Founder @ PMDojo | Ex-Atlassian | Product Leadership Coach | Keynote Speaker | Community Builder | Mom 👩‍👦🐶

You’re a high-performing woman doing everything right. You consistently deliver the results, survive the fire drills and have proven your value ten times over. Yet, when the Dir/VP roles open... you hear

"Be more strategic" "Have more executive presence" or "Wait your turn"

while less qualified people move ahead.💔

This isn't about your work ethic or working harder. It’s about power, perception, and strategic influence. As a former C-Suite executive, I know how these decisions are made because I've sat in the talent reviews and promotion discussions.

I started my career right at the bottom in a junior Tech Support role and fought through dysfunctional reorgs and M&As to become a Company President and C-Suite Executive. 

As a working mom and often the youngest executive in the room, I was told every reason why I wasn’t “fit” for the top. I didn’t just shatter the ceiling…I mastered the behavioral psychology required to own the room.

I’ve helped 5,000+ women get promoted at Dir/VP and C-Suite levels and, for many, build founder paths alongside or beyond corporate securing $5.5M in combined raises. and secure $5.5M in combined raises in months, not years.

Stop being the doer that does all the work and start being the leader who leads it. Every cycle you wait is a $40k-$125K mistake.

Send me a DM. Get your seat at the table.✌️

Every investor who rejected these 6 women is somewhere regretting it. 🌶️ 
The venture capital world loves to talk about "potential," but only 2.3% of funding goes to women.

These 6 women didn't wait for a term sheet or a seat at someone else's table. They built their own, and more importantly, they kept every chair.

1: Sara Blakely - Turned $5,000 into Spanx, built a $1.2 billion company, and self-funded it for 21 years. When Blackstone bought it in 2021, she still owned 100%.
Lesson: The money you have is enough to start. The money you make is enough to grow.

2: Mahisha Dellinger: A bank told her no, so she bootstrapped CURLS with $25,000 anyway, a hair care brand for natural curls that industry ignored. Today, it's a $15 million brand sitting in Walmart, Target, and CVS Health.
Lesson: A bank's "no" isn't a verdict. It's a detour to full ownership.

3: Cate Luzio: Self-funded Luminary when everyone told her to raise. Now: 30 countries, 100+ corporate partners, and zero outside capital.
Lesson: People warning you about risk often haven't taken any themselves.

4: Natalia Shahmetova: When VCs wouldn't touch pet tech, she went ahead anyway. Woofz now has 21 million downloads and $20M in annual revenue, built entirely on her own terms.
Lesson: Build where no one's looking. By the time they notice, you're already ahead.

5: Jaclyn Johnson: Bootstrapped Create & Cultivate, sold it for $22 million, then bought it back. All by 35.
Lesson: An exit doesn't have to be the end. If you built it right, you can take it back.

6: ✨Vivian Kaye: She built what the beauty industry wouldn't...products for Black women with curly hair, starting with herself. A college dropout and single mother, she bootstrapped KinkyCurlyYaki to 7 figures.
Lesson: The best products come from founders who needed them first.

We’ve been trained to think that "making it" means someone else validated us with a check.

These 6 women didn’t wait for the world to change.
They built empires anyway.

P.S. Know a woman building something without VC backing? Tag her below; let's give her some 🌸 🥰 .

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