{"id":9,"date":"2011-12-17T18:54:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T18:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meghirshberg.com\/blog\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2014-02-28T07:29:31","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T12:29:31","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.meghirshberg.com\/blog\/biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Meg’s Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Meg<\/a>

Meg Hirshberg<\/p><\/div>\n

Meg is a contributing editor and former columnist for Inc<\/i>. magazine.\u00a0 She continues to address this subject in her blog on Inc.com<\/a> and in speaking appearances. \u00a0(For a compendium of Meg\u2019s writing, see her website, www.meghirshberg.com<\/a>.)\u00a0 Meg\u2019s book, For Better or For Work:\u00a0 A Survival Guide for Entrepreneurs and Their Families, <\/i>expands on her column topics.\u00a0 Entrepreneur<\/i> magazine selected Meg\u2019s book as one of the five best business books of 2012, and Axiom Business Book Awards selected For Better or For Work<\/i> as the 2013 \u201cGold\u201d winner for books about entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n

Meg is not an entrepreneur, but has been married to one for 30 years.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Family members are always, for better and sometimes for worse, caught up in the vortex of any entrepreneurial business.\u00a0 In her book and speaking appearances, Meg delves into the challenges that arise when a couple is married to a business as well as to each other.\u00a0 She proposes strategies and solutions for coping with these common problems, based on her own experience and those of the hundreds of entrepreneurs and spouses she interviewed for the book.<\/p>\n

Meg worked in her husband Gary\u2019s business, Stonyfield Yogurt, for the first several years of their marriage.\u00a0 Stonyfield took nine painful years to reach profitability, and now, with about $370 million in sales, it is the largest organic yogurt company in the world.\u00a0 After Meg stopped working in the business, she wrote two yogurt cookbooks, and launched her writing career.\u00a0 Her work has appeared in Yankee, New Hampshire Magazine, and the Boston Globe Magazine, among others.<\/p>\n

Meg grew up outside New York City and graduated from Brown University with a degree in Comparative Literature.\u00a0 After college she moved to California to work on an organic farm and run a science education garden for elementary school children.\u00a0 Meg\u2019s interest in organic growing led her to get a Master\u2019s degree from Cornell Agriculture School, after which she was hired to manage a large organic vegetable operation in New Jersey, where she lived until moving up to join Gary at Stonyfield Farm in New Hampshire.<\/p>\n

Meg and Gary have three children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meg is a contributing editor and former columnist for Inc. magazine.\u00a0 She continues to address this subject in her blog on Inc.com and in speaking appearances. \u00a0(For a compendium of Meg\u2019s writing, see her website, www.meghirshberg.com.)\u00a0 Meg\u2019s book, For Better or For Work:\u00a0 A Survival Guide for Entrepreneurs and Their Families, expands on her column topics.\u00a0 Entrepreneur magazine selected Meg\u2019s book as one of the five best business books of 2012, and Axiom Business Book Awards selected For Better or For Work as the 2013 \u201cGold\u201d winner for books about entrepreneurship. Meg is not an entrepreneur, but has been married to one for 30 years.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Family members are always, for better and sometimes for worse, caught up in the vortex of any entrepreneurial business.\u00a0 In her book and speaking appearances, Meg delves into the challenges that arise when a couple is married to a business as well as to each other.\u00a0 She proposes strategies and solutions for coping with these common problems, based on her own experience and those of the hundreds of entrepreneurs and spouses she interviewed for the book. Meg worked in her husband Gary\u2019s business, Stonyfield Yogurt, for the first several years of their marriage.\u00a0 Stonyfield took … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meghirshberg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meghirshberg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meghirshberg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meghirshberg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meghirshberg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.meghirshberg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039,"href":"http:\/\/www.meghirshberg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/1039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meghirshberg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}