Where In The Triangle Is Mary Cantando?

Mary Cantando, author of Nine Lives: Stories of Women Business Owners Landing on Their Feet, will discuss her book and sign copies on Thursday, January 15th at 7:30 pm at the Barnes and Noble bookstore in New Hope Commons, located in Durham-Chapel Hill area.

(PRWEB) January 14, 2004 --
Where In The Triangle Is Mary Cantando?
Local Author To Read And Discuss Book January 15th
At New Hope Commons Barnes & Noble in Chapel Hill/Durham

The Triangle-- Mary Cantando, author of Nine Lives: Stories of Women Business Owners Landing on Their Feet, will discuss her book and sign copies on Thursday, January 15th at 7:30 pm at the Barnes and Noble bookstore in New Hope Commons, located in Durham-Chapel Hill area. For more information, call 919 489-3012

Nine Lives: Stories of Women Business Owners Landing On Their Feet was recently released and the book offers a candid look into the hearts and minds of nine extraordinary women business owners from around the country.

Take Van Eure, who inherited the Angus Barn from her father in 1988. Oh, sure," people said at the time, a woman can run a diner or a little coffee shop. But a 650-seat restaurant, thats a mans job." Van disagreed. She transformed the Barn" into a world famous restaurant. There is Rebecca Boenigk, the CEO of the only woman-owned business ever to trade on NASDAQ who found that the quarterly numbers dance" wasnt to her liking and bought her company back from the public market. And when Adrian Guglielmo, raised in a predominantly deaf family, became aware that the deaf were starving for jobs, for opportunities, for significance, she knew she had to act. She started a creative firm staffed entirely by disabled employees.

The stories the women told were awe inspiring, funny, mind boggling . . . and sometimes painful," Cantando wrote in the preface. There were tough moments when the women opened up about still-raw details of their past ... Yet, time and again, these brave women said that they were willing to swallow their discomfort if other women could learn from or be inspired by their struggles."

About the Author
Mary Cantando is a nationally recognized expert on the growth of women-owned businesses. She is a member of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), is certified by the Womens Business Enterprise National Forum, and is a facilitator for the Women Presidents Organization. Above all else, Cantando serves as an advisor and cheerleader to women business owners everywhere.

Nine Lives ($15.95) can be ordered at www.WomanBusinessOwner.com.

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Contacts:   
Mary Cantando               Patty Briguglio
919 841-0401               919 461-3831
mary@WomanBusinessOwner.com      patty@mmimarketing.com
   
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