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The Money Moxie on Basics: Interactive Workshops with Lena Rizkallah

by Sandie Habib October 19, 2012

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Lena Rizkallah–a lawyer-turned-insurance-saleswoman-turned-financial-consultant–now works as a women’s financial advocate, urging women to be accountable for their finances in her Money Moxie Workshops hosted at New York’s Drifter Creative Studio. Her classes teach women the basics of financial savings, investing, and systems, relieving them of the burden of financial worry. When Lena started a women’s investment [...]

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How to Become a Successful Young Entrepreneur: University Parent Founder Shares Her Tips

by Erika Torres September 28, 2012

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As a student at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Sarah Schupp, now 30, was dissatisfied with the resources available to help her parents navigate her college town. Even though she had no business background, she approached her school administrators and proposed creating a guide for parents visiting their campus-bound children. University Parent, the company [...]

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Resource for Entrepreneurs and Microbusinesses: GGF interviews CEO of Association for Enterprise Opportunity

by Aleeka Kay Edwards September 21, 2012

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She served two elected terms on the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and was appointed by President Clinton to the CDFI Advisory Board in the Department of the Treasury, so it’s no surprise that Connie Evans brings the same brio and precision to her current job. Connie is the President and CEO [...]

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Eating Healthy on a Budget: GGF talks with Founder of The Fresh 20

by Erika Torres September 14, 2012

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Ever find yourself tired after a long workday coming home to a hungry household with nothing in the fridge that could even pass for dinner? A former internet marketing executive, Melissa Lanz ran into this problem one too many times and decided to quit her job in the fall of 2009 to launch The Fresh [...]

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Cultivating Entreprenuers: Pure Barre Founder Talks to GGF

by Erika Torres September 7, 2012

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Carrie Rezabek Dorr was 26 when she decided to leave a promising career in law and start Pure Barre, a ballet barre fitness studio, in the basement of an office building in Birmingham, Michigan. In the 11 years since it first opened, the company has grown to more than 80 locations nationwide and has helped [...]

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Powering Tomorrow: GGF Celebrates Women Business Owners with American Express

by Aleeka Kay Edwards August 24, 2012

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American Express OPEN recently commissioned a study on the state of women-owned businesses. The study is colored with summaries on national, geographical, and industry trends. We learned that while most of the private sector was cutting jobs between 1997 and 2007, by 2012 female entrepreneurs employed approximately 7.7 million people. As GGF promulgates this research [...]

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Starting an Internet Company? AHAlife Founder Shares Her Tips

by Adrienne Sanders August 24, 2012

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Shauna Mei personifies bold contrast and good taste. Born in China and raised in the U.S., Shauna combined her rigorous academic background–an MIT computer science and electrical engineering degree–with an abiding wanderlust and work experience in luxury marketing to create AHAlife in 2010. The website and daily email service carry unique products from around the [...]

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Red & Black: Two Sisters Taking Personal Finance Head-On

by Natalia Quintero August 10, 2012

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Sisters Tina Pennington and Mandy Williams (aka “Red and Black”) are the authors of “What I Learned About Life When My Husband Got Fired.” When Tina, “Red,”  found out that her husband had lost his job and that they couldn’t afford the lifestyle they were living, she reached out to her financially-savvy sister Mandy “Black” [...]

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Fashion Forward: GGF Interviews Founder of Gilt.com

by Adrienne Sanders August 3, 2012

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Alexandra Wilkis Wilson is the force behind a daily ritual shared by millions of American women–logging on to Gilt.com to check for a lightning fast luxury fashion sale.  Alexandra and Alexis Maybank, her Harvard Business School buddy, along with three others founded Gilt.com in November 2007 as a flash sale website for high-end women’s clothing. [...]

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How to Make a Difference: CEO of D-Rev talks to GGF

by Adrienne Sanders July 27, 2012

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Krista Donaldson is CEO of D-Rev, a Silicon Valley-based not-for-profit that brings medical devices and income to people living on less than $4 a day. D-Rev–which stands for Design Revolution—designs and, with partners, manufactures, and markets the devices at a fraction of the cost of traditional ones, aiming to make these products universally more accessible. GoGirl [...]

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