Leslie Schrader | She’s Using Her Executive Marketing Expertise to Empower Women Entrepreneurs

We’re celebrating our Queen and phenomenal Growth Ally in Residence, Leslie Schrader, Chief Marketing Officer at Children’s National Hospital foundation.

🥳 What are we celebrating:  

Leslie is a phenomenal Growth Ally who continuously pours into our community by making herself and network accessible to our tribe. She has been an amazing source of information and knowledge for our tribe and takes great measures to educate and empower.

✊ How she’s scaling impact as a Get Sh!t Done Growth Ally:

Leslie uses her marketing experience and HR skillsets to help our tribe of founders navigate how they can grow their businesses through acquisition and people.

✊ How You Can Support:

Tell Leslie How Amazing she is 💛

About Leslie:

With over 25 years of experience in the industry, Leslie is a communications guru. She offers an insightful and experienced perspective on storytelling to help organizations engage with new audiences in a meaningful and effective way.

Renee Manzari | She LIVE-Streamed Her Products on Amazon While Creating Sustainable Products for the Circular Economy

We’re celebrating phenomenal social entrepreneur Renee Manzari, founder of Livity Yoga

About Renee Manzari:

Renee is a former boss in banking and now a boss in social entrepreneurship. She’s passionate about positively altering the future of this planet and exploring circular economy solutions. As an avid yoga enthusiast, Renee created Livity to not only help people achieve health and wellness but to also make a positive impact on the environment. She was born in Jamaica, where “environmentalism” isn’t a choice; it’s the natural way of life.

She used to swim in turquoise waters and snorkel among vibrant reefs. But over the years, she watched in horror as coral bleached, and fish disappeared. I began to find more plastic tangled in the reefs. Her heart, her soul, and island home was in danger. Climate change was clear back then – and it’s worse today.

Livity started from my sense of climate urgency. Sustainability was her first goal. She sourced green materials, designed long-lasting gear, and used biodegradable packaging. But soon learned "sustainability" isn't enough. It's a meaningless term. We need radical solutions to face the climate crisis, not hype words. So she started digging deeper

🥳 What We Are Celebrating:

Renee’s movement was recently live-streamed on Amazon Prime and she’s venturing into wholesale deals.

✊ How she’s scaling impact:  

Livity is using the art of yoga to heal the planet. We act as one with the Earth by reclaiming waste material, developing circular products, sourcing responsible goods, and designing durable gear made to last. More than sustainable, Livity sets the yoga industry’s highest standards for environmental stewardship and closed-loop production.

She Renee’s impact in action here guiding a Mindfulness Session with the Black Girl Magic Summit

🤗 How to Support Her in Scaling Impact:

If you are connected to retailers looking for more wellness options AND black-owned, women-owned brands, connect with Renee Manzari!

About Livity Yoga:

A yoga brand using sustainable materials while giving back to the planet with each purchase Learn more

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Kristen Carbone | She Won Pitch Competitions While Helping Women Feel Comfortable Post-Mastectomy

We’re celebrating Kristen Carbone, founder of Brilliantly. She’s a true warrior, champion for women and not forgetting a phenomenal entrepreneur.

🥳 What are we celebrating:

Kristen recently celebrated one year of Brilliantly Warm! She was also a winner at the Dream Ventures SPV Summit pitching competition furthering her cause to help even more women battling challenges that come with a mastectomy.

✊ How she’s scaling impact:

After her own experience with a mastectomy, Kristen endeavored to not only create revolutionary products but also provide a community where women could get the support and resources they would need in their journey.

🤗 How to Support Her in Scaling Impact:

Learn more about what they do, their products and the resources they provide here: https://lnkd.in/gZbTCDcD. Kristen and Brilliantly are also currently looking for angel investors.

👑About Kristen Carbone:

Kristen Carbone is the Founder & CEO of Brilliantly, a fem tech company started to help women suffering with struggling with chronic coldness after getting a preventative mastectomy.  Her background in the arts includes 10 years working in the curatorial departments of museums throughout New York and New England, including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Tang Museum at Skidmore College, and the Museum at the Rhode Island School of Design.

In 2011, she founded an artists' advocacy business, and for two years served as the executive director of a public art and education collective specializing in corporate education. And, before founding Brilliantly, acted as the project manager for two business consulting companies.

She is devoted to making people's lives more fulfilling, interesting, and fun.

About Brilliantly

Brilliantly Warm was developed with medical device engineers to create the most innovative and effective warming product for women. Studies show that feeling physically comfortable improves cognition, focus, and enhances our overall sense of wellbeing. Warming you right at your core, Brilliantly Warm gives you an allover warming sensation and never feels “hot” on your skin. It’s extremely effective, and best of all, it’s safe! Learn more

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Ruth-Joy Connell | She Helps Entrepreneurs Secure Corporate Contracts

We’re celebrating Ruth-Joy Connell founder of RJC Consulting

🥳 What are we celebrating:

Ruth is the founder of RJC Consulting Global where she helps service-based experts, price, pitch, and close corporate contracts using her proprietary ⚙️ Systems That Scale™️ framework.

