If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there'd be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.

With breast cancer, it's all about detection. You have to educate young women and encourage them to do everything they have to do.

It is up to us not to bury that potential we have.

Whether you want to admit it or not, people begin to judge you the minute you walk in the door.

It's important to us to see the development and growth. At the end of the day, it's our baby. Genetically it's ours. It's our embryo. We feel very connected.

I had a very good job in corporate America, but I quickly knew that was not how I was wired.

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.