Being Brazen

Tech CEO, Joy Kirven, tells us how the decision to attend one event changed her career path and kickstarted her entrepreneurial journey.

Tenacity and daring to do things differently. KT Speetzen, of Mother Cluckers Comedy, LLC, tells us how she used these two “superpowers” to go from stay-at-home mom to CEO.  

The entire competition process kept me on the edge with just the right amount of stress (the healthy kind that kicks you into action) and humbleness.

It felt scary at the time, but looking back I am excited to think about it because I was actually living my dream.

It didn’t feel like work. I was building a brand and an organization exactly how I envisioned it. I took the best of the three organizations I had worked for and left the rest.

My coach had called my baby ugly and I didn’t like it but I needed it.

Taking on this project both scared and excited me. I had never done this type of work before and to me failure was not an option

Good business is like a good marriage; you want to hold onto and remember the first feelings of falling in love so that when hard times come, those feelings can help you get through and remember why you are doing what you are doing in the first place.