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• First hires, org design, and people practices
• Founder capacity, leadership, and role evolution
• Legal, IP, and risk

I want help building and expanding the program itself, especially: - Program design and founder experience. - Recruiting advisors and mentors - Virtual expansion beyond Seattle. - Replicating the model in other cities or regions. - Operating structure, partnerships, and scale strategy. - Turning early traction into a repeatable community platform.

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• Sales, first customers, and go-to-market
• Capital strategy and fundraising readiness
• Founder capacity, leadership, and role evolution

Ed tech advisory on pre-seed funding and non-dilutive funding opportunities, thought partnership on GTM strategy for ed tech direct to consumer, and connections to independent schools or other relevant institutions for pilot design and participation.

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• Legal, IP, and risk
• Finance, cash flow, and operations systems
• Capital strategy and fundraising readiness

Customer Discovery Chats, exploring burnout, wellness practices, and the simplest systems that make the greatest impact.

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Pilot customers, GTM strategy

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I want to hear about the communities that power your world.

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• Pricing, packaging, and offers
• Positioning, messaging, and brand story
• Sales, first customers, and go-to-market

Content and concept feedback. Network introductions and warm leads.

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• Sales, first customers, and go-to-market
• First hires, org design, and people practices
• Capital strategy and fundraising readiness

Strategic introductions to angel investors interested in legal tech SaaS and thoughtful feedback.

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• Sales, first customers, and go-to-market
• Capital strategy and fundraising readiness
• Legal, IP, and risk

Thoughtful feedback, strategic introductions, and connections with angel investors, employer benefits leaders, brokers, and women’s health leaders.

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Scaling, venture fluency and beta adoption

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• Capital strategy and fundraising readiness
• Positioning, messaging, and brand story
• Sales, first customers, and go-to-market

I’m looking to continue building out my network of founders and funders. It can get lonely and feel isolating, and my community has consistently helped me find balance in those moments. I’m excited to participate in this Swell!

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• Pricing, packaging, and offers
• Legal, IP, and risk

How to think about when to just go (not letting perfect getting in the way of good enough)

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• Sales, first customers, and go-to-market

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• Clarifying my business strategy and model
• Positioning, messaging, and brand story
• Sales, first customers, and go-to-market

I am building a program to help women embrace their shadow side for the sake of empowerment. I am looking for feedback on the program.

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• Brand, design, and content marketing
• Clarifying my business strategy and model
• Positioning, messaging, and brand story

I need to get my ducks in a row first, then I'll have clarity on my specific ask!

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• Clarifying my business strategy and model
• Positioning, messaging, and brand story
• Brand, design, and content marