Testimonials—Inspiring Success

I have known Tracy Chamberlain Higginbotham for years, and she's been on "Women's Voices" (the TV show that Lorraine Rapp and I did)...but I never became a member of the women's business and networking group she founded, Women TIES, until just now. Not because of the organization, but because of me. I always thought, "I just do a radio show." "I just do a TV show." "I just write for About.com." "I just write for MSN.com." I never saw myself as a freelancer... a broadcast media coach... a writing coach... a writer and copywriter ... I just did what I did and got referrals by word of mouth. But now I am a solo entrepreneur; I do all these things; I am a business woman.

I owe this epiphany to Ann Voorhees Baker and Women at Woodstock who challenged participants to "declare their new major." The Huffington Post Huff/Post50 blogger Mary Eileen Williams became my first client right then and there; she took me on when she found out I had a background in radio and TV; since then she's become a dear friend and we've developed some fabulous projects together. Along the way, I've begun working with other women, and it's exciting to see them grow and achieve more and more, and refine their work and their brand.

Individual success is nice, but sharing the success of someone else in whom you believe is twice as nice. So now I'm listed as a woman-owned business over at Women TIES. Like Pinocchio, I've become real.

— Linda Lowen, Writer and Media Coach