Hi Ladies, Every founder eventually faces the question: fund it yourself, or bring in outside capital? There's no universally right answer — only the right answer for you, your business, and your goals. This is a quick reminder for our workshop on Wednesday 🔻 ​Join us for an honest conversation with our Hamburg Ambassador, @Felicitas Hagen , a strategic and hands-on marketing, brand & communications professional with 10+ years of experience in tech and VC. From PR and content strategy to brand positioning and executive thought leadership, Felicitas brings a full-stack perspective on what it really takes to build and market a company, with or without VC backing. ​And because bootstrapping and VC aren't the only paths, we're joined by co-host Nina Simone, who'll share more on angel investment, crowdfunding, and other alternative ways to fund your business because building on your own terms is part of what authenticity means to us. ​Together, we'll explore: - ​The real trade-offs of bootstrapping vs. raising VC money - ​What VCs actually look for, and what it costs you beyond equity - ​Alternative funding paths: angels, crowdfunding, and more - ​How to decide which route fits your business and your values Sign up on Luma https://luma.com/hrxsczz4 or upgrade to Premium to watch the recording afterwards!

Bom dia 🔆 I'm Kat and I have a question for the yoga and Pilates teachers in here: You know that feeling in another teacher's class when you catch yourself thinking, that's a great idea, I'm stealing that for next week? Now imagine five days of it. Next week I'm bringing a small group of yoga and Pilates teachers together in Torres Vedras: five days to work on ourselves and our teaching. Learning from each other, challenging each other, growing together. I facilitate it with structured peer intervision, drawing on my background as a physiotherapist and former university teacher. It's a first edition and the group is small, there's room for 2 more teachers. If that lands for you, send me a DM and I'll tell you more 💌

Hello Ladies This summer, we're taking time to reflect on how we can bring you and your business forward. We'd love to hear directly from you: Which of these community formats sounds most valuable to you right now? Leave a comment if you have other suggestions. Thank you for voting!

Hello ladies! I need some help/advice. I want to choose an email marketing tool that I can use to open a wait list for a program I am running in the late summer, and then continue to use to build a list outside of Substack (my current newsletter) and I'd love to hear about which ones you use. I've been thinking of using Mailerlite, as my web designer suggested, but she also mentioned I need to register an official email address with my website domain and it seems a bit complicated and an extra cost. So, my question to you is, which email marketing do you use that is cheap and easy to set up? And if you have an email with your website domain, how/where did you get it? I am quite newbie to these matters so any input will be valuable! Thank you!! Ana

I was born in Barcelona and have called Portugal home for the past 5 years. My path here has been anything but linear, and I’ve come to see that as one of my biggest strengths. I spent over 25 years as a teacher, starting with preschoolers, then training in Montessori and founding a bilingual Montessori nursery at 28. Later I moved into teaching English to adults, specializing in in-company training. Alongside my career, life was teaching me its own lessons. I married at 22, had my son at 24, and divorced at 27. I’ve always been driven, curious, and hungry to grow, and even in my early twenties I knew there was more to life than working hard to pay the bills. I wanted to understand myself, my relationships, and what real fulfillment looked like. Years later, in a second marriage that also wasn’t right for me, I decided to train as a nutritionist; health has always fascinated me. At the same time, I started personal therapy with a Gestalt therapist, mostly to help me figure out whether to stay married or not. Three months in, I knew: Gestalt was my calling. I walked away from nutrition school and spent the next 3 years training as a Gestalt therapist. It changed everything. I’ve now been a therapist for 10.5 years, and I truly found my ikigai. Working 1:1 showed me how powerful this work is and also how limited my impact could be one client at a time. So I set out to build a group program that could reach more women. I’ve been developing it for the past 3 years; the women who’ve been through it have loved it, and I haven’t yet cracked how to bring it to a bigger group. I know in my bones this work can transform hundreds of lives — that’s the mission I’m here to fulfill. 🙏