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Reading List: Find Your Extraordinary

By Chauncey MabePublished April 9, 20161 min read
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She has built not one but two multimillion-dollar businesses from the ground up. Jessica DiLullo Herrin hit it rich first in 1996 (while still a student at Stanford Graduate Business School) with WeddingChannel.com, one of the first full-service bridal websites. After following her husband to Texas and having two children, she started Stella & Dot Family Brands, a craft jewelry business approaching $1 billion in annual sales.

In Find Your Extraordinary, Herrin shares the wisdom gained from the stress and constant work of the first business, which did $100 million a year by the time she left, and the easier pace she’s found with the second. Entrepreneurial principles, she says, can create not only the kind of career you want but also the kind of life you want to live.

By Jessica DiLullo Herrin
May; Crown Business; $27

Related: Do You Have What It Takes to Be an Entrepreneur?

 

This article appears in the May 2016 issue of SUCCESS magazine.

This article appears in the May 2016 issue of SUCCESS magazine. – See more at: /how-bubbas-q-boneless-ribs-survived-the-shark-tank#sthash.N40n1jhm.dpuf
Chauncey Mabe

Chauncey Mabe

Chauncey Mabe is a freelance writer, book critic, and blogger in Miami, Fla. For 23 years he served as Book Editor and Senior Entertainment Writer at the Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale. He was Book Blogger for the Florida Center for the Literary Arts, the parent organization of Miami Book Fair International, from 2009 to 2012. He also blogs for the Betsy Hotel South Beach hotel, which sponsors literary events year round. His reviews and feature stories have appeared in publications such as the Toronto Globe & Mail, the Serving House Journal, Inspicio, the Palm Beach Arts Paper, the Baltimore Sun, the Juneau Empire, and the Chicago Tribune.

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