Sara Ellis is the founder of Stone & Sky Self-Mapping and creator of the Human Translation Method. Late-diagnosed as neurodivergent after a lifetime of trying to understand a world that often misunderstood her, Sara combined that lived experience with years spent translating complicated information in healthcare to build
JC Wilde is the Co-Founder of J & J Publishing House, where she is also a Writer and the Editorial Director of the company, which she runs alongside her wife, JFo—a Co-Founder, Writer, and Illustrator. Together they are dedicated to the conscious creation and publication of books
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Ethel Rio Cohen has seen the insurance industry from every angle. She previously helped build an insurance agency, which she later sold, and now she is the founder and CEO of Ensurance, a U.S. insurance-shopping company that helps people shop for better insurance prices and coverage options across
Debika Sen Chaudhury spent years working as a growth consultant for SaaS startups before she noticed a pattern that troubled her: companies kept hiring more SDRs, pouring money into marketing, and pushing new product versions, only to repeat the same cycle a few months later with a new agency or
Raynette Jones always carried a big dream, long before RJ's Dessert Bar had a name, a menu, or a place in her community. She knew she wanted to build something of her own, something that would turn her creativity into a business and her passion into purpose. But
Every growing company reaches a point where its founder becomes something more than a leader: an operating system that everyone quietly depends on to keep the pieces connected. Radiance Mack knows that role intimately. Before starting her own business, she spent years in cross-functional operating positions where she was,
When it comes to large-scale renewable energy projects, most conversations about risk focus on the technical: wind resource data, engineering specs, financing structures. Audrey Hackett believes the industry has it backwards. As co-founder of Solenne Solutions, she has built a consultancy around a simple but often overlooked idea:
Every brand needs a name, but almost no one has a process for finding one. Emma Bryant learned this the hard way as a copywriter at advertising and branding agencies, where naming projects had a habit of spiraling into chaos: endless spreadsheets of half-baked ideas, stakeholders locked in debates
Sara Ellis spent most of her adult life in healthcare, much of it in women's health, supporting people through pregnancy, infertility, loss, diagnoses, and menopause. Along the way, she learned that two people can share the same diagnosis on paper and still have completely different stories, and that
Most businesses don't have a marketing problem, a sales problem, or an operations problem. They have a gap problem: the space where these functions are supposed to connect but don't. That's the pattern Ksenia Molodych kept running into across more than 15 years working
Seung Earm never planned a career in compliance. She set out to study international relations and languages with her sights on diplomacy, only to discover her interest in finance during her Master's degree. That pivot led her through Merrill Lynch and into investment banking at Goldman Sachs, right
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My name is Iria Spyrtzi. I'm a 16-year-old high school student from Greece, and I'm the founder and developer of AllMindsLearn, a free educational platform for students with learning difficulties. I didn't start AllMindsLearn as a business idea. It came from my
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After nearly two decades shaping strategy at some of the world's most respected institutions - BCG, Temasek, CapitaLand and NTT DATA - Tanu Himatsingka has built a career on turning ambiguity into action for leadership teams. That instinct now powers her own venture, Zaryth Ventures, an advisory platform sitting at
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Kate Brunning knows firsthand that a deal can look flawless on paper and still fall apart in practice if the people side is treated as an afterthought. After leading people strategy through significant growth and acquisition at Virtual1, where she helped build an award-winning workplace culture, she founded People
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After 20 years in high-pressure communications roles, Alison O'Leary hit a wall - literally, when years of stress finally shut down her digestive system. A hospital consultant's diagnosis of stress from living out of alignment with herself became the catalyst she needed. That health scare led
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Racheal A. was tired of scrolling through endless gift guides and still coming up empty for the actual people in her life. That frustration became the foundation for OhGiftPlease, a gifting platform built on a simple but overlooked idea: thoughtful gifting starts with paying attention, not with browsing a category
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Fayetteville, Georgia entrepreneur Heather Milner didn't set out to build an app empire. She set out to help the people around her - the friend struggling through menopause, the parent separated from their kids by prison walls, the daughter who hasn't spoken to her mother in years.
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Navya Tuteja was still in high school when she noticed a gap that most job platforms overlook: a listing can tell you the salary, the location, the qualifications, but almost never what it will actually feel like to work there. For neurodivergent candidates, that missing context, things like how communication
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JFo and JC Wilde have been together for fifteen years, married for seven, and creative collaborators for even longer, but it was grief that turned their partnership into a publishing house. After JFo lost her mother, she began illustrating what she was feeling one entry at a time, without ever
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When Domino Hawk was diagnosed with endometriosis at 29, it changed how she looked at everything she put on and in her body, including the beauty products she'd used for years as a professional editorial makeup artist. Digging into the industry she thought she knew, she found a
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After years spent watching highly qualified professionals over 50 get quietly filtered out of hiring pipelines, Kim Anderson decided the recruiting industry needed more than talk about inclusion. As a recruiting director, she saw the coded language firsthand, candidates dismissed as "overexperienced" or having "run out of
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After 17 years with one nonprofit, growing alongside it from its earliest days, Vanessa Matibag was laid off when the organization closed its doors. The obvious next move would have been to find another full-time role, but the layoff gave her something rare after two decades in HR: time
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Jen Thompson spent her early career doing everything right, at least by the standards she'd been raised on. Working as a congressional lawyer and campaign strategist, she rose fast, worked constantly, and built a life that looked enviable from the outside. What it wasn't, she says,