Daughter with Downs Syndrome Inspires Mom Connie Feda to Find a Profitable Passion with an Awesome Home Business Idea

While browsing a toy catalog Hannah Feda, 9 years old at the time, told her mother that none of the dolls pictured looked like her. Hannah, now 13, has her wish thanks to her mother.

In an article for the Huffington Post by Jessica Samakow and an accompanying video entitled Dolls For Downs: Mom Connie Feda Creates Dolls Inspired By Her Daughter, Connie Feda explains how Hannah’s observation inspired her to imagine a home business idea that would create and sell a doll that looked like her beautiful daughter. 

Hannah has Downs Syndrome. Connie’s mission and passion is to "represent children with disabilities in an honest, favorable light and give kids with disabilities a friend for life."  The article notes “With the help of sculptor Karen Scott, occupational therapists and other parents of children with Down syndrome, Feda was able to create dolls that physically reflect what her daughter and other kids see in the mirror.”

Shelly Fisher's Modest Home Business Idea Evolves to A Million Dollar Small Business Idea that Saves Lives

Every parent who has ever lost something made with love as a gift from a child knows the panic Shelly Fisher felt when she lost a beaded earring made by her 7 year old daughter while the family was vacationing on the Jersey Shore. What Shelly did not know, is the loss of that earring would result in a profitable passion and a creative small business idea driving an amazing purpose which quite literally saves lives. Actually Shelly stated out with a simple home business idea that evolved into her incredible small business today. 

In an article for the Huffington Post, Fisher tells how she found a bead store on the boardwalk thinking the owner of the store could quickly make a replacement earring and her daughter would not be disappointed with her Mother losing her special gift.

Fishers says,