Sana Akhand wants New Yorkers to connect with their city and each other. She founded Jet Black Social Club, which beta launched in August 2020, to provide the localized content, events and community she felt missing. With 1,700 clubhouse members to date, she’s preparing the transition to safe in-person events all while being open about …
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Taye Johnson is a tech educator who soothes the curiosity of those who want to learn more about tech, but who do not know where to begin. A proud introvert, her love of data has propelled her on her mission to educate the masses. She’s a data analytics manager, former coding instructor and so, so …
Lizzie Ann Jones sees careers as stories, and hers has included chapters at major tech companies (Amazon, Expedia), running a career strategy firm (Hey Lizzie Ann) and pursuing an MBA to further hone her business fundamentals and empathetic leadership approach. Sharing her story with her network of 36,000 professionals on LinkedIn, Lizzie is blazing trails …
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Whether by choice or chance, career changes are a fact of professional life. A 2019 survey found 49% of full-time workers have experienced a major career change, and 65% say they’re either thinking or have thought about making a dramatic shift. It’s also common to feel alone in the moment, especially when social media shows an artificial …
Part of the joy of building in public is the open dialogue about the journey of building a company, and part of the joy of building an early-stage startup is that this journey includes a good deal of wayfinding. Who is our specific audience? How might we best serve them right now? Who are we …
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When thinking about our paths through life, there’s often a binary thought process: should I do this or that? Maybe you’re wondering whether you should follow your creative aspirations or take the business path, for example. We believe you don’t have to choose just one. Your journey doesn’t have to be “either or” — it …
Women are answering the call of entrepreneurship — in the U.S., women started an average of 1,817 businesses per day in 2019. But what does that look like, really, to a woman aspiring to found a company? Current research like this is helpful in proving that she’s not alone in pursuing this goal, but it doesn’t tell …
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While the work to achieve equity for womxn needs to be tackled from all sides, the risk of fragmentation or even derailing these efforts is very real. As I see it, the current landscape of organizations is a sea of islands. Some of these isles pop up organically like a volcanic isle from clear and …
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If you’ve worked with me, you already know that I consider myself a storyteller first. It’s the foundation of my marketing methodology and rationale for a career in building brands. And OwnTrail is a platform centered on stories — womxn sharing their authentic stories of the milestones and experiences of her life as micro acts …
When things were getting serious in a co-founder way, I knew I needed to have a talk with Rebekah, OwnTrail’s CEO and co-founder. Because if I was going to leave a company I loved to build a new one, the person I was building it with needed to know what kind of business I would build. Part of …
