Why Barbara Cocoran is a bad ass...
Barbara was a waitress at the Fort Lee Diner in New Jersey when she met a suave man who swept her off her feet. One day he told her that she would be great at real estate sales and she ran with it. Against her mother wishes she crossed the Hudson river and started her first real estate company with $1000 she borrowed from her boyfriend. After 7 years in business together, her long-term, live-in boyfriend ran off with her secretary...leaving her with nothing. It was then when she decided to start the one and only, Cocoran Group. Barbara says it was mostly out of spite that she turned her $1000 start-up into a bIllion dollar business... yes, billion with a B. In 2001, Barbara sold the Cocoran Group for $60 million (not bad for starting with only $1K). Since then she has become a public speaker and an angel investor for start-ups. Above all, Barbara is an inspiration for women everywhere. She was told that she would never be anything without her man and she went out in the world to prove everyone wrong!
Here are other reasons why Barbara Cocoran is a bad ass...
1. She's from Jersey (duh! lol)
2. She's one of 10 siblings.
3. She was dyslexic and barely graduated school.
4. She has 23 different jobs by the time she was 21 (and fired from three of them).
5. She didn't let the devastation of her boyfriend leaving her for the secretary stop her. (toma!)
6. She an overall inspiration to all women.
Here is a speech she made at an Entrepreneurs conference about her life lessons...
Barbara Corcoran on Risk-Taking, Failure and How to Get Back Up (one-hour long)
Shorter Interview...
Barbara Corcoran on Her Journey As an Entrepreneur (7 mins)
Link to her book: Shark Tales: How I Turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business
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