Women Entrepreneurs Only

Produced in partnership with Ernst and Young, this book profiles twelve Entrepreneur of the Year Award winners — Doris Christopher of Pampered Chef, Sheryl Leach who brought us Barney, Joy Mangano of the Miracle Mop — each telling her story of launch, setback, and breakthrough. The combination of recognizable names and real lessons learned gives the book credibility that pure inspiration titles often lack. Many of the profiles carry genuine warmth about service, family, and community alongside the business strategy. The honest limitation is age: published in 1999, the business environment these women navigated has shifted significantly, and the profiles are brief enough that some leave you wanting more. It remains motivating as a record of what women built in an era that took female entrepreneurship even less seriously than today.