Angela-ii The Success Story Of Angela

Angela Jia Kim, On Being Concert Pianist:
"I was always supposed to be a concert pianist. My mom plopped me in front of the piano at the age of three, and that was it-- I never looked back. Rigorous training and strict discipline became a way of life, and although I would often fantasize about doing other things, I never thought I would ever really do it. Well, who knew that a rash right before a concert would change my life forever?"
A Good Business Idea From a Bad Experience:
Before stepping out on stage for a concert in Chicago, Angela applied a "natural" cream on her body and started to break out. After the humiliating experience, she read the cream's list of ingredients - a long disconcerting list filled chemicals and preservatives.
At the time, her cousin, aunt, and two friends (still in their twenties) had been diagnosed with cancer. Angela thought, "Even though I knew that a cream was not the cause, I wanted to make a lifestyle change, and for me, it began with a new beauty regiment."
Applying Her Discipline as a Pianist to Create a New Product Line:
Angela was determined to find a luxury cream that did not contain toxic chemicals. "I was paying attention to what I was eating; shouldn't I pay attention to what I was putting on my body?" Finding none on the market, she rolled up her sleeves, and started to experiment in her Manhattan kitchen on her own.
It was hard work but Angela refused to give up; "My discipline as a pianist kicked in, and I became obsessed to find 'perfection.' I experimented 1000 times before being satisfied to give them as gifts to friends. It was an instant hit, and they began to buy the creams as gifts for their friends."
About Om Aroma & Co.:
Om Aroma & Co. (a limited liability company) manufactures and sells luxury organic spa and skincare products to five-star spas and resorts. A young, up-start company launched in August of 2007, Om Aroma & Co. has already established a solid market relationship in private upscale spas as well as in retail stores throughout the United States.
Angela offers, "We take our ultra-sensual ingredients — Caviar, Champagne, and Truffles — and fuse them with organic ingredients to create products that are deliciously sexy and naturally great for the skin."
About Savor The Success:
Launched on July 29, 2008, Savor the Success connects female entrepreneurs and professionals to help women build dreams in a real way. There are two components to the model: a boutique online social network (think Facebook meets LinkedIn tailored to women) and in-person workshops, tele-seminars, networking events, and cocktail minglers.
Angela’s Advice to Other Women Entrepreneurs
The biggest lessons that I have learned through business, I actually learned as a concert pianist. When memorizing and perfecting thousands and thousands of notes, it's really the same concept as building a business. In music, if you don't have a strong concept of how you want it to sound-- and I mean every single note-- you are not going to reach your potential. In business, if you don't know exactly what your goals are-- and I'm talking about exact goals-- you, too, can't reach your potential.
The other thing that I have learned is that so many people leave before seeing the success. I am convinced that success is sometimes just around the corner, and yet people don't turn that corner, they turn around and walk away. As a pianist, I had developed a system of making things happen through a cycle: there's a problem, come up with imaginative solutions, act on it, and then Savor the Success. It's a cyclical ball that will become bigger and bigger as you build.
I take at least ten steps a day to reach my goals. Others take ten a month. Some take ten a year. What do you do? It’s all about how you play your game.

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Angela Jia-An Angel To Follow In Business

