These days developer Lissette Calderon is dubbed "the Miami River Queen," but there used to be a time when a young Calderon was asked to get coffee during meetings.
Once a male colleague told her, "When you were reading the first chapter, I was finishing writing the book," Calderon recalled.
Calderon, founder and CEO of Neology Life Development Group, grew her real estate career through relentless hard work, as well as unwavering love and enjoyment of her job and the fortitude to ignore condescending comments.
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Lidia Dinkova
Lidia Dinkova covers South Florida real estate for the Daily Business Review. Contact her at [email protected] or 305-347-6665. On Twitter @LidiaDinkova.
