It’s wild out there and the struggle is real. Entrepreneurship is no joke, everyday is a new challenge, a new up, a new down, it never stops. The action, the drama, the energy is addictive and it’s why so many never want to retire from entrepreneurship. We’ve asked some very talented entrepreneurs to share some of those crazy stories with us.

Lauren & Pamela Bragg & Abbott-Mouchou

Many believe that feng shui is all about design and creating calm, beautiful spaces (the “shui”). But, it’s much more than that. The “feng” or wind, or what you can’t see, is about being the architect of positive change in your life. When you move things around in your space with intention, you are suddenly adding the best possible outcome to any situation. Read more>>

Michelle Lewis

As you might imagine, working as a professional Witch comes with some wild & crazy stories! What you might not expect is that the really weird stuff happens much less often than you think. Read more>>

Michelle Talarico

Owning a business for 34 years that is still growing is a story in itself, but I would be remiss to not tell the initial story, my business partner and I bought an existing business for $4.000..00 in 1989 from two friends who were burnt out. They asked that we pay $250.00 per month, and they literally gave us the lease to take over and a key to the building. We had no money. Read more>>

Sophocles Plokamakis

The craziest and greatest story that happened to me relating to my business was that before my business was founded, I met my business partner and wife Thais, at the first gallery show I had ever curated at One Art Space gallery in TriBeCa NYC. Read more>>

Amanda Huang

The craziest experience I had was how COVID-19 rocked my business! Like any other business, we had to adapt to this new normal and got creative with how we ran our businesses. I started my business 3 months before the world shut down…and to be honest, this new normal actually worked out to my favor. Read more>>

Shawn Thompson

I was transitioning away from being an actor to strictly being a filmmaker and trying to get my editing business going. Work was slow to come and I was struggling a bit. Shortly after 9-11 I received a phone call, completely out of nowhere. I didn’t know the Producer on the other end of the phone. Read more>>

Sara Acevedo

When I first started styling, I had this funny experience in New York with a now-famous A-list celeb. Read more>>

Ariel Becker

This is one of the most positive experiences that happened to me with amazing clients. Read more>>

Sharyn Soliman

I had a commercial listing in the city that had been through several listing agents before me. I was able to get the property under contract and to my own buyer which meant I was getting both sides of the commission. As you can imagine, I was more than excited since this was going to be a $55,000 commission. Read more>>