Nine Lives: Stories of Women Business Owners Landing on Their Feet [Paperback]

Mary Cantando (Author), Laurie Zuckerman (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review

... follows entrepreneurs from childhood through the rise of their businesses and offers anecdotes every entrepreneur can learn from. -- Chris Penttila, Entrepreneur Magazine, May 2003

These women are modern-day heroines, adventurers, survivalists, fighters and visionaries. -- Susan Bari, founder and president, Women’s Business Enterprise National Council, May 2003

Though Nine Lives is decidedly not a ‘how-to’ book, there is wisdom packed into each page. -- Monica Smiley, Enterprising Women Magazine, May 2003

About the Author

A member of the National Speakers’ Association, Mary Cantando is a nationally recognized expert on the growth of women-owned businesses. She is a member of WBENC’s prestigious Women’s Enterprise Leadership Forum and a facilitator for the Women Presidents’ Organization, a non-profit dedicated to empowering women across North America to achieve increased business and financial success as well as personal growth. Above all else, Mary serves as an advisor and cheerleader to women business owners everywhere.

Laurie Zuckerman is a writer and communications consultant.

Product Details

• Paperback: 182 pages
• Publisher: Cantando & Associates; 1st Pbk edition (June 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0972952802
• ISBN-13: 978-0972952804
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,753,738 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Mary Cantando is an acclaimed author and speaker who focuses on helping women grow their businesses and their lives. As an entrepreneurial executive, she's founded, led and expanded businesses for over 20 years.

Mary's books contain ground-breaking ideas for women.
* Leading with Care: How Women Around the World are Inspiring Businesses, Empowering Communities, and Creating Opportunity shares stories of women leaders from all walks of life--from micro business owners in Africa to chief executives of Fortune companies and then juxtaposes these inspiring profiles with lessons you can apply to your own life.
* The Woman's Advantage: 20 Women Entrepreneurs Show You What it Takes to Grow Your Business provides insight from women who started with absolutely nothing to build multimillion-dollar businesses.
* The Woman's Advantage Workbook allows each reader to build her business chapter-by-chapter through the mentoring of 20 successful women.
* The Woman's Advantage Shared Wisdom Calendar provides 365 daily snippets of advice from women entrepreneurs across the country.
* Nine Lives: Stories of Women Business Owners Landing on Their Feet profiles nine women who have overcome seemingly-impossible odds to achieve amazing business success.
* Double Your Revenue: Certify Your Woman-Owned Business (Audio CD) answers the questions: "Should I certify my woman-owned business, and if so, how do I get started?" and "Once I gain my certification how do I capitalize on it to gain new clients?"

As an advocate for women, Mary has served as an envoy of the US State Department in helping women in developing countries start and grow businesses. She is also a Trustee of The Women's Alliance, an Ambassador of the Women's Business Enterprise National Council and a Chapter Chair for the Women Presidents' Organization. She sits on the Enterprising Women Advisory Board, and has been named the Growth Advisor of Women Entrepreneurs', Inc.

Mary's ideas and articles have been featured in hundreds of publications including the Wall Street Journal and O The Oprah Magazine, as well as NPR TV and radio.

A mother, grandmother, and self-proclaimed "high-maintenance wife," Mary lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with her husband who she refers to as "Saint John" for putting up with her for almost 40 years!

Contact Mary through www.WomansAdvantage.biz

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Be encouraged to set high goals, July 9, 2003

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"evelina24" (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nine Lives: Stories of Women Business Owners Landing on Their Feet (Paperback)

This book really paints a picture of what it takes to own a business as a woman. It is encouraging to see that the struggles that these women went through were all worth it in the end. It has given me courage to never give up in busines and to set my goals high, despite the obstacles.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars We make our own luck!, July 9, 2003

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"ringlida" (Durham, NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nine Lives: Stories of Women Business Owners Landing on Their Feet (Paperback)

This book underscored my belief that we make our on luck! I love the story about the owner of Rosies Bakery in Boston...how she worked through the night and went to bed with flour in her hair because she was too tired to even take a shower...now she owns a chain of bakeries! And the "Queen of Barbeque" who got tired of being passed over for promotions in her male dominated industry...she just quit and started her own business. I feel like these women are my sisters, and I'm proud of them!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a business of one's own, October 22, 2003

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Rebecca Brown "rebeccasreads" (Clallam Bay, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nine Lives: Stories of Women Business Owners Landing on Their Feet (Paperback)

As Marsha Firestone, current President of The Women Presidents' Organization writes in her Foreword: "Women in the past century have made magnificent strides...[t]he women in this book are magnificent...because of who they have become. These powerful stories...encourage each of us to seek our own new sense of self..."

I wholeheartedly agree. Each woman's story will resonate with any Reader's own struggles -- starting from childhood, learning how to be an adult, a wife, a mother, a business woman & then, inevitably, the descent into the pit & the crawling back out. In sharing their stories they offer their greatest lessons on how to survive & thrive in the business world.

Highly recommended by RebeccasReads.