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Inspiration June 15, 2018
Women who run the world.
While still underrepresented, women are breaking barriers in business. Female entrepreneurs are finally on the rise. Today more and more women rolling up their sleeves and getting down to business. Becoming your own boss isn’t a walk in the park. It’s a challenge that requires intelligence, resiliency and courage. Here are a five women who powered their way to the top with their ingenuity and innovation.
Natalie Madeira Cofield is the founder and CEO of Walker’s Legacy, a global platform for professional and multicultural women. The company’s mission is to empower women toward becoming the head of their own teams.
Madeira started her own company at the age of 26 after experiencing first-hand the struggles women face in the workplace. She started Walker’s Legacy to support other women and female entrepreneurs in her same situation.
She told Entrepreneur Magazine that “Walker’s Legacy is the embodiment of all the mentorship and advice I received from my mother and everything I wished I had when I started my first company at 26, at scale, to empower millions of other women to see themselves as businesswomen, to connect with business women and be supported as businesswomen.”
Sophia Amoruso is the founder of Nasty Gal. This female entrepreneur started her fashion company in 2006. Starting in her small studio apartment in San Francisco, Nasty Gal grew into a multi-million dollar enterprise. Fashion was Amoruso personal passion and she figured out how to make it her bread and butter.
Failure is a key step in achieving success. Sophia learned that lesson with the bankruptcy of Nasty Gal. But that didn’t stop this businesswoman from working on another venture.
Sophia transformed her story into the hit Netflix show Girlboss. The show recounts her struggles and journey of starting her own business. If you can’t share your failures, are you even an entrepreneur?
Amoruso told Women’s Wear Daily she hopes Girlboss helps women with their success journey:”I want to entertain, educate and inform women to have conversations with us and with one another about redefining success.”
If you can’t wear your favorite black little dress without your trusty Spanx, you have Sara Blakely to thank. She is an American businesswoman and founder of Spanx Inc., an intimate apparel company.
Blakely came up with the idea for Spanx while getting ready to go to a party. She realized she didn’t have the right undergarments. Through her creative fashion mind and a pair of scissors, she created her company and become one of the most successful female entrepreneurs in the world.
Blakely told Fortune that female entrepreneurs should be confident about their ideas. She said “I have realized as an entrepreneur that so many people don’t pursue their idea because they were scared or afraid of what could happen. My dad taught me that failing simply just leads you to the next great thing.”
In 2012, Forbes published that Blakely is the youngest self-made female billionaire. Today Spanx is worth $1.1 billion. Talk about having money in the bank.
If college isn’t for you but you still want to make money, take a page from Alexa Von Tobel’s book. Despite dropping out of Harvard, Alexa Von Tobel became a successful female entrepreneur.
She is the CEO of LearnVest, a personal finance website. Alexa created LearnVest after struggling with her financial plans. Realizing she knew nothing about managing her money, she set out to build a company that would help herself and others.
Alexa told Time Magazine the success she’s had has come through dreaming big: “I know the reason I succeeded was because I wasn’t afraid to dream big and take on something I was passionate about.”
Meet the female entrepreneur who reinvented the way women date online. Witney Wolfe is the founder and CEO of Bumble, an online dating app where women make the first move.
In an interview with Comedy Central, Wolfe explained why it’s important for women to start taking charge: “The current landscape of dating, right now all the expectation is on the man to make the first move and that is broken because what if you’re shy, what if you’re nervous, what if you are tired of doing that? And on the contrary, women are expected to sit on their hands.”
For Wolfe, Bumble isn’t just another online dating site, its about creating significant social change. “It will empower the woman, it will take the pressure off the man and it will really create a significant shift that we’re waiting for,” Wolfe said
Talk about women who are running the world!
