:Joline Godfrey

Godfrey is a graduate of the University of Maine and Boston University, where she received an MSW.{{cite news |url=https://www.bangordailynews.com/2024/06/03/bdn-maine/the-herring-gut-coastal-science-center-announces-godfre-as-new-board-member/ |title=The Herring Gut Coastal Science Center announces Godfrey as new board member |date=June 3, 2024 |publisher=Bangor Daily News }}

Godfrey began her career as a clinical social worker. She then became an executive of the Polaroid Corporation, where she provided in-house family and therapeutic services to officers and employees. Around 1985, after leaving Polaroid, she launched Odysseum, a creativity training company, which she later sold.{{cite news | last=Smith | first=Carol | title=Getting Away From the Corporate 'Glass Ceiling': Women: Instead of tearing down corporate barriers, female entrepreneurs are advised to break into business for themselves | newspaper=Los Angeles Times | date=September 29, 1992 | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-09-29-fi-173-story.html | access-date=June 28, 2024}}

In 1992, an article she wrote for Inc. led her to launch An Income of Her Own, a non-profit offering financial education for girls.{{Cite news |last=Cassidy |first=Tina |date=1995-10-20 |title=Being her own boss |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-being-her-own-boss/159255116/ |access-date=2024-11-18 |publisher=The Boston Globe |language=en-US}}{{cite magazine |title=Teens who mind their businesses |last=Warren |first=Renee E. |magazine=Black Enterprise |location=New York |volume=24 |issue=9 |date=April 1994 |page=28 |id={{ProQuest|217856391}} }} Godfrey later founded Independent Means (IMI) in 1996 based in Santa Barbara, CA.{{cite news |last=Sullivan |first=Paul |date=May 28, 2010 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/29/your-money/29wealth.html?src=me&ref=business |title=Teaching Work Values to Children of Wealth |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=June 15, 2010 }}

• {{cite book | last=Godfrey | first=Joline | title=Our Wildest Dreams: Women Entrepreneurs Making Money, Having Fun, Doing Good | publisher=Harper Collins| publication-place=New York | date=1992 | isbn=978-0-88730-545-0 }}
• {{cite book | last=Godfrey | first=Joline | title=No More Frogs to Kiss: 99 Ways to Give Economic Power to Girls |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CYkAWkoFzfEC | publisher=Harper Collins | date=1995 | isbn=978-0-88730-659-4}}
• {{cite book | last=Godfrey | first=Joline | title=20 $ecrets to Money and Independence | publisher=St. Martin's Press | date=2000 | isbn=978-0-312-26279-2}}{{Cite journal |title=20 Secrets to Money and Independence: A Guide to Independence, Economic Empowerment, and Self-Awareness |last1=Rotella |first1=Mark |last2=Abbott |first2=Charlotte |last3=Gold |first3=Sarah F. |journal=Publishers Weekly |location=New York |volume=247 |issue=31 |date=July 31, 2000 |id={{ProQuest|197037390}} }}
• {{cite book | last=Godfrey | first=Joline | title=Raising Financially Fit Kids | publisher=Random House Digital, Inc. | date=2003 | isbn=978-1-58008-536-6 }}{{Cite news |last=Preston |first=Holly Hubbard |date=August 21, 2004 |title=Book Report : Make More Than Your Parents / Raising Financially Fit Kids |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/21/your-money/book-report-make-more-than-your-parents-raising-financially-fit.html?searchResultPosition=3 |work=The New York Times}}{{cite magazine |title=Finessing Financial Fitness |last=McQuade |first=Angele |magazine=Better Investing |volume=53 |issue=8 |date=April 2004 |pages=62–63 |id={{ProQuest|233334257}} }}

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• [https://joline-godfrey.com/blog Joline Godfrey's blog]

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SUDOC: 163574553

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Category:American women chief executives

Category:University of Maine alumni

Category:Boston University School of Social Work alumni

Category:1950 births

Category:Living people

Category:21st-century American women