As Turkish Founder Gamze Cizreli Takes Her Company Public, Earthquake Relief Efforts Are Still Front Of Mind By Maggie McGrath In 2007, Turkish entrepreneur Gamze Cizreli was starting over from a divorce and in search of funding to start a new business. She’d run a successful cafe in Ankara in the 1990’s and was ready to build a bigger hospitality…
‘The Best Advice My Mother Gave Me,’ From 10 Top Female Entrepreneurs By MeiMei Fox “The most important thing parents can do is to believe in their child,” says Margot Machol Bisnow, author of Raising an Entrepreneur: 99 Stories from Families Who Did. “Parents tell me that of course they believe in their child. But actually, they don’t. They love them, they…
How Brandefy Founder Meg Pryde Is Democratizing The Way We Shop Beauty By Gabby Shacknai Meg Pryde was fresh out of college and working in consumer packaged goods when she discovered something shocking: a single product would end up in two different containers with two different labels, one commanding a high $40 price tag and the other, a mere $10.…
Zarna Gard On Switching Careers, Storytelling, Strategy, And Success By Jia Wertz After being a stay-at-home mom for 16 years, all the while knowing she wanted to do more, Zarna Garg was pushed to try stand-up comedy by her children. Her daughter recognized that she had a real talent, one that she herself didn’t even consider. But with the encouragement…
During The Great Breakup, Women Must Mentor Women In The Workplace By MeiMei Fox According to LeanIn.org and McKinsey & Co’s 2022 Women in the Workplace report, there is still a major gender gap in corporate leadership positions. Only one in four people in C-suite positions are female. To make matters worse, women leaders are leaving their positions in increasing numbers, citing…
3 Must-Read Takeaways From a Conversation With Eventbrite Founder Julia Hartz The CEO of Eventbrite started working in television production before co-founding the event management platform in 2006. By ROBERT TUCHMAN This week on How Success Happens, I had the pleasure of speaking with Julia Hartz, the co-founder and CEO of Eventbrite, a global online self-service ticketing platform listed on the New York…
By Karin Eldor Five years ago, a younger Madison Utendahl wishes she had told her then exhausted, burnt out self: “It’s okay to rest.” In fact, not only is it okay to rest — it’s imperative. After experiencing peak burnout at age 27, with symptoms like brain fog, memory loss, extreme exhaustion (to the point where “no amount of espressos” would keep…
In The Midst Of A Thriving Acting Career She Found Her True Power As A Director By Jeryl Brunner When Jessica Stone was 20 years-old and performing in the national tour of Bye Bye Birdie with Tommy Tune and Ann Reinking, she will never forget how she felt when she learned that their director, Gene Saks, decided to change the costumes for…
Woman Deliver 2023 Conference: Spaces, solidarity, and solutions. By Woman Deliver The Women Deliver 2023 Conference (WD2023) will take place in-person in Kigali, Rwanda, as well as virtually, from 17-20 July 2023. As one of the largest multi-sectoral convenings to advance gender equality, WD2023 will convene 6,000 people in Kigali and 200,000+ people online through the virtual Conference and six-month Global…
Women Are Leading The Tech Nonprofit Sector. Meet Six Solving Problems They’ve Lived. By Shannon Farley The share of women in tech leadership roles recently dropped to 28%. This gender gap presents a huge problem, and not only for workforce diversity. Women experience the world and its myriad of problems differently than their male counterparts. This difference in experience can result…
