Her Story
About Angela
I have a love for caviar, and over the last few years, I thought there was a golden opportunity to really create a sensory experience in sound and taste, and exponential experiences in the caviar industry to bring the consumer closer to the product. As the industry was evolving, I realized there was just an open lane for more of the dessert caviar as well. I took that into consideration and have really put together a product that we feel mimics the pairing of life and culture to the experience. On the healthcare side, I have worked at some of the major healthcare organizations and health systems in the country, and over the years, I have provided my expertise and experience to these organizations in order to help them with compliance, credentialing, and medical staff affairs, which led me to then decide to do this on my own, because I am the expert that they're hiring. It's been a phenomenal journey from a specialist to a director, and now to a consultant. My expertise is in medical staff credentialing and healthcare operations. My day looks like two laptops - one for healthcare, one for caviar. It's continuously finding innovative ideas, continuously researching and learning about marketing, branding, all the things that are required to be a CEO in this day and time. The landscape has really changed - it's more than just understanding the operations of the business. You have to understand the dynamics of marketing and branding, because that's where your bread and butter kind of lives and lies.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Angela
01What do you attribute your success to?
I think really being well-rounded has contributed to my success, never taking no as an answer, always finding a way. There is always an alternative path, you just have to be able to investigate, research, and just find that path. I didn't have mentors along the way, but I've always been resourceful and committed to finding solutions no matter what obstacles come up.
02What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
I think the advice I would give someone starting into this business is to really have a shift in your mindset. I think it all starts there first. I really believe that as one enables themselves to move forward in their passions and in their careers, that mindset shift is just really where it all begins. I think that once you have that mindset shift, then you're able to really acquire and conquer all of the things that are necessary.
03What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
I think that everyone's facing challenges with funding. I think funding is just an ongoing issue for small businesses. Being able to allow your personal credit, your personal finances to really shape the scope of their business financial future, so I think it's really important that entrepreneurs really look at their personal credit and all of those areas that really you say, okay, I'm gonna get to this later. Sometimes in business, you need to address those things now.
04What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
I think values are just commitment - commitment to seeing something through. I believe that that probably is just my leading path. I am so committed to my projects and being able to look at them into fruition. And that being said, from commitment, I think it's just a drive, it's an inner drive that you have to have when you're moving into entrepreneurship. And I don't think if you don't have that internal drive that you're going to win regardless, then you're going to be lost.
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