Tag Archive for entrepreneur

Who’s Your Biggest Mentor?

Teresa Kay-Aba Kennedy and Janie Sykes-Kennedy

When asked “Who’s your biggest mentor?”, Success & Wellness Coach Teresa Kay-Aba Kennedy contributed to MyCorporation Blog sharing thoughts on her mother:

“My mother, Janie Sykes-Kennedy, has been my biggest mentor. A Columbia University-trained journalist, she ran Sykes Kennedy Associates, Inc., a marketing consulting company that did business around the world. In the late 1980s, she was invited by the U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. Housing & Urban Development as one of fourteen women to start trade talks with China and walked away with a contract to distribute the journal, Building in China, worldwide. She showed me by example what was possible as a female entrepreneur. You can make your dreams come true by believing in yourself, living your values, pursuing your vision, working smart, and seeking joy along the way.”

Dare to Do

SarahBanBreathnach_Do_PowerLiving_TeresaKennedy_QuoteCardFJ

A DOSE OF POWER LIVING®: Dare to Do – As Sarah Ban Breathnach said, “The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.”

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.
-Madam C. J. Walker

I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations. I have built my own factory on my own ground.
-Madam C. J. Walker

One night I had a dream, and in that dream a big black man appeared to me and told me what to mix up for my hair. I made up my mind I would begin to sell it.
-Madam C. J. Walker

Give Yourself A Start

A DOSE OF POWER LIVING®: Give Yourself Start – As pioneering entrepreneur Madam C. J. Walker said, “I got my start by giving myself a start.”

Give Yourself A Start

QUOTE CARD: “I got my start by giving myself a start.”
-Madam C.J. Walker

Go For Life!

A DOSE OF POWER LIVING®: Go For Life! – As pioneering actress and businesswoman Lucille Ball said, “I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.”

Build Your Own Dreams

A DOSE OF POWER LIVING®: Build Your Own Dreams – As entrepreneur Farrah Gray said, “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”