Archive for the 'Success' Category

The HUB:
When Melissa Lawson became a “Nashville Star” champion Monday, NBC had the reality-show ideal.
This was a “Rocky”-style finish, a win for someone who had been considered an underdog.

“NBC really did portray me as who I am,” Lawson said today. “I’m just a mom who had a dream.”
She’s a mother of five boys. She’s 31 […]

Inquirer.net:
Do you have a product you want to sell but don’t have the capital to put up a store? An easy way to make a sale (and test the market) is to go online and put up a virtual store.

That’s right, make cyberspace your mall and set up shop by putting up your own website […]

Financial Post:
The youngest self-made female billionaire in the world is Hong Kong citizen Chu Lam Yiu, the 38-year-old head of Huabao International, which makes fragrances and flavorings for cigarettes, detergents, beverages, dairy products and cosmetics. Chu still heads the company, which she started a decade ago and which went public through a backdoor listing.

Chinese billionaire […]

WTNH.com:
As every working woman knows, it’s a constant juggling act, to try to find that balance between kids and bringing home a paycheck. But, that’s where New England based, EmployMoms comes in. The web based company matches up companies with working moms who are looking for flexible hours. And the company’s CEO AND Founder Jane […]

PR Leap:
Meredith Eisenberg, owner of Yellow Highlighter Virtual Assistance (http://yellowhighlighterva.com), will be featured in the August issue of Good Housekeeping magazine in an article profiling mothers who earn full-time incomes working from home part-time.

As a virtual assistant, Eisenberg provides professional support to solo entrepreneurs including administrative assistance, web development and marketing strategy advice. “I work […]

thestarpress.com:
A team now in more ways than one, Lydia and Chris run Underwood’s Fine Finishes.
A single mom in between jobs, Lydia (Kaderly) Underwood hardly seemed the type to open a business a few short years ago.

But she did.
“My dad encouraged me,” said Lydia, who subsequently found a partner for her specialty painting business — and […]

East Valley Tribune:
A childhood of homelessness, starvation and illness doesn’t make for stand-up comedy, but Lisa Ann Oliveira has turned her life into a stream of schtick.
It all falls under her new life philosophy: “There are no victims, only volunteers.”
For the past two years, the Scottsdale real estate agent and single mom of four kids […]

Neighborhood Star:
Think you need a six-figure income to hire a personal assistant who’ll do your dirty work?
Mimi Citarella, an Orland Park mom, says folks on a budget can benefit by turning over the task of running errands to somebody else — namely her.
The owner of All Around Concierge, Citarella says she combines the services of […]

Orleans Star / Weekly Journal:
Two businesses helmed by east-end mothers are in the running for the nation-wide SavvyMom.ca’s Mom Entrepreneur of the Year Award, a readers’ choice contest designed to find Canada’s best mom-slash-business guru.
Online clothing boutiques Daisy Blue – run by sisters and east-end residents Kelli Catana and Ronda MacKinnon – and Apples’n’Oranges – […]

Democratic and Chronicle.com:
Karen Shepanski is a lesson in ambition. While mothering three children (she now has four), she worked her way up the ladder of success at IBM. Shepanski’s husband nominated her as Mom of the Week for her juggling of a full-time work load and full-time Mommy duties.
Through a temp agency, Shepanski began doing […]