{"id":13243,"date":"2017-04-28T14:25:50","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T18:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.allamericanentertainment.com\/?p=13243"},"modified":"2024-08-13T16:17:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T20:17:54","slug":"sophia-amoruso-the-entrepreneur-and-icon-of-girlboss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/sophia-amoruso-the-entrepreneur-and-icon-of-girlboss\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophia Amoruso: The Girlboss Entrepreneur and Icon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sophia Amoruso<\/a> embodies the classic rags-to-riches story. \u00a0As a young woman who would dumpster dive and steal, she slowly built up a multi-million dollar company.\u00a0 Amoruso had dropped out of community college and procured a job as a security guard.\u00a0 Feeling unfulfilled, she read a book entitled Starting an Ebay Business for Dummies <\/em>and felt compelled to try her hand at Ebay, reselling vintage apparel.\u00a0 Her business took off, as Nasty Gal<\/a>\u00a0became a lucrative brand and the young entrepreneur soon became a millionaire. \u00a0Today, this self starter boasts millions of followers on social media. \u00a0Amoruso, a\u00a0decidedly unconventional visionary, is a cultural icon.<\/p>\n

This month, Netflix premiered a comedy series that is loosely based on Sophia\u2019s interesting life.\u00a0 Starring Britt Robertson<\/a> as Sophia, Girlboss<\/em><\/a>\u00a0debuted on Netflix to eagerly waiting fans.\u00a0 Amoruso worked alongside Charlize Theron<\/a>\u00a0in production.\u00a0 This series follows up her successful bestseller #GIRLBOSS<\/em><\/a>, which is both a business book and a compelling memoir.\u00a0 In it, readers see how her business grew and the risks she took to achieve her dreams.<\/p>\n

Amoruso runs a hilarious podcast, #GIRLBOSS Radio<\/a>, which she started in 2015 to feature other powerful women.\u00a0 She spends each podcast interviewing women who have succeeded with their business and creative ventures.\u00a0 She aims to discover what trials and tribulations they have faced, and what lessons they have gleaned from their journeys. \u00a0Amoruso has interviewed some amazing women, such as Jessica Williams, a comedian and former Daily Show correspondent, Whitney Wolfe, who co-founded Tinder and founded Bumble, and GloZell<\/a>, an extraordinary Youtube star and author.<\/p>\n

Knowing the hardships of starting a company, she gives back to the community with The Girlboss Foundation<\/a>, which doles out financial grants to women who have started small businesses.\u00a0 Grants range from $2,500 to $15,000 and the foundation has already awarded $75,000 to industrious businesswomen in fashion, design, music, and the arts.<\/p>\n

Sophia Amoruso believes in hard work and gets her work ethic from her father.\u00a0 He taught her, \u201cWhen you\u2019re done with everything, don\u2019t stop-keep doing something.\u201d\u00a0 And, she does.\u00a0 No matter what life seems to throw at her, this young entrepreneur keeps moving forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sophia Amoruso embodies the classic rags-to-riches story. \u00a0As a young woman who would dumpster dive and steal, she slowly built up a multi-million dollar company.\u00a0 Amoruso had dropped out of community college and procured a job as a security guard.\u00a0 Feeling unfulfilled, she read a book entitled Starting an Ebay Business for Dummies and felt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":13245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[282,653,652,651],"class_list":{"0":"post-13243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-speaker-spotlight","8":"tag-entrepreneur","9":"tag-girlboss","10":"tag-nasty-gal","11":"tag-sophia-amoruso"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/SOPHIA_AMORUSO_Photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13243"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24582,"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13243\/revisions\/24582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}