Real-estate mogul and media personality, currently featured on ABC’s hit reality TV show Shark Tank
“I love Golden Girl Finance because it gives women the tools, the confidence and the know-how to take charge of their own finances, even in the old-boys-club world of money matters. My own mother taught me to use what I’ve got and always believe in myself. Golden Girl Finance can be “Mom” to a whole new generation of women!”
Barbara Corcoran’s credentials include straight D’s in high school and college and twenty jobs by the time she turned twenty-three. It was her next job that would make her one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the country when she took a $1000 loan to start The Corcoran Group. She parlayed that loan into a five-billion-dollar real estate business which she sold in 2001 for $70 million.
Barbara is the real estate contributor to NBC’s TODAY Show where she comments weekly on trends in the real estate market. Barbara is also an investor/shark on ABC’s reality hit Shark Tank. In the first season, Barbara bought eight young businesses which she’s shepherding to success.
Barbara is the author of If You Don’t Have Big Breasts, Put Ribbons on Your Pigtails, an entertaining business book that has become a national best-seller, as well as Nextville, Amazing Places to Live the Rest of Your Life.
As a speaker, Barbara brings her front-line experience and infectious energy to every audience she addresses. Motivational, inspirational, and sometimes outrageous, Barbara Corcoran’s tell-it-like-it-is attitude is a refreshing approach to success.
To learn more about Barbara, please visit: http://barbaracorcoran.com.
Officer of the Order of Canada, philanthropist - President and Managing Director of the Asper Foundation and National Campaign Chair for Friends of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
“The idea of helping and encouraging women to take a greater role in their personal and family financial affairs, and in the financial community at large, is an initiative that I strongly support. I understand the unique battles women face in earning equal rights, especially on a world stage. Women have to step up and get involved. The important thing about Golden Girl Finance is that it is created by women for women. Women have the power to make real changes. To pass on legacies. And it starts with financial literacy. When you empower a woman to build wealth, I have no doubt, she will use it to enrich the lives of others.”
Gail Asper, OC, OM, is the President and Managing Director of The Asper Foundation, the private charitable foundation spearheading the establishment of the $310 million Canadian Museum for Human Rights, a national museum in Winnipeg with a mission to enhance the understanding of human rights, to promote respect for others and to encourage reflection and dialogue.
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the daughter of entrepreneur and philanthropist Israel (Izzy) Asper, Gail earned a Bachelor of Law degree in 1984 from the University of Manitoba and was called to the Nova Scotia bar in 1985, thereafter taking on the position of Associate Lawyer in Halifax with Goldberg McDonald from 1985 to 1989. In 1989, she joined her father’s firm, CanWest Global Communications Corp. in Winnipeg, as a corporate secretary and director, also acting as president of The CanWest Global Foundation.
Continuing her father’s legacy of ‘creating change through philanthropy,’ Gail has long been associated with arts and culture as a volunteer, performer, and fundraiser. Currently, she acts as National Campaign Chair for Friends of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. In recognition of her dedication to the community – on local, national, and international levels - Gail has received numerous community service and humanitarian awards, including being the 2005 recipient of the Governor-General Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Voluntarism in the Performing Arts. In 2007, she was further honoured by being awarded the Order of Manitoba and in 2008, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
To learn more about Gail’s efforts, please visit: http://www.asperfoundation.com and http://www.humanrightsmuseum.ca.
To make a donation, please visit: http://www.friendsofcmhr.com.
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