Recently YFE was honored to accept Bootstrap Book Club as it’s official book club as Kickstart Kitchen handed it down to us. Today marks the start of our Lean In discussion. The popular book by Sheryl Sandberg is being discussed by a group of 275+ young female entrepreneurs in a private Facebook Group. Check out our first question and join the group below.
Q1: Sandberg focuses on the challenges that come with being a career woman, but there are fruitful moments to celebrate as well. When have you felt that being a woman hindered your career, and when have you felt that being a woman helped your career?
About Q1. Host, Shawndra Russell
I’m a storyteller that loves working with small businesses. I’m obsessed with traveling, craft beer, alternative music, and heartfelt movies. I’m married to my best friend, business partner, and editor, and we live in beautiful Savannah, Georgia with our Boston Terrier, Massy.
Bootstrap Book Club is a place where women entrepreneurs gather to read, connect with each other and share our experiences, and take action to grow.
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Happy weekend young, female entrepreneurs! Here is a quick recap of what you can expect in November from YoungFemaleEntrepreneurs.com. November is a busy month for our group and you’re encouraged to participate in the community wherever makes sense for where you are in business right now (and what your schedule will allow for). We hope you’ll make connecting with your peers a priority this month as we head into 2013.
Read on to find out more about #YFEnyc’s first meetup with Marissa, YFE’s first onlince conference (#YFEcon), and what the next Bootstrap Book Club book will be. Don’t forget that YFE has another Twitter chat on Tuesday, November 6th at 11p/2e and this upcoming week (November 5th through the 9th) is Blog it! Week where we are linking up over blog posts.
Attend #YFEnyc’s First Meetup
Marissa Vicario is hosting her first YFE meetup in New York City at Thom Bar at 60 Thompson (The Thompson Hotel) Thursday, November 8th from 7 to 9pm.
From Marissa…
[quote style="1"]Join NYC-area Young Female Entrepreneurs for a night of socializing and networking. This is our inaugural IRL (in real life) Meet-up so get in on the fun early and tell your entpreneur friends! Ticket price includes your first glass of wine and light bites. Come meet other like-minded women who are serious about growing their business and want to have fun doing it — get support, make connections, form lasting friendships and possibly partnerships![/quote]
Thank you to #YFEnyc sponsors!
If you’re in New York City register for the meetup to build community in your city with your peers. Marissa has notified YFE that she would like any proceeds of the event to be donated to Hurricane Sandy relief efforts.
Have you registered for #YFEcon yet?
Find out more & register for #YFEcon. This conference supports the free activities YFE hosts and $10 of every registration will go to Hurricane Sandy relief efforts from today until November 15th.
When is #YFEcon?
It is LIVE via streaming video, chat, and breakouts on Thursday, November 15th from 9am to 3pm PST (12pm to 6pm EST). We will also have an online happy hour the night before and opportunities to meetup with your peers IRL after the conference.
What is #YFEcon?
Young Female Entrepreneurs first online conference is bringing together entrepreneurial women in their 20s and 30s for 6 hours of peer-to-peer mentorship through panels, lectures, interviews, and breakouts utilizing technology we’re familiar with on November 15th.
Who should attend #YFEcon?
Entrepreneurial women in their 20s and 30s who are serious about growing their network through peer-to-peer mentorship and shared experiences.
Where is it?
It is available online for attendees. Register at yfecon.com.
Are you in the Los Angeles Area?
#YFEla will be hosting an IRL Meetup the night of the conference. If you’re in the Los Angeles area join City Coordinator Erin Haslag for a night out with speaker, Emily Greener of I Am That Girl, YFE Photographer Ashley Wilkins, and 40 of your peers at Next Space Culver City. Find out more about #YFEla and register for the event.
The Next Book Club Book Announcement
Young Female Entrepreneurs is partnering with Kickstart Kitchen for a second book now in their Bootstrap Book Club. Bootstrap Book Club is a private Facebook group facilitated by the founders of Kickstart Kitchen. It’s a place where women entrepreneurs gather to read, connect with each other and share experiences, and take action to grow.
From Kickstart Kitchen…
[quote style="1"]Happy Halloween! If you’ve been wondering what we’ll be reading next in Bootstrap Book Club, then wonder no more! Our next book is The Pumpkin Plan by Mike Michalowicz. Thanks to everyone who suggested it! We’ve still got a few more questions for The End of Men by Hanna Rosin, but order The Pumpkin Plan now so it will arrive by the time we start. You can grab it here: http://bit.ly/TOy1N5. We’ll kick off The Pumpkin Plan on November 13th. [/quote]
The latest question just came out for discussion in the Bootstrap Book Club. We’re reading “The End of Men: And the Rise of Women” by Hanna Rosin, discussing topics brought forth in the book amongst our peers in a closed Facebook Group. You’re welcome to join in at any time. Find out more and join here.
[quote style="1"][dropcap style="1" size="3"]Q6.[/dropcap] More female entrepreneurs are now engaging a lifestyle dubbed “The Merge”. We work flexibly, but we never really stop working. Business, family, downtime and a few zzzz’s are all rolled into the same 24-hour period. How does The Merge affect your business productivity, your family, and your friendships? Would you rather go back to having less flexibility and more separation between work/family or does The Merge work well for you?[/quote]
[note color="#F5F5F5"]About Bootstrap Book Club
Bootstrap Book Club is a private Facebook group facilitated by the founders of Kickstart Kitchen. It’s a place where women entrepreneurs gather to read, connect with each other and share experiences, and take action to grow.[/note]
The latest question just came out for discussion in the Bootstrap Book Club. We’re reading “The End of Men: And the Rise of Women” by Hanna Rosin, discussing topics brought forth in the book amongst our peers in a closed Facebook Group. You’re welcome to join in at any time. Find out more and join here.
