{"id":3451,"date":"2015-11-23T18:37:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T23:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bizwomenrock.com\/?p=3451"},"modified":"2015-11-23T18:37:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T23:37:00","slug":"sophia-amoruso-success-is-a-term-you-define-for-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bizwomenrock.com\/beta\/sophia-amoruso-success-is-a-term-you-define-for-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophia Amoruso: Success Is a Term You Define for Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a Monday morning in Manhattan\u00a0and Sophia Amoruso is wearing a plunging jet-black gown and choker. That\u2019s not unusual for the founder of online retailer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nastygal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nasty Gal, a brand known for a certain \u201870s chic<\/a>. But in this Fifth Avenue hotel lounge where nearby a sea of foreign officials in fine tailored suits pile into motorcades for a session at\u00a0the\u00a0U.N. Global Summit, Amoruso stands out.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, Amoruso\u2019s not afraid of the attention. The 31-year old made headlines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/225219\" target=\"_blank\">in 2012\u00a0for nabbing more than $40 million in funding<\/a> for a rapidly growing e-commerce business racking up hundreds of millions in sales. By 2014, her bestseller <a href=\"http:\/\/www.girlboss.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>#Girlboss<\/em><\/a> was lauded as a <em>Lean In<\/em> for millennial women, tracking Amoruso\u2019s journey from dumpster-diving youth\u00a0to e-Bay seller\u00a0to CEO.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Once you put yourself on the cover of a book with your hands on your hips in a power pose, you become another thing,&#8221; Amoruso tells<em>Entrepreneur<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To be sure, not all the attention has been easy.\u00a0Last year, <a href=\"http:\/\/recode.net\/2015\/01\/12\/nasty-gal-founder-sophia-amoruso-steps-down-as-ceo-of-fashion-retailer\/\" target=\"_blank\">revenues flattened<\/a> and the company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/241734\" target=\"_blank\">laid off 10% of its staff<\/a>. Amoruso stepped down as CEO months later and by last March, the company had been slapped with a discrimination\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/268146891\/Nasty-Gal-Complaint\" target=\"_blank\">suit<\/a> from former employees who say the company unlawfully fired them after they became pregnant or took parental leave. (Nasty Gal has maintained the lawsuit is \u201cfalse, defamatory and taken completely out of context.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Amoruso, for her part, is forging ahead with her role as a leader and mentor, embarking on a nationwide bus tour (#GirlBuss, naturally) to celebrate her book\u2019s paperback release. She\u2019s also launched a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.girlboss.com\/category\/foundation\/\" target=\"_blank\">foundation<\/a> awarding grants to young women entrepreneurs, a career column for <em>Marie Claire<\/em> and a podcast in partnership with <em>Slate<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/251727\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE THIS ARTICLE\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a Monday morning in Manhattan\u00a0and Sophia Amoruso is wearing a plunging jet-black gown and choker. That\u2019s not unusual for the founder of online retailer Nasty Gal, a brand known for a certain \u201870s chic. 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