Like many women this past year, I had to walk away from my career during the Covid-19 lockdowns to be home with my children when schools and childcare centers closed. When Covid-19 hit, I was a partner in my family’s accounting firm, and it was tax season here in Canada. Now, not only was I dealing with the crazy tax season hours, I was transitioning my team to … [Read more...]
Financial Stability and Entrepreneurship: “How Do You Pay Your Rent?”
If you ask any woman who has a “million-dollar business idea” why they haven’t started said business, the answer most likely has something to do with the financial risk. The worry is not necessarily that the business won’t be successful but more so the fear of leaving a steady-income job to become the entrepreneur she dreams of being. It can be terrifying to not have that … [Read more...]
5 Unconventional Ways To Grow Your Consulting Business
When someone says they're a consultant, they probably fall into one of two boxes. They're either leveraged and running an online, scalable component to their business, or they're struggling to find 1:1 clients (hey — it's hard out there). Like most industries, there's a lot of noise in the consulting space. It can be hard to stand out and set yourself apart from your … [Read more...]
Top Considerations for Launching Your First Business
A silver lining of lockdown in the UK has certainly been the increase in people, especially women, taking the courageous step of launching their own online businesses. Despite the unprecedented times, alongside a struggling economy due to ‘Brexit’ and the impact of the pandemic, many people are using the extra time at home to launch businesses they perhaps haven’t had time … [Read more...]
3 Most Important Things to Do When You Leave Corporate to Start Your Business
In January of 2020, I made the decision to leave a lucrative job in a technology company to start my own business. The problem was, I didn’t know exactly what kind of business I wanted to start. I had not built a side hustle or prepared for a seamless transition. All I knew is that I had a dream to create, express, and share in a way that I couldn’t when I was aligned to one … [Read more...]
Starting Your Own Business – What is the Hold Up?
“Women make me the most money.” This is the abbreviated headline from a March 22, 2018 CNBC article featuring an interview with millionaire investor and Shark Tank celebrity, Kevin O’Leary. I follow the Shark Tank show in moderate gusto, due to my significantly limited TV watching time. It's always an experience to see the "Shark" investors in their world, deciding with … [Read more...]
Top 5 Best and Worst States to Start a Business in 2019
Just as farmers seek fertile land to plant their crops on, entrepreneurs face a similar decision in where they should set up shop. With today’s economic and societal conditions, a business’s geographical setting could be the key to their prosperity or their demise. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, one out of five new businesses fail within a year of opening … [Read more...]
8 Things I Learned Starting a Cannabis Business as a Filipina Woman
Seven years ago, I migrated to Canada and started my career as a plant scientist developing organic fertilizers. With all the stress and pressure from work, I made the decision to turn to cannabis for health reasons, but coming from a religious and conservative Filipino family, I kept this as a secret out of fear of being judged by them. This made me realized how the stigma … [Read more...]
Wife, Mother, Entrepreneur? 6 Tips to Help You Get Started in Business
You have a dream of starting your own business, but, what if you want to start a business but you're a mother? Can you still do it? YES! Yes, you can! According to the National Association of Women Business Owners, there are 11 million women-owned businesses in the U.S. generating trillions of dollars worth of sales. Of those millions of women-owned businesses, 1 in 3 are … [Read more...]
5 Proven Steps to Start a Successful Franchise Business
When you start a franchise business, you’ll benefit immediately from the people and resources available to you that are designed to make sure you're successful. However, there are some essential steps you need to follow if you want to ensure you start a franchise that has a chance for growth and success. Five of those steps are discussed below so you can launch a successful … [Read more...]