The Lady with Balls - a Single Mother's Triumphant Battle in a Man's World

11/20/2021

Alice signing copies off her memoir at Barnes & Noble, Santa Rosa.

03/28/2021

The harder I work, the smarter I seem...

This article appeared in the June 2020 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content.   Today, Vulcan Wire is a $10 million-a-year company supplying baler wire to customers in California and beyond. But the story of …Continue Reading→

03/28/2021

Alice in interviewed by Colleen Biggs on "Lead Up For Women"

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03/27/2021

The Entrepreneurial Journey of Alice Combs: Alice discusses finding a need and creating a Multi-Million Dollar business, her new book “The Lady with Balls” and much more!

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03/26/2021

My Reseda High School (Tarzana, CA) reunion group had a mass 55th birthday party for 1960 graduates. I was a winter of 1960 graduate, and Michael graduated spring of 1960 from Point Arena High in Northern California.

03/24/2021

In the 1970’s I rose from a divorced mother on Food Stamps to a successful entrepreneur. After an employer stated, “you’re not corporate material,” my initial ignorance, and business mistakes, I founded a now healthy multi-million dollar annual sales corporation. My story begins when I leave my San Francisco Bay Area home-office to collect a customer’s overdue $5,000. I interrupt their board meeting and refuse to leave without payment. Their president drops me down the stairs. On top of my imminent financial disaster, I fear I will be called the bitch of the recycling industry. I flash back to the relinquishment of my about-to-be adopted baby, former jobs, divorce, humiliation of using food stamps, controlling mother, and the bizarre series of events that led me to become an entrepreneur in industrial baler wire, and my agony before and after I created a false IRS W-2 to acquire working capital—a felony. Eventually I receive the overdue payment and am phoned by a loyal customer who says all his fellow garbagemen are calling me “The Little Lady with Balls.” And they want me to join their garbage association. This leads to increased sales with expansion to a rented office and a saleswoman to cover Southern California. Success in business followed and grew. Also, after many poor romantic choices, I found true love.