Female Entrepreneurs: Here Is The Key to More Confidence, Success, And Funding By Kathy Caprino According to the latest estimate data on female entrepreneurship, more than 11.6 million firms are owned by women, employing nearly 10.1 million people and generating $1.8 trillion in sales (as of 2018). But only one in five businesses with revenue of $1 million or more is women-owned,…
How to Build a To-Do List that Doesn’t Make You Miserable By Zoë Randolph, GC4W Thought Leadership Contributor I love lists. If you were to unearth my grade-school diaries, you’d discover, among the dramatics, crushes, and uses of two “g”s in “excellent,” a broad collection of aspirational day plans, ranging from the legitimate (“write a story;” “wrap Emma’s birthday present”)…
The One Thing You Must Know Before Changing Jobs The strength of the current jobs market means it is an ideal time to try something new and aim for a role for which you might not be an exact fit. Sally Patten Nicole Forrester, head of the office of purpose at business solutions group Fujitsu Australia, loves to collaborate and…
How To Believe In Your Idea (And Yourself) Even When Others Don’t By Megan Bruneau “The idea itself was absurd,” Zoe Sakoutis recalls as she tells the story of building the original cold-pressed juice brand on The Failure Factor podcast. She and her Earth & Star cofounder, Erica Huss, bootstrapped their first beverage business to a $26 million sale in just five years.…
3 Cold-Calling Secrets From Sara Blakely, Founder of Spanx By David Walter There’s a reason why Spanx founder Sara Blakely can teach us so much about cold calling, and it has nothing to do with how great she is at creating inventions. Before becoming an entrepreneur herself, she sold fax machines in Florida for seven years, where her insight into this specific…
Developing A Confident Mind: Key Strategies For Experiencing Unshakable Success By Kathy Caprino Confidence is something that millions of professionals crave deeply but feel they are sorely lacking. Many believe that confidence is a “trait” that some have and some don’t. But research reveals that that is not an accurate characterization. Most of us don’t realize that achieving and building…
New Year, New Approach to Resolutions By Zoë Randolph, GC4W Thought Leadership Contributor “I’m not setting any resolutions this year,” I saw someone tweet recently. “2022 has to impress *me.*” It was a joke, of course, mocking our collective, annual fervor around self-improvement. But it was hardly the only post I saw to this effect. Several people on my timeline…
One Woman Who Helps Millions Of People She Will Never Meet By Dr. Ruth Gotian “Your daughter has a hearing loss.” Those are the words Janice Lintz was told by her daughter’s pediatrician when her world started to crumble around her. “Don’t worry,” the doctor continued, “there are special schools for her.” For Lintz, those were fighting words. She was unwilling to…
How Successful Women Get Promoted To The Executive Suite By Melody Wilding You’re the hard worker that everyone on your team loves. You’re regarded as a subject matter expert and respected among your peers. So why aren’t you getting promoted? Many highly successful women find themselves in this exact predicament. They want to make an a bigger impact in their…
How To Find Work You Love In The New Year By Julia Wuench In the era of the Great Resignation, many job quitters are realizing they’ve been unhappy at work and need a change. While it may be unreasonable that any of us love our careers 100% of the time, Dr. Tega Edwin, Founder of Her Career Doctor, says we should…
