A Chat With Dyan Eagles, founder and president, DharmaCrafts

I’ve had a few other business mentors. Through my women’s entrepreneur group there was an older woman named Irene Gainsboro who took me under her wing. She taught me how to make a marketing plan, and she’d give me homework. She and her husband started a small company making birdfeeders back in the 1970s. It grew into this mega-company on three different continents. It was called Opus. She was very helpful and taught me a lot about business planning and more formal things.