Tami Gaines
National Supervising Coordinator
"Our greatest and deepest wisdom is not given to us. It is ours to discover as we experience the journey that is ours and ours alone to take." -- Tami C. Gaines
Who would have thought that after spending $150,000 for an MBA from Columbia University's Graduate School of Business, that I still wouldn't know how to create real wealth?
I have found that I've had two lives -- the life that I lived from and the life that I've learned from. Let me tell you where I was living from.
While most other kids my age were playing with dolls, I was busy launching my first business – one that would be just the beginning of a lifelong passion for entrepreneurship. Despite my ongoing desire to have my own business, I did what my parents told me to do: “Go to school. Get good grades. Get a good job making pretty good money. And stay there forever.” More a student of living than of books, I went into advertising but realized that having my own business would require broader experience, contacts and perspective. I returned to school…again. Upon graduation from Columbia’s MBA program, I began a highly successful corporate career with Colgate-Palmolive Company. I was a celebrated employee but was internally frustrated – two weeks of vacation, small raises, negligible bonuses and the proverbial glass ceiling constantly drove me toward having my own business.
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