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A very candid look at the woman behind Martha, Inc.

By Michael F. Carmichael

The sold-out Inforum audience listened intently -- it was a Good Thing that they had been told to put their cell phones on 'stun.'
 
Martha Stewart started off her conversation with the sold-out crowd of members of Inforum, one of the largest professional organizations for women in the nation, and guests at the Renaissance Room of the Detroit Marriott with a recollection that she initially started coming to Detroit when she was negotiating with Kmart. She said that was one of many profitable associations she's made over the years. She was like that, perfectly frank about being a self-made multimillionaire – and, oh by the way, a former felon - and at the same time offering words of hope for an economically challenged city and country. Read more.