07 Apr April 7, 2020 – Bra Inventor Lisa Lindahl and Scholarship Strategist Jean O’Toole
Lisa Lindahl – Sports Bra Inventor and Book Author of Unleash the Girls
We could not keep up with demand and thank God for the Small Business Administration! They gave us a plan to fill out, and I laughed and called it financial fairy tales.
Lisa Z. Lindahl invented the first-ever sports bra, the “Jogbra”, in 1977 as a game-changer, evolutionizing athletic participation for women and girls and building a million-dollar business around it. She is an accomplished public speaker, writer, problem sighter and solver with knack for niche marketing and special focus on vision and planning, specializing in women-related issues. Along with being inducted to the National Inventors Hall of Fame and Smithsonian’s Innovate Lives series this spring in March, Lisa has detailed her life in her new book, Unleash the Girls, telling her deeply personal and improbable story of a young artist with a disability who solved a vexing problem and ended up leveling the playing field for girls and women across the globe.
Jean O’Toole – Scholarship Strategist at Connections101 and Author of Scholarship Strategies: Finding and Winning the Money You Need
We don’t have to have student debt! We have $5 trillion in debt that is preventing people from buying homes and start businesses.
Jean Fedora O’Toole is a scholarship strategist, author and speaker working with Connections101. Over the past 15 years, O’Toole has spoken before thousands of students, inspiring them to pursue their academic dreams. She is also the author of her book Scholarship Strategies: Finding and Winning the Money You Need where the motivational speaker shares her vast knowledge, laying out 25 clear strategies for winning the money needed for college, and identifying 15 ways to reduce college costs beyond scholarships and traditional financial aid.