Starting Trouble

Dr. Jennifer Rhodes is a licensed psychologist, dating coach, and seduction expert who has developed an innovated, holistic approach to supporting people in their search for love. A former forensic psychologist with expertise in divorce and child custody issues, Dr. Rhodes uses relationship science to help her clients with the personal growth necessary to find a loving and long lasting relationship.

"Jingjing Tian is an aerospace engineer with degrees in Biomedical Engineering, English, and an MFA in Creative Writing. She created HeyU because she wanted to create more delight, empathy, and more love in the world! When not working on HeyU, she likes to write scripts. She is a Sundance Writer’s Lab & Sundance Sloan Foundation finalist."

"I’m a health and wellbeing professional, passionate about practicing yoga each day, running, enjoying good food and maintaining a healthy mind. I’ve recently launched my company, Founded Wellness, a pop up well-being gym concept for the corporate workplace. This combines my eight years of experience working in health promotion and public relations with my life as a yoga teacher. Through Founded Wellness I aim to help people in the workplace feel better with the delivery of a tailored timetable of happy and inspiring wellbeing gym activities. I also work with consumer brands on a consultancy basis to more genuinely connect in with the health and well-being scene."

"I am focused, driven and a serial entrepreneur believe in taking risks and following your dreams and not be stuck in some dead end job. You have to stay committed to your vision and execute on that vision. Execution is key."

"I’ve always had a hawk-eye for the details around me — the little things other people don’t see or ideas for making things prettier. Going into a career in Graphic Design was an obvious fit for my talents. However becoming a business owner wasn’t my natural match. My career success hasn’t simply come from my creative skills but from the commitment to learning and figuring out how to be my own boss, how to bring in clients and ultimately how to run a business."

Bianca Herbert founded New York Tea Co. in 2015 after living in Tokyo, Japan. Finding it difficult to access to quality products made with Matcha, that she extremely enjoyed while living abroad. She created her own recipes and eventually ended up with dozens of original recipes using any type of tea she could get her hands on. She first introduced Matcha Chocolate Chip cookies to the world and has since been expanding her brand. She is aiming to disrupt the tea market with her innovative products and build a global community.

Women are such go-getters! Tiffany’s sweet, soft voice belies a focused and smart business woman who inherently understands what it takes to get a business going, even if its early days in her solopreneur journey. Tiffany shares my thoughts on big businesses losing out by not making it more attractive for people to stay and work for them. I loved the way she validates entrepreneurship — she says, if you can do great work for someone else, there’s no reason why you can’t do it for yourself.

Many of us have been driven to start our own business soon as we became mothers. Natalie too decided that she had to choose a career other than a traditional corporate job if she wanted to be able to spend time with her children. Natalie is a serial entrepreneur. She is the founder of Nika Consulting and recently launched goBaby - a children's travel gear rental app.

During her undergraduate years, Rebecca started her full-time career in the health field working in pharmaceutical development. She then changed courses and moved to Europe. In Spain, she founded a tour company which expanded into Portugal where she opened a beachfront restaurant. Upon her return to the United States, her lifelong passion for fitness and nutrition gave birth to MyBodyBuddy.org.

I am a Mom, a woman in tech, a first generation American and the first one in my family to start her own business. If ever there was a case against becoming an entrepreneur, I am it. Despite the many challenges though there is nothing else I'd rather be. As it happens, there are several women just like me. Their stories are the stuff of legends and I wanted to tell them.