Being a small business owner myself and a formally trained facilitator, I decided to take a different approach and asked 20 presidents of small businesses in marketing, interior design, insurance and a variety of other industries what’s allowing them to get a good night’s rest.
Here are the highlights of what they shared, one being "Learn to not just live with but love uncertainty."
How a Business Owner Can Sleep Like a Baby During Tough Times, by Laurel J. Delaney for American Express.
CDFIs are mission, not profit-driven. They have lower requirements regarding years in business, credit score (or no credit score), and collateral. Entrepreneurs still have to prove that they're creditworthy, but CDFIs work with entrepreneurs whom banks typically turn away. CDFIs have proven that financing women- and minority-business owners are NOT risky.
Think of them as first responders for women entrepreneurs. How will you use a CDFI loan to become a healthier, stronger business in 2022?
Source: Our esteemed colleague and friend, Geri Stengel, who contributes to Forbes on a regular basis. She is a big supporter of women business owners.
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These funds will be given to entrepreneurs in the form of microcredit loans in communities where Whole Foods Market sources products.
Learn more about each brand and why they choose to support the mission to alleviate poverty.
The kombucha brewer, pie baker and toffee maven are also fighting for the same things: market share, new business and most importantly: respect in their industries.
Bring on good cheer and support as many women business owners as we can this holiday season!
Check it out.
There's data to suggest that female-founded companies outperform their male counterparts, made even more impressive by the fact that women only secure 2.3% of venture capital funding.
The travel sector is also growing with female entrepreneurs, and here are eight that are changing the industry with their businesses.
The Widest Net is a step by step method for building a thriving business. You can pre-order now and get these bonuses:
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If you’re using an iPhone, it’s actually not all that difficult; you can create a signature and reuse it by using the iPhone’s built-in Markup tool.
Ready. Set. Learn how to do it.
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Halloween is the one day you can be anyone you want to be. Here are five unconventional, last-minute costume ideas that you can easily D-I-Y with clothes in your closet. Word of caution: these looks are reserved for trailblazing women.
The sky is the limit. Enjoy and Happy Halloween!
Data illustrates how far funding needs to progress to support Black women, who accounted for 42% of net new women-owned businesses, while only being 14% of the female population from 2018-19, according to the 2019 State of Women-Owned Businesses Report, which analyzed U.S. Census Bureau data, and extrapolated forward based on Gross Domestic Product data.
According to Mr. Marquis's article:
The alcohol industry is known for being dominated by men. For instance, in 2018, only “4% of C-suite positions in wine and spirits were held by women” and women in the industry continue to face sexual harassment and abuse.
At Escape From Corporate America, we hope Mr. Marquis has an opportunity to interview Dr. Sonat Birnecker Hart, President and co-founder of KOVAL Distillery to learn even more how women who are smart, confident and experienced in the spirits industry can and do succeed.
Read the full article: Women Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Spirits Industry.
So, what if instead of longing for a seat at the table, we flip it? Reflect on what a seat at the table means to you and how you can flip the table to be more inclusive, open, and exactly what you envision it to be.
If you can't do that, I invite you to forget the seat at the table and just do the work that needs to be done. Go after your own true vision of growth, success, and progress and that might just be starting your own business. Go for it!
Because I was waiting. I was waiting to have more money in my pocket. I was waiting to be in a relationship, so we could go together. I was waiting until I was thinner.
After years of putting off her dream, entrepreneur Kristy Carruthers took action and made it a reality, traveling the world and building a successful career in the process.
Stop waiting for perfection and get on with your life. Take action. Make it happen.
Busquets is also an entrepreneur herself, starting her retail career while she was still studying at the University of Miami and, in the 1990s, founding Cabus, a multibrand luxury fashion retailer in Caracas.
She was particularly proud that Cult, an online beauty retailer founded by two young women in 2007, was well-run — and profitable. Indeed, Busquets’ passion lies in taking risks, empowering entrepreneurs and encouraging them to keep an eye on spending, pursue profit and work together with a sense of mutual respect.
Learn more about Busquets goal to seeing women become the executive leaders that they are capable of being.
Read all her comments here.
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In going after a dream, exercise unbridled enthusiasm until you achieve it. So do something unusual to manifest your own latent entrepreneurial capabilities: start a juice stand, backpack to India or sell a sketch to a neighbor.
You never know where it will lead.
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