Pillars of Women
The Original
Corporate Refugee
by Nancy Chorpenning
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hroughout my career, one of the most valuable lessons I’ve learned that has become my mantra is to “NEVER underestimate the Power of a Circle of Women.” I believe this adage applies to women across the board, including women in franchising.
44 Pillars of Franchising
While we are a group on the rise, we are still only about a third of the owners in the franchise space, and we need each other’s support. There is PLENTY of success for all! And it’s grand that women tend to be naturally more “abundance” than “scarcity” based. During the first 20 years of my career, I was “the first woman everything” in professional medical publishing. I excelled working
with our famous physician authors and became the youngest acquisitions editor in the industry. (Never mind that I hadn’t even known there WAS such an industry when I began…) As I became proficient in my field and built successful relationships with some of the most prominent MDs in the world, the professional publishing world was undergoing a disturbing trend. Successful
