March 22, 2022 Newsletter

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March 22, 2022

Clearing a New Path™ and Clearing a New Path Podcast™ are products of Radar Media, located in Dorchester, Ontario on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and Neutral peoples who once used this land as their traditional beaver hunting grounds.  As a settler here I’m committed to deepening understanding of Indigenous communities and reframing responsibilities to land and community. I am grateful to Mother Earth for the opportunity for love and connection and to the spirits of the Elders and the Medicine People who still walk the Earth.

MARCH 22, 2022

Thank you for your continued support, it means a great deal. We're finally planning our first virtual event. Watch your inbox for a 'Save the Date'!This week's podcast guest is Lourdes Still from Masagana Flower Farm and Studio. 

Are social media influencers considered entrepreneurs? And would more men taking paternity leave really 'save' women's careers? See below and hit reply to tell us your thoughts.

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Lourdes Still is the founder of Masagana Flower Farm and Studio

, located near La Broqueriue, Manitoba. Lourdes came to Canada from the Philippines, with the goal of working in nutrition but her journey took her first to becoming a flower buyer, then a flower farmer, and now she hosts a destination farm experience, showing people the merits of natural flower dying and how gardens allow for a positive response to our climate emergency.

NEWS

On my mind this week:

1.

This may be a generational thing but are female social media 'influencers' considered entrepreneurs?

Many folks have carved out a community for their businesses on social media platforms but 

I have never considered influencers entrepreneurs.

and wondered what others thought. Is it considered a legitimate 'business'? 

"Yet so few women who take the leap and run their social media pages full-time are called entrepreneurs and celebrated as such. It’s as though because they’re in the sphere of fashion, homeware, or lifestyle it can’t possibly be taken seriously. A whiff of snobbery hangs heavy in the air." (Source: iNews.co.uk)

Thoughts? Let me know, hit reply.

2. I keep saying it but the one single challenge I keep hearing from women entrepreneurs is access to capital for their businesses.

What if financial products were actually designed for women? 

"Enabling women to gain better access to finance could 

 in annual global revenue, but the financial world is still dominated by men. It’s not that men can’t have empathy for women, it’s that men aren’t women. They can’t experience the barriers that women face every minute of every day."

3.

The next generation of young female entrepreneurs?

"“Kids really don’t get the opportunity to showcase their work a lot,” she said, adding when most people think of entrepreneurs, they think of older age groups." (Source: article and image - St. Catherine's Standard)

4.

Margaret Magner, CEO of the P.E.I. Business Women’s Association (PEIBWA), has been named one of the top-25 most powerful women in business in Atlantic Canada by Atlantic Business Magazine.

“During Magner's tenure as CEO of the PEIBWA, the organization has grown to three locations, including the Rural Women’s Business Centre in Central Bedeque, its Charlottetown space and a Montague office opening this month.

Under Magner's watch, the association also created P.E.I.'s first business accelerator and start-up incubator for women, developed programs for women under the age of 30 looking to start a business and launched a program to encourage female high school students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and the trades.” (Article and image source: SaltWire)

5. Would more men taking paternity leave really 'save' women's careers?

Globe and Mail columnist Daina Lawrence

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