TrailBlazers Impact

Women are half the population and own 40% of the country’s businesses but only 3% of business investment goes to women. Learn more about investing in women-owned businesses from the expert! Silvia Mah’s passion for empowering investment in women-owned businesses spans accelerators, incubators, a venture group, a podcast show called She Invests! and a new book entitled “Power of Purpose: Servant Leadership in the Startup World.” She’s on the new app Clubhouse which is invite-only right now.

Key Takeaways:

• How to pivot and turn adversity into a viable business opportunity
• How to neutralize the bias in a room to articulate your product-market fit to get investors excited about you
• How to get the right support when looking for investors or resources as a woman founder
• The power in supporting and advocating for each other as women to move forward in business
• How to have an abundant mindset by exercising servant leadership and shouldering each other
• Think of the value you bring the customer instead of trying to figure things out during the pandemic

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Monica Smiley is the editor and publisher of Enterprising Women magazine- a print and digital magazine that reaches more than a million readers in the United States and around the globe. In this episode, Monica shares her entrepreneurial journey of building a successful women’s magazine from zero to success. She talks about the Enterprise Women Award event over the years and how they transitioned during the pandemic.

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Mei Xu tells us how to take advantage of challenging times and turn them into opportunities to either build or grow your business. Also learn why you should not be afraid of debt and should instead smartly leverage it to scale your business. And find out what's she's doing now to support women - she calls it Yes, You May. And now can SHOP with women-owned businesses and black women-owned businesses!  

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Kitty Chaney-Reed, is the recipient of the most powerful and influential woman award and the Woman of the Year award. Kitty gives us the blueprint for becoming a successful executive in a very large company and maintaining that role to progress upwards. Find out how what responsibilities are really involved in a high-level executive position and how to manage multiple priorities. Her attitude about both the customer and her staff are part of what qualifies her as an outstanding leader. Her mantra is “put people first.” She talks about how to meet the challenge of being underestimated.  Kitty’s leadership goes beyond the job which is partly the key to her success. She personifies the word TrailBlazer through her daily actions and demonstrates why she won the most powerful and influential woman award. You will find this podcast fascinating and a great “how to” in exceeding expectations in a corporate environment.

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Trailblazing is ageless. Meet Julia Toronczak, a young businesswoman who has a twin brother with Downs Syndrome. During her freshman year, she was appalled at how many students would ask her what Down syndrome was. It made her realize that there was not enough advocacy being done in the disability space. Without holding any resentment, she knew that something else needed to be done. And so she created her blog, Beyond the Waves, to educate and inspire others. Her mission is to share the lessons she has learned in unconditional love through growing up with Michael, to empower the world to heal and achieve what makes their heart sing.

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Meet Shawn McClondon, a guy who lives his passions. He is passsionate about a better understanding and communication among races and ethnicies, providing a platform for black women entrepreneurs, and helping youth understand and live their own passions. Find out how he is creating understanding between a predominantly-white surburb and a predominantly-black area of a central city through the Sisters Cities project he created and hopes will expand nation-wide. Join in to his black women entrepreneurs programs on Zoom. And see how he has helped youth find their passion and build careers.

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The founders of Virtual Kare, Jay Berger and Sumedha Kukreja, provide rehabilitation, prevention and wellness programs for all ages but in an entirely different way. Their programs focus on a variety of areas including pain management, caregiver training, cardiac rehabilitation, stroke recovery, pulmonary rehabilitation, and a variety of other areas, all focused on getting care from the comfort of your home.  See how they have merged wellness and technology!

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Meet Tai Christensen. Tai learned early in life from her great-grandmother that the way to build wealth was through homeownership. So what are the barriers, especially if you are an African-American family? Tai explains why the racial gap in homeownership must be closed and helps black families daily to close that gap.

Top Takeaways:

• How homeownership and generational wealth is uncommon in the black community
• How not to allow challenges along the way to stop you from scaling higher in your career
• The importance of having a support system that helps motivate you when things get hard in your career
• How redlining can be addressed at the local, state, and federal levels to create opportunities for minorities to own homes
• The power of kindness and empathy that will help unify people in the world more

Listen in to learn the importance of homeownership for minority communities to be able to build generational wealth.

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Many of us were floundering in March 2019 when we had to work from home.  COVID was raging outside our door - we had to stay in to work unless we were classified as an essential worker. Clare Price wrote and uploaded a free e-book on her website called Making Remote Work that layed out tips, tools, advice, and a plan on how to make remote work. It was and is one of the best books available! And it was just in time!

Meet Clare Price, the President, and CEO of Octain Growth Systems, a digital transformation strategist, digital marketing executive, and author. Octain is a global strategic planning consultancy that works with entrepreneurs and executives to close the gap between planning and doing so that revenue and profitability goals are achieved.

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Denise Patterson McKenney is a success story in how to negotiate a win/win which is really how to WIN! Have you ever wanted to win an argument so bad you could practically taste it? Have you ever laid awake at night thinking of what you should have said? Have you ever “won” and regretted it? Have you ever had to discuss a negative performance with an employee and wished you knew how to even begin the conversation? Denise tells us how to prepare for the conflict situation – and the big one – how to exchange criticism for feedback. Words can hurt or heal – she even helps us give bad news.

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