It was time to get uncomfortable again, and talk about something we definitely aren’t talking enough about: Perimenopause. I mean, this discussion is necessary as it does affect half of the world’s population. Uncomfortable Conversations: The Pause hosted a full house on September 24. We even had a couple male attendees join in the convo. […]
Kim sat down with Drew Beach of BizStream on the Tech Week Live podcast to talk about why AI needs more than excitement and adoption. Kim’s perspective is not simply “anti-AI.” Rather, her point is that organizations need to understand AI’s limitations and use it with intention. The conversation covers human-in-the-loop practices, cognitive offloading, AI-generated […]
19 years as a woman-owned business gives us some serious street cred when it comes to building and leading programs for women-owned businesses. We built what we needed before we aggressively grew and what we needed after the growth. Women own around 40% of U.S. businesses and receive around 10% of the funding they need […]
Muck Rack recently held their annual Muck Rack’s State of PR webinar where PR professionals across the country were surveyed about their thoughts on the current state of PR. Linda Zebian, Vice President of Communications at Muck Rack led the discussion. While Glennah Ivey-Walker, Vice President of Communications at DHL, Kevin Ota, Senior Director of […]
Maybe you’ve noticed we like to push our community, clients, and everyone else out of their comfort zones. We’re kind of a broken record when it comes to finding comfort in the uncomfortable. Our CEO has it tattooed on her arm; we are nothing if not really, really consistent. Our commitment to uncomfortable is why […]
In a world full of generic LinkedIn posts, being authentically yourself is often frowned upon, and feels like a fireable offense. In Episode 134 of Happy Hour Hustle, “Being Yourself at Work,” Kim sat down with Alyshia Hull, a New York-based freelance journalist who writes for Business Insider, Fast Company, USA Today, Inc., and Entrepreneur. […]
Right now we are dealing with one of the most fractured media landscapes that we ever have, with more and more people turning to blogs, social media, or just tuning everything out entirely. At the same time, where you can get trusted information seems to be shrinking, with media conglomerates buying up more and more […]
Michigan has no shortage of resources for people starting a business, but it has almost nothing for women who have already built one. That’s the gap the Women’s Entrepreneurial Fellowship was designed to fill, and after two cohorts, the results are making the case louder than any program description could. What It Is The fellowship […]
Nobody warns you business ownership will ask more of you than you ever planned to give. Knowing when to walk away requires just as much courage as starting in the first place. On a recent episode of Happy Hour Hustle, Kim sat down with Monica Gauthier, former owner of the award-winning Groovy Donuts and a […]
In 2016, Kim wrote a blog about how terrible professionals are at marketing themselves. The gist: if you want to grow, you have to stop hiding and start showing up. Blog, network, speak, post, give, say yes, and put in the time. It was right then and it’s still right now. Kim was talking about […]
