Founding Females® is a community and resource hub for women building businesses at every stage. We bring together the community, guidance, education, resources, and expert support women need to navigate the real challenges of entrepreneurship and build businesses that work for them.

We believe women shouldn't have to figure it all out alone. Sometimes you need a room full of women who understand what you're building. Sometimes you need practical guidance, a business resource, or accountability. And sometimes you need an expert to help you get the thing done. Founding Females brings all of those forms of support together in one place.

Ways to Grow With Founding Females

• Women's Business Mastermind — A private online community where women entrepreneurs come together regularly for strategy, accountability, education, encouragement, and collaborative problem-solving. It's a place to talk through real business challenges, share ideas, and grow alongside women who get it.

• Business Services — Expert support for the parts of your business you don't want to figure out or do alone. From website design, SEO and GEO to brand photography, content, business systems, marketing strategy, and leadership coaching, our curated team helps established businesses strengthen their presence and move forward.

• Free Local Meet Ups — Free, in-person monthly gatherings where female entrepreneurs connect with a local community, talk through real business challenges, share ideas, and build meaningful relationships. With chapters across the United States, there's a growing network of women building businesses together.

• Dream, Build, Grow: A Female's Step-by-Step Guide for How to Start a Business — A practical business book created to help women turn an idea into a business with greater clarity and confidence.

• Free Business Downloads — Practical guides, tools, and resources to help women navigate the decisions and challenges that come with building and growing a business.

• Founding Females Blog — Educational articles covering the business, marketing, leadership, and personal growth topics that matter to women entrepreneurs.

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 and here on our website.

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.

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.

Founding Females® is for women entrepreneurs, business owners, and aspiring entrepreneurs who want to build a business while being surrounded by a supportive community of women.

We welcome women at different stages of entrepreneurship, from those who are still developing a business idea to women launching, growing, or scaling established businesses. Our community includes women across industries, business models, and stages of growth.

Whether you’re looking for female entrepreneur networking, business education, accountability, local connections, or expert support for your business, Founding Females® offers a place to start.

Founding Females® supports women at every stage of business, from the early idea stage through launching, growing, and scaling an established business.

If you’re thinking about starting a business, resources like Dream, Build, Grow and our How to Start a Business for Women guide can help you build a strong foundation. If you’re actively growing your business, our Women’s Business Mastermind provides ongoing strategy, accountability, education, and community. And if your established business has outgrown its current website, marketing, brand, or systems, our business services can help you build what’s next.

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Founding Females® offers networking opportunities, but we’re more than a traditional networking group. Our free female entrepreneur Meet Ups are designed to help women build genuine relationships, exchange ideas, talk through business challenges, and find their people without the pressure of transactional networking.

For women who want deeper, ongoing business support, the Women’s Business Mastermind provides a private online community with strategy, accountability, education, and collaborative problem-solving.

Think of Founding Females® as a community for women building businesses, with multiple ways to connect and grow depending on what you need.

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Founding Females® is designed to support the whole entrepreneurial journey, not just one part of it. We combine community, education, accountability, and practical business support so women can find what they need as their businesses evolve.

You might meet other women entrepreneurs at a free local Meet Up, work through a business challenge inside the Women’s Business Mastermind, use one of our educational resources, or work with a trusted expert through our business services.

There’s no one “right” way to participate. Founding Females® is built around the idea that you can start wherever you are, take what you need, and grow into whatever comes next.

The three core ways to participate in Founding Females® serve different needs:

• Meet Ups are free, in-person gatherings for female entrepreneurs who want to connect with other women in their local community, build relationships, exchange ideas, and talk business.

• The Women’s Business Mastermind is a private online community for women who want ongoing business strategy, accountability, education, encouragement, and collaborative problem-solving.

• Business Services provide expert support for women who are ready to get specific business, marketing, website, branding, systems, or leadership work done. Our curated team helps established businesses strengthen their online presence and build the infrastructure they need for what’s next.

You can participate in one, two, or all three depending on what your business needs.