Part of creating the future is to follow this consumer. Women are working; we've moved the store to the desk. Now though, she's is in the back of a cab with her iPhone or her iPad, she's tweeting an outfit that her friend is wearing and desperately trying to find out where she got her shoes online.

I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.

Point out the problems, as long as you have a solution. I don't like critics who aren't doers themselves.

As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.

There is no recipe for success - it is as unique as you are

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

I think I'm a better mother because of work, because I'm happy. If I wasn't working, I would just be waiting for the kids to come home every day, and living vicariously through their lives.