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Dasha Derkach

Posted by ngng22

· Thursday, September 22nd, 2022

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Dasha Derkach started her company, Enchanted Scrunch, in 2021 after struggling to find the perfect scrunchies for her outfits. Pairing her passion for fashion with her sewing skills, Dasha was able to grow her business to include over 300 designs (all of which are handmade)! When the 14-year old entrepreneur initially promoted her products on TikTok, she had no idea that she’d cultivate a loyal customer base and nearly 186K followers.

What is most impressive about Dasha’s story is her incredible work ethic. Not only does she manage her own company, she is still a full time student and dancer. While she doesn’t make every scrunchie herself now that the orders flood in so frequently, Dasha is a fair and equitable boss who makes sure to pay her employees (parents) for their hard work.

Dasha has put the ‘fun’ into ‘functional’ with her high quality products, so make sure to check out her shop!

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Categories : Fashion, TikTok, Women Entrepreneurs

Have you seen these shoes?

Posted by Kasianideseg21

· Saturday, September 17th, 2022

· 4 Comments

Have you seen these shoes?

These are BANGS Shoes, created by Hanna Davis. After teaching in China, she noticed the green canvas work shoes worn by locals and was inspired to create change. She came up with the idea to use shoes to help workers provide for their families and build self-sufficiency in other countries. Backed by her family, she was able to invest in an initial shipment. She had a website, business cards, and a model. She paid the manufacturing fee and was delivered no product. As she started over and began to save again, she worked as a bartender. One night she struck up a conversation with an elderly couple who took an interest in her. They began to ask her about herself, and Hanna began to grow uneasy at the targeted questions, not wanting to disclose the specifics. She took down their information and later that week, decided to look him up. The man turned out to be a retired VF executive. VF is a corporation that owns outdoor adventure and apparel companies such as Vans, Supreme, The North Face, Jansport Dickies, and more. Two months later, George and Gayle Darrah become signed investors and business partners.

BANGS Shoes comes from the Chinese character “to help” and the brand prioritizes self-sufficiency. They source their materials ethically and employ the working class to help manufacture their products. They then take 20% of their profits and loan them through a non-profit to help other entrepreneurs get started. They have helped over 5,000 entrepreneurs in over 12 different markets in 79 countries.

Today, BANGS can be found all over Instagram, promoting outdoor adventure, encouragement, and positivity. Their unique shoes are a talking point and a casual staple in closets. On their webpage, they feature which rotates to highlight one of their entrepreneurs. Another section, titled “15 Things You Can Do Right Now” encourages movement and connection. Through its mission statement and engagement with customers, the brand effectively uses its platform to help others and create positive change in local economies.

If you would like to check them out you can find their Instagram Here

Or click to view their Website.

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Categories : Entrepreneurship, Enviornmental, Handmade, Healthy Lifestyle, Investing, Redemptive Entrepreneurship, shoes, Women Entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneur

Oprah Winfrey

Posted by GleasonMK21

· Wednesday, December 8th, 2021

· 2 Comments

Oprah Winfrey is definitely not what you would think of to be a typical entrepreneur. She doesn’t have just one great company or show. Oprah’s first big gig was her being on the local black radio station. The managers of the station were very impressed with her oration and passion on the station, which allowed her to be able to make her way up through the rankings of the radio station and than also allowing her to be able to make it onto bigger radio stations. Her appearance on the radio stations has definitely helped her career explode as a entrepreneur. She has been able to successfully build her own TV show called The Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah is also the chairwoman and CEO of Harpo Productions. Harpo productions is a multi media production company that Oprah has created as a subsidiary of her entertainment and media company Harpo Inc.

Personally, I think that Oprah Winfrey has one of the greatest rags-to-riches stories. She had a very rough upbringing, her mother was an unmarried teen who was a housemaid which as you can imagine did not pay very well at all. She lived in such extreme poverty that she was bullied in school because she wore potato bags for her clothing because that is all that she had access to. Now Opera has a net worth of over $3 billion, she is the richest african-american of the 21st century, and she is arguably one of the many influential women in the world.

Oprah is also a very big influence with her journey with the Weight Watchers program. Once she was diagnosed with pre-diabetes she really started to take action on her weight loss journey. Through her journey not only was she able to be a great influence to many women throughout the world but she was also able to influence many of the entrepreneurial minded women because she was taking care of herself and she was still able to work on her career and her businesses.

Many people do not view Opera as an entrepreneur but she is a boss of her own life and she has been able to do many things for all of the companies, organizations, and shows/radio stations that she has worked with and for.

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Categories : Women Entrepreneurs

Flash Forest

Posted by blendermannkj20

· Monday, December 6th, 2021

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To say that our ecosystem is important would be an understatement. It is absolutely vital to the world’s health and the care of our human society. Forests are one of the main factors in supporting a strong ecosystem, but deforestation is a major problem that many countries face around the world. Deforestation is when woodlands are purposefully cleared for agricultural expansion, logging, or infrastructure growth. However, one new entrepreneur, Angelique Ahlstrom, hopes to improve the ecosystem with her own business, Flash Forest.

