You will always say - for your entire life - ‘I had this great idea,’” says Joy Mangano, President and Founder of Ingenious Designs. Mangano is best known as the inspiration behind the movie Joy, in which Jennifer Lawrence portrays Mangano’s life from single mother to inventor and entrepreneur. In this interview Mangano shares the challenges women entrepreneurs face and how to get an idea off the ground but more importantly how to stick with it. Michelle King: You are widely known for inventing the Miracle Mop, but you have actually invented over one hundred other products. A post shared by Joy Mangano Official (@joymangano) on Nov 1, 2017 at 7:06am PDTJoy Mangano: The Miracle Mop was successful because it was the first product that I actually followed through with in terms of sales - in a very big, prominent way.

Source: Forbes November 21, 2017 19:18 UTC