@Tanya Dotson-Winckler amen! Diversification is imperative in this market!

@Tanya Dotson-Winckler Tanya, thank you for the kind introduction. I’m truly honored to be building alongside you and the other brilliant women in this founding circle. One of the biggest mindset shifts for me moving from corporate deal-making into entrepreneurship was realizing that I was already equipped — in many ways more equipped than I had allowed myself to believe. For years in corporate environments, I negotiated complex agreements, managed high-value relationships, and helped structure deals totaling millions of dollars. Yet somewhere along the way, like many professionals, I had internalized the idea that my value was tied to the organization I worked for rather than the expertise I personally carried. The shift came when I realized that the same skills I was using to create value for someone else’s balance sheet could be applied to building my own. Not only did I have the academic credentials, but I was also the only person on my team with an advanced degree in technology who understood both the technical infrastructure and the business strategy behind it. I could speak the language of systems, capital, and strategy. In many ways, I was a triple threat. Entrepreneurship forced me to own that fully. Faith played a big role in that shift as well. Scripture reminds us in Matthew 25:29 that “to those who use well what they are given, even more will be given.” For me, entrepreneurship became the act of stewarding what God had already placed in my hands — my experience, my relationships, my negotiation skills, and my ability to structure opportunities. Today, when I help founders think about capital, I’m not just thinking about money. I’m thinking about positioning, proximity, and systems — because funding doesn’t just come from a good idea. It comes from understanding how value is structured, communicated, and negotiated. That realization changed everything for me. And it’s one of the reasons I’m so excited about what we’re building here with the #300Thousand movement — because when women begin to recognize the full weight of the value they carry, entire economic ecosystems can shift.

@Tanya Dotson-Winckler my purpose and pleasure 🙏