Michelle A. Vandepas has never been particularly good at sitting quietly on the sidelines. She is an entrepreneur, publisher, author, and TEDx speaker who has spent more than 35 years building businesses, mentoring authors, and helping people bring bold ideas into the world. Along the way, she has reinvented herself more than once, made plenty of mistakes, and learned that starting over is rarely neat-- but it is often necessary. She lives in the foothills of Colorado with her family and 40 goldfish.