...
Carnela Renee Hill Discovers Her Voice and Uses It to Bring Change When you love something so much, and are great at it, why not make it a business? That’s what Carnela Renee Hill’s friends and classmates kept asking her when she was working in the corporate world,...
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 entrepreneurs...
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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