As chronicled in my book Raising Eyebrows, A Failed Entrepreneur Finally Gets It Right, from the beginning of Tweezerman, the company that became my big success, I was empowering my employees.              

Recently I was asked to teach a career day, hour-long class to seniors at my Brooklyn-based high school alma mater, Bishop Loughlin. I agreed to do it, thinking I might inspire some young people to start and operate their own small business, as I myself had done at their age, and to do it responsibly.