I was at a networking event in Europe recently and was chatting to a number of women entrepreneurs in our Diaspora community about the challenge of opening up conversations with successful women globally who they admired but didn’t know. The world of LinkedIn and other platforms has been successful in appearing to bring such people closer to us, and in the world of entrepreneurship, we often experience things in common that make shared conversations much more of a possibility. Yet often, women entrepreneurs are hesitant in making contact and inviting conversations on areas of mutual interest. What I’ve found over the years as an entrepreneur is that often it’s a case of just doing it - picking up a phone, sending an email, connecting on LinkedIn, writing an article that piques their interest, attending an event where they are speaking and then just connecting on a human level, one entrepreneur to another. After all, the one thing we share in common is our personal entrepreneurial journeys - we might just be at different stages of those journeys, but we share an interesting road travelled. That’s a starting point for a conversation.
Have yourself an inspired entrepreneurial day! - Melanie