Hillary Gadsby and Wendi Boyden, Founders of Boss Talks network are power connectors and now they are taking their skills to help entrepreneurs.
FWM: Tell us about your backgrounds.
At an early age and during our careers, we both learned the power of connection and the key role it plays in women’s professional success. Hillary began a speaker series in Los Angeles in 2014 that featured successful female entrepreneurs telling their stories of failures and successes, as well as a space for women to connect with each other and create opportunities. Many success stories were born out of those events, including that of Nicci Levy, Founder of cosmetic micro-treatment enterprise Alchemy 43, who secured her first investor, Toni Ko, founder of NYX cosmetics, when Toni was the featured speaker at the event and who Nicci was able to connect with as an attendee. Through her 23-year corporate career as an attorney and insurance executive, Wendi experienced the utter lack of women mentors available to help develop and shape the careers of young women and was passionate about empowering her women colleagues and direct reports to talk about their challenges and turning what they saw as weaknesses into strengths.
Both of our paths crossed in 2019 when we were introduced through a mutual friend, and began talking about the differences that we were both making in connecting and mentoring women business leaders, and that we wanted to play bigger and needed to take our efforts not only national but global. Through gradually connecting with other women entrepreneurs in several other cities across the country and globally who were equally passionate about creating opportunities for and supporting other women in their businesses, we were able to launch and grow Boss Talks network across the U.S. and Canada.
FWM: Boss Talks has the most renowned award-winning entrepreneurs offering interactive training and insight for members. Who are your speakers? Tell us about your membership and what it includes.
Absolutely. There are four key areas of entrepreneurship – business coaching, mindset & leadership, visibility & public relations, and business process organization. We provide our members with both monthly events and quarterly trainings focused on those key areas. Our quarterly trainings are led by our panel of hand-picked experts, namely Bri Seeley, who is the #1 Google-rated entrepreneur coach and member of Forbes Coaches Council and leads our business coaching training; Tracy Litt, who is a mindset teacher to women entrepreneurs and business leaders, sought after keynote speaker, TEDx speaker, and international best-selling author, leads our mindset and leadership training; Ashley Crouch, award-winning visibility strategist, best-selling author and founder of Appleseed Communications, leads our visibility & public relations training; and Jane Stoller, founder of Organized Jane, an expert on streamlining business processes in order to increase your productivity and income.
In addition to our quarterly trainings, we also hold monthly digital events (which will also be live when we can begin having them again) that either feature an hour-long fireside chat with a highly successful women entrepreneur sharing her incredible journey to teach and inspire us, or teaching a masterclass on a key entrepreneurial skill.
Our members also have access to our exclusive membership platform, which they can access via their laptops or smartphones. The platform enables our members to connect anytime, anywhere with our network of experts and other women entrepreneurs across our network in several cities in the U.S. and Canada to help support and scale their businesses not only locally, but nationally and globally.
Other benefits include downloadable content (templates, eBooks, guides) at your fingertips focused on helping you start and scale your business, a member spotlight featuring you and your business on our website and social media platforms, and other valuable resources that connect you to opportunity.
FWM: How is Boss Talks helping women to break the six-figure barrier?
Less than 2% of women-owned businesses in the U.S. have broken the six figure barrier. Less than 2%. Our mission is to increase that percentage significantly. Our quarterly trainings and monthly events are focused on developing our members not only as business owners but as 7-figure business owners. Women who run 6+-figure businesses have certain mindsets, skills, connections, and mentorship that have gotten them to where they are, and that is what we are providing to our members.
FWM: Boss Talks is in 7 cities in the US and Canada. Where can we find you? What is your vision for each of these cities?
Boss Talks has chapters currently in Los Angeles, Dallas, Austin, Miami, New York City, Indianapolis, and Vancouver, B.C., and we just secured another woman entrepreneur in Seattle to launch our chapter there so we now have 8 cities! We are looking to launch chapters in more cities nationally and globally. Our vision is to create powerful communities of women business leaders in each city where women support each other.
FWM: Why do women join the Boss Talks network?
There are many women entrepreneurs who want to start and/or scale their businesses but feel lost and missing community especially working from home through the pandemic. Starting and scaling your business entails retaining coaches and other experts that can run you into the hundreds if not thousands of dollars. These women are so overwhelmed with options that they don’t know where to start, and feel exhausted, drained, and disconnected. They join the Boss Talks network to get everything that they need to be successful in ONE place for an affordable price of $35.99 per month (free 30-day trial included) or $349.99 for a year if they want to save even more money by paying upfront. They join Boss Talks to feel inspired, driven, and supported by a community of like-minded women entrepreneurs in 8 cities in the U.S. and Canada who have their back. They join Boss Talks for the resources, templates, amazing intimate talks with women leaders that are going to help them build their brand, and to network with women who are just like them and help each other get on the success path and to break that 6 figure barrier.
FWM: You offer monthly events to your members. What should we expect in the upcoming months?
We have some incredible upcoming events featuring prominent women entrepreneurs including Gina Bianchini, founder of Mighty Networks; Cheryl Sutherland, founder of Please Notes; Clio de la Llave, founder of Booj Media, Podcast Nation, and several other companies; and Kinya Claiborne, Founder, and Editor in Chief of Style & Society Magazine, to name a few. The response we have been receiving from successful women entrepreneurs, including some very big names, to speak and train at our events has been overwhelming because they love what we are doing. Needless to say, we will be having many more impactful events lined up through the end of the year.
FWM: What are your goals in 2020?
To substantially grow our footprint and membership so that we put as many women as we can on their paths to smashing 6 figures, and to develop their struggles into 7 figure success stories.
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