Bolster Your Business

Bolster Your Business

It might still be summer, but classes are in session at GROW. Whether you’re starting, building or scaling a business, these events offer some of the best information to help you toughen your trade, strengthen your skills and gain knowledge. Intro to GROW If...
Q&A: Author Hope Alcocer

Q&A: Author Hope Alcocer

Entrepreneur Hope Alcocer recently published her debut novel, Where Hope Lies—a story that follows the journey of Chloe Repaco, a 20-something college graduate in love with a soldier stationed overseas. It’s a story of love, heartache and pain. And it’s...
Entrepreneurship Is a Way of Life

Entrepreneurship Is a Way of Life

If you’re outside the business world, you may never have pondered entrepreneurship. If you’re inside the business world, you may never have considered it as a philosophy of value to daily living. It is! In my work with Michigan Women’s Foundation to...
Where There’s Breath, There’s Hope

Where There’s Breath, There’s Hope

Valencia Agnew, Ph.D., always loved psychology, but she was so sensitive to the feelings and needs of others, her mother often joked with her to “take it down a notch.” Agnew decided she was good at math, so she pursued a business degree and majored in...
Styling a Better Life

Styling a Better Life

Mireya Correa moved to the United States when she was 17, with dreams of pursuing an education that would be nearly impossible to obtain with her family’s lack of money and resources in Mexico. Correa, however, was the oldest child. She needed to work. “I...