Bryan Wright | Gravity ImagesAlanya Kolberg has seen her fair share of personal tragedy and financial setbacks in life. Specifically, asserting her son's right to choose whether or not he wants to share his toys with the other children on the playground. However, while that post defending her son created ripples throughout the internet, it doesn't compare to the personal tragedy she experienced with her oldest son's death, subsequent bankruptcy and the financial strains of single motherhood. Today, Kolberg is the happily married mother of 3 rambunctious boys who keep her on her toes and owner of the popular investing education website, BottomUp Wealth. As readers, from the outside looking in we're often not privy to the personal obstacles business owners have endured to achieve the success they have today.

Source: Forbes August 29, 2017 15:22 UTC