Women Inspired! | Weekly Interviews With Some Of The World's Most Inspiring Women!

One of my very favorite quotes is by Henry Ford: Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. Now, that all sounds nice, right? Sure, April, failure is the opportunity to begin again. That sounds lovely. However, when the rubber hits the road, most of us enjoy failing about as much as we enjoy having dental work done. But here’s the thing, the longer I’ve been an entrepreneur, the more I have come to truly understand how necessary and inevitable failure is in this journey. And that’s what we’re focusing on this week with my interview with Sophia Sunwoo. Sophia is a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree in Social Entrepreneurship, a Forbes 30U30 All-Star Alumni, an ELLE Magazine Impact2 Awards Pitch finalist, and a Fred Alger Finance Award winner. Sophia built her first company when she was 19 years old and sold it before her 23rd birthday. (Yes, you read that right.) She also co-founded Water Collective, a non-profit founded to fix and prevent broken water projects in the developing