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When Rochelle Sonnenberg founded Her Tech, she wasn’t interested in building just another networking community for women in tech. After years of navigating male-dominated rooms, Rochelle saw firsthand how many women in the tech industry carried emotional armor just to get through the workday—constantly performing confidence, suppressing vulnerability, and trying to prove they belonged. She dreamed of building a space where women could finally set some of that weight down.

Growing up, Mai Truong often felt disconnected from her Asian identity. As the daughter of Vietnamese refugees, she rarely saw herself reflected in ways that made her feel proud of her heritage. Instead, like so many children navigating multiple worlds, she found herself distancing herself from parts of her culture rather than embracing them.

In pre-internet West Texas, a young Jessica Gold never imagined she would one day devote her life to understanding human relationships. Her sights were set on the more traditionally respected paths: hard science, engineering, and medicine. That pursuit led her to MIT, where she became captivated by the chemistry of molecular bonding.

A few years ago, after nearly two decades of leading teams, scaling products, and navigating multiple industries, Allison McMillan gave herself permission to pause and reflect on the kind of work that energized her most. She’d built and turned around teams, led engineering at high-growth companies, and overseen critical product lines—but the moments that stayed with her weren’t just about technical wins.

Some people spend years searching for entrepreneurship. For Tianna Faye Soto, entrepreneurship had other plans—it found her first. Although Tianna had always been drawn to health, wellness, and human connection, she wasn’t entirely sure what shape that passion would take professionally. After college, she began building a career in journalism and editing. But along the way, an unexpected opportunity kept appearing: invitations to speak.

At twenty-eight, Naga Das had built the kind of life many people spend years chasing. On paper, she had everything the world says should make a person happy. But beneath the surface, she was unraveling. Naga remembers that season of her life as one fueled by substances, sleeplessness, and constant performance. She had spent years outrunning herself until, eventually, the exhaustion became unbearable and she found herself seriously considering ending her life.

For Tamara Hinckley, the road to motherhood wasn’t simple. After navigating infertility, welcoming her daughter brought immense joy and gratitude. But maternity leave also brought something she hadn’t expected: a destabilizing loss of identity. Hoping to feel more like herself again, Tamara returned to work early. Mostly on her own, she learned how to juggle the demands of home and career.

With a career rooted in marketing, teaching, and helping others translate their expertise into meaningful impact, Vanessa Errecarte brings a thoughtful and deeply human perspective to visibility. Her work as an educator, author, speaker, and founder of Marketing Simplified challenges the idea that personal branding is about performance or self-promotion, reframing it instead as a way to lead with service, connection, and clarity.

Blessing Uchendu brings a refreshing honesty to the entrepreneurial journey, sharing not only what she is building, but who she is becoming along the way. Her reflections offer a thoughtful look at the courage it takes to trust yourself more deeply, release expectations that no longer fit, and create from a place of authenticity rather than obligation.

For years, Lisa Chensvold built her career helping organizations communicate clearly, strategically, and with purpose. But long before launching Chensvold Communications, she was already doing something that would quietly shape the way she approaches leadership, messaging, and business today: noticing patterns others often missed.

A letter from Gesche about the next chapter of Dreamers & Doers.

Selling wasn't just a business decision, because Dreamers & Doers wasn't just a company. It was the highly curated female founders' community Haas had spent more than a decade building: a paid membership built around PR visibility and entrepreneurial growth, one that's put thousands of women in the spotlight, and one of the few women-led, bootstrapped businesses to run profitably for over ten years and reach seven-figure ARR. Whoever stepped in would not only inherit a thrivi

AI is changing the way we work at an extraordinary pace. But amid all the conversations about automation, efficiency, and scale, many founders are asking a deeper question: how can technology make business feel more human, not less?

Innovation gets talked about a lot in business. But the most meaningful kind rarely looks like chasing growth at all costs, scaling for the sake of optics, or following someone else’s blueprint for success. More often, it looks like building companies with greater intention, depth, sustainability, and alignment—creating businesses that support not only impressive outcomes, but also the kind of lives, leadership, and impact they actually want to have.

Some of the most impactful businesses are not born from market trends or abstract ideas. Instead, they begin with a deeply personal moment: a frustration that wouldn’t go away, a broken system that made life harder than it needed to be, or the realization that something important simply didn’t exist.

Building a business requires equal parts vision, resilience, and a willingness to evolve alongside the people you serve. For Jolly Esquire founder Kamilah Jolly, entrepreneurship has never been solely about personal success, but about creating pathways for other entrepreneurs to feel more protected, empowered, and equipped to build lasting wealth and stability.

As a college field hockey player competing at an elite level, Bea Bennett was constantly chasing one thing: enough protein to fuel her performance and recovery. Her daily goal was 180 grams, but every shake, powder, and supplement designed to help her get there left her feeling worse instead of better. The products were often chalky, harsh on her digestive system, and packed with ingredients that simply didn’t feel aligned with the kind of wellness she wanted for herself. Whi

For much of her life, Emily Lauren Dick didn’t quite understand why she didn’t fit in. But a diagnosis she received as an adult reframed everything, changing the way she saw herself, her creativity, and her entrepreneurial journey. What once seemed like “too much”—big ideas, deep empathy, constant curiosity, and an unconventional way of thinking—ultimately became the foundation of her work as the founder of Unbuttoned Brands.

Jessie Sanchez has proudly called herself an entrepreneur for over a decade—but for most of that time, her work lived at the intersection of graphic design, marketing, and ecommerce strategy. She helped startups scale to more than $2.5 million in revenue. But when AI tools began generating logos, websites, and pitch decks in minutes, Jessie recognized a shift—and an opportunity to evolve.

Peri Finkelstein has spent nearly two decades turning purpose into action—and building a legacy rooted in impact along the way. Her advocacy journey began in 2009 with the launch of Team Peri, an initiative that went on to raise more than $1 million over 15 years. Working closely with her parents, Peri helped generate meaningful support for existing organizations, but over time, a bigger vision began to take shape: creating a foundation of her own.