{"id":2379,"date":"2013-01-23T21:32:33","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T21:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/?p=2379"},"modified":"2013-02-11T04:20:50","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T04:20:50","slug":"inspiring-with-barb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/inspiring-with-barb\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiring with Barb"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Inspiring with Barb
\n<\/strong>Featuring Barb Stegemann
\nAuthor, CEO, Social Business Innovator
\nJanuary 23, 2013
\nEdmonton, Alberta, Canada<\/p>\n

Barb was raised by a single mom on welfare in rural Nova Scotia, Canada<\/a> and was\u00a0 born with a hereditary hearing impairment. She educated herself out of poverty and holds degrees in sociology and journalism from the University of King\u2019s College<\/a>. She will tell you it\u2019s her positive attitude that has lifted her through challenges.<\/p>\n

While living in British Columbia running her boutique PR firm advising cities and large clients on strategy and communications, tragedy struck. Her best friend was wounded in Afghanistan. Barb promised him she would support his mission of peace through economic development. She wrote a bestselling book, The 7 Virtues of a Philosopher Queen<\/i><\/a>, to empower women (and men) to live with the stoic wisdom taught through the centuries. She dedicated the book to her friend.<\/p>\n

Her fragrance collection, The 7 Virtues<\/a>, supports suppliers in countries like Afghanistan, Haiti and the Middle East to rebuild. Barb became known to millions of Canadians when she became the first woman from Atlantic Canada to land a venture capital deal on the CBC’s Dragons\u2019 Den<\/a>.\u00a0 The 7 Virtues fragrances are available at The Bay<\/a> department stores across Canada, Air Canada<\/a> on-board duty free and Lord & Taylor<\/a> in New York City.<\/p>\n

Among some of her accomplishments are being ranked on Profit Guide Magazine\u2019s Top 30 Cool & Fabulous Canadian Entrepreneurs for 2012 and Chatelaine Beauty 100 Award 2012, an Innovator\u2019s Award from the US Department of State and the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards 2012.<\/p>\n

Barb lives in Bedford, Nova Scotia<\/a> with her husband and children.<\/p>\n

For information about Barb see http:\/\/www.barbstegemann.com<\/a> and www.the7virtues.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n[info]One of the mottos of The 7 Virtues is “Make perfume, not war.”[\/info]\n[info]Barb is an Honorary Colonel with the Royal Canadian Air Force<\/a>.[\/info]\n[info]Barb was voted one of Canada\u2019s Top 100 Most Powerful Women<\/a> by the Women’s Executive Network.[\/info]\n[info]Barb was one of the people who pitched her business idea on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s<\/a> popular Dragon’s Den<\/a> series. \u00a0She partnered up with Brett Wilson. \u00a0For Brett’s photo with Miguelito’s Little Green Car see http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/flying-high-with-brett\/<\/a>.[\/info]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Inspiring with Barb Featuring Barb Stegemann Author, CEO, Social Business Innovator January 23, 2013 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Barb was raised by a single mom on welfare in rural Nova Scotia, Canada and was\u00a0 born with a hereditary hearing impairment. She educated herself out of poverty and holds degrees in sociology and journalism from the University […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,6,62,118],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2379"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2383,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379\/revisions\/2383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}