Angela Jia Kim, Concert Pianist and Female Entrepreneur
Angela Jia Kim, A Woman To Watch (and to Listen to):
Successful woman entrepreneur Angela Jia Kim is a young, multi-talented professional. In addition to being an accomplished pianist (she even has several CDs out), she owns two businesses: Om Aroma & Co., that sells luxury organic spa and skincare products; and Savor the Success, a boutique social network for female entrepreneurs and professionals.
A Business is Born:
When Angela realized that this was becoming a business, she hired a team of holistic formulators and skincare experts to help create a complete line of skincare products free of parabens, formaldehyde, mineral oil, and synthetic fragrances.
"Just like the moment when my mom plopped me on the piano as a youngster, I haven't looked back since the day we launched."
In fact, less than one year later, her products are being sold throughout the U.S. from Florida to California to Vermont, and have received accolades in more than a dozen magazines and websites including Organic Spa Magazine, Forbes, iVillage, and Allure.
Her Desire to Help Other Women Launches a New Business
Savor the Success is a natural extension of Om Aroma. I found myself alone as a female entrepreneur building my company. I had a sales team, employees, and an assistant. What was the next step? I had gotten my college degree in music, not in business! I needed to reach out to peers and respected business women who were going through the same thing to learn from them.
I wanted a network of women who were committed to building serious businesses; who were completely dedicated to beating the odds, and who wanted a supportive community. I also wanted a social networking website that could work just as well as Facebook and LinkedIn - a real tool for getting ahead in business. Finally, I wanted meaningful workshops that helped make my business grow exponentially. If I was going to invest $300 in a workshop, I wanted that to be translated into many more zeros down the line.
I couldn't find such an organization, so I created it in Savor The Success. As business a woman who was building from the ground up, I needed it, and I knew that if I needed it, so did others.

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CJ Walker- made a career out of her hobby

Madame CJ Walker, idea of opening a hair care salon was a smash hit among the people in the early 20 century.

Early Years

Madame CJ Walker was born in 1867 in poverty-stricken rural Louisiana. Her parents were farmer slaves, and she was orphaned at the age of seven. She and her elder sister worked in the cotton fields at Mississippi. Madame CJ Walker married at the age of 14 and had a daughter. Her husband also died after two years, and then she had no choice except joining her brothers at St.Louis who were working as barbers. Working as a laundrywoman, she managed to save enough money to educate her daughter, and became involved in activities with the National Association of Colored Women.

Necessity is mother of invention

In 1890 she started losing hair on head, causing embarrassment to Sarah. Then she started experimenting with home remedies, in the process emerged another black woman as an entrepreneur. In 1905, Sarah became a sales agent for Malone and moved to Denver, where she married Charles Joseph Walker

Sarah became Madame CJ Walker, and began selling her own product Madam Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower, a scalp conditioning and healing formula. Doing aggressive marketing she saw the success and opened a college in Pittsburgh to train her ‘Hair Culturists.’ She appointed 3000 people under her! Madame Walker’s aggressive marketing strategy combined with relentless ambition led her to be labeled as the first known African-American woman to become a self-made millionaire. Madame CJ Walker, died at the age 52, amassing wealth. Marjorie Joyner, an employee of Madame CJ Walker, invented a permanent wave machine to the advantage of lock lovers. This device could keep the curls for a longer time. Fashionable women flocked to her salon!

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Tamara Mellon-Born To Walk On Red Carpet-A Woman who mans footwear industry.

Who doesn't like designer footwear in the world of fashion field? Everyone in the fashion knows Tamara Mellon is a legendry.Actaually you personality is enhanced by you the type of footwear you wear. Mellon was born in London in 1967 to enterpreneur parents. She was educated in London,Beverly Hills and Switzerland. Mellon started her career with Vogue magazine in 1990. Confident about her potential Mellon approached Mr. Jimmy Choo with the idea of launching a company of ready to wear foot wear.Her talent of designing high end accessories was in the lime light instantly. Mellon reached the pinnacle footwear business. Tamara is the 64 th richest woman in the earth.She is always on top when it comes to events. Tamara claims of greatest collection of shoes on the earth.Though she has become a great business woman,her head is still on the shoulder.She recently posted wishing to meet working mothers and to know about their difficulties, she would come out with some solutions!Talk show has become her recent obsession!

Now Tamars has been named as the founder and chief creative officer of Jimmy Choo the footwear company she started in 1996. Mellon's new role will mean she is even busier than before.She recently reveavled she uses iphone to organize her wardrobe! Very organized lady.Hats off to you!

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Business Women-What makes them stand apart? Find out.....

