From Side Hustle to Shower Curtain Empire

Lisa Schulner-Fine (along with photographer husband Michael Fine) had been frustrated with the lack of shower curtain options on the market for a while. She and Michael both had an eye for design — she worked as a director of styling at Madewell and he as a freelance fashion photographer — and the couple struggled to find aesthetically pleasing bathroom accessories on retail shelves. To make matters worse, most of the items available were far from sustainable.

And so a side business becomes a multimillion-dollar business.  It's called Quiet Town.

How Women Business Owners Grow Their Businesses

Many women business owners never think their business will become a million dollar company.

“I never really thought I would be,” confessed Kahn, whose company [North Shore Children's Therapies] achieved that milestone in 2017. “I am more on a passion driven mission to helping kids and I don’t think that, for me, there is any sort of number to get to with that.”

Learn what other business owners said about running a million dollar company.   Oh, and an interesting fact:  the fastest growing businesses are run by women and people of color.

How to Conquer Your Biggest Roadblocks

Whether it’s breaking the glass ceiling, building a multimillion dollar business or battling stereotypes, no one’s denying women have come a long way. But we still have a long way to go.  Below eight successful women entrepreneurs share how they take down the roadblocks that get in their way.

8 Women Entrepreneurs Share How They Conquered Their Biggest Roadblocks

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