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Cuban Entrepreneurs 2018 Fabulous Fempreneurship Mastermind — On our annual visit and business mastermind to Cuba in 2018, I was interested to see if anything had changed for Cuban women entrepreneurs. Cuban Women Entrepreneurs in 2018 As expected, life was continuing as normal. Not much has changed in a year. The talks with the U.S. have ground […]

Cuban Women Entrepreneurs 2018 – Has Anything Changed?

14 Dec, 2018 in Inspiration / Inspiring stories of women entrepreneurs / Leadership / Small Business tagged advice for women entrepreneurs / entrepreneurship / female entrepreneurs / inspiration for women entrepreneurs / women entrepreneurs in Cuba by Elaine Slatter

Women Entrepreneurs in Cuba 2017

11 Dec, 2017 in Inspiration / Small Business / Women Entrepreneurs / Women Entrepreneurship tagged advice for women entrepreneurs / Cuban women entrepreneurs / inspiration for women entrepreneurs / women entrepreneurs / women entrepreneurs in Cuba by Elaine Slatter

Leadership Tips for Women Entrepreneurs

12 May, 2017 in Inspiration / Inspiring stories of women entrepreneurs / Leadership / Small Business tagged advice for women entrepreneurs / female entrepreneurs / inspiration / inspirational thoughts. women entrepreneurs / women entrepreneurs / womenentrepreneurs by Elaine Slatter

7 Tips To Avoid Burnout for Women Entrepreneurs

8 May, 2017 in Inspiration / Leadership / Small Business / Strategy Tips tagged advice for women / advice for women entrepreneurs / Avoiding burnout / female entrepreneurs / how can I avoid burnout / how do I avoid burnout? / I am a solopreneur / tips to avoid entrepreneur burnout / women entrepreneurs / womenentrepreneurs by Elaine Slatter

Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM): Education for the Future As we have an increasingly complex world, science, technology, engineering, and math play more important roles than ever before. Whether it is the use of robotics in manufacturing, artificial intelligence (AI) in productivity or the science protecting our planet […]

Explore Science with Shwetal Shah, A STEM Educator

20 Jan, 2017 in Inspiration / Inspiring stories of women entrepreneurs / Leadership / Small Business / Social Media / Strategy Tips / Women Entrepreneurs / Women Entrepreneurship tagged #femaleentrepreneurs / advice for women / advice for women entrepreneurs / Shwetal Shah / STEM education / womenentrepreneurs by Elaine Slatter

Can You Exit Your Business and Extract the Business Value? Have you founded your own family business, nurtured it from a startup to a successful business for the last 25/30 years? Now as you approach retirement, you want to extract the value, rather than just shut it down and walk […]

Time to Exit Your Business? Case Studies of 3 Women ...

18 Jan, 2017 in Inspiration / Leadership / Small Business / Strategy Tips / Women Entrepreneurs / Women Entrepreneurship tagged business exit strategies / entrepreneurship / women entrepreneurs exit strategies / womenentrepreneurs by Elaine Slatter

Sustainable Fashion “We do not need new clothes, we need a new look.” So, says the landing page on the Roupa Livra website. Roupa Livra is all about sustainable fashion and eco-fashion. The sustainable and eco fashion industry has been growing from strength to strength as the alternative to mainstream fashion. It aims to reduce the carbon footprint and limit the environmental impact created by producing fashion products. It is consciously driving and promoting social responsibility. Sustainable fashion brands are inclusive but not limited to […]

The Sustainable Fashion Movement, How to Use Fabric to Impact ...

15 Jan, 2017 in Inspiration / Inspiring stories of women entrepreneurs / Leadership / Small Business / Social Media / Strategy Tips / Success / Women Entrepreneurs / Women Entrepreneurship tagged Brasil sustainable eco fashion / Mariana Pellicciari / Roupa Livre / sustainable fashion by Elaine Slatter

Focusing on women entrepreneurs in Cuba In November 2016 we held our Fabulous Fempreneurship mastermind at the beautiful, French owned Pullman Resort in Cayo Coco, Cuba. This hotel is in its second year of operation. Every year we are anxious to talk to women entrepreneurs in Cuba to see if […]

What will 2017 be like for women entrepreneurs in Cuba?

