Own Your Power: 4 Lessons from Women Who Built, Adapted & Grew

Have you ever questioned whether you’re resilient enough to navigate setbacks, confident enough to communicate your value, or connected enough to grow your business? Entrepreneurship requires more than a strong business model. It also requires the mindset and relationships needed to move forward when things don’t go according to plan.

Own Your Power: 4 Lessons from Women Who Built, Adapted & Grew is Part 2 of our Women Who Built It: 9 Business Lessons from 9 Women Entrepreneurs series. This interactive Lunch & Learn explores the human side of entrepreneurship through the experiences of women who have successfully navigated growth, change, challenges, and reinvention.

Learn From Women Who Built, Adapted & Grew

Building a business isn’t only about having the right business model. It also requires the confidence to communicate your value, resilience when things don’t go according to plan, relationships that open doors, and the ability to adapt as your business evolves.

During this workshop, you’ll explore the journeys of Liliane Colpron, Sophia Amoruso, Arlene Dickinson, and Manjit Minhas. Through their experiences of pitching, rejection, reinvention, partnerships, resilience, and growth, you’ll discover practical lessons about the personal capabilities that support long-term entrepreneurial success.

What You’ll Learn

Develop the Human Side of Entrepreneurship

• Explore confidence and resilience as entrepreneurial capabilities.
• Learn how entrepreneurs navigate rejection, uncertainty, and setbacks.
• Understand the role of networks, partnerships, and relationships in business growth.
• Explore how personal identity and lived experience can shape an entrepreneurial journey.
• See how adaptability helps entrepreneurs evolve and grow.

Strengthen Your Own Entrepreneurial Journey

• Reflect on your own strengths, gaps, and support networks.
• Identify opportunities to build confidence and resilience.
• Think strategically about the relationships that can support your growth.
• Learn how the Business Model Canvas can help connect these elements.
• Leave with practical questions and next steps for your venture.

Why Attend?

A business model can tell you what a business does, but it doesn’t tell the whole entrepreneurial story.

Entrepreneurs also need to communicate, negotiate, build relationships, recover from setbacks, and make decisions when there is no clear answer. These capabilities can have a major impact on whether a business moves forward.

Through real examples rather than abstract theory, this session invites participants to look at entrepreneurship more holistically and recognize that there is no single profile or pathway to entrepreneurial success.

Who Should Attend?

• Women entrepreneurs navigating uncertainty or transition.
• Entrepreneurs preparing to pitch, sell, or communicate their business.
• Immigrant and newcomer entrepreneurs building networks in a new market.
• Self-employed professionals looking to grow beyond their individual capacity.
• Entrepreneurs who want to strengthen their confidence, resilience, and support network.

Workshop Details

Workshop: Own Your Power: 4 Lessons from Women Who Built, Adapted & Grew
Speaker: Azadeh Monfared, ELLEvate Business Coach, YES
Date: Wednesday, October 14, 2026
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Location: Online
Cost: Free

Register today and discover how confidence, resilience, adaptability, and meaningful relationships can help you strengthen your entrepreneurial journey and move your business forward.