Advice on Negotiating Flexible Hours With Your Boss By Karren Brady Here she gives a reader advice on how to negotiate a more flexible contract with management. Q) I’m a mental health support worker and have been accepted to do my mental health nurse training in September, which I’m thrilled about. However, to pay the bills while I train, I…
How Suneera Madhani Found A Smarter Way To Process Payments By Yola Robert Suneera Madhani’s fintech company, Stax, has processed over $23 billion in payments for 22,000 businesses. With a growth rate of more than 500% year over year, Stax has tripled its valuation leading the company into unicorn territory. But Madhani’s beginnings with Stax weren’t always this gleaming. The first-generation…
Being Nimble & Strategic Helped Her Overcome Business Obstacles By Geri Stengel In October 2017, Ginger Bowman purchased a commercial printing business. In the five years since, she has overcome three significant challenges by being flexible and pivoting. High customer concentration. An industry that was set in its ways. The pandemic. Some in the industry thought Bowman would fail. But,…
Jade Watson Has Built SickBird Into A Powerhouse Production Company By MeiMei Fox Digitally-native production company SickBird Productions partners with brands, studios and talent to launch original content. Their work includes three Facebook Watch Originals for The Shade Room — The Shade Brunch, Thick House and Love Locked — ten Snapchat Discover series, three of which are SickBird Originals, and branded content for TikTok including Noah…
Women Urged to Pursue Careers in Agriculture Women in Ghana have been charged to take up careers in the agricultural sector to help boost their economic gains and also help make the sector more successful. By Adam Abdul-Fatawu Wunizoya Madam Bennice Amponsah, the Women in Agriculture Development Officer (WIAD Officer) for Tamale Metropolis, said there were many opportunities for women…
What To Do When Men Talk Over You At Meetings In neuroscience, we often hear the term: “what fires together, wire together,” so let’s create a network of women to rewire a new cultural norm. By Kate Pn This is a topic I am extremely passionate about and can relate to. Unfortunately, we live in a culture where “The Boys’…
Bobbi Brown Talks Career, Parenting and Taking Chances By Emily Washcovick Bobbi Brown built her makeup empire—for the first time—in the nineties, at a time when shades often had to be heavily mixed to match skin tones and bigger looks were favored over subtle. Her namesake brand, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, was acquired by Estée Lauder in 1995, but Bobbi stayed…
Tracee Ellis Ross on Entrepreneurship & Supporting Black Businesses By Vanessa Etienne Tracee Ellis Ross has always dreamed of being an entrepreneur. And in 2019 with the launch of her haircare line Pattern Beauty — a curly girl-friendly collection of shampoos, conditioners, gels, creams, tools and more — the Black-ish star, 49, made that dream a reality. “I wanted to have a business and I…
Tory Burch Encourages Women To ‘Embrace Ambition’ By Amy Shoenthal The Tory Burch Foundation hosted its annual Embrace Ambition Summit yesterday in New York City. The theme of this year’s Summit was “Confronting Stereotypes and Creating New Norms,” with the goal of fostering discussions about the state of women and work, mental health, inequities exacerbated by COVID, and the increasing role of social activism.…
How This Entrepreneur Started Managing Her Money By Melissa Houston When Julie Solomon moved to Los Angeles, a city where she had no ties, she felt lonely. She turned to spending money to fill the loneliness, filling that emotional void that loneliness caused. When her husband found out that she had been hiding $30,000 in credit card debt, Solomon had to deal…
