Karen Ross
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Karen Ross faced significant challenges from an early age. She left home at seventeen and took an unconventional path, working her way through college in jobs far from the life she knew. She became a first-generation graduate, a self-made attorney, and an entrepreneur. In 2006 she founded Ross Law Group in Las Vegas, Nevada, and grew it from a single associate position into a respected boutique firm focused on regulatory, licensing, and personal injury law. The firm has represented clients in cases with a collective value of hundreds of millions of dollars and has handled regulatory licensing for a global convenience store chain since its earliest days. Her career had its share of setbacks and new starts. She spent years as a single mother of three sons who believed strength meant handling it all alone. Then a brain tumor and a difficult surgery and recovery tested everything she had built and made her rethink what success, love, and survival truly mean.
Karen came through it ready to reinvent herself again. In 2026 she launched La Vera Pizza in the United States, bringing authentic Italian pizza to hospitals, casinos, stadiums, and restaurants across the country. Her new memoir, Every Version of Me: How Adversity Shaped Beauty, is a candid story of resilience, motherhood, and ambition, and of refusing to be defined by any single chapter. In Women in Power, Karen shares what it takes to build something from the ground up, along with a hopeful message: every version of you can become part of the life you build next.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:
- That perseverance can be both strong and soft, welcoming adversity as a way to sharpen your resilience.
- How Karen built a boutique Las Vegas law firm from a single associate position into a respected practice.
- That securing several eight-figure personal injury settlements requires personal attention and relentless client advocacy.
- How she has managed regulatory compliance and development for more than fifty Nevada C-store locations for twenty-one years, including mass tort work involving the Route 91 shooting.
- Why staying personally connected to every client—even at 4 a.m. or 11 p.m.—is central to her results.
- That becoming a first-generation graduate and self-made attorney is possible through unconventional, determined work.
- How surviving a brain tumor and difficult recovery reshaped her definition of success, love, and survival.
- Why launching La Vera Pizza across hospitals, casinos, stadiums, and restaurants marks her next reinvention.
- That every version of you can become part of the life you build next, no matter the chapter.
about the show
Women In Power is an entrepreneur TV series featuring female entrepreneurs, CEOs, founders, and industry leaders who are building companies, leading teams, and creating impact in their industries.
Each episode gives viewers a closer look at the real stories behind these women’s success, including the challenges they faced, the decisions that shaped them, and the leadership lessons they learned along the way. The series highlights women who have built businesses, broken barriers, grown brands, and created opportunities for others through their work.
Women In Power was created to spotlight female business leaders whose stories deserve to be seen and heard. From early setbacks to major breakthroughs, each episode shows the journey behind the title, the business, and the public success.
For viewers, the show offers inspiration, practical insight, and a deeper look at what it takes for women to lead, grow, and succeed in today’s business world. For featured guests, it provides a platform to share their story, build authority, and inspire the next generation of female entrepreneurs and leaders.
