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I am a serial entrepreneur; that is how I live. I like the freedom and ability to do what I want to do. My first business was actually selling gold jewelry. That was a big deal in the 1960s, because it was the first time you could sell gold outside of a jewelry store. I had a stock of gold jewelry and I’d visit friends and they would buy from me. But it allowed me an income, to enjoy what I was doing, and it was something that was all mine. I was able to be who I actually was at “work.”

Also, I think for women with children, it is really tough to leave them behind and go back to the workforce. For example, now I’m watching friends who just had kids re-enter the workforce, and someone else is raising their children. It’s not the mother, because she’s at work. That is a really painful thing to do. Entrepreneurship gives you both worlds—the ability to make a reasonable living working for yourself and a LOT of control over the kind of life you have in a way you could never do within corporate America as an employee.