Cindy Monroe, Founding father of Thirty-One Items, introduced the debut of her first e book, Extra Than a Bag: Celebrating the First 20 Years of the Thirty-One Story.
In her e book, Monroe shares her expertise constructing Thirty-One Items as a younger mother with little to no expertise in enterprise, describing herself as “one of many least doubtless individuals to launch and lead one of many largest direct promoting firms in North America.” Inside ten years, Monroe’s brainchild would herald $750 million in income.
Monroe doesn’t draw back from the tough components of the Thirty-One Items story, together with a very tough season in 2015 when she was concurrently named one in every of Forbes Journal’s “Self-Made Ladies to Watch” and in addition working to stabilize her firm amid a turbulent dip in income.
“Everybody loves an in a single day success story—however that’s not my story,” Monroe mentioned. “This e book takes readers by way of the highs and lows of constructing a profitable firm, and the management rules that guided me as Founder and CEO. However in the end, I hope this e book evokes and empowers different ‘unqualified’ ladies, like me, to consider they’ll make a distinction of their properties, of their work, and of their communities—one relationship at a time.”
