Enterprising Young Females

Amanda Faye Martin is the Co-founder, co-director, and co-producer of Wormwood Theatre Collective in Denver, CO. Amanda discusses how she developed her success skills and became the business leader she is today. She also discusses how important teamwork it is when working with her co-founder, actors, and musicians to make Wormwood Theatre Collective successful.

Amanda Faye Martin began her entrepreneur journey at the age of 13.  She created a jewelry business, Pick Me Jewelry, and ultimately donated 20 thousand dollars of the proceeds to various charities. Now, she is the co-artistic director of Wormwood Theatre collective in Denver and a freelance theatre practitioner, currently directing a show at the Hampstead Stage Company in New Hampshire, writing a play for Brandeis University that premiers at the end of October 2017, and starting to develop a project at Harvard University. She graduated from Harvard University 2016 with a MFA in dramaturgy.Contact Amanda at [email protected]

Ana Rivas discusses how her vision to be a fashion designer and photographer has changed into the expansion of her photography business into social issues and weddings. She explains how perseverance and going the extra mile helps to create a business and keep it going. Ana shares how her vision now includes producing tabletop books that tell the stories of others she has met. Ana touches on how she looks at everything around her including jobs that don’t pertain to her photography to grow. It is a way for other young women to decide what type of business to create. Ana emphasizes for young entrepreneurs to continue looking at everything around them as a way to grow. Contact Ana through her website http://anacristel.com

Catherine Cook, Co-founder and Vice President of Brand Strategy of MeetMe. Catherine discusses her journey of communicating effectively from the beginnings of MyYearbook as it became re-branded to MeetMe. The company has built one of the top mobile apps for Millennials. https://www.meetme.com; Contact Catherine through her Twitter account @cncook. She will set up a time to connect.

Julie Weston, San Francisco fashion designer and founder of Weston Wear. From Passion to Vision-Creating dance-inspired womenswear from a passion for colors, fabrics, and dance and building a well established fashion business from it.  www.westonsf.com. Contact Julie through her email at jw@westonwear

Sylvia introduces her show and explains what it's all about and how it can help high school girls and young women develop the traits and behaviors of accomplished female entrepreneurs.