Empowering Women to Achieve Financial Success

Kansas City
Joined June 2011
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More like this in my book, Smart Women Live Richly.... amazon.com/Smart-Women-Richl…
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This week, @SBA_Kelly visited a defense startup company that is rethinking America’s undersea drone dominance. Small businesses like these are essential to our defense supply chain, and their innovations will help give our warfighters the tools they need to keep our country safe.
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Growing a company means thinking about who should help guide it. Startup Boards 101 brings founders and current or prospective board members together to learn how effective early-stage boards work. Starts Sept. 10. Registration closes Sept. 6. sbdc.umkc.edu/event/startup-…
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Global growth creates opportunity, but it also creates new risks. The Kansas EXIM Road Show will help established manufacturers and service providers explore trade financing, cash flow, risk management, and international growth. Aug. 24 at JCCC grow.exim.gov/kansas-exim-ro…
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Neighborhood changes? Adapt your business to new faces, needs, competition, and opportunities. Stay essential, visible, and connected!
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Win big this summer! Craft offers, invest in signage, partner smart, empower staff & customers. Start now!
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Startups do not usually fail because founders lack ideas. They fail when the gap between vision and execution stays too wide for too long. Momentum is built when clarity, speed, and discipline start working together.
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Innovation is not always a breakthrough product. Sometimes it is a founder noticing friction everyone else accepts and deciding to solve it better, faster, and with more intention than the market expects.
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A lot of businesses hit a wall not because demand disappears, but because the way they worked at one stage cannot support the next. Scaling often begins with letting go of what used to work well enough.
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Excited to announce ECJC's Growth Mentoring Service partners with @MissouriSBDC at @UMKC! Joel Barrett leads GMS, boosting mentorship and support for Kansas City entrepreneurs. Thanks, Startland News! startlandnews.com/2026/06/jo…
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Sign the SBA’s Freedom 250 Small Business Pledge and join us in honoring 250 years of American independence, entrepreneurship, and free enterprise. Small businesses that sign will receive an official Freedom 250 certificate and recognition as part of America’s 250th anniversary celebration:  sba.gov/freedom250
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Scaling a business is not just doing more. It is building systems that let quality, trust, and decision-making hold up as demand grows. Growth without structure creates noise before it creates results.
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A startup’s earliest advantage is rarely scale. It is proximity. Closer to the customer. Closer to the problem. Closer to the truth. Founders who stay close longer tend to build smarter.
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They say Kansas City Stadium can’t get any louder… challenge accepted? 👀 #FIFAWorldCup #WeAreKansasCity #WeAre26
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What history looks like from above 💙 #FIFAWorldCup #WeAreKansasCity #WeAre26
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Mental Health Awareness Month should never be overlooked 💚 @laneyrouse23 leans on self-talk to keep her from lingering on mistakes and to focus on the response & next play ahead 💪 @BlueKC | #SidelinetheStigma
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Progress isn’t always loud; it’s repeated effort in the right direction. A business owner may refine offers and build trust quietly before growth appears.
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Getting in the door is hard. Knowing how enterprise partners make decisions can help. Our partners at @nxtusio are now accepting applications for the 2026 NXTSTAGE Enterprise Engagement Series. No cost. No equity taken. Apply today - nxtus.io/enterpriseseries
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ConnectKC26 transportation passes are now LIVE! 🚌 With high-frequency service and direct routes, spend less time in traffic and more time at the heart of the action. ⚽️ Book your ride: bit.ly/4tbCNvj #FIFAWorldCup #WeAreKansasCity #WeAre26
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