Someone Has to be the First

Success isn’t found at the table with no seat for you. It’s found in the courage to build a new room and keep the door open for others to follow.

When you’re fearless, determined, and focused, you don’t follow the path—you make it. Leslie Short did.

Leslie Short has never played by the rules or stayed in the boxes others tried to put her in. At seven, she declared herself “too sophisticated for New Jersey.” Years later, she danced her way across Europe, built Japan’s first male revue show, h...