Career 180: It all started with tea parties

Tracy Stern is the founder of the philanthropic jewelry design company “Cuffs for a Cause,” which donates roughly 40% of its proceeds to women’s charities. Stern, who is in her early 40s, founded the tea and lifestyle company SALONTEA, an international business that she sold earlier this year. (She remains a partial owner). She lives in Turtle Bay.

One of the cons is having to find suppliers in a new industry, but that challenge will be rewarding when people get to share in helping empowering women’s charities.