Linda E. Rawlings’ Improbable Possibilities: An Entrepreneur’s Quest takes you through the life of a visionary entrepreneur. Rawlings’ has a great ability to string personal experiences and business insights together. This variety really crafts a narrative that is entertaining, engaging and enlightening. Like anyone else, she too went through struggles but it all led to her eventual success. Rawlings’ story is one of staying strong and holding onto that desire to reach your goal. You have to have that willingness to embrace the unknown to really pursue your dreams. Linda E. Rawlings has that. That much is clear after reading through Improbable Possibilities. This book will be valuable to folks out there who want to step up their game, or are feeling at a loss running their own businesses. Don’t give up! Give this book a read and keep moving forward. I’d recommend this book to anyone regardless of if you’re an entrepreneur or not. People’s stories of success through hardship are inspiring no matter what the background is, and this was a really good read.
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Improbable Possibilities: An Entrepreneur’s Quest
Observe Possibilities.
Entangle Possibilities.
Create Possibilities.
Throw spaghetti against the wall of life and see what sticks.
Multi-business entrepreneur Linda Rawlings is perhaps best-known as co-creator of California-based Otis Spunkmeyer, Inc. Her debut book “Improbable Possibilities”, reveals other entrepreneurial quests 
through childhood, a business career, a dance career, and three marriages–in twenty episodes of you-can’t-make-this-up and you-can’t-put-this-down true stories.
Diverse San Francisco entrepreneurial adventures include Robert C. Brown and Company, investment advisors; Triple 888 Manufacturing, the sheet metal company purchased created to manufacture ovens for baking Otis Spunkmeyer cookies; and Sentimental Journeys, the DC3 airline that promoted Otis Spunkmeyer Cookies. Her other entrepreneurial activities include founding and producing New Shoes Old Souls Dance Company, producing Yoga Garden Dancers, and working with Heterodoxy Magazine and George Magazine. Rawlings helped develop MANA!, a food brand in Hong Kong.
Rawlings has undergraduate degrees in Fine Arts and Mathematics (Bates College) and master’s degrees in Business and Journalism (UC Berkeley). She has lived in Connecticut, California, Singapore, Hong Kong, Toronto, Sydney, and Las Vegas. Newport, Rhode Island is her home-for now. Her writing has appeared in Heterodoxy, The Oakland Tribune, and Newport Life Magazine. This is her first book, inspired by theoretical physics.
“Reading Improbable Possibilities, is like catching up with your most adventurous and entertaining friend.”
Carolyn Wyman, author: “The Great American Chocolate Chip Cookie Book”“The author, who describes herself as a baby boomer with an old soul, opens with an account of her youth in Connecticut, and in a series of chapters filled with quotes from rock music . . . these chronological self-portraits unfold with a wonderfully readable combination of inner exploration . . . A lively, colorful memoir of corporate and personal growth.“
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