Paula Cohen of Career Charisma is known for her passion.
Business Name
Career Charisma
Business Description
Career Counseling and Coaching Services
Start Date
2004 (part-time); October 15, 2010 (full-time)
Best thing about working for yourself?
Being my own boss. Any stupidities I commit are mine, not someone else’s.
Worst thing about working for yourself?
The steady paycheck that no longer exists.
Why did you start your business?
To provide the kind of help that I know is needed.
When did you start to think of yourself as an entrepreneur?
2003
How do you relax?
Reading (fiction, politics), opera, my cat, my husband (not necessarily in that order…)
What is something that you are known for?
Passion!
What 5 things would you never like to be without?
My husband, my cat, my home, my family, my friends
What’s a business that you think is interesting or inspiring?
LinkedIn…brilliant and fascinating!
Who is a person that inspires you?
My maternal grandmother, Ida Goldenberg Adlerstein. She started her own successful millinery business in 1914, at the age of 24, with a 6th grade education and the money she won from suing her landlord for negligence. She finally retired in 1969.
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