Spotlight Profile: Elle Swan

Elle Swan

Business Name: Swansense International Business Web address: www.elleswan.net Experience: International speaker, lifestyle coach, television personality, athlete and author 15-second elevator pitch: I travel the world, teaching women how to rise above mediocrity in health, wealth and love. Books you are reading: The High-Beta Rich: How the Manic Wealthy Will Take Us to the Next Boom,… [Continue Reading]

How to Grow Your Business to $1 Million+

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Nell Merlino is a woman on a mission. Her vision: Encourage as many as 1 million women entrepreneurs to grow their business to revenue goals of $1 million and more. “If 1 million women get to $1 million, it creates a minimum of 4 million jobs,” says Merlino, observing that you’ll hire four to six… [Continue Reading]

How to Start & Grow a Successful TV Talk Show

Talk show host Yvonne Kandi

Yvonne Kandi is a mother, a successful music producer, a Realtor and a real estate investor, as well as an expert in wealth building, business development and marketing. Working together with her husband in the music industry, Kandi says, “We built a very successful career for ourselves. We have several gold and platinum records. Many… [Continue Reading]

Living Better at 50+

Carol Doyel

Carol Doyel has been a restaurant owner, a real estate broker, and an inventor. She’s sold cars, managed a business directory and spent 15 years at a health-promotions organization. All of that has culminated in her latest venture: Living Better at 50+,  an online magazine for women in midlife that launched in March 2011. “We… [Continue Reading]

Are You “Mom Incorporated”?

Danielle Smith, left, and Aliza Sherman

With eight published books under her belt, Aliza Sherman wasn’t surprised to get an email from Sellers Publishing, Inc., requesting a business book for moms. Just finished writing The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Crowdsourcing, she knew she wanted a co-author for this next book. She picked Danielle Smith. “I only knew Danielle from conferences we… [Continue Reading]

‘Leadership Is a Feeling’

Leadership expert Betsy Myers

Most people don’t think about leadership as a feeling, says Betsy Myers. According to Myers, a successful leader creates a feeling among employees of being valued, appreciated and included. That’s the basis of her new book, Take the Lead: Motivate, Inspire and Bring Out the Best in Yourself and Everyone Around You. “When we feel… [Continue Reading]

A Rational Response to Irrational Markets

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Investment adviser Chris Gibson says a career in the field of finance was practically inevitable for her. She calls it “the family business.” Says Gibson, “I grew up reading the stock tables with my father and grandfather.” Her dad was an accountant for ARAMCO, the Arabian-American Oil Company in Saudi Arabia, her grandfather was senior… [Continue Reading]

She Takes on the World

Natalie MacNeil

Natalie MacNeil was traveling in the Czech Republic when she saw a giant globe bearing the legend, “The World is Yours.” MacNeil took that to heart and created the highly successful She Takes on the World blog. “It’s a mind-set more than anything else,” she says. “Dream big, act big — and do things that… [Continue Reading]

Find the Key to Your Perfect Career

Career consultant Maggie Mistal

Career consultant Maggie Mistal has a three-step process for career transition: Soul search Research Job search Soul search is the most important, she maintains. And it’s now easier than in the past to persuade people to do a thorough job of it. “It’s changed since 2008,” she says. “With the crash and so many people… [Continue Reading]

When News Happens, Wendy Gillette is There

Freelance broadcaster Wendy Gillette

By Eve Gumpel When momentous events are happening, Wendy Gillette is in the thick of them. Gillette is a freelance correspondent, producer, writer and editor for CBS NewsPath and WCBS. She’s a correspondent for NBC News and an anchor for Verizon’s new network, FiOS1 news. She’s covered hurricanes, flash floods, the attempted bombing in Times… [Continue Reading]

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