Rebranding After Losing It All With Coleen Otero [Video]

This week on the Mompreneurs podcast, Coleen Otero shares her inspiring journey of reinvention. The branding mogul, author, and founder of CEO Chicks sat down with Mompreneurs host Nancy Redd to reflect on how losing everything ultimately set her on the path to success.

Otero became an entrepreneur early on.

Growing up, Otero taught herself how to style hair. “By the time I was 16, I was that girl in Brooklyn on the weekends, it was like, one after the other coming in and getting their hair done,” she said. “I started to learn how to do my own hair, that’s how I got started. I often tell people that problems produce products and services. It was that very problem that helped me become the entrepreneur that I am today.”

She went on to achieve her dream of owning a full-service salon and spa. But when the Great Recession hit in 2007, she lost everything including …