When Jeannine Brady delivered her first baby in 2019, she quickly realized the challenges postpartum and nursing women faced when dressing for an occasion outside of their homes.
Army veteran Rachel Featherstone translates being a perinatal mental health nurse practitioner to their time as a military police officer.
For Tina Cusker, who spent 30 years as an educator, changes in the education system amid the COVID-19 pandemic ignited her desire to pursue cooking and entertaining.
While based in Washington, D.C., employees with Organized Q offer virtual executive assistant services to small business owners, executives, and social impact entrepreneurs from wherever they are.
As a former helicopter crew chief and door gunner in the Marines, Jennifer Vollbrecht describes herself as an “ultra planner.” After separating from active duty, those traits remained when she became a project manager at a national lab.
An estimated 200,000 veterans were supposed to leave the military this year. Because of the global COVID-19 pandemic, however, hundreds
have deferred their separations
and thousands more have opted to reenlist. Those still leaving the military face increased uncertainty as they enter a new, civilian life.
Outsourcing is often the first big growth step for a business. For an entrepreneur on a start-up budget, this can be a difficult decision. Laura Early, a military spouse, is the co-founder of WISE Advise — a virtual team helping small businesses fulfill needs in public relations, business strategy, bookkeeping, digital marketing, web design and more.
There are many roads to entrepreneurship. Each is filled with its own obstacles and challenges. Becoming a successful entrepreneur means determining the type of company that fits your skills according to Blake Hogan, a Marine veteran, and Bunker Labs CEO.
Before her retirement from the Army, Maj. Natasha Norie Standard knew the next path she wanted to take. She’d already enrolled in design school and would later get her master’s degree in fashion and luxury management and shoe design.
Daymond John recalls sweeping floors in a corner store of his neighborhood as a kid to earn candy from the owner — a longtime businessman who had seen it all.
