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Resources For LGBTQ-Owned Businesses
According to the The National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC), Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning (LGBTQ) owned businesses are a thriving force in this country, forming more than 1.4 million businesses operating today. In the past ten years or so, everything from nonprofits to digital hubs have developed to serve this community from almost every possible ...
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Resources For Latina-Owned Businesses
It was Nely Galán’s own Adelante Movement (“Move it forward!” in Spanish)—presented by Coca-Cola and kicked off in 2012 to train and empower Latinas to become entrepreneurs—that sparked the idea to write SELF MADE. The entrepreneurial spirit lives strong in Latino culture, but did you know Latinas make up almost half of all Latino-owned businesses? According to the
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Resources For East Asian Women-Owned Businesses
Asian American women are dominating on every level. Per the 2018 American Express State of Women-Owned Businesses report, today, more than 1 million Asian-American women-owned firms are generating more than $202 million in revenue. East Asian women have headed up Fortune 500 companies and innovated new products. And  Asian-American owned businesses are also most likely to staff up, providing ...
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Resources For African American Women-Owned Businesses
Starting your own business may seem insanely intimidating for anyone, but here at SELF MADE, we want you to know there is absolutely nothing holding you back. There are abundant African American women business resources to tap into women-led businesses and the billions of dollars they contribute to the economy.  As an African American woman, you will be among great ...
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Resources For Women-Owned Businesses
How to Find Funding, Training, and Support for Your Startup Business If you’re a hard-working woman who’s thought about setting up your own shop, you’ve probably heard a ton of terrifying stats. It seems like everyone has a “good reason” why you shouldn’t follow your dream. Here at SELF MADE, we call nonsense. Because there are a ton of stats that ...
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Francesca Kennedy Helps the Guatemalan Water Crisis Through her Sandals
Meet Francesca Kennedy, the founder of Ix Style, a socially conscious fashion company that donates 15% of their profits to provide clean drinking water to children in Guatemala where her family is originally from. As their website explains, “Ix” is the Mayan word for water, one of the most essential, magical, and transformative substances in the world. Many have called Guatemala’s Lake Atitlan ...
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9 Ways to Right the Wrongs of Your Life
There’s no getting around the reality that life–which we know is full of unpredictability and endless minutiae–can often feel overwhelming, stressful and downright hard. Sometimes it seems like all we do is move from problem to problem, burning up our mental bandwidth to troubleshoot all the different aspects of our individual worlds, a constant putting out of fires that leaves very ...
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Becoming Self Made is Better Than a Diet
Raise your hand if you’ve ever been guilty of putting your diet off until Monday…until the holidays are over, until after your vacation, until you stop breastfeeding, until after your birthday party, until that pint of artisanal cookie dough ice cream is long gone from your fridge, and on and on the list can go. The problem with this paradigm, ...
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How to Use Your Discrimination Experience to Ignite a Brand
No matter how advanced we consider ourselves as a society, or how much the chatter of tolerance and equality seems to fill the pages of our news feeds, let’s be honest: discrimination is still a thing. It’s a thing for women—and it’s especially a thing for multicultural women. The double whammy of being both a woman and a cultural minority ...
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7 Ways to Create Your Side Hustle
When it comes to becoming SELF MADE, we talk a lot about flexing your entrepreneurial muscle. But that said, we also like to keep it real—which means we’re clear on the fact that everyone isn’t always at a point in their lives where they can drop everything and launch a business. So while we wholeheartedly advocate a message of getting ...
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