Vivian Chan's career began as so many of ours do - climbing the corporate ladder. She was great with people management, untangling problems, and was absorbing all the ins and outs of business at a senior level. In the eyes of everyone around her, she was ‘successful’.

But Vivian didn't feel successful. She was spending her energy building a kingdom for someone else...and it didn't feel fulfilling. She quickly realized that sitting at a desk from 9-5 wasn't something she wholeheartedly believed in.

She wanted to help people grow, and help them leverage the talent they didn't realize existed. But first, Vivian had to discover what her own talent was, what would make her truly feel successful. This his her story.

When Zafira Rajan was six years old, she went mute for a year. She grew up amongst a family of outgoing entrepreneurs, but you could always find her somewhere buried in a book immersed in stories or writing as her creative outlet. 

After many years of finding herself dissolving into other people's voices, she found her own. Her journey uncovers the purpose and power behind discovering one's voice and now she has created her own business helping other people discover their voices - this is her story.

Mai-kee Tsang had a lot to work through on her entrepreneurial journey - a family expectation that didn't involve leaving stabile work to build her own business, an abusive relationship that played into a people-pleasing tendency, and the fear of "what if it doesn't work and people pity me?

Yet she persisted, and today is making 10 times more working for herself than she did in her previous job. This is an amazing story you don't want to miss.

Tiffany Han is a life coach who doesn't pull any punches when it comes to living authentically. She's authentic and genuine, and now that's what she does for a living, helping other people as a life coach. This is an amazing story of how she started from a passion project blog to making a really good income while working for herself. 

Kaye Putnam moved around a lot having a military family, and companies weren't always so kind about that. She saw her salary stagnating a lot more than she'd like, so she set out to build her own company instead of just staying in a system that wasn't serving her well. Now she makes more money in a month than she used to make in a year at her old job. This is an amazing story. 

Keshia M. White worked on her side business for 7 years while holding a full time job, then she made the jump and now works full time as an online entrepreneur. This is a story of perseverance in a different light, when someone cares so deeply about what they're working on that they're willing to put in overtime for a very long time to make it a reality. 

Aleya Harris always had an entrepreneurial streak, but it wasn't until the timing was right that she took the leap and decided to jump in and build her own business from the ground up. Now she's on a journey to authenticity and she's found that the more she knows herself the easier it is to succeed. 

Roshida Dowe had climbed the ladder, she "made it" in the eyes of pretty much everyone, from a financial perspective, and yet it wasn't what she wanted. So she took a year off and hasn't looked back. Now she helps other people do the same, stepping into a break as a way of moving forward, it's inspiring and worth a listen!

Sherrell Moore-Tucker is running an entrepreneurial venture on the side while keeping a full time job that she still enjoys. How does she do it? By setting a very consistent schedule for herself and getting coaches for each area of her business. Her story is inspiring and makes the idea of starting your own thing on the side feel so much more accessible, this is a must-listen. 

Shaunda Head has a story full of hardship and troubles. It took 2.5 years to have breakthrough success to finally begin pulling in a real salary working for herself, and the road was marked with all sorts of trials.

Nevertheless, she persisted, and today is making more than she used to make in her old job, but with the freedom to live the life she wants. Her story is inspiring, relatable, and so real, you must listen in.