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Profiles of Successful Women Entrepreneurs

Whether these women have online or brick and mortar businesses isn’t important. Each of these women has been successful in creating a business that brings her unique gifts to the world and that business has thrived.

Look below for previous portraits and click here for an upcoming schedule.

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Portraits

Dotsie Bregel

Destined for greatness, she’s got a warmth and compassion about her that just shines through in her words. Dotsie’s ambition and passion have brought her to a place where she can connect, support, and encourage women around the world to “live, survive, and thrive.”

Ali Brown

Alexandria (Ali) Brown’s entrepreneurial story, which starts out the same as so many of ours, takes us on an odyssey that explores a whole new world of opportunities. Known as the E-zine Queen, Ali shows us a world in which we can reach staggering heights of business success if we give our pioneering spirit the freedom to “think outside the box.”

Lillian Cauldwell

Lillian Cauldwell’s passion for life is evident in everything she does. In fact, the Internet radio show she runs is called Passionate Internet Voices Talk Radio. Her mission, which she talks about here, is a powerful motivator for baby boomer women who are ready to “break out” and pursue their heart’s desire.

C. Hope Clark

C. Hope Clark is a true Renaissance woman. After spending 25 years working for the U.S. government, she began her midlife journey by taking early retirement so she could pursue her real passion: writing. She is the founder of one of the Web’s top-ranked writers’ websites and her sage words of advice hold true for not only writers, but for small business owners everywhere.

Alyice Edrich

Alyice Edrich’s tenacity in finding her “niche” matches the experience many of us have had in our quest to work at home so we can be with our families and earn an income. Alyice’s story inspires us with its gentle reminder to be true to ourselves so we can enjoy our families and our work.

Paulette Ensign

Paulette Ensign is the Founder and CEO of Tips Products International. Her business title, Chief Visionary, explains why she’s been able to grow her company from being a single information-product operation that she created in the early 1990s to the flourishing enterprise that serves an international audience today.

Beverly Mahone

Beverly Mahone is an accomplished speaker and author of the book Whatever! A Baby Boomer’s Journey Into Middle Age. All at once witty, motivational, and heart-warming, the book gives us insight into how to “cope with the new challenges that await us during the middle age years…and beyond.” Her website, www.talk2bev.com, is a treasure trove of boomer humor, informative articles, and inspirational musings by the great lady herself.

Portraits for 2008

January

Nancy D. Waring
On Point Communications Solutions
www.onpointcommunicationsolutions.com
Tele-Interview: Tuesday, January 29, 10amPST/11amMST/12pmCST/1pmEST

Nancy D. Waring spent more than 20 years managing people in corporate America and started her entrepreneurial career as a freelance writer specializing in copy for the web. She found many of her clients didn’t know how to leverage their copy for maximum impact. As a result, she began coaching her copy clients on using their copy and web site to attract clients. Currently she helps service professionals and small business owners create and implement an internet marketing strategy that is simple but results in new prospects and additional revenue.

February

Geri Weis-Corbley
Good News Network
goodnewsnetwork.org
Tele-Interview: Tuesday, Feb. 5, 12pmPST/1pmMST/2pmCST/3pmEST

Geri Weis-Corbley graduated with a degree in TV/Radio from Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland, and went on to work in TV news and video production in Washington, D.C., in the 1980’s. That’s when she first conceived of the Good News Network as a television show and cable network (abbreviated GNN, like CNN). Ten years later she left her freelance career in television to raise a family at home during the 1990’s.

In 1997, she could stand it no longer. The declining state of the U.S. news media and the rising tide of the Internet combined to compel her into action. She bought some software and created the online edition of the Good News Network, premiering in August 1997.

March

Maria Marsala
Elevating Your Business
www.elevatingyourbusiness.com
Tele-Interview: Saturday, March 29, 11am PDT/12pm MDT/1pm CDT/2pm EDT

Maria is a speaker, business strategist, author and former Wall Street Trader. In this teleconference you’ll learn a little about her journey from corporate employee to successful entrepreneur. In addition, Maria will explain the One Page Business Plan methodology, for which she is a licensed consultant. This method is used by more than 50,000 organizations internationally and is taught in 30 major universities as part of their standard business curriculum.

She’ll show you how you can write a clear, concise and understandable business and marketing plan — simply, easily and all on one page.

April

Helen Goldman
Primo Promos
www.PrimoPromos.biz
Tele-Interview: April 26, 2008
Pre-registration is required

Helen Goldman is the founder of Primo Promos, a company that provides promotional items and was a certified vendor for the Arizona Super Bowl Host Committee in 2008. Her business expertise ranges from Fortune 500 Companies to ownership of several small businesses. Helen is a member of the Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, The U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce, Greater Phoenix Mensa, Impact for Enterprising Women, W.I.S.K. (Women I Should Know), the Sunnyslope Village Alliance, Local First Arizona, as well as several local networking groups.She will be discussing the topic “Tough Marketing for Tough Times.”

May

Melanie Hoffner
Brain Bonanza LLC
Tele-Interview: Saturday, May 17, 2008
Pre-registration is required

"Empowering others to create successful outcomes and facilitating their growth toward personal and organizational potential," is Melanie’s passion and mission. She designs and delivers interactive solutions that empower individuals and organizations to create positive outcomes and continue to grow toward the achievement of personal and organizational potential. A certified facilitator of The Passion Test™, she will be walking us through the first part of The Passion Test during this teleconference.

June

Adelaide Fives
In Good Company
www.ingoodcmpny.com
Tele-Interview: TBD

Adelaide Fives is a successful entrepreneur with experience in organizational development, career counseling, psychological counseling, and teaching. Her strengths lie in strategic planning, operational development, group facilitation, and individual consultation. Adelaide has leveraged her training, experience and strengths in the management of her own companies, as well as in service of her clients. Over the course of her career, she has conducted work in numerous corporate, non-profit, educational, and start-up settings.

Adelaide was co-founder and Principal Partner of Berkman Fives a consulting firm that helped women professionals with career development and advancement and women entrepreneurs with business growth and efficiency.

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