✊ How she’s scaling impact:

Ruth-Joy uses her corporate experience as an international sales trainer, she builds a bridge connecting our founders to suitable corporations. Her sales-focused framework, Systems That Scale™️, help our founders close deals and secure the bag.💰 She helps or founders align their marketing, sales, and services so they generate more revenue. She helps our founders create a legacy that leaves a mark on their communities

🤗 How to Support Her in Scaling Impact:

Schedule a call with RJC Consulting here

About RUTH-JOY:

Ruth-Joy helps BIPOC entrepreneurs and Allies secure corporate contracts.

About RJC CONSULTING:

They help you position your business for profitable B2B success through the optimization of your sales and service processes. They are on a mission to position corporate consultants and their firms for long-term, sustainable, and profitable growth. They accomplish this through Revenue Operations: aligning and optimizing pricing, marketing, sales and service, equipping them with the training and frameworks needed to create consistent and predictable financial growth!

ABOUT GET SH!T DONE

Where Women Entrepreneurs Grow Game-Changing Businesses that Disrupt Systems of Survival. Join our community where women grow game-changing businesses that disrupt systems of survival. Through Collaboration, Curated Connections, and Transformative Traction Training you’ll be empowered to scale your vision of impact alongside people who have done it and are doing it with you.

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Kai Nortey | She Sells Out of 80% of Products While Building Regenerative Food Systems with Vegan Ice Cream

We’re celebrating Kai Nortey, founder of kube ice cream.

✊ How she’s scaling impact:

At kubé, they play a pivotal role in building regenerative economies that focus on food justice and the triple bottom line of economics, equity, and ecology.

Kai believes that there must be a paradigm shift away from supporting big, broken food companies that consciously use synthetic chemical bleaching preservatives like, Sodium Metabisulfite, GMO ingredients, and the new GMO-yeast-Precision-Fermentation, which is synthetic biology. Synthetic biology is a genetic engineering process to make GMO ice cream from cow proteins and it is Frankenstein food. This is not food justice.

Kai's passion for creating inclusive, healthy food systems and restorative economics became more clear in 2003, when she worked in the juvenile justice system and rehabilitative/ diversion programs for teenage girls in trouble with the law. Kai worked with teenaged girls on probation and taught workshops on personal and social transformation, health, and staying creative to restore our dignity. She connected young women to rehabilitative opportunities such as counseling, and workforce development programs. She loved her positive engagement with youth, who were bold, critical thinkers who desired support and resources from society and community. Kai deeply respected the youth she worked with and wanted to elevate them with restorative economic and health models.

Kai's passion for creating inclusive, healthy food systems and restorative economics became more clear in 2003, when she worked in the juvenile justice system and rehabilitative/ diversion programs for teenage girls in trouble with the law. Kai worked with teenaged girls on probation and taught workshops on personal and social transformation, health, and staying creative to restore our dignity. She connected young women to rehabilitative opportunities such as counseling, and workforce development programs. She loved her positive engagement with youth, who were bold, critical thinkers who desired support and resources from society and community. Kai deeply respected the youth she worked with and wanted to elevate them with restorative economic and health models.

🤗 How to Support Her in Scaling Impact:

Order your kubé today here: https://lnkd.in/gtF46sHf

If you're a values-aligned investor, get in touch with Kai Nortey!

About KAI:

Kai Nortey, is the CEO/ Co-Founder of kubé. kubé is a Black woman-owned, artisanal, vegan, full-fat coconut ice cream womanfacturer and social enterprise in Oakland, California. Kai Nortey is a visionary and socially conscious, Black woman, business leader who is tenaciously leading inclusive and regenerative food systems, in the Oakland-Bay Area of California.

As an ice cream enthusiast, Kai was determined to create the most luxurious, vibrant, and healthy, full-fat coconut ice cream without chemicals. Kai and Nee-Nueh wanted to enjoy the most clean, vibrant, and luxurious, full-fat coconut plant-based ice cream that they couldn’t find anywhere. Since 2014, Kai has spent the last 8-years crafting out the most inspiring, delicious, full-fat coconut ice cream without synthetic chemicals. 

Kai wanted to eliminate these harmful bleaching chemical preservatives out of mass produced coconut milk and cream because it does not reflect a clean, food justice model. As a result, kubé is both the manifestation and culmination of Kai's values and conscious leadership for restorative and regenerative food systems that heal and inspire.

Kai Nortey holds a Master of Science in Integrated Marketing Communications and PR from Golden Gate University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, with a minor in Biology from Mills College, in Oakland. Kai comes from an interdisciplinary professional background, in the fields of biology, biotech cancer cellular research, marketing communications and PR, community activism against mass-incarceration, juvenile justice policy, and restorative juvenile justice programs for youth.

Kai realized that creating a vegan ice cream womanfacturing, social enterprise that addressed lactose intolerance, healthy regenerative food systems, restorative economics, and racial & gender equity, were all the ingredients needed to build healthier communities and economies.  

