ESCAPE From Corporate America!
Saturday, January 29, 2022

Women Entrepreneurs Tackle BIG Ideas

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Female entrepreneurs are still receiving little capital.   Wired reports: “Startups with a woman founder raised $25 billion in the first ha...
Saturday, January 22, 2022

Helping Black Women Entrepreneurs Start and Expand a Business

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A growing number of firms have opened their treasure chests to Black woman entrepreneurs. They, in turn, are often using the financing to he...
Saturday, January 15, 2022

Learn to Love Uncertainty

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What’s keeping you up at night?  That's a key question to ask a business owner or top level executive if you want to find out what's...
Saturday, January 08, 2022

Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) Provide Affordable Financing to Women

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Congress created Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) in 1994 to provide affordable financing to women, minority, and other ...
Saturday, January 01, 2022

Begin Again

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©2022 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. "No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again." – Buddha
Saturday, December 18, 2021

Season's Greetings Escape From Corporate America Friends!

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"I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence, and just about everything that goes along with Christmas." – Hillary Sc...
Saturday, December 11, 2021

Empower Microentrepreneurs This Holiday Season

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Companies are donating a portion of their sales in select Whole Foods Market stores from December 1-31 to Whole Planet Foundation .  These f...
Saturday, December 04, 2021

3 Chicago Women Entrepreneurs: The Kombucha Brewer, Pie Baker and Toffee Maven

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NBC 5’s Food Guy Steve Dolinsky shares stories about three Chicago-area female entrepreneurs who focus on homemade sweets and sophisticated...
Saturday, November 27, 2021

These Are a Few of My (Oprah's) Favorite Things 2021

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The list is here!  Discover all of Oprah's favorite things for 2021 – from sweaters, to jewelry, to kitchen items and beauty gifts. Chec...
Saturday, November 20, 2021

Women Entrepreneurs Are Changing the Travel Space

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Entrepreneurship is a challenging road, but the number of small businesses with women leaders is growing.  There's data to suggest that ...
Saturday, November 13, 2021

Let Pamela Slim Help You Find New Customers

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Pamela Slim has a new book out that you don't want to miss: " The Widest Net – Unlock Untapped Markets and Discover New Customers R...
Saturday, November 06, 2021

Tip of the Week: Create a Signature for PDF Documents On An iPhone

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Hello on-the-go women business owners!  As more official papers are being turned into PDF documents, you may be asked to sign one electronic...
Saturday, October 30, 2021

Be Anyone You Want to Be

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©2021 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved This Halloween, you might take a step outside the box and dress up as a powerful figure to mak...
Saturday, October 23, 2021

Black Women Entrepreneur Excellence

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The Women's Entrepreneur Leadership Lab (WELL) is a network of Black women business owners that facilitates peer-supported growth by fos...
Saturday, October 16, 2021

The Female Consumer Is Under-Represented in the Brand and Marketing Landscape of Spirits

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In Christopher Marquis's research for his recent article on Karen Hoskins for Forbes and her work at Montanya Distillers to make the al...
Saturday, October 09, 2021

Forget the Seat At the Table and Just Do the Work That Needs To Be Done

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Women often say, “ I want a seat at the table .” For many business women, especially business women of color, a seat at the table is a hard-...
Saturday, October 02, 2021

Stop Waiting For Perfection

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Is this you?   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 t...
Saturday, September 25, 2021

Take Risks, Empower Entrepreneurs and Work Together

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Venezuelan-born Carmen Busquets was a pioneer investor in the fashion tech space, cofounding Net-a-porter and putting her money behind compa...
Saturday, September 18, 2021

What You Can Do to Attract Funding

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Inspired Capital co-founder Alexa von Tobel talks about three ways (below) the entrepreneur turned investor suggests getting the attention o...
Saturday, September 11, 2021

Unmeasured Strength and Resilience

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©2021 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. Remembering 911, we go back to a post we published about Lauren Manning and her book, " ...
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Laurel Delaney
Chicago, Illinois, United States
When I authored "Escape From Corporate America!" published by the Conference Board in 2003, I had no idea the reaction to it would be so profound and overwhelming. My inbox was flooded with email messages from gifted women who could not say enough about their dissatisfaction at work. Apparently, I underestimated just how fed up women are with Corporate America. EFCA offers a comprehensive look at why women are leaving BIG companies for entrepreneurship. Hint: They want freedom, flexibility, recognition, more money, and opportunities to leave a legacy -- all the things they once thought they would find within corporations. Are you ready to ... "Escape From Corporate America?"
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