Book Review
Doretha Howard White’s new book, Quarantine Queens: The Stories of Forward-Thinking Women Entrepreneurs During the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic, is a book of its time and records the experiences of women entrepreneurs during one of the toughest business periods on record. It is a collection of inspiring essays written by women entrepreneurs in various stages of their entrepreneurial journeys and how they dealt with the challenges that the pandemic posed for their businesses.
When COVID-19 hit the U.S. in February of 2020, small businesses were among those hardest hit. Restaurants, hair salons, travel agencies, and more, all deemed non-essential businesses, were paused in many states and their futures hung in the balance. Instead of bemoaning their uncontrollable circumstances, 30 women entrepreneurs came together every night for 30 nights via Zoom video conference calls and engaged in a month-long cocoon' designed to help them rethink, reimagine, and relaunch their businesses in a post-COVID-19 world. Led by educator and serial entrepreneur Doretha Howard White, these women redeemed the time of the quarantine by equipping themselves with new knowledge, new vigor, and most importantly, new, lifelong friendships and supporters.
Author quotes
I am proud to showcase the stories of these amazingly brave, strong, ambitious, brilliant female bawses!
For me personally, this experience was nothing short of amazing and life changing.
The Quarantine Queens Mastermind suddenly gave me something positive to focus on and to look forward to. I was locked and loaded and ready to make a difference in the lives of the women who showed up for this challenge.
About the author
Doretha Howard White is the founder of the Quarantine Queens, a 30-day Women’s Entrepreneurship Mastermind for women business owners all along the entrepreneurial spectrum. Before taking the leap into entrepreneurship with her husband Michael in 2005, Doretha enjoyed a gratifying career in education as a teacher, assistant principal, principal, teacher development specialist, and college instructor. She and Michael now own 3 businesses. As a serial entrepreneur turned business coach, she reads everything she can get her hands on about business ownership, leadership and success. She is on a quest to train others to start and maintain successful small and mid-size businesses that are birthed out of one’s own imagination, gifts, talents, skill-sets and passions. Doretha believes that knowing how to start and run a successful business is something everyone should learn. She is passionate about teaching new entrepreneurs everything that she has learned along the way. To that end, Doretha has developed online courses about entrepreneurship, self publishing and life skills.
Why LoA loves it….
The Covid-19 pandemic has proved to be one of the most challenging times in our lives, and it has tested all of us, as people and as women entrepreneurs. It has made us question and re-evaluate everything. Particularly as business owners, it has forced us to think differently, to innovate, to keep going in the toughest of times. Doretha Howard White in her new book, Quarantine Queens, has brought together a group of incredible women entrepreneurs to share their experiences, to rethink their own businesses, and to tell their stories of how they have got through this truly unique periods in our history. For all those women entrepreneurs who may need a little inspiration and encouragement from others who know just what they are going through, this is a great read. — Melanie Hawken. founder & ceo, Lionesses of Africa