A New Mom Turned Her Into a Luxury E-Comm Startup

In The Boss, successful women share how they reached the top and the lessons they learned along the way.

Ever since I was a little girl, I knew that I wanted to work like every other woman in my family — it’s just what we did. I was also a big dreamer, despite growing up in communist Russia and everyone telling me that life was not for dreamers and that the reality of the world would hit me hard and force me to abandon my aspirations.