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WOMAN POWER
Sahar Hashemi, Entrepreneur and Guru
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Why would a successful London lawyer give
up a lucrative practice? That is exactly what Sahar Hashemi
and her brother, an investment banker from New York, did when
they left their cushy jobs to start Coffee Republic. What
makes their decision even more impressive is that they were
starting their company in tea crazy England. Their dream became
such a success that it is now stuff of legends.
When Sahar was in New York, she enjoyed the variety of coffees
and goodies being served in coffee shops springing up around
the Big Apple so much that she decided the Brits could be
converted. The story of creating her brand in England is so
impressive that Sahar decided to write her recipe for success
for all the other would-be entrepreneurs. She refers to it
as a story about two people who “stopped thinking about it
“ and just “did it”.
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Sahar Hashemi’s book, “anyone can do it - Building Coffee
Republic from our Kitchen table” required her to leave the
day-to-day management of the business, but to the hundreds
of thousands who have read it, this has been a blessing.
Soon after being published in January 2003, ‘Anyone Can Do
It’ reached #1 on the Amazon business chart. If you attend
the London Business School’s entrepreneurship course, this
book is on your suggested reading list
Sahar’s success has been featured on CNN, BBC and London’s
Radio 4 and she has been named one of the 100 Most Influential
Women in Britain 2003. She is also a speaker ambassador for
the Prince’s Trust as well as lecturing at the London Business
School Entrepreneurship School.
It will not be long before we have a line of ‘Anyone Can
Do It’ books and a possible ‘Anyone Can Do It’’ television
series according to those close to her.
To us, at Salam Worldwide, this is
just another example of the power of the Iranian woman. Bravo!
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Mina Badie:
Iranian Actress in Hollywood
Mina Badie is an Iranian actress in Hollywood
whose credits include 1996’s Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
and 2001’ s The Anniversary Party, with her stepsister Jennifer
Jason Leigh, 2002’s Roger Dodger with Campbell Scott, and
Isabella Rossellini, and 2003’s Road to Perdition with Tom
Hanks and Paul Newman.
Mina Badie at the Hollywood Premiere
of The Anniversary Party (6/6/2001, Photo: Gregg DeGuire/Wireimage.com).
Mina’s father, Reza S. Badiyi, is a prolific
Hollwyood Director, whose credits include "Baywatch,"
"Star Trek: Deep Space Nine," "Knots Landing,"
"Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" and "Buffy, the
Vampire Slayer." He married writer Barbara Turner after
the tragic death of her husband, actor Vic Morrow, in an accident
on the set of the 1984 movie The Twilight Zone.
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