Guest host Jacqui Dietrich is joined by Allen Woods, Executive Director and Co-founder of MORTAR, a nonprofit organization founded in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 2014. Woods describes the five predominant barriers to entrepreneurship in their community and walks through MORTAR's neighborhood-driven approach to enabling historically marginalized entrepreneurs to access the resources needed to start and run successful businesses. The two explore MORTAR's expansion to other cities and the support system that has made entrepreneurs in the program so successful.

Learn more about Allen and MORTAR's work: https://wearemortar.com

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