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<\/div>Julia Taylor Cheek had an impressive resume<\/a> before deciding to strike out on her own. But Cheek was destined to grow beyond her roles as Director of Strategy and Operations at the George W. Bush Institute and Vice-President of Corporate Strategy and Global Communications at MoneyGram International.<\/span><\/p>\n Today, as CEO and founder of<\/span> EverlyWell<\/span><\/a>, Julia Taylor Cheek is empowering patients by reinventing medical testing. EverlyWell provides at-home medical testing kits. These kits allow patients to gather samples in the privacy and comfort of their own homes. Test results are then shipped to labs for analysis by board-certified physicians. The easy-to-read results are posted online in just a few days. <\/span><\/p>\n Cheek\u2019s efforts at EverlyWell are demystifying medical testing and making the process more comfortable and accessible to patients. <\/span>Tests available include<\/span><\/a>: Cholesterol and Lipids, Sexual Health, Food Sensitivity, Vitamin D and inflammation, among others.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jordan French of CIO.com<\/span><\/a> says, \u201cIf you haven\u2019t heard of <\/span>Techweek<\/span><\/a> yet, you\u2019re bound to at some point in 2017.\u201d Techweek, brainchild of CEO Amanda Signorelli, is a conference and media company striving to help local tech businesses network and grow. Success, their website claims, \u201cis contagious.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n With this philosophy in mind Techweek has chosen 8 cities across North America in which to hold weeklong conferences throughout each year. Signorelli\u2019s goal is to create self-sustaining communities of technology entrepreneurs. Part of that strategy revolves around the idea of \u201chero companies\u201d which Techweek defines as,<\/p>\n \u201c…<\/span>high-growth businesses that achieve a substantial and sustainable impact and incubate talent, ideas, and most importantly, spinoffs. This theory posits that the spinoff process is the most effective method to spur dynamic hubs of growth, innovation, and wealth generation.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Techweek\u2019s approach brings a collaborative spin to the all-too-frequently competitive world of technology.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Long before Sofia Vergara was a household name, \u00a0or her role in the hit sit-com Modern Family, she co-founded Latin World Entertainment. <\/span>LatinWE<\/span><\/a> is the premier hispanic talent management agency in the United States. Founded in 1994 with her partner Luis Balaguer, Vergara saw a need for Latin talent to be represented in the entertainment marketplace.<\/span><\/p>\n Today LatinWE offers talent management, endorsements, branding, PR and social media marketing and more. Growing from LatinWE\u2019s success, Vergara and partner Balaguer joined forces with former president of Fox Television Studios Emiliano Calemzuk in May 2016 to form a new company-Raze Latin Media.<\/span><\/p>\n Variety\u2019s Todd Spangler reports<\/span><\/a> that Raze will work with LatinWE to produce new shows for the Hispanic American market on various platforms. Vergara has made a career of representing Hispanic talent. Raze is a logical extension of her work with LatinWE <\/span>as it creates a vehicle where latin talent can shine.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Logan Cohan wasted little time after completing her own education before she sought to improve the experience for others. In 2014 the recent Florida International University grad founded K\u00fcdzoo<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cK\u00dcDZOO is a free mobile application that rewards students with deals, giveaways, scholarship opportunities, concert tickets, and once in a lifetime experiences based on students\u2019 grades and achievements. K\u00dcDZOO works together with schools and businesses to improve student engagement while bringing communities together with an educational focus.\u201d –<\/span> Kudzooapp.com<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The app brings more value to student\u2019s school experience by incentivizing them to work hard. In addition to their good grades and improved learning, they take home K\u00fcdzoo cash that they can redeem for prizes of their own choice through the app. It\u2019s a win\/win for students, parents and educators. <\/span><\/p>\n In a ringing endorsement of their endeavor Cohen and her co-founder Trevor Wilkins were featured on Forbes 2016 list of <\/span>30 Under 30<\/span><\/a> in education.