Texas boasts an immensely favorable business ecosystem within the United States. This selection is underscored by several compelling reasons:

To start a business, you have to start with a dream. Ideally your dream business involves doing something you are passionate about while also making profit. To make your business official, you will also need to do something you might not be passionate about – paperwork.

As I write this, I'm watching my almost two-year old son play with his piano and asking myself, where did the last three years go?

It feels like a blur when I try to replay them in my mind.

Remember when we thought the pandemic was going to be over in a few months? Yeah, that did not happen.

Every morning, 59-year-old Mary Coronado wakes up with a smile. She starts her day with a prayer, offering thoughts for herself, her loved ones, and even strangers. Mary embraces each day like a holiday, donning her finest dresses and meticulously doing her makeup and hair—without exception.

Female entrepreneur, Ninfa Espinoza, started living when she realized that her life might never get to be ‘easy’. Working seven days a week at multiple side hustle jobs, she decided she was going to start living on her terms instead of reacting to the stream of unfortunate events that never seemed to stop.

Susana’s journey as an entrepreneur began when she was nine years old in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. Her family lived in extreme poverty and from a very young age, Susie knew she needed to work in order to survive. The intrepid entrepreneur sold newspapers in the street, washed cars and cleaned houses.

Yolanda is a 63-year old grandmother and seamstress. Her days consist of taking care of her plants, her family and her business. She is happy with what she has and who she has become.

“Peace, this is what success means to me. My business is small and I don’t want it to grow anymore. This is exactly how I want my life to be,” she said.

Eight years ago, Guillermina decided to turn her life around while washing dishes at a Mexican restaurant, her first job after arriving in the United States. 

At the time, Guillermina was in an abusive relationship with her now ex-husband. Her fear of leaving him and having nowhere to go with her two young boys made her stay longer than she wished she had.

Archette Holmes started sewing again after she lost her mother, Nell Holmes, to ovarian cancer in 2013. The sound of her mother’s old sewing machine took her back to her childhood home. Nell and her father Eugene (aka Gene) taught her how to sew when she was eight years old. Nell sewed patches on soldier’s uniforms and Gene specialized in men’s formal wear.