Acting Up: Winning in Business and Life Using Down-Home Wisdom

If you're an aspiring entrepreneur, the good news is many of the barriers to starting a business have come down since forty years ago.

That's not to say you won't face challenges. Entrepreneurship can be a dog-eat-dog world. But if you want to stay true to yourself and your values as you rise to the top, you're in good company.

Growing up in the segregated South in a family of eleven children and nurtured by a loving mother and father, Janice Bryant Howroyd faced racism and sexism in additio...