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tory Burch is not just a wildly successful fashion designer and female entrepreneur. In addition to founding and managing a <\/span>\u201c<\/span>global business with more than 150 freestanding boutiques and a presence in more than 3,000 department and specialty stores\u201d<\/span><\/a>, she\u2019s also established herself as a leading champion for breast cancer research and champion of female entrepreneurs. <\/span><\/p>\n Burch is a director on the board of directors for the <\/span>Breast Cancer Research Foundation<\/span><\/a>. And, she regularly raises funds through her own e-commerce site ToryBurch.com<\/a> on their behalf. Burch explains, <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cFor us, it\u2019s a year-round cause. Our company and the Tory Burch Foundation work on partnerships and events with the <\/span>BCRF<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center<\/span><\/a> throughout the year to drum up more support for the cause.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Burch also gives back by supporting other women entrepreneurs through the <\/span>Tory Burch Foundation<\/span><\/a>. The foundation has partnered with Bank of America to help female entrepreneurs with sustainable businesses get affordable loans.<\/span><\/p>\n Five-time national gymnastics champion<\/span><\/a> Lisa Wang and her marathon-running partner Yin Lin, bonded over their shared drive, self-discipline, and cultural background as Asian Americans. When these women met they had already each co-founded a company, watched it grow to profitability and then moved on.<\/span><\/p>\n Both Lin and Wang witnessed gender inequality in their earlier business ventures, inspiring them to address those issues through their own partnership. Wang and Lin co-founded <\/span>SheWorx<\/span><\/a>-a global collective of female entrepreneurs. SheWorx provides mentoring, networking and events for female entrepreneurs with a focus of providing practicable, actionable advice.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIn today\u2019s environment we all need to be lifelong learners. SheWorx has been structured to provide women with access to critical information. Our goal is to build a stronger startup ecosystem…where founders can discuss challenging topics and then develop actionable strategies for moving their companies forward when they walk out the door.\u201d – Yin Lin<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n In their first year, Wang and Lin have organized more than 70 discussions featuring successful investors and founders, and attracted 3000 members to SheWorx. A truly global presence, Sheworx events have been held in London, New York,Singapore and Tel Aviv. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Arianna Huffington is best known as the creator of <\/span>The Huffington Post<\/span><\/a>. In the wake of George W. Bush\u2019s re-election, Huffington felt the need to contribute to the political discourse.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWhat began as a left-leaning answer to the Drudge Report, comprised primarily of aggregation and blog posts from friends, morphed over the years into a major news organization and digital media company that\u2019s expanded into 15 countries. The site recently drew nearly 200 million monthly unique visitors globally.\u201d explained Michael Calderone in an <\/span>August 2016 Huffington Post article<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Huffington Post became a prominent, recognized voice for leftist ideology, winning a Pulitzer Prize in 2012. But, Huffington was not content to rest after conquering the political media landscape. In 2016 she left Huffington Post to pursue a new business endeavor born of her newfound passion for wellness. <\/span><\/p>\n Thrive Global<\/a>, named after Huffington\u2019s 2014 book <\/span>Thrive<\/span><\/i>, includes a media platform, e-commerce site, and corporate wellness programs all focused on encouraging its audience to take control of their health. \u00a0According to <\/span>Business Insider<\/span><\/a>, as of January 2017 the newly launched Thrive Global had already doubled its target revenue for the year. Huffington reflects, <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe connection between well-being and performance: that’s the key. That’s the entry point to convince people that if they take care of themselves \u2014 through sleep, meditation, recharging \u2014 they are not sacrificing their work or careers.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n CEO and co-founder of Nima<\/a>, Shireen Yates has been leading a gluten-free lifestyle for the past eight years. Common wisdom states that the best ideas for starting a new business come from solving your own problems-and that\u2019s exactly what Yates has done. <\/span><\/p>\n Nima is a discreet, portable food sensor that allows celiac and gluten-intolerant diners to test their food for the presence of gluten. The tests takes only about 3 minutes to perform and results can be shared via app so that users have access to a growing database of information.<\/p>\n Nima\u2019s website<\/span><\/a> proudly claims, \u201c<\/span>For us, it\u2019s personal. We\u2019re on a mission to change living with food allergies, forever.\u201d And, if Yates achieves her goals (listed as<\/span> \u201cto alleviate stress around unknown food ingredients, deliver social freedom, and make mealtime enjoyable again\u201d) she will certainly deliver.