OK, I know you are thinking what on earth - ha ha, can I, as an entrepreneur learn from the new movie The Martian? Simple and Matt Damon, aka Mark Watney, explains it very early in the movie. Listen up women entrepreneurs....this is very interesting and Matt Damon does it beautifully.

Now, I don't want to spoil one minute of the movie, but you can already guess that Astronaut Mark Watney gets left behind on Mars. The rest of the movie is what he does about it?

This is where the lesson for all entrepreneurs becomes crystal clear. Everyone should understand that the moral of the story of the movie is: once you decide what you will devote your life to you can guarantee that there will be problems. The question is, and the answer to life and your mission is, what are you going to do about it?

Astronaut, entrepreneur, politician or community leader: your mission is to go out there and solve problems that other people don't have to worry about. There will always be problems, but you have chosen yourself to be the one that solves them.

I find this lesson especially important for women entrepreneurs and women pursuing every dream. The reason I say this is that just like in the story of Mark Watney who doesn't have a role model in his circumstance, there is no role model for many women entrepreneurs. Men have had role models in business and in many arenas for so long that their stories are well known and shared. Women, on the other hand, have the disadvantage, sometimes, for being the first in their position, with no role model to follow or be compared to.

This is what makes the movie The Martian, and Matt Damon's performance, resonate for me and, I believe, for women entrepreneurs. Women entrepreneurs break the model every day in their business and in their life. Not every woman, of course, but many. Often times, their struggle is never reported or forgotten as soon as it occurs, but what matters is that women every day are breaking ground for the next generation of women and it is important we share our stories every chance we get.

Back to the movie. Mark Watney is left on Mars with no instruction manual or help or even lifeline. Every day, women entrepreneurs experience a problem in business that also doesn't seem to have a quick answer. The response must be to use the experience and grit that got you up and running in the business to begin with.

Every entrepreneur MUST realize that every business has problems but finding the solutions to these problems will be the determination to whether the business eventually fails or succeeds. As in the case of Mark (Matt) on Mars, no decision guarantees death. This is unfortunately true in business. Failure to act in business will be the death of every entrepreneur - male or female.

So, go into business expecting problems and always being excited about the opportunity to be challenge. Every challenge will make you a better business owner/CEO as long as you tackle it head on. As The Martian learns sometimes the solution goes BOOM but that doesn't mean another solution can't solve the problem.

Women entrepreneurs must learn to embrace problems in business and challenge themselves to grow and evolve. The best is still ahead.