Sweet Dreams for an Entrepreneurial Woman with a Passion for Pajamas
This is a guest post from female entrepreneur Anita Mahaffey, writing about her experiences with starting her own business.
What do night sweat pajamas and a summer in Turkey have in common? For 49-year-old mompreneur Anita Mahaffey, the connection goes deep and in fact years later catapulted her into a business manufacturing and designing a line of menopause sleepwear called Cool-jams to help combat night sweats and hot flashes.
“As I boarded my flight in 1976 to spend the summer as an exchange student in Turkey, I would have laughed my way off the plane if someone told me that in 30 years I would be back in Turkey manufacturing hot-flash sleepwear. I had no idea that my past would come back to tap me on the shoulder in such a big way.”
Fast forward to the birth of Ms. Mahaffey’s second child in 1987. To spend more time with her growing family she decided to leave corporate marketing to pursue her own business. She recognized that a small business would allow her to spend more time with her children, while enabling her to pursue her dream of entrepreneurship. Continue reading »
