Career Profile: Lucy Sykes, Author and Fashion Designer
"The biggest lesson is honestly to be yourself. The reason you are there is because you are different. You are original."
Career Profiles
Career Profile: Jaclyn Johnson, Create & Cultivate
"Don’t spend so much time looking at your neighbor’s grass that you forget to water your own."
Career Profile: Christy Doramus, Crowns By Christy
"Always have a goal and work toward it every single day. Everyone starts at the bottom and, if you have to be an assistant for a few years to someday reach your goal of becoming CEO, then be the very best assistant that the company has ever had."
Career Profile: Alexandra Cavoulacos, The Muse
"You have to take control over your career because no one else will do it for you."
Career Profile: Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping
"Take in all the advice and suggestions people throw your way, but in the end, listen to your gut. No one else is in your shoes or has the sum total of experiences you have, so you need to make the decision that is best for you."
Career Profile: Amanda Gluck, Fashionable Hostess
"My goal is for my site to be a destination for anyone who entertains, loves their home, and appreciates beautiful things!"
Career Profile: Julia Gudish Krieger, VillageLuxe
"Recognize that you're the only person standing in your way, and the faster you can stop listening to the little voice that says you can't do it, the faster you'll start really living! You'll be surprised the doors that open when you trust yourself and put in the work to get there."
Career Profile: Evgeniya Khromina, Panah
"It’s a tough job to be a modern woman: Professional and family responsibilities can be overwhelming sometimes! Take care of yourself."
Career Profile: Stephanie Kaplan, Her Campus
"You have to keep challenging yourself, creating more work for yourself, looking toward what's next and continuously setting higher and higher goals for yourself and your company as a whole. And the basis for all of this is passion—if you’re not passionate about what you’re doing, it will be significantly harder to succeed at it."