ELLA Inspires (December 2019)

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EDITH DUARTE, MBA

Keep up the awesome work, love what you’re doing!

Love reading about strong, bold and super inspirational women who paved the way for others…it can be done!

I’m about halfway through reading [the June issue] and honestly makes me feel like I can do everything I have wanted to… so inspiring!

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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

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Joe Baker Photography (Lubbock, TX)

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where I saw it going in the near future. As we

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were leaving, I turned to her and asked, ‘Am I

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crazy to do this?’ She looked over at me and

Carlsbad, New Mexico.

I asked my him to join my best friend and I at Starbucks.

Just

saying

‘Starbucks’

said:

and

‘Carlsbad’ in the same sentence will probably always be odd to me. The last oil boom had brought with it an equal population boom; which led popular restaurant chains like Starbucks to finally pay attention to our tiny

'The thing that I love about all this is that you’re not one of those people that talks about doing things and then doesn’t do them.

You’re DOING the things you’ve set out to do!’’’

town. When we arrived, I saw my best friend, her sister, and her niece standing at the

That’s when I realized I had been so busy in

counter ordering their drinks. We had not seen

‘startup’ mode that it had never dawned on

each other in a while and after saying our

me

hellos and cooing over the baby, we got down

subsequent action was setting me up for the

to business. She and I talked at length about

future. After we left, I sent her a text message

my vision for ELLA Inspires Magazine

thanking her for meeting with us. Her response

that

to me was:

every

challenge,

choice,

and

Do big things.

And do them proudly.

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"At that time, while it was not uncommon for there to be ‘assaltos’ (hijackings) along the rural roads, we had never encountered one so to me they almost seemed mythical."

"They were expected to help their families, learn to farm, and eventually marry one of the local boys and become a mother. This is how it was and how it continued for many families over many generations."

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"My mother is not one to shrink from a challenge. At one point she even studied and passed the licensing exam for commercial truck driving, or CDL. My father discouraged her from continuing down that path as it was a strenuous and overly male-dominated career choice"

"The discipline I found so restrictive back then, I am strangely thankful for today."

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"And so it went that this 16 year-old girl made her choice and flew to France with her classmates."

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young [woman], then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

Ernest Hemingway

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"In retrospect, I have learned that the things worth having take long hours and hard work to obtain."

"The day I quit was 10 days before my wedding; which ushered in a new phase in my life."

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"What did matter is that I absorbed and internalized every rejection. I took it as a reflection of me, as a person, and fell into a deep depression."

"NEVER did I imagine it would turn into an independent publication with its own online presence."

"‘Mom, I am starting a new business.’ You could hear a pin drop. She said nothing. I went onto describe some of what I wanted to do, still she said nothing."

"In a world where social media influencers are millionaires and reality tv stars are billionaires, people and women are creating real legacies for their families in unexpected ways."

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"I gave them zero guarantees but promised to make them part of the process. They started telling their networks about the magazine and the work they contributed.�

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Hey Girl we have more work to do

women in business

$1.8 Trillion Women-owned businesses in the US generate $1.8 Trillion/year. That comprises just 4.3% of total private sector annual revenue.

40% 40% of US businesses are women-owned; which isn’t proportional to the gender breakdown of the US population.

12%

28.6%

Only 12% of Latino firms employing more than one person received bank loans.

Census Bureau projections reveal that 120 million Latinos will compose 28.6 percent of the U.S. population by 2060.

latinos in business

44% Latinas now own 44% of Latino businesses. From 2007 to 2015, nearly half of the growth in new Latino businesses came from firms started by women.

$700 Billion The nearly 4.4 million Latinoowned businesses in the United States contribute more than $700 billion to the American economy every year

"In 2020 we will continue to serve and build up a community of strong women through educational workshops, networking events, and print subscriptions. Stay tuned, we’re only getting started!�

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

# T H I S I S H E R S T O R Y

E D I T H D U A R T E

Edith Duarte, MBA is a creative

entrepreneur living in Dallas. She is a TTU and Texas A&M alumna and founder of ELLA CREATIVE MEDIA; publisher of ELLA Inspires Magazine.

Her print and online magazine elevates female interests with interviews of successful female professionals and entrepreneurs. This is her story.

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