Cofounded by Angelique Ahlstrom, Flash Forest is a “Canadian reforestation company that uses UAV technology, automation, and ecological science to regenerate ecosystems on a global scale.” She started the company this year in 2021 and uses advanced technology of artificial intelligence, Plant Science, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), and geographic information systems (GIS) to map, analyze, and automatically plant tree seeds in damaged forest areas. This company’s technology costs less and is safer and faster than other traditional methods. Flash Forest is actively working towards the goal of planting more than one billion trees by 2028 to reduce carbon in the atmosphere and restore worldwide ecosystems. They have tested 18 species of trees in planting trials to achieve biodiversity in forests. Flash Forest works with different organizations and industry partners to help plant trees and fulfill their “carbon offset pledges.” They even work with government industries to help them meet their reforestation targets that are expensive and difficult to complete.

Angelique says, “Our motivation is to have a tangible impact on climate change and all species within our lifetime, to revolutionize the reforestation industry on a truly planetary scale.” This is a very ambitious goal put forth by Flash Forest, but the first step to develop a socially minded business is to have a goal and fall in love with the problem, not the solution! Currently, Canada is one of the world’s leaders in sustainable forest management and Angelique aims to continue this with her company. She found a problem and used her passion for the environment to cause true social impact with her innovative brand and design.

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Categories : Business, Millennial Enrepreneuers, Social Entrepreneur, Technology, Women Entrepreneurs

Starlite Village

Posted by guntrumcm21

· Saturday, December 4th, 2021

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Hannah Meloche is a influencer who has started her own jewelry buisness which is Starlite Village.

Hannah Meloche started Starlite Village to inspire others through positive everyday jewelry you can wear with messaging to inspire you throughout the day. She has always thought that jewelry completed an outfit, “especially dainty simples pieces you can throw on in the morning knowing it’s going to match with whatever you’re wearing that day.” Hannah Meloche has had a goal to make a sustainable jewelry for a very long time and she is working really hard to create pieces that are not only affordable and timeless. instagram image

Where Fashion Meets Sustainability

The company Starlite Village is a mindful brand who’s working towards 100& sustainability. Starlite Village believes in transparency, ethical work environments and designing pieces that reflect inner and outer beauty.

Mindfulness Meets Nature

Starlite Village collaborates with One Tree Planted. For one each item purchased they donate $1 to their organization towards rooting a new tree for our plant.

Transparency Beginning at Ethical Manufacturers

Starlite Village is always working on bettering the planet and being part of a production space that is humane, safe and allows employees and thrive. In 2007 Starlite Village started to produce pieces at a manufacturing facility that partners with well-known US and European jewelry brands. 55,000 square feet of indoor space & are up to date with Laser cutting machines and 3-D printing machines.

The company is audited each year by a third party supervising agency to ensure a sound working environment, fair pay to workers, as well as full compliance with environmental guidelines.

Every single factory floor is fully compliant with standard working conditions (adequate circulation, ventilation and temperature control). All employees are paid with salaries that meet local living standards.

Materials

Starlight Village pieces use partially recycled sterling sliver, partially recycled 14k and 18k gold for plating as well as partially recycled brass

Packaging

Starlite Village is very mindfulness in every are including what we use to package for their pieces such as recycled paper and compostable plastic bags.

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Categories : Business, Women Entrepreneurs

Reforming the System: Clementine Jacoby

Posted by mccommonsme21

· Friday, December 3rd, 2021

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“I left Stanford thinking that I would be a professional circus performer,” says Clementine Jacoby, who graduated from Stanford in 2015 with a degree in software engineering. Interestingly, Jacoby spent her first year after graduation teaching acrobatics in a Brazilian gang diversion program. During that time, Jacoby witnessed the flaws of the criminal justice system in Brazil, which disproportionately targeted citizens of lower socioeconomic status and often imprisoned those who committed petty crimes with excessive sentences. At the time, Jacoby did not realize that her experience would become the foundation needed for a company that advocates for criminal justice reform here in the United States.

More than 2 million people remain incarcerated in the United States, and among those in prison, experts say thousands of them don’t pose a public-safety threat. The problem? The data that allows them to be released is backlogged because it is spread out among different departments.

That’s why in 2019, Jacoby created Recidiviz, a nonprofit that works with more than 30 states to consolidate key data points of prisons around the country, such as whether an incarcerated person has shown progress by completing a treatment plan or how well equipped a correction facility can handle a COVID-19 outbreak.

Although no algorithm is perfect and there is not one solution that can solve the criminal-justice system problem alone, Recidiviz demonstrates early signs of success. To date, Recidiviz has released nearly 44,000 inmates in 34 states. Despite her young age of 29, Clementine Jacoby is changing the way our country views the criminal justice system. It’s giving those who deserve another chance, a second chance beyond the bars.

To read Clementine’s feature in Forbes 30 Under 30,

click on the link below!

