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JESSICA ALBA

Founder, The Honest Company
Having mentors who are women is important to Alba. “I over-index on calling them and asking them things, because there’s just stuff that we go through,” she says. “In a lot of situations, we are treated differently.”

GROW FROM SETBACKS

The Honest Company has grown to offer more than 100 all-natural, nontoxic household products in stores across the country, but the six-year-old business has also weathered lawsuits, a CEO

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