Opra Winfray is popular beyond imagination because of her strong sense of humility and compasSion for which the business people strive to get.She has seen the worst face of poverty,humiliation,and dejection.But the fire in her belly was so strong,all these evils got extinguished as Oprah fought every fiercely.

Oprah was born in a small town in Mississippi in 1954 and was brought up in Nashville,Tennessee.She began her career as a radio broadcaster at the age of 17.She started anchoring at the age of 19,and gained a name as the youngest and the first African American woman to enter the entertain industry.Experimenting with her own career she ended up hosting a talk show.


Oprah came to Chicago to host a local show in 1984.Her way of presentation,projection,down to earth attitude,surpassed all programs.Her show was the highest rated in Chicago.It remained number 1 talk show for the 18 seasons.This show was lauded around the world.Oprah caught the nerve of the human sea accurately.Name,fame and money poured in like hell.Her show went on air in 111 coutries officially.


By this time she had become a business woman already.in 1988, she started her own production facility.Oprah did a manly job of appointing people,supervising and delegating the workand see the best programs go on air!She reached each corner of the world.In the meantime she acted also in many movies.Some of them were nominated for Oscars even.


Oprah believed and welcomed new innovations in her life.Oprah.com has been one of the top w omen's magazine till the date.It covers issues of women under the sun



For a very public person, Oprah lives a remarkably private life. That's by design. Harpo employees are barred from talking or writing about her personal or business affairs and those of her company for the rest of their lives. Only once did a former employee, Elizabeth Coady, challenge it in court. Coady lost and Oprah's business and personal life remain remarkably private. Her companion, Stedman Graham, is a prominent management and marketing consultant with two best-selling books to his name.

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Astonishing Anita Roddick!

Most of you are using her products and have fallen in love with cosmetic products.Yes it is Anita Roaddick the funder of Body Shop,world famous retailor of cosmetics and cosmetic related products. Anita not only expanded her empire but also saw that her values are also spread equally fast.

Anita was born in Littlehampton,England and attached to the cafe where her parents worked.She admits ,she got the intense work ethic fron this place. In1962 she got a scholarship to go and study in Israel.There also she was hyperactive and naughty.She was a drop out. She managed doing sveral jobs ,saved money and travelled a lot.She visited Australia and South Africa.Anita got married with Gordon Roddick in 1971.They earned through restaurant.While her husband went away,Anita opened her first shop.She made cosmetics in her garage.Today Body shop has 1980 stores across the world.In 2006 ,Body shop became an independently managed susidiary of LO,real group.

Beautifully she explains and lauhghs on getting invited to give a speech at Harvard and Yale.She says"How do you teach an obsession? Because it is an obsession that drives the enterpreneur's commitment to a vision of some thing new" How true it is!

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Mary Clay-Determination Wins!

Mary Clay is one woman who had been the worst victim of male dominated world.Not all women are lucky enough to realise their dreams.Some of them have tasted the severe bitterness.One day Mary Caly made a list of pros and cons of her previous employers.Then immediately she felt ,she could start her own company as well.

Mary Wagner was born in 1918 got married to Rogers Ben and had three children.She sold books door to door,in six months she could sell books worth $25,000!Her husband returned in 1938,they divorced and she decided to change her career. She went to work with Stanley Home Products.Here she was refused promotions again and again,as she felt humiliated in 1963,she retired.Mary opened her own establishment with the saving of $5000 only.Son was behind her rocksteady. Gradually she opened nine beauty saolns in 1963.She built her compampany on value.Christian faith was the foundation of her companies.She told people also to priotize the things in order. First God,next family,next work!Mary has encouraged women with progressive views and incentives to make them economically independent.Her company is considered as one of the best 100 companies in USA.

Her advise:-Don't limit to your self.Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do.You can go as far as your mind lets you.What you believe,remember,you can achieve.

Are you listening women?

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Determination

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