Great questions Seneca and thanks for bringing such a high-value perspective and questions to this community! What I and the women I work with are doing differently is no longer putting our financial eggs in one basket, making sure that we have several revenue streams.

@FolaSade Pyne FolaSade, I’m so glad you’re here. For those who may not know yet, FolaSade is also one of my collaborators and co-founders of the #300Thousand movement, and she brings an extraordinary gift for helping people take ideas that are still forming and give them the structure, language, and strategy needed to bring them to life. Her background across advocacy, communications, project management, and community-centered work means she’s often thinking not just about what we build — but how it actually serves people once it exists. And that perspective is incredibly valuable in a room like this. Since this space is centered around the professional shifts many of us are navigating right now, I’m curious about something: What question are you currently sitting with about what comes next in your own work or leadership? Really glad you’re part of this founding circle. — Tanya

@Seneca Dunmore Seneca, this is such a powerful articulation of a shift that many high-achieving women eventually confront. The moment you described — realizing that the value you were creating inside an institution was never actually owned by the institution — it was carried by you — is a profound turning point. So many brilliant professionals spend years believing their authority is borrowed from the organizations they serve, when in reality the organization is often borrowing their expertise, judgment, and capacity to structure value. What I appreciate in what you shared is the language of stewardship. Entrepreneurship, in that sense, becomes less about “starting a business” and more about fully owning and directing the value that has been entrusted to you. And you’re absolutely right — when women begin to recognize the full weight of what they carry, the shift is not just personal. It becomes economic and systemic. The idea that capital follows positioning, proximity, and structure is a conversation I hope we’ll explore more deeply here, because many brilliant people are still being taught to chase funding rather than understand how value is actually negotiated in the first place. Thank you for opening that door for the room. — Tanya