In 2006, Kai later went to law school with the intent to create rehabilitative and nutritional systems within the juvenile justice system, and left law school because it was not going to fulfill that vision. Instead, Kai completed her Master of Science in Integrated Marketing Communications and PR in 2011. During this time Kai was asking herself how do we restore our joy, health, livelihood, and dignity when dealing with systems of abuse like, mass-incarceration, police brutality, GMO foods, fast-food restaurants, factory animal farms, and systemic racism and sexism? Kai says, "I stopped looking for the light and truth outside of myself, and listened to the light and solutions within myself, and created kubé."  

Kai realized the importance and joy of building regenerative food systems that become restorative economic models, which intrinsically restore life, health, joy, dignity, and equity back to people, animals, and the soil. 

ABOUT KUBE

kubé started product R&D from 2014-2017. In 2016, we legally formed our business as Creamy Coconuts, LLC DBA: kubé. Then, we trademarked kubé, and in 2021 we did a legal entity conversion from Creamy Coconuts, LLC to kubé, PBC. A Public Benefit Corporation is a legal entity that has both a social and environmental impact to the public. A Public Benefit Corporation is a legal corporation for purpose-driven entrepreneurs. It means we have a legal and social obligation to carry out our social and environmental values and business practices, as opposed to solely making profit for the business and shareholders. Learn More.

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Veronica Yanhs | She Helps You Scale Startup Business Operations

At Get Sh!t Done, we celebrate the badass women who are not afraid to push boundaries.💪

👑 Veronica Yanhs Yahns, Fractional COO and Founder at Business Laid Bare constantly reminds us to remain who we are even as we create our empires.From working with Apple and Nike, to finally launching her own business, she has had a vast career helping businesses unkink their processes.

As Founder, she helps organizations create and implement business operations (systems, workflows, and processes) that truly support small businesses to grow. Business Laid Bare uses their Orgasmic Operations method to help 6 & 7 figure businesses create well-lubricated operations to make their next level of business insanely pleasurable, sustainable, and full of ease.

Their patented processes have helped companies increase their revenue by 88% and most importantly, helped CEOs and Founders find more time to do what they love most.

🥳 What are we celebrating:

Apart from the amazing work that she does with Business Laid Bare, she is unapologetically herself. Her approach to management and operations is human-centered - which means she puts people first.

✊ How she’s scaling impact:

She helps founder get support and momentum in their business to thrive with systems and processes that make up the strong foundation to keep your business running autonomously.

🤗 How to Support Her in Scaling Impact:

If you’re a founder, startup or small business that is looking to scale your startup business operations, connect with their team here

About VERONICA YANHS:

Veronica Yanhs lives her life unapologetically laid bare. From the spreadsheets to the bedsheets, she’s completely open about who she is: CEO, kinky, feminist, foodie, and a lover of puns. Since 2012, following a career in Product Design + Operations, she’s helped CEOs unkink their businesses. Using her Orgasmic Operations™ method, she helps CEOs create well-lubricated and orgasmic operations to make their next level of business insanely pleasurable, productive, and ultimately profitable. On the side, she teaches kink and BDSM to beginners in a fun and easy way.

About BUSINESS LAID BARE:

Business Laid Bare is an operations consultancy helping underrepresented growth-stage startup Founders to create the operational infrastructure, systems, and processes that make scaling and managing growth for everyone involved filled with immense pleasure and ease. We believe that when Underrepresented-Led startups make a lot of money, they’ll use those profits to do good in the world. That’s why we use our Orgasmic Operations® Method to support these Visionary Startup Founders, so that when the reality of 5x, 10x, or 50x’ing their venture is met with genuine excitement rather than “secretly crying on the inside.”

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Megan Roudebush | She Launched an App Helping You Become a Better Networker

We’re celebrating Megan Roudebush, founder of keepwith.

🥳 What are we celebrating:

keepwith recently launched their Beta app with their v.2 scheduled to release in the summer! This app will make it easier for people globally to build stronger, more meaningful and more authentic relationships. Megan and keepwith also partnered with the Girls Scouts of The US to help members of their community network better and learn how to form more meaningful connections.

✊ How she’s scaling impact:

keepwith is now going beyond helping companies and organizations network better, they are now scaling and expanding their services to help the world network better at a time when human isolation is at its peak.

🤗 How to Support Her in Scaling Impact:

Sign up today to be part of her BETA group HERE.

If you're a values-aligned investor, get in touch with Megan at megan@keepwith.com

About Megan:

Megan Burke Roudebush is the founder of keepwith®, a networking platform (www.keepwith.com) with an app expected in Spring 2022. Megan understands the importance of deliberately choosing one’s key advisors and building and maintaining strong and authentic, reciprocal relationships. Megan has written articles on networking topics for publications including Fast Company, Thrive, TLNT and Law360.com. A few little known facts about Megan: she has taught poetry writing classes in juvenile detention centers, interviewed many notable individuals as a reporter and editor of the Children’s Express News Service while growing up (including Janet Reno, Amy Tan, Bella Abzug and Chuck Norris); in college she produced a multi-media documentary about the impact of cleft lip and palate surgery on patients in China for Operation Smile and in law school, she coached an ice hockey team comprised of young people with special needs.

About keepwith:

A SaaS platform teaching people how to network with technology and education that empowers people to form relationships that matter. Learn More.

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