Trish Tonaj Building Legacies, One Story At A Time If resilience had a favorite daughter, it would be Trish Tonaj, the former C-suite executive turned author, global community builder, and award-winning founder of ShareYourStories.Online. She’s the woman who doesn’t just break barriers she bedazzles them, repaints them, and turns them into stepping stones for everyone coming after her. And today? She’s here to remind female
FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS MAGAZINE And for anyone convinced the early days were easier? Trish gently laughs: “Back then, there was only traditional marketing; radio, TV, newspapers, or magazine.” No Canva. No Instagram. No Social Media. Which is why the biggest myth she wants women to drop is this: From Diamonds to Pixie Dust Long before Trish was spotlighting entrepreneurs across five continents, she was climbing the corporate ladder as a national buyer for a major department store, retail consultant for De Beers (yes, those diamonds), and the queen of “last in, first out” during a time when corporations were restructuring faster than we could say fax machine. Eventually, she realized the universe wasn’t pushing her out... It was pushing her forward. So in 1993, at a time when there were no laptops, no cell phones, and definitely no Google, she launched her first business and has never looked back. Lessons From the Entrepreneurial Trenches If Trish could whisper into the ear of her 18-year-old self, she’d say: Celebrate the failures AND the wins. Both shape your entrepreneurial GPS. Because when you’re sprinting through life, pockets of time become gold. In the 80’s and 90’s they were running to a payphone outside their kid’s dance class (yes, really) and now we’re multi- tasking by tapping away on our iPhones at the ballpark. entrepreneurs; there are so many great ideas, but, you don’t have a business until you make the first sale.
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