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Home Grown
Alina Lopez Thomas, founder and creative director of GROWN Women, knows that a productive working life can’t come to a halt after a career setback, and needn’t end at the traditional retirement age. With her emerging company, founded in 2016, she aims to help women already experienced in the world of work identify and use their accumulated skills to become entrepreneurs.
With her emerging company, founded in 2016, she aims to help women already experienced in the world of work identify and use their accumulated skills to become entrepreneurs.
“They’ve come out of a career or retirement, they’re looking at themselves and saying, ‘I have all these skills, now I’d like to transfer them into my own business and establish myself,’” Lopez Thomas says.
She sees many women in their 40s, 50s and even 60s looking to redirect their energy into something new, she says.
“A lot of women feel stuck,” she says of women in midlife facing a downward slope in their career arc. “They don’t want to just not work, they don’t just want to be at home. Now they want to do their passion. And not necessarily work for someone else — they want to do their own thing.”
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