19 Dec, 2016 in Inspiration / Inspiring stories of women entrepreneurs / Leadership / Small Business / Strategy Tips tagged entrepreneurism in Cuba / female entrepreneurs in Cuba / women entrepreneurs / women entrepreneurs in Cuba by Elaine Slatter

Joni Lien, The SupperWorks Franchisor and Founder Making the leap from the world of social work to an entrepreneurial life and becoming a franchisor is a dramatic change. Now with 10 franchised stores and expanding, Joni Lien, SupperWorks Franchisor, shares her journey with us. When her husband passed it was […]

A Leap from Social Work to SupperWorks Franchisor

16 Dec, 2016 in Inspiration / Inspiring stories of women entrepreneurs / Leadership / Small Business / Strategy Tips / Success / Women Entrepreneurs / Women Entrepreneurship tagged award winning female entrepreneur Joni Lien / female entrepreneur / female entrepreneurs / food franchise opportunities in Canada / interview with SupperWorks founder Joni Lien / Joni Lien / Supperworks founder Joni Lien / SupperWorks Franchisor by Elaine Slatter

From Healthcare to Home Staging For over 30 years, Jill Ackerman had a nursing career, holding executive positions as Vice President Professional Services, Cornwall Hospital and as Manager in the Ontario Government Health Services. In 2012, Jill decided to make a complete switch, from designing healthcare programs to home […]

A Successful Career Transition from Healthcare to Home Staging

12 Dec, 2016 in Inspiration / Inspiring stories of women entrepreneurs / Small Business / Strategy Tips / Success / Women Entrepreneurs / Women Entrepreneurship tagged Home Staging Burlington / home staging Hamilton / Home Staging Oakville / Ontario by Elaine Slatter

Developing Good Habits If you want to see positive changes in different areas of your life, including becoming more productive, you should also start changing your bad habits into positive ones, ie good habits. It’s just logical that positive actions and behaviors would bring positive results. Saying this is easy, […]

7 Steps to Developing Good Habits

5 Nov, 2016 in Blog / Inspiration / Small Business / Social Media / Strategy Tips / Success / Women Entrepreneurs / Women Entrepreneurship tagged blogging / female entrepreneurs / infographics / Social Media Marketing / success by Elaine Slatter

Is There such a thing as ‘Fail Well’? Absolutely! most experts including millionaire and TV celebrity Dragon/Shark Robert Herjavec agree that entrepreneurs will fail many times before they find a product/service that hits the mark and is successful. But Lauren Long knows how to fail well. Lauren Long knows this […]

How to Fail Well and Still Become a Successful Entrepreneur

1 Nov, 2016 in Inspiration / Inspiring stories of women entrepreneurs / Leadership / Small Business / Strategy Tips / Success / Women Entrepreneurs / Women Entrepreneurship tagged entrepreneurship / female entrepreneurs / how to become an entrepreneur / inspiration / Pivoting for success / Starting a business / women entrepreneurs / womenentrepreneurs by Elaine Slatter

Career Transitions will be a way of life for this generation According to Professor Dr. Eva Klein, during her keynote address at the McMaster DeGroote School of Business, Breakfast Series in May 2016, we are going to have at least 5 complete career transitions in our lifetime. Some of these careers […]

Confidence Is A Key Factor In Making Career Transitions

25 Oct, 2016 in Inspiration / Inspiring stories of women entrepreneurs / Leadership / Small Business / Social Media / Strategy Tips / Success / Women Entrepreneurs / Women Entrepreneurship tagged advice for women / advice for women entrepreneurs / confidence / entrepreneurship / female entrepreneurs / inspiration / inspirational thoughts. women entrepreneurs / leadership / Pivoting for success / startup strategies / women entrepreneurs / womenentrepreneurs by Elaine Slatter

The Marci’s Bakery Story Marci’s Bakery in Hamilton, Ontario is the dream of Marci Prebianca-Upson. She launched her wholesale gluten free bakery business in 2012 after some life changing events. Marci has so much experience in the food/restaurant business. From front end manager of a restaurant, owning a vegan/healthy bakery […]

Marci’s Bakery, Feeding You Well

18 Oct, 2016 in Inspiring stories of women entrepreneurs / Leadership / Small Business / Strategy Tips / Success / Women Entrepreneurs / Women Entrepreneurship tagged advice for women / advice for women entrepreneurs / female entrepreneurs / how to become an entrepreneur / marci's bakery hamilton / small business / startup strategies / women entrepreneurs / womenentrepreneurs by Elaine Slatter

The Social Impact of Making a World of Difference Making a world of difference and having a social impact is important to these women entrepreneurs. Each in their own way has found a way to combine entrepreneurism with giving back to some of the most impoverished communities on the African […]

Highlighting 3 women entrepreneurs making a world of difference

12 Sep, 2016 in Inspiration / Inspiring stories of women entrepreneurs / Leadership / Small Business tagged entrepreneurship / women entrepreneurs / women entrepreneurs with a social impact / womenentrepreneurs by Elaine Slatter

Empower – Support – Mentor – inspiring women entrepreneurs worldwide