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    Secrets To Your Success

    Secrets To Your Success

  • Baker Erin McKenna on Success: Make Things Happen For Yourself

    When Erin McKenna decided to opened a specialty bakery in 2005, she little baking experience and had never run a business. But she taught herself to bake vegan, gluten-free, and soy-free goods, one recipe at a time. And the business lessons were on the fly. Once year after she opened the doors of Babycakes NYC, her cupcakes were named the best in New York.

  • How Do You Balance Work and Motherhood?

    There's no secret to successfully balancing your career and motherhood. It's hard work! Five working moms share their thoughts on how to they manage parenthood with their professional lives.

  • The Surf Divas: Turn Mistakes into Learning Experiences

    Izzy Tihanyi and her twin sister, Coco Tihanyi, grew up surfing in the waters of Southern California. As adults in their respective careers, they both felt the proverbial sense that something was missing. With only $342 in the bank, they turned to their passion--surfing--and started Surf Diva Surf School."Surf Diva came about as something fun on the weekends where I wanted to get more women in the water," said Izzy Tihanyi. "So I put up a flyer in a local surf shop and said I'm going to do a women's clinic. One girl called me. She brought four friends. And then it just exploded. ...

  • Stella & Dot Founder on Success: Ignore the Naysayers

    Jessica Herrin was a successful e-commerce entrepreneur who suddenly started making jewelry in her living room. "People thought that was totally nuts and in a way it was," she said. Her crazy living room- based bauble business turned into Stella & Dot, a $175 million dollar business. And Herrin? She's founder and chief executive officer of the company, with more than 10,000 sales reps working under her in five countries.Herrin knew she'd pursue a career in business when she fell in love with economics in college. "Really, economics is at the underpinning of happiness," she said. ...

  • Dominique Crenn Talks About the Journey of Success

    Dominique Crenn is the first female chef in America to be given two Michelin Stars, which are awarded to restaurants for their excellence. For the top-rated chef, this honor marks another "first." Back in 2007, she was the first female executive chef in Indonesia at the Intercontinental Hotel in Jakarta.Crenn, who appears on the popular Food Network competition, Iron Chef, knows that success is personal. "Success is not about money, it's not about who you know," she said. "It's about yourself and who you are inside. ...

  • How to Deal with Professional Rejection

    What's the best way to deal with professional rejection? Four successful women offer their advice on how to handle these difficult, character-testing moments and move onward and upward.Voice artist Jennifer Hale said it's important to remember that rejection is not personal. "You just didn't fit there," she said. "We are all really good, we're all really talented, and any of us can do the work. It's what you're right for that day. ...

  • Michelle Kwan: From Olympic Figure Skater to Diplomat

    When former Olympic figure skater Michelle Kwan retired from the sport, she wondered how she'd find a new career that would provide the same satisfaction, phenomenal success, and rousing cheers that she received on the ice."For 21 years, I dedicated myself to one thing only...figure skating. How am I going to find something that I love as much? You can't find a job that when they say your name or when you walk into the office...applause, applause, applause," she joked.More on Shine: PHOTOS: 20 Most Stylish Olympic AthletesBut Kwan did find a new job as a U.S. diplomat. ...

  • Why Taking Risks is the Secret to Success

    Whether starting a new business or learning to lean in at their corporate workplace, women are taking risks every day to achieve success. But fear of the unknown can hold you back. Four successful women share why getting beyond fear--or harnessing it--and taking risks is a powerful tool for success in your career.Lisa Price, founder of the natural beauty product line, Carol's Daughter, is more afraid of not knowing where her ideas could take her. Her fear inspires inspires her to take risks. ...

  • Mae Jemison: First African American Female Astronaut Lives Out Childhood Dream

    As a little girl, Mae Jemison always wanted to go into space. "I remember people used to try to tell me why women shouldn't be involved in space exploration, and I always thought, this is nonsense," she said. "And what I understood as a little girl back then is that you don't necessarily have to agree with other people's choices about limiting you."

  • Wounded Warrior Turns Life-Changing Injury into Inspiration

    Dawn Halfaker, a platoon leader platoon in the 3rd Infantry Division of the U.S. Army, was on a routine combat patrol near Baghdad when one single moment dramatically changed her life. In the darkness of an early-morning drive, her group drove directly into an enemy ambush.Two weeks after the attack, Halfaker awoke in Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and learned that she'd lost her right arm as a result of the ambush. "I just remember looking to my right side and seeing this big white bandage where my arm used to be just thinking that my life was over," she recalls. ...

  • Advice on Starting Your Own Business

    Here are five tips from successful women on what an aspiring entrepreneur should be prepared for when starting her own business.

  • Marie Tillman: Pat Tillman's Widow Talks Grief, Healing and Keeping Pat's Legacy Alive

    Marie Tillman, widow, author, and President of the Pat Tillman Foundation, says grief is personal. "You can't go around it," she explains. "You can't sort of skip to the next stage."

  • Secrets to Your Success: Christy Turlington Burns

    Christy Turlington Burns, model and founder of "Every Mother Counts," says, "You don't have to be a mother to care about mothers. We've all come into the world the same way." Christy believes every woman should have the chance to survive childbirth.

  • Secrets to Your Success: Alli Webb

    Hairstylist and Drybar founder Alli Webb says a woman can be transformed instantly just by visiting the salon. "Drybar is a place where women come just for blowouts, no cuts, no color, just blowouts," Alli says.

  • Secrets to Your Success: Dori and Ilissa Howard

    It's a well-known fact that women love shoes, and Dori and Ilissa Howard, sisters and founders of Milk & Honey Shoes, know no one would try to dispute it. They also know every woman has an idea for a pair of shoes she just can't find in stores.

  • Secrets to Your Success: Choose a Career You Love

    Choosing a career is not just about bringing home enough money to pay the bills; it's about finding a job that will play to your strengths, and, most importantly, it's about finding a career that you love.

  • Secrets to Your Success: Sally Jessy Raphael

    Talk show host Sally Jessy Raphael's iconic, over-sized red glasses were purchased out of necessity. She says that when she went to the optometrist, they only had red glasses, so that's just what she bought. Sally exudes confidence.

  • Secrets to Your Success: Katrina Markoff

    Chef and Vosges Chocolates founder Katrina Markoff uses chocolate as a medium to tell stories. "For some reason, I went into my kitchen, and I made an Indian curry, coconut, milk chocolate truffle," she says. "And that was when the epiphany occurred."

  • Secrets to Your Success: How to Make a Good Impression in a New Job

    Like the first day of school, the first few days of a new job can be downright nerve-racking. Among the butterflies of a new job, like what to wear or where to park, making a good impression probably tops the list of anxieties.

  • Secrets to Your Success: Ann Dunwoody

    In January, the Pentagon lifted the ban on women in combat. Coach, leader, and four-star U.S. Army General Ann Dunwoody says this policy change is a recognition of women's roles on the battlefield today.