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Conchetta Jones , A Personal Development and Lifestyle Coaching. Owner and Founder of She’s All That! Which assists women in finding the obstacles in their lives that are keeping them stuck and preventing them from living their life like its golden. TheBOSSNetwork: What were some obstacles that you faced in the beginning process of starting your business or career?  Conchetta Jones: Fear and not thinking I was good enough. Thinking I needed to get more education. But I got tired of seeing other people doing the things I wanted to do so, I made the decision to step out of my comfort zone and go for it. I decided to “do it afraid” BN: What inspired you to break into your particular industry?  CJ :  For years I had put aside doing the things that I wanted to do. I had all these ideas in my head, but no plan. After I started working with a coach, who helped me get my thoughts together and put some action with it, I knew that I wanted to be able to help other women ...

Kelly Fair is founder of Polished Pebbles Girls Mentoring Program serving over 1000  girls 7-17 yrs. old to be effective communicators, and career & community conscious leaders! This work has been supported by a network of 400+ volunteers from the Chicago land community and area businesses such as Bloomingdale's, Microsoft, Thought Works, and Nordstrom's. The BOSS Network: What were some obstacles that you faced in the beginning process of starting your business or career?   Kelly Fair : In the beginning of my business I had to deal with building my confidence in my ability to produce superior service, and the high quality of the product that I had created.  I doubted if I was good enough, if I had the appropriate leadership skills, or could actually make a living at running a mentoring program.  It took the courage to keep building clients and partnerships and trying new work with different age groups of girls in new neighborhoods to see and trust th...