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Be inspired. As Walt Disney said, "If you can dream, you can do it."
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©2025 Laurel J. Delaney. All rights reserved. |
Be inspired. As Walt Disney said, "If you can dream, you can do it."
This is why fashion designer Rebecca Minkoff created The Female Founder Collective, a powerful, high-impact network and education platform designed to help women build wealth, scale their businesses, and offer access to content, learning and capital.
Women need community to support one another.
Today, the FFC has grown into a thriving community of 25,000 founders, spanning industries from beauty to healthcare to tech. Most of their early supporters, including prominent founders Aurora James, Zanna Roberts Rassi, Michelle Cordeiro Grant and others, are still part of the network today.
Learn more about the movement here, which is needed more than ever now in such a volatile market.
In September, 2024 Walton became the world’s wealthiest woman once again, overtaking French L’Oréal heiress Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, who had surpassed her for the previous two and a half years. The Walmart heiress is best known for spearheading the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in her family’s hometown of Bentonville, Arkansas. She has given away an estimated $1.7 billion, including a recent gift of $249 million to help fund the new Alice L. Walton School of Medicine, also in Bentonville.
In all, the 15 “centibillionaires” are worth $2.4 trillion, nearly $400 billion more than a year ago—and more than the planet’s 1,500 “poorest” billionaires combined. Put another way, this group of just 0.5% of the world’s 3,028 billionaires holds an incredible 15% of all billionaire wealth.
Here's more focusing on the world's richest women 2025.
One was Mary Crumley-Effinger, Managing Partner at Texas Roadhouse. She shares how she navigates being in a male-dominated field.
"For me, like we said before, it's a male-dominated field, so making sure you find those allies and the people to look up to whether they're in your business or a business like yours. It doesn't necessarily have to be the same restaurant business. Someone that you can ask to support you in your endeavors," Crumley-Effinger said.
Read the entire article here to learn what other female business owners had to say.
Here are several businesswomen from diverse sectors, including footwear, fashion, beauty, women’s health, food, auto repair and more sharing their stories and what motivated them to embark on their entrepreneurial journeys.
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