Denise Roden: Loss So Often Leads to Gain This weight-loss surgery patient drew on her own experience to launch a new business and turn her life around.
Lynne Goldberg: OMG! I Can Reinvent Myself After a tragic year of compounded loss, this business executive turned to meditation as a coping mechanism and ended up changing her life and profession as a result.
Pam Shields: Fighting Alzheimer’s One Sit-Up at a Time Her personal experience with dementia and her professional skills merged to create the fitness practice she runs today.
Lisa Crites: Helping Mastectomy Patients Feel Better and Heal Faster Incensed at having to shower in a trash bag following her mastectomy, this former TV reporter developed an innovative product to help other breast cancer survivors during their recovery.
Tammy Dunn: From Travel Agent to Agent of Relaxation This travel agent turned massage therapist discovered that in helping her clients, she’s also helped herself.
Julia Erickson: Pirouetting Her Way to a Better Barre This ballerina didn’t wait around for someone else to create the perfect nutrition bar; she did it herself.
Kathy Lindert: The Mortgage Banker Who’ll Put You Under Her Spell This mesmerizing mortgage banker left a career in finance in New York and crossed the bridge to become a hypnotist in New Jersey.
Sonnika Coetzee: The Sweet Smell of Success Meet the South African aromachologist who grew her business at night and on weekends until a tragedy at work pushed her to make the leap
Deb Stanzak: A Brother’s Dying Wish Launches a New Career Devastated but not destroyed by the loss of family members, she used her experience to build a new business that’s changing people’s lives
Sandy Slade: Basketball-Spinning Queen Turns Game Entrepreneur A former basketball spinner shares how she relaunched herself as an entrepreneur in the educational game industry and more recently in the consumer-based market.
Brooke Gehring: The Path to Pot Brooke Gehring is tackling the modern era Wild West — legalized marijuana in Colorado.
Ann Marie Cassella: From Selling Books to Housing Seniors A sales associate with Reuters, Anne Marie Cassella launched a residential eldercare business when looking for care for her elderly mother who suffered from disabilities.
