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We’d Fought So Many Battles

Barbara Colwell, who is now a consultant, says that in 1999, she had no idea what Belizean Grove would become. “I was fifty-four then, on a corporate board, and I never dreamed of the bonding that would take place. That first year was so magical. When I came home, my husband said he never saw me giggle like that.”

Colwell’s first connection to Stautberg and Weiner was professional. After rising to be the highest-ranking woman at TWA, she went to work for Cigna’s property and casualty insurance division. She realized she needed help with consumer marketing and hired Weiner to do some forward-looking industry analysis.

Weiner introduced Colwell to Stautberg at a client meeting, and the women hit it off. And in 1992, ...