Clementine Jacoby (forbes.com)

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Categories : Entrepreneurship, Nonprofit, Social Entrepreneur, Social Impact, Social Justice, Women Entrepreneurs

Diamonds from Ashes

Posted by richardsonlg20

· Monday, November 15th, 2021

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When looking for a zone of innovation, few people would first look to the postmortem industry. But that is exactly where young entrepreneur Adelle Archer turned. Her company, Eterneva, creates precious keepsakes out of the remains of loved ones who have passed away. They accomplish this by turning their ashes into diamonds. Archer’s goal was to find a way for love one’s remains to be eternalized, and converting them to an extremely durable and precious mineral, using the carbon within the ashes, was a very effective way of accomplishing this.

Adelle Archer

The mission of Eterneva goes beyond just making money. Archer created her company around the desire to see the stigma that surrounds death and grieving in the United States go away. She wants to provide a way for grievers to be less isolated and more understood.

Memorial Diamonds from Ashes or Hair | Eterneva

In her short career as an entrepreneur, Adele Archer has been extremely successful. She attended the prestigious Acton School of Business, getting an MBA in Entrepreneurship. Soon after, she created Eterneva, and took her company to Shark Tank, where she received an investment from Mark Cuban. In 2019, Eterneva was given the title of Consumer Startup of the Year by the Stevie Awards.

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Categories : Great Ideas, Women Entrepreneurs

Tags : Diamonds from Ashes, Eterneva

Erin Zaikis and Sundara

Posted by blendermannkj20

· Monday, November 15th, 2021

· 2 Comments

We don’t think much about soap. It’s just a simple necessity for us to wash our hands and keep ourselves clean. But would you be surprised that there are people in the world that have never seen a bar of soap before? Probably not, but in many impoverished countries today, over 800 children under the age of 5 die from diseases as a result of compromised hygiene and sanitation. Erin Zaikis hopes to change all that with her company, Sandara.

Erin’s company Sandara recycles used hotel soap to redistribute across Uganda, India, and Myanmar in an effort to increase hygiene and education as well. She knew that children around the world were dying without access to sanitation products, while big corporations like hotels were throwing out old soap after just one use. Erin saw what a big problem this was and founded Sundara in 2013 to combat this current issue. Sundara first started as a non-profit business recycling used hotel soap, but it evolved into a bigger company that now works across different countries and provides education and work opportunities to single mothers, domestic abuse victims, and widows. Their main values include fostering dignity, building sustainability, agility, and female empowerment. This is shown through Sundara’s two different programs, Rise Fellowship and Emergency Aid. Rise Fellowship provides “mentorship, seed funding, and resources to female entrepreneurs living in low to middle class income countries.” In addition, Emergency Aid is a program dedicated to providing urgent, short-term relief to those who need it immediately. Erin’s company has impacted thousands of women and children around the world and over the past 8 years, has recycled over a million bars of soap and reaches 200,000 people with serious hygiene education every year.

Erin has worked with Sundara for the past several years to help fight the rampant issue of sanitation and hygiene for women and children in poor countries around the world. Her company has changed the lives of many, giving dignity and respect back to those who need it. Erin Zaikis is a true entrepreneur with her company and let’s hope she continues to change the world with her innovative ideas.

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Categories : Business, Great Ideas, Millennial Enrepreneuers, Millennial Entrepreneurs, Social Entrepreneur, Women Entrepreneurs

Trisha Prabhu: ReThink-ing Online Hate

Posted by mccommonsme21

· Sunday, November 14th, 2021

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Trisha Prabhu is a 21-year-old social entrepreneur and the founder of ReThink, a patented technology that detects and stops online hate. In the fall of 2013, Trisha, then only 13 years old, read the shocking story of Rebecca Sedwick’s suicide. Rebecca, after being cyberbullied for over a year and a half, took her own life at only 12 years old. As a victim of bullying herself, Trisha felt heartbroken and horrified. In that moment, she decided to no longer be a bystander and created ReThink, which detects online hate at the source before bullying occurs.

Trisha has received worldwide acclaim for her endeavors. In 2016, former President Barack Obama invited to Trisha to the Global Entrepreneurship Summit to share her story with other entrepreneurs. ReThink also made an appearance on Shark Tank, and not long after, Trisha received the prestigious Elevate Prize, as well as an Adrian Cheng Fellowship at Harvard. Trisha is the youngest honoree named to this year’s Forbes’ 30 Under 30 Social Impact list.

To date, Trisha has spread the message of ReThink to over 30 cities in 3 languages. Trisha is also an avid supporter of empowering women in the entrepreneurial community. Whether volunteering her time to teach young women how to code or finding ways to bridge the diversity gap in entrepreneurship, Trisha is inspiring a generation of fierce young women to tackle the world’s most important issues.

Check out Trisha’s TED Talk below!

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Categories : Entrepreneurship, Female Empowerment, Social Entrepreneur, Social Impact, Women Entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneur