Laila created a new piece of workout gear. She's calling it the Toned Tushie. Although she couldn't initially find potential investors, she secured a personal loan and borrowed additional money from her parents. Her drive to continue believing in her idea and to remain enthusiastic shows that Laila is:
A. not a true entrepreneur.
B. better suited to managing a nonprofit organization.
C. unaware of the risks she was taking.
D. characteristically self-nurturing.

Her drive to continue believing in her idea and to remain enthusiastic shows that Laila is: D. characteristically self-nurturing.

Explanation:

An individual taking care of himself is known as self-nurturing. Self-nurture helps in gaining self-esteem and makes the individual feel better about them. It ensures relaxing and rejuvenating the mind of the individual.

While in the business field, self-nurturing means self-financing their business. In this case, they don’t look for help from others. They start up their own business by arranging some personal loan and giving great effort. Self-nurturing people emerge as successful entrepreneurs.

Laila is characteristically self-nurturing.

Explanation:

The term self-nurturing means to take care of oneself.Self nurturing signifies a positive Environment.People who are self nurturing tend to create a positive environment around them.They are very optimistic towards the challenges of life.

In the above question we can see that Laila is very enterprising.Even though she could not find investors for her entrepreneurial, she choose not to opt out rather she took a personal loan from a bank  and borrowed some money from her parent for her .This indicate the "never die" spirit of Laila and is also a reflection of her positive attitude towards her entrepreneurial venture .

So the answer is (D) characteristically self-nurturing.