About WINC
Women are starting businesses 1.5 times faster than the national rate in the United States. WINC is for women entrepreneurs. If you are a self-employed woman — whether you are a single mom with a knitting trade, a professional with a freelance business, or a social entrepreneur starting a new venture — you are a woman entrepreneur. WINC is a community where we can gather and grow.
WINC is a women's small-business incubator.
WINC offers a time and place for women to support each other in doing what we love, improving the way we run our businesses, and discovering meaningful community and self-awareness. In 2012, WINC will bring together twelve women business owners in Boulder, Colorado. These twelve women will spend one year together in regular meetings to vision, plan, and execute the next layer of their businesses in a culture of cooperation and accountability.
"The reason we are so supportive of
[women's] cooperatives is that we really saw that
the impact of ten women working together is infinitely greater
than one woman working by herself."
- Kathleen Wright, Director of Sales and Marketing, Nest
WINC Values
Balanced Leadership – our success defined by revenues and impact, as well as integrity, healthy relationships, and self-awareness.
Financial Clarity – our ability to live within our means while cultivating a financial life that reflects our values and vision.
Connection – our intimate connection with our selves and others as a source of happiness, health, and depth.
Self-Awareness – our tender yet persistent exploration of the meaning of life and our place within it.
Women's community is powerful, sacred, and healthy.
WINC Circle
Up to twelve women entrepreneurs in Boulder, Colorado will embark together on the beta testing of the WINC model beginning March 14, 2012. Learn more here. Applications due February 22. Apply here.
"Spreading entrepreneurship in general,
and women's entrepreneurship in particular,
has always relied on local culture and local social capital."
– Irene Pivetti, Former President of Parliament of Italy
Get Involved
The WINC community would love to meet you by phone, email, online, or at the WINC Wednesday gatherings!
WINC Wednesdays
WINC Wednesdays is a free gathering of women and women entrepreneurs on the 2nd Wednesday of each month in Boulder, Colorado.
RSVP for the gatherings on February 8, March 14, and April 11 from 5:30-7:30pm at Shine Restaurant.
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Myka McLaughlin | myka@womenincommunity.com | office: 303.444.4342
About Myka McLaughlin
Myka McLaughlin is a small-business consultant that provides her clients with communications, research, and operational support. She has participated in women's community in Boulder, Colorado for nearly ten years, and genuinely cares about a culture of intimacy and friendship among women.
Her professional experience spans public, private, and non-profit organizations across diverse areas such as advertising, research and analysis, international relations, women's rights, peace and conflict, and energy and environment. She has been self-employed for the majority of her adult life and WINC is her second small business. Myka graduated with distinction from the University of Colorado with a B.A. in International Affairs and Economics. She has worked in twenty countries on five continents.
Myka designed WINC based on the business skills she has to offer, her experience in women's community, and the needs of self-employed women who make less than $50K per year. She is wildly inspired by the power of women's community to support women entrepreneurs, and she is deeply committed to cultivating health and wealth in lives and communities around the world.