Why Should Guys Have All the Fun?

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Why Should Guys Have All the Fun? Let s readers glimpse the amazing life and achievements of business leader, author, attorney, and human rights activist Loida Nicolas Lewis, who has graced the cover of Working Woman magazine as `The Most Powerful Female CEO in America.Born in the Philippines, Loida came to New York City as a young woman and fell head over heels for Reginald F. Lewis, a brilliant, volatile African American lawyer who acquired and operated a billion-dollar, international food corporation before dying of brain cancer at the age of 50.Why Should Guys Have All the Fun? is the story of Loida s complicated marriage to an iconic, take-no-prisoners businessman, her bid to forge her own identity working as an attorney, immigration expert, real estate investor, author, and activist, her paralyzing depression after Reg s death, her subsequent efforts to raise two young daughters. Why Should Guys Have All the Fun? also highlights how Loida s unshakeable faith in the Almighty helped her to rescue her late husband s financially ailing company and push it to record earnings.There s an amazing paucity of business books focusing on female CEOs and on immigrant success stories. In this book readers will appreciate Loida s candid take on what it s like to be a principled, Christian-oriented Filipina in a world dominated by hard-charging White males, not to mention the way Loida pulls back the curtain on her business successes and miscalculations, and the incredible challenge of being a widow raising two young children while regularly shuttling between Manhattan and Paris as she guides a huge multinational corporation.Readers who ve been challenged by life s vicissitudes twists and turns will put down Why Should Guys Have All the Fun? appreciating that there s no obstacle that perseverance and faith can t vanquish.