Women Entrepreneurship

FAQs

What is Founding Females®?

Founding Females® is a community-oriented hub of resources for female entrepreneurs. We meet women business owner’s unique needs with encouraging guidance, resources, and connection.

The purpose of our powerful business resources is to create shifts for women business owners to build a successful business.

Founding Females business resources include:

I want to start a business. What’s the first step?

YAY, you’re in the right place!! At Founding Females®, we are cheerleaders for female entrepreneurs because we have guidance, connection, and resources ready to help make your small business a huge success.

Once you’re ready to start a business, it can feel overwhelming knowing where to begin. The best step for you to take first is to pick up a copy of Dream, Build, Grow: A Female’s Step-by-Step Guide for How to Start a Business by our founder, Francie Hinrichsen.

Inside, you’ll find Business 101 for women with step-by-step instructions for starting your business to

  • gain clarity,

  • research intentionally,

  • build your business’s framework,

  • grow your profits, and

  • scale your business.

    Dream, Build, Grow: A Female’s Step-by-Step Guide for How to Start a Business is available on Amazon, Target, and here on our website.

What small business resources does Founding Females offer?

Female entrepreneurs need two main business resources to start and grow a successful business: encouraging guidance and connection.

Business Guidance

As you build your business, it’s important that your resources are best suited for the female lifestyle. Be aware that many how-to books and community resources were created with a wide-open 40-hour work week available. That’s rarely the case for many women.

As women, we handle an array of responsibilities for our communities and families. We tend to run our businesses in between other very important responsibilities. Managing the many responsibilities is our superpower.

The business resources you seek should help you build a business around your life and not a life around your business. The Founding Females® Mini Courses, how-to-start-a-business book for women, free downloadable business resources, and Female Entrepreneur Blog will help you do exactly that as you start and grow your successful business.

Female Entrepreneur Community

Founding Females® offers a female entrepreneur community in the virtual setting with our women’s business mastermind. The in-person setting offers free local monthly women business owner Meet Ups and an annual female entrepreneur conference.

Growing a successful business isn’t easy. Having the right community alongside you can help you achieve your business goals much more quickly and smoothly.

I’m looking for events for female entrepreneurs. What does Founding Females offer?

Looking for female founder events? At Founding Females®, we host three main types of events for female entrepreneurs:

Monthly women’s mastermind group calls

The Founding Females women’s business mastermind is a virtual community of female business owners who gather in a safe private space to grow as business owners.

We’re a strong community of support, encouragement, and fresh ideas. We host this female entrepreneur mastermind every month. The mastermind offers open enrollment for female entrepreneurs no matter the phase of business they’re in.

Click to join the mastermind.

Female Entrepreneur Conference

As we grow as a company, gathering as a community remains at the forefront of our priorities. Sharing ideas while being together rejuvenates women who are built for connection.

At Founding Females conferences, we offer encouraging speakers, mini mastermind session, mentoring sessions, and networking. Click to see what our last female entrepreneur conference was like.

Free monthly Meet Ups for women business owners

Founding Females Meet Ups started in 2015 as a way to provide connection and accountability to many women business owners who are solopreneurs and don’t have coworkers to talk through business challenges and big goals with. 

At these free events for female entrepreneurs, we gather local women in person to ask the question, “What’s your current business challenge and how can we help you through it?” Others pour in with wisdom and experience to help one another tackle tricky business challenges. Click to learn more about Founding Females Meet Ups. 

How do I work with you?

Want to learn from Founding Females and its founder, Francie? Here’s how…

  • Join the Founding Females Mastermind - Inside, you’ll have 24/7 access to connecting with Francie and other members. Your check-ins will re-inspire you again and again.

  • 1:1 Coaching - If you’ve read Francie’s book, Dream, Build, Grow, and you’re ready to take it up a notch, click contact to inquire about 1:1 coaching packages.

What business topics do you cover in your community?

At Founding Females, we’re buzzing about topics that mean the most to female entrepreneurs. From tips to achieve work/life balance and ways to market your business without social media to what to do next when you feel stuck in your business, Founding Females helps female entrepreneurs work through really tricky challenges we all face.

Fresh ideas are good for the soul. At Founding Females, we believe the best ideas come through connection. That’s why we host monthly mastermind calls, free in-person female entrepreneur Meet Ups (if you aren’t near an existing chapter, we’ll guide you to start one), and an annual conference for women business owners to be in community together.

Hi, I’m Francie!

Bonafide business cheerleader, author, and on a mission to help women build a business around their life and not a life around their business. Chat with me!

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