Women and Employment | United States

I quit working for corporate America and I feel the happiest I’ve felt in my life.

I was 16 when I started to work and I went to retail, like Windsor Fashions and Wild Pair Shoes at The Block, Pier1 Imports, and then I went

People want to talk, they want to be heard.

Writing and food happened separately. I’d always communicated well through writing. But I never thought about it as a job.

There’s always a positive outcome for an animal that comes through our doors.

Erin Olsen Director of Operations, Kaua‘i Humane Society This was definitely not the career path that I had planned or knew that I would...

The relationship with birds of prey is so different than with other animals.

Denise Disharoon Falconer Falconry is thousands of years old and it’s the tradition with taking wild quarry with a trained bird of prey,...

I found that embracing change really extends success.

Terese Pearson Pearson’s Port Usually for articles, they want me to start at the beginning of 51 years ago at Pearson’s Port, which is...

Just be honest with yourself and with what you’re bringing to the table.

When I started modeling, I wanted to do plus size because I was curvy. And I was still the petite plus, I barely had my toe in plus. If you

What I strive for with my students is living in the moment.

My grandmother sewed but my mother does not at all. Up until the age of middle school, I saw my grandmother sewing but I really didn’t take

Music is therapy, music is emotion, it’s a release.

I moved from the Midwest with my first husband back in the 80s. He’s a musician and we both got into the music industry on the business end

You have to believe in yourself even when you don’t believe in yourself.

I come from a family background of art so it was always around, introduced to it really young, taking life drawing classes and really engage

You’ve got to like talking to people because you’re going to talk to a lot of them.

I have two kids and I was a single mom for most of the time. We were in Washington state and I was working as a sales and marketing director

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