After her divorce, Bobbie Weiner began a three-month course at Joe Blasco Makeup School--and eventually launched a multimillion-dollar makeup empire in The Other Makeup Mogul.
After her divorce, nurse Rebecca Denoff fixed up Solitude Farm, a 100-acre plot with no running water or electricity, and reinvented as a sheep farmer in Reinventing as a Farmer: The Sheep Farmer.
A designer and creative director of a giftware company, Marina Marchese turned her beekeeping hobby into a career in Reinventing as a Farmer: The Beekeeper.
A former health insurance executive, Danielle Butin's made it her mission to ship unwanted medical supplies destined for landfills to impoverished regions in Doing Good for People & the Planet.
Monica Ricci left the hospitality industry to go into business for herself. Now she's got a recurring gig as an expert organizer on the HGTV show, MISSION: Organization in Reinventing as a Professional Organizer.
Lauren Manning, who suffered burns on over 82 percent of her body in the attack on the World Trade Center, writes about her recovery in A 9/11 Burn Survivor's Inspiring Recovery.
After seeing herself in her son's high school graduation pictures, Kathie Anderson vowed to lose weight so she'd be smiling at her family's next big event in Amazing Body Transformations.
Jennifer Jeanne Patterson is a freelance writer and author of 52 Fights. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband and three children. Find her blog at Unplanned Cooking.