Rachael McCrary’s career has you covered. Literally. As the founder and CEO of Jewel Toned, a women’s brand that creates “shapewear shaped like you,” Rachael and her colleagues create hard-working body shapers that hug curves softly. The company strives to “take the shame out of shapewear” and creates pieces that don’t require you to (at…
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Dana Calvo On Making Amazon’s ‘The Good Girls Revolt’
Wanting to be a professional writer didn’t really fly in Dana Calvo’s household growing up, but after a short stint as a paralegal, she knew she had to listen to her inner voice. “The thought of staring down the barrel of a life as a CPA or lawyer was not for me,” she says. With…
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Renuka Salinger: Vice President of Development, Camp Bow Wow
Renuka Salinger grew up on a horse ranch in rural South Dakota and always loved animals. When she was away at college she missed all the animals, so the first thing she did when she moved home was bring a dog into her life. Now as the vice president of development for Camp Bow Wow…
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Lindsay Cohen: CMO of Align Income Share Funding
Lindsay Cohen found her dream job through old-fashioned networking—with two classmates from Northwestern. Studying in the same undergraduate math program was the CEO and COO of her current company, Align Income Share Funding, where Lindsay currently serves as CMO. “When they raised a Series A funding round, I reached out to see if they needed…
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Tanna Larson
Tanna Larson was on the quest for all things pure and natural to moisturize and clean her body, as well as the bodies of her loved ones. Despite the claims of many products to fit the bill, she grew frustrated as she stared at label after label with lists of ingredients she couldn’t pronounce or…
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Cara Kleinhaut
Cara Kleinhaut had a job many of us would consider dreamy. She worked for years as an in-house producer at Sony Music Entertainment, and before that as an assistant tour manager to music icon Mariah Carey. But something in her drove her to break out on her own. So, in 2001, she launched Caravent—now rebranded…
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Hope Alcocer
Hope Alcocer was pretty much a writer from the time she figured out how to put pen to paper. What began as journaling at the wise age of five turned into a career at the continued instance of a professor. So Hope, who wasn’t one for the typical 9-to-5, began her literary career doing freelance…
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Michelle Suwannukul
If you’ve worked anywhere—from a sandwich shop to a Fortune 500—for any length of time, you know that corporate culture totally matters. At Instacart, a tech company that’s revolutionizing how we get our groceries, that culture is so important that they hired Michelle Suwannukul to proactively foster it. Now that sounds like a pretty cool…
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Lizzi Ackerman
Lizzi Ackerman had her mind set on being a doctor. That decision, made after a life-changing event, seemed perfect—until it wasn’t. “As much as I loved medicine,” admits Lizzi, “it wasn’t the right fit.” But that didn’t stop her from being a doctor; she just went a different direction. Lizzi left medicine behind to become…
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Aida Garcia-Toledo
When she was pregnant with her first child, Aida Garcia-Toledo knew she wanted to commit to raising her kids in a non-toxic environment. While the initial decision had been easy, finding truly helpful information wasn’t such a breeze. In fact, this former investigative journalist found the process downright frustrating. But Aida was committed to her…