Cohort Spotlight on Caitlin McMahan. Smiling woman in white sweater and blue scarf sits in a bright room. Purple background with star doodles.

Cohort Spotlight: Caitlin McMahan

We’re continuing our Cohort Spotlight series for the Women’s Entrepreneurial Fellowship with Caitlin McMahan, the co-owner of Marcellus Metalcasters, a Michigan-based manufacturing company and one of the last foundries in

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Built to Run Without You

For everything we don’t like to do, there is someone out there who is really good, wants to do it, and will enjoy it. — Josh Kaufman As entrepreneurs, we

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Cohort Spotlight: Jenny Lashuay

We’re continuing our Cohort Spotlight series for the Women’s Entrepreneurial Fellowship, and this one is a fun one. Jenny Lashuay is the founder of BattleGR and BGR Event Center —

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Cohort Spotlight: Mary Barton

We’re continuing our Cohort Spotlight series for the Women’s Entrepreneurial Fellowship, sitting down with the women who make this program what it is. Next up is Mary Barton, a Detroit-based

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No is a Complete Sentence

Your energy is finite and precious—protect it accordingly. Most business owners operate as if they have unlimited capacity, saying yes to everything until they’re stretched impossibly thin, wondering why the

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Cohort Spotlight: Kirbay Preuss

Cohort Spotlight: Kirbay Preuss

This is the first installment of our Cohort Spotlight series for the Women’s Entrepreneurial Fellowship. We’re sitting down with the women who make this program what it is: hearing their

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Be still and build your lifeboat

Be Still & Build Your Lifeboat

Your business should be able to run without you, not someday, but now. Most owners can’t take a real vacation, can’t be unreachable for a week, and can’t get sick

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letting go to lead

Letting Go to Lead

Business ownership isn’t a solo act. If there’s one theme running through the Women’s Entrepreneurial Fellowship, it’s this: strong leadership emerges not from holding the reins tightly but from understanding when to step back and build systems that serve the business long-term. The

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Advice for Future Founders

Starting your own business is exhilarating, but it’s also intimidating. If I could offer one piece of advice to any woman standing at the starting line of her entrepreneurial journey,

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