20 WOMEN TO WATCH
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Belinda Bain
By Tamirra StewartPublished: March 01, 2010
President and Owner of California Hazardous Services
Action Zipline Tours – actionziplinetours.com
Soil Surgeon Inc. – soilsurgeoninc.com
California Hazardous Services, Inc. – calhaz.com
All companies are in Santa Ana
Age: 47
City of residence: Laguna Niguel
Family: My
husband, Ron Bain; my daughter Brianna, 9, and my son Dillon, 16; and
our dog, Harley – I can’t have (the motorcycle) so I might as well name
my dog that.
First job: At a Tastee Freez – I was 14 years old, and I fibbed on my application because you were supposed to be 16.
What or who inspires you:
I love business. Some people get a rush from who knows what, but I love
coming up with ideas – ideas for other businesses. Soil Surgeon came
about because we were out at oil fields with no backhoe. We had to do
all sorts of things to get water out to the field. We attached stuff to
a truck, and it worked!
Advice to other women in business: Go
for it. You go, girl! I mean, I don’t know that (my invention is) going
to work. Something gets stuck in my mind, so I think, “How would I
market it?” You’ve just gotta go for it.
Favorite TV show: “Lost”
« Belinda Bain owns a mountain.
“Well, it’s actually half a mountain,” she says. “Why lease when you can own?”
The
(half) mountain in question is located in Big Bear Lake and houses the
first zipline tour in Southern California. Bain’s corporations are
diverse, certainly: a petroleum company, a device that brings water to
oil fields, transportation – and ziplines. But throughout her 23-year
career, Bain pioneered them all, breaking through the petroleum
industry’s “good ol’ boys club” to make her inventions
multimillion-dollar corporations.
“They had wall-to-wall
pictures of naked women, never thinking they would have a woman in
their offices,” she says. “I would ask them where they got all of these
photographs of me.”
Stay fearless and diligent, Bain says.
“I’m not afraid to work hard. I just keep knock, knock, knockin’.”
OC METRO'S 20 WOMEN TO WATCH:
•Wendy Rogers •Neda Zaengle •Belinda Bain
•Michelle Cohen •Dr. Sherri Treasurywala
•Caroline Cotten-Nakken •Heather Williams
•Kelly Vlahakis-Hanks •Kimberlee Mitchell
•Sonia R. Carvalho •Christine Shively •Liz McKinley
•Lisa Grant Ludwig •Tiffany Montgomery
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Action Zipline Tours – actionziplinetours.com Soil Surgeon Inc. – soilsurgeoninc.com California Hazardous Services, Inc. – calhaz.com All companies are in Santa Ana Age: 47 City of residence: Laguna Niguel Family: My husband, Ron Bain; my daughter Brianna, 9, and my son Dillon, 16; and our dog, Harley – I can’t have (the motorcycle) so I might as well name my dog that. First job: At a Tastee Freez – I was 14 years old, and I fibbed on my application because you were supposed to be 16. What or who inspires you: I love business. Some people get a rush from who knows what, but I love coming up with ideas – ideas for other businesses. Soil Surgeon came about because we were out at oil fields with no backhoe. We had to do all sorts of things to get water out to the field. We attached stuff to a truck, and it worked! Advice to other women in business: Go for it. You go, girl! I mean, I don’t know that (my invention is) going to work. Something gets stuck in my mind, so I think, “How would I market it?” You’ve just gotta go for it. Favorite TV show: “Lost” « Belinda Bain owns a mountain. “Well, it’s actually half a mountain,” she says. “Why lease when you can own?” The (half) mountain in question is located in Big Bear Lake and houses the first zipline tour in Southern California. Bain’s corporations are diverse, certainly: a petroleum company, a device that brings water to oil fields, transportation – and ziplines. But throughout her 23-year career, Bain pioneered them all, breaking through the petroleum industry’s “good ol’ boys club” to make her inventions multimillion-dollar corporations. “They had wall-to-wall pictures of naked women, never thinking they would have a woman in their offices,” she says. “I would ask them where they got all of these photographs of me.” Stay fearless and diligent, Bain says. “I’m not afraid to work hard. I just keep knock, knock, knockin’.” OC METRO'S 20 WOMEN TO WATCH: •Wendy Rogers •Neda Zaengle •Belinda Bain •Michelle Cohen •Dr. Sherri Treasurywala •Caroline Cotten-Nakken •Heather Williams •Kelly Vlahakis-Hanks •Kimberlee Mitchell •Sonia R. Carvalho •Christine Shively •Liz McKinley •Lisa Grant Ludwig •Tiffany Montgomery |
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