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On Win's Women of Wisdom today, Best-Selling Author, Win Kelly Charles welcomes Ally Nathaniel. Ally is an immigrant. She came to the U.S. in 2006 with two young children. Her youngest daughter was born here. As a stay-at- home mom Ally looked for a job that would allow her to spend as much time as possible with her children, and since Ally couldn’t find one she started teaching cooking and baking classes at schools and day- care centers. While doing that Ally wrote a children’s cookbook based on those classes. When the book was ready she started looking for a publisher and sent nearly 100 letters to different publishers, just to get rejection letters or no responses at all. Ally felt both discouraged and disappointed. Ally needed to generate more money but she didn’t want to get a traditional job. It was then when Ally learned about Amazon KDP and decided to give it a try. Ally wrote a children’s book, inspired by her daughter, found an illustrator and in less than a month her book was ready. Well, at l