"I love seeing people taking charge of their own destiny and creating the life they want." — Adelaide Lancaster
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Harboring Hearts
A: I know for sure that you have to take big risks to get to big places. My father would say that all the time. As cheesy as it might sound, I took a big risk in starting Harboring Hearts and I am happy to see it paying off. READ MORE »
“There was a lot of skepticism when I decided to start the company; I wasn’t a designer and didn’t have a retail background. People also questioned the wisdom of creating a business with a Foundation and social responsibility in mind. My parents gave me great advice, which was to think of negativity as noise, and READ MORE »
“When I first started GEMS, everyone literally told me I was crazy…there were people who walked away from me, and people who I had to choose to walk away from. But I felt so strongly that this was what I was meant to do that I just couldn’t really be deterred. I had to at READ MORE »
Co-founder, XO Group Inc.
A: Ultimately thinking of an idea takes 10 seconds, but making it happen takes days, weeks, years, a lifetime…. READ MORE »
Founder, Girls Who Code
A: I know for sure that women will run the world one day. Sisterhood is powerful! READ MORE »
Executive Director, Nest
A: Always pay attention to serendipity. In ways too numerous to delineate, Nest has been defined and refined by a series of remarkable coincidences that seem anything but: chance meetings that turn into valuable business relationships, hidden talents and interests of friends and acquaintances that turn out to be a perfect fit for Nest, e-mails on one topic that reveal other ... READ MORE »