[quote style="1"][dropcap style="1" size="3"]Q4.[/dropcap] How are the challenges and opportunities that we face different from the women entrepreneurs of our mothers’ generation? What can we do today to pave the way for the female entrepreneurs of the future?[/quote]
[note color="#F5F5F5"]About Bootstrap Book Club
Bootstrap Book Club is a private Facebook group facilitated by the founders of Kickstart Kitchen. It’s a place where women entrepreneurs gather to read, connect with each other and share experiences, and take action to grow.[/note]
The Bootstrap Book Club has been diving deep into Hanna Rosin’s “The End of Men: And the Rise of Women.” While the book is more theory and less actionable advice in growing a business, it’s still incredibly beneficial. More of an exercise in self-reflection.
Each week the Book Club is taking a piece of the the book to discuss it in a closed Facebook Group of their peers while Jules and Krystina of Kickstart Kitchen moderate and encourage community. Their second questions, broken down into three parts below is currently getting a variety of responses that at times, go against what one might consider the “norm.”
Q1.
[quote style="1"]If you are the breadwinner in your household, does it feel like a burden to you?[/quote]
Q2.
[quote style="1"]Is this burden amplified because, as an entrepreneur, you’re also in charge of health insurance, saving for retirement and other things that you wouldn’t have to worry about if you were an employee?[/quote]
Q3.
[quote style="1"]If it’s actually your husband/wife/partner/friend/roommate who brings home (most of) the bacon rather than you, does it make you feel any less powerful in the relationship?[/quote]
Get in on the discussion… Consider adding, in realizing your feelings, what can you, or even others, learn from them.
Join Kickstart Kitchen’s free Bootstrap Book Club. Find out more.
Are you building your business out of your life savings, from pooling together a small amount of money from family, or maybe even from your last paycheck? Young Female Entrepreneurs is honored to partner with Kickstart Kitchen in their Booststrap Book Club this fall.
YFE had a book club a few months back that was going strong with some amazing moderators and a great group of women behind it. I’m thrilled that Jules and Krystina have welcomed our group into their successful book club to begin chatting about the book “The End of Men” by Hanna Rosin starting October 9th.
Rosin’s book and it’s controversial title is the subject of Friday’s #YFEchat on Twitter co-hosted with CNN International’s Leading Women team. We’ll be covering 10 questions that include…
Q: Is adaptability the key to success in today’s workplace? Are women better at this than men? #yfechat
and
Q: @HannaRosin talks new marriage model “Seesaw marriage”= breadwinner partner changes. Is this you? #YFEchat
This is going to be an awesome Twitter chat and a great way to kick of the new partnership with the amazing women behind Kickstart Kitchen.
About Bootstrap Book Club:
Bootstrap Book Club is a private Facebook group facilitated by the founders of Kickstart Kitchen. It’s a place where women entrepreneurs gather to read, connect with each other and share experiences, and take action to grow.
About Kickstart Kitchen: Kickstart Kitchen provides sizzling startup strategy for female entrepreneurs. Whether you are launching a new business or kicking things up a notch with your existing business, Kickstart Kitchen provides a plan, mentorship, community and collaboration to help you make it happen.
This week we are starting Part 3 of “Making Ideas Happen” with a section on Leadership Capability. When we start taking our idea out into the world we can no longer go solo, we need to build a team. With that comes the challenge to grow our leadership skills. In this section we are shown how ‘short-circuiting the rewards system’ we’ve been conditioned to rely is necessary to make our ideas happen: we need to replace short-term rewards with an ability to both go without ‘success’ and ‘trick’ ourselves into staying engaged. Let’s make it happen!
How do you ‘reward’ yourself when you’ve met your goals? Also, if you have long-term goals how do you trick yourself into staying committed when it doesn’t seem like you are a success yet?
In the last section of Part 2 of our book “Making Ideas Happen” by Scott Belskey we are introduced to the idea of Self-Marketing. After showing an example of what happens when we don’t clearly define to our community what our role is, we are reminded that we can not rely on others to make our ideas happen. This is expecially true when we run our own businesses. This brings us to this week’s discussion:
In what ways do you market yourself to build an aura of respect around your personal brand and/or your business?
Also – for those that are taking part in the Facebook Group, we’ve updated the reading schedule in as a Doc/File within the group. We hope everyone had a great 4th of July. Only two more weeks left on this book!
Part 2 of “Making Ideas Happen” starts out with a section dedicated defining what type of idea maker you are. Dreamers are “someone with real talent who never seems to get his or her act together.” Doers “don’t imagine as much because they are obsessively focused on the logistics of execution.” Incrementalists have “the ability to play the role of bothe Dreamer and Doer.”
The book goes on to to describe each of these in depth and explains why its good to surround yourself with people who are in a different category than you to balance things out. And that brings us to today’s question:
What kind of idea maker are you and who do you have in your life right now that helps balance out your ways?
We can have all the best plans on the planet but what it all comes down to is taking ACTION! Towards the end of Part one of the book we learn about some of the ways we can be sure that our plans are no longer pipe dreams but become sweet reality.
Now that its summer it can be very easy to lay some of our big ideas down and get lax in accomplishing our goals, but what if we remix this notion up a bit. Go ahead an read the section on Execution and share your answer to this question in the Facebook group:
What activities in your life can you ‘kill’ off to make more room for your ideas to grow and, on the other hand, how can you use this summer as an opportunity to envision new dreams and ideas. Be practical – how will you execute these changes?
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About Q1. Host, Shawndra Russell
