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Growing up, we watch our mothers to figure out how we shouldperceive the world. So if your mother, and your mother'smother, own businesses, the entrepreneurial spirit is oftencontagious. "I can't remember my mother articulating in somany words that I should pursue whatever I wanted to do,'says Polly Baumer, owner ofMany Hands Magazine, a holistichealth quarterly in Northampton, Massachusetts. "What was muchmore evident was the impression I got from watching someoneactually [go after her dreams]. I watched her create a business andmake it happen.'
Baumer comes from what she describes as "a littletribe' of women entrepreneurs. Her mother, Margaret JaneStrong, started a business that provides art tours of Europe; hersister, Margaret Jane Mason, owns Mrs. Mason's LusciousTemptations, a candy manufacturing company in Southfield, Michigan;and most of her female cousins have dabbled in businessownership.
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