“Whatever you invest your energy in, at the end, it has to make sense,” says 44-year-old entrepreneur Anna Ivey. “If it doesn’t get you closer to your goals, you have to make a change.” Ivey took what she considers the road most traveled. She marched off to law school and served as an attorney in Los […]

When Agnieszka Burnett escaped Communist Poland in the late 1980s, she had no idea that experience would inspire her life’s work. After all, she was only a baby. She describes her parents as “risk takers” who had “all these dreams they didn’t see to be feasible at that time”—dreams relating to better opportunities for their […]

As a young child, Grace Choi created all kinds of garments for her Power Rangers figurines, like pants, dresses, and a “crazy number of skirts.” “You know how children mimic their parents?” she asks. “My parents ran a dry cleaners, so I kind of mimicked them.” And it wasn’t just her Power Rangers. My Little […]