Success depends on relationships and a commitment to learning

Joy Wallace describes herself as an eternal optimist – optimistic enough to take on the challenges that come with breaking out on your own. Eleven years ago the 56-year-old Dallas native went from being an executive at Pizza Hut to an entrepreneur, when she launched J.O.Y. Foods.

By Karen M. Thomas

Debra Sandler considers her job a blessing. She is worldwide president for McNeil Nutritionals, L.L.C., a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary that offers consumers nutritionally based products like Splenda, an artificial sweetener that can be used in the battle against obesity and diabetes.
It’s a fight she takes personally. Her grandmother suffered from diabetes. [...]

Dawn Barnes has created a karate empire. She didn’t set out to do it, but she did plan to succeed. More than a businesswoman, Barnes is an entrepreneur, author and martial artist.
“I think we all grow and change from year to year, based on what we’re experiencing,” Barnes said. “My desire was that whatever [...]

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Having It All [...]

As a CPA for a major American oil company, Gail Warrior-Lawrence used to come home from work frustrated by the road blocks to her efforts to be effective, but those days are long gone. When a corporate merger presented the opportunity for her to take a new route professionally, Warrior-Lawrence chose to build her own [...]

What can you do with $200 and a rented truck? Ask entrepreneur Marsha Serlin, who in 1978, relying upon just such minimal assets, founded United Scrap Metal, the first woman-owned scrap metal company in the United States.