The Woman Who Left the Runway to Build the Room
There's a particular kind of pen a fashion designer keeps close — the one that sketches a hemline on a napkin before the idea
Written with a Pink Pen
She drove to a mountain in a business suit.
She drove to a mountain in a business suit.
She still has the lift ticket.
Connie Worrell-Druliner built a business from scratch, raised five children, survived the moment three professionals told her to quit — and kept going anyway. This is her story. And stories like hers, from women everywhere who built something real.
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"I started with a desk, a phone, a prayer, and a 'me.' I was told it couldn't be done. I was told women didn't get loans. I was told to close my doors. Every single time, I suited up and showed up anyway.
Forty-three years later, when I walked into a room and they asked everyone I'd helped to stand up — most of the room rose."
— Connie Worrell-Druliner