<\/span><\/p>\n The world of fashion has never given the color \u201cnude\u201d enough credit- at least, not until Atima Lui and Nancy Madrid arrived on the scene. Nude has traditionally referred to the beigey skin tone associated with caucasian women. This very limited view of what nude means in fashion has left people of many ethnicities deeply underrepresented. <\/span><\/p>\n When <\/span>Meg Oliver of CBS News<\/span><\/a> asked Lui what \u201cnude\u201d had meant to her when growing up she responded,<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt definitely meant beige. I have a lot of stories of wearing beige, nude hosiery and just having ashy legs,\u201d <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Lui and Madrid are tackling the nude color inequality head-on with their company <\/span>Nudest<\/span><\/a>. Nudest offers a variety of fashion staples in a wide range of skin tone-inspired shades of nude. They have partnered with 11 companies that currently offer products in a wide variety of flesh tones. And, their site features a nudemeter that allows shoppers to match their own skin tone with available products. <\/span><\/p>\n By representing a wider range of consumers, Madrid and Lui are endeavoring to correct a vast and pervasive failing in the fashion industry. Lui asserts,<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe current definition of nude, the beige tones, do not match 84 percent of the global population\u2026 So the opportunity is big to fix this.\u201d <\/span>– CBS News<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, <\/span>India\u2019s richest self-made woman<\/span><\/a>, is a superstar of the global female entrepreneur community. She makes regular appearances on Forbes\u2019 annual billionaires list; and, she\u2019s been awarded France\u2019s highest civilian honor for her contributions to bioscience. \u00a0Her company Biocon Ltd.<\/a> is the largest producer of insulin in Asia, and has recently sent new biosimilar cancer treatment drugs for review in Europe and the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n Despite her many achievements, Mazumdar-Shaw is not content to focus only on her business. Instead she has made it a personal battle to fight cancer after the disease struck both her husband and best friend. According to <\/span>The Economic Times<\/span><\/a> she founded the Mazumdar-Shaw Cancer Center in Bangalore, India with Dr. Devi Shetty in 2007. In 2013 the Mazumdar-Shaw Medical Foundation launched <\/span>a program designed to monitor for cancer in rural populations<\/span><\/a> with the goal of catching and treating cancers sooner.<\/span><\/p>\n Most recently, Mazumdar-Shaw became the second Indian entrepreneur to join Bill Gate\u2019s <\/span>Giving Pledge<\/span><\/a>. The Pledge invites billionaires to commit to giving more than half of their wealth to philanthropic causes. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw has pledged to give more than half of her wealth to support cancer research and improving primary health centers in rural India.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cMy philanthropic efforts are largely directed towards making a difference to global health care, especially in the developing world. I am particularly concerned about the unbearable financial burden that debilitating diseases like cancer impose on patients in poor countries…\u201d – <\/span>Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Are you inspired by these amazing female entrepreneurs? Do you want to join their ranks and make your own difference in the world? Then now might be a great time to check out our free e-book:\u00a0<\/span>What Are You Waiting For: A Guide for Mom Entrepreneurs on Starting, Growing, and Managing a Successful Business.<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/images.crowdspring.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/27131949\/rsz_juliataylorcheek.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nJulia Taylor Cheek (EverlyWell)<\/b><\/h2>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nAmanda Signorelli (Techweek)<\/b><\/h2>\n
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Sofia Vergara (LatinWE, Raze)<\/b><\/h2>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/images.crowdspring.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/27131949\/rsz_logan-cohen-1184x1130.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nLogan Cohen (K\u00fczoo)<\/b><\/h2>\n
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Tory Burch (Tory Burch)<\/b><\/h2>\n<\/h2>\n
Lisa Wang & Yin Lin (SheWorx)<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Arianna Huffington (Huffington Post, Thrive)<\/b><\/h2>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/images.crowdspring.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/27131948\/rsz_shireen-yates_4x3-1024x768.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\nShireen Yates (Nima)<\/b><\/h2>\n
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\u00a0Atima Lui and Nancy Madrid (Nudest)<\/b><\/h2>\n
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Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (Biocon Ltd.)<\/b><\/h2>\n
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