Startup Women Podcast

Your venture needs funding, how you get there can be up to you.

In this episode, Kailey shares NONA Vegan’s fundraising journey while Shelley chimes in with insight and advice for funding your business so you can grow.

“Founders should put themselves first. I want to understand their judgment, I need to see that they are coachable. I love companies who marry a social impact to their business and it isn’t a trade off.”

Guests:

Kailey Gilchrist is the Founder of NONA Vegan, where she brings the comfort and nourishment of an Italian mamma’s home cooking to your meals.

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Entrepreneurship is a rollercoaster, with high highs and low lows. Add in navigating a new country and all of the emotions and learnings that come along with it, that is a whole new rollercoaster.

In this episode, we hear from two women entrepreneurs who left home and came to Canada for a new life. Through their journeys, we quickly learn that newcomer entrepreneurs are the biggest risk takers of all.

Guests: 

Karla Briones is a proud Mexican-Canadian entrepreneur with retail, food and online businesses such as Global Pet Foods and Freshii. She is also the Founder of KB Consulting.

Vanessa Teran is a Digital Product Marketer and Clean-tech entrepreneur. Vanessa is co-founder of AQUA Preserve.

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When entrepreneurs hear Make Lemonade, they likely think of Rachel Kelly – but what is the secret to achieving this and how do you do it?

Reagan Bradley, is a personal brand strategist, or in her words ‘a part time investigator, and part time storyteller’, guiding entrepreneurs to find their authenticity, and curate the right story so they can clearly express who they are, what they do, and how they do it.  

Rachel’s Make Lemonade began as a vibrant co-working space in Toronto, and today it is a boutique floral studio that blossomed out of her desire for change and a pivot she knew she needed to make. In this episode, Reagan draws on Rachel’s experience to illustrate what a brand is, and what is is not, and the tactics that will help you build a strong brand for both you and your business.

Guests:

Rachel Kelly is a motorcycle riding, community builder creating floral art in the heart of Toronto through Make Lemonade.

Resources:

Need flowers? Connect with Rachel at Make Lemonade

Read Careergasm by Sarah Vermunt

Learn from Meg Lewis of Full Time You

Read Storyategy by Matt Davies

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Expressing our emotions at work is not always easy, but what if paying more attention to our behaviours and emotional needs made us better leaders? Leaders who could hire according to their emotional inventory, operate in a more self aware state and create emotionally in tuned and strong teams that support business growth.

Daisy Wright, who supports folks as they transition in their careers and guides them as they enter leadership roles, discusses how emotions show up at work for first time leaders – providing examples we can all learn from. Carolyn Stern, an emotional intelligence instructor and expert, draws on Daisy’s experience to illustrate principles and tactics that will encourage you to feel what you feel, deeply, so you can be an emotionally strong leader.

Guests:

Daisy Wright is the Founder and Chief Encouragement Officer of The Wright Career Solution and an award-winning executive career coach.

Carolyn Stern is the author of The Emotionally Strong Leader and is the President and CEO of EI Experience, an executive leadership development, and emotional intelligence training firm.

Resources:

Check out more resources from Carolyn: https://eiexperience.com/resources/emotional-intelligence-tools/

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Monique Hutson is the Founder and Lead Content Producer of Dom Productions. After running the business for 6 years, her mindset and missions have changed and evolved, they have had to. Cheryl Sutherland is the Founder of PleaseNotes, a business she has built to help women step into their power by building confidence, clarity, and creativity. Together, we talk about the mindsets we must adopt to integrate new things into business, and practise being the person we want to become for ourselves, and for our companies.

Resources: 

Use code StartupWomen for 15% off Cheryl’s courses, journals and products 

Read Happy Money by Ken Honda , a book about making peace with your money

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Is diversity, equity and inclusion a destination or a journey?

Jess Dassanayake is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of BinoBooks. BinoBooks exists to help children understand important topics like the COVID-19 pandemic, gender, body image, and more,  through personalized e-books. With representation at its center, BinoBooks is reinventing reading. Camille Dundas is a Racial Equity Educator at The IDEA Practice, and also is the Co-Founder and Editor in Chief of Canada’s largest Black online magazine ByBlacks.com. Together, we explore the behaviors and systems that must be in place to ensure folks feel represented, respected, appreciated, and safe.

Guests:

Jess Dassanayake is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at BinoBooks.

Camille Dundas is a Racial Equity Educator at The IDEA Practice, and also is the Co-Founder and Editor in Chief of ByBlacks.com

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The post How To: Be Diverse Equitable and Inclusive with Jess Dassanayake and Camille Dundas first appeared on Startup Canada.

Impact isn’t always a number or a dollar amount. Often it is a story.

Jacqueline Sofia and Noora Sharrab are the founders of SITTI Social Enterprise, a venture that exists to improve the lives of refugees and displaced communities. Sagal Dualeh is the Senior Director of the Investment Readiness Program at Canada’s Women Foundation, supporting women and gender-diverse entrepreneurs to fund their impact-first businesses. Together, we discuss how to navigate operating as a social enterprise and how to acquire funding for important missions like this.

Jacqueline Sofia and Noora Sharrab are the founders of SITTI Social Enterprise, a venture that exists to improve the lives of refugees and displaced communities. SITTI received funding from the Investment Readiness Program in 2020.

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Entrepreneurship is a world of opportunity, of brilliance, of hard work. It’s also a world of loneliness, of sacrifice and of deep challenge and we must include these experiences in our conversations about entrepreneurship.

Guests:

Elaisha Jade is the Founder of Your Mindful, an advocate for mental health and a certified meditation coach working to support healthier minds and lives for entrepreneurs and professionals in today’s world of work. 

Komal Minhas is the Founder of Karseva, a company focused on building individual and societal resilience through training programs, media productions and investing. As a coach, Komal works at the intersect of women of colour founders, resiliency and business strategy. 

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Demand for your product or service in a new market is exciting but it doesn’t make the ins and outs of exporting and operating globally any easier.  

BE Alink is the Founder and Inventor of the Alinker, a bright yellow, radically different walking bike and vehicle for change. With support from Tamaïka Jumelle, Regional Director of Quebec for Invest in Canada, we capture the Alinker’s global journey and showcase resources and support organizations that exist to support you to become export-ready. 

Guests:

BE Alink is the Founder and Inventor of the Alinker, a bright yellow, radically different walking bike and vehicle for change.

Tamaïka Jumelle is the Regional Director of Quebec for Invest in Canada, supporting entrepreneurs to find global opportunities to expand their companies.

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It is through growth and scaling that founders continue to give their businesses life and it is how they reach the milestones they have always dreamed of. But these things can’t happen without asking yourself what you truly want and finding a sustainable pace to get there.

Jenn Harper is the Founder and CEO of Cheekbone Beauty Cosmetics Inc, a digitally native direct-to-consumer brand that is helping Indigenous youth see themselves in the beauty industry that has lacked this representation for too long. Mallory Rowan is a serial entrepreneur, content creator and marketing educator who helps entrepreneurs build without burnout. In this episode, we learn what Jenn was focused on in the early days and reveal some of the biggest challenges new founders face in the beginning.

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