This is a story about just how personal business is for women. I could have never guessed that being an entrepreneur would be so difficult because the difficulties aren’t always predictable. Things like how to write a really great proposal, then sell the proposal and turn it into a legally binding contract, then create an invoice and set up automatic payments, and how to accept credit card payments — these are some of the things that add up to make entrepreneurship really challenging for a newbie. We all have different experiences but many of us think it’s only ourselves who don’t know how to perform the functions of business and everybody else has it all figured out. If we don’t speak openly about the challenges we face with one another, we risk becoming isolated and suffering in silence when we could be learning skills from other women who have faced our challenges before and are totally willing to lend a helping hand. Today, I’m speaking with Dayna Lapkovsky who started frank, a community coaching program for Canadian women to learn and teach skills and ask for help with our barriers to success. Frank offers non-traditional networking in a way that suits the nature of women, to be communicative and collaborative. Frank is based in Montreal and offers women across Canada the opportunity to tackle what’s at hand with an action plan and the help of an expert facilitator. The thing I love about frank the most, and kudos to Dayna for building frank this way, is how it offers women the opportunity to hear an outsider’s perspective on problem-solving because sometimes we just need somebody to tell us what to do because they know best. *Important: We recorded this interview earlier this year before lockdown and Boycott Facebook, so if you love what you hear and you want to learn more about frank’s fall and winter programs, make sure you visit frank-talk.com. Let’s talk to Dayna.