From finance to fashion: Jules Reid follows passion to career success

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Over the last decade, 140,000 women have exited Wall Street -- with many betting instead on their own entrepreneurial ventures. In fact, women have started companies at twice the rate of men over the past few years.

Jules Reid is one of them. She left her 10-year career as a stockbroker to pursue her passion: fashion. "I had been dreaming about having my own label since I was in my early 20s and as I approached 40, the timing just seemed right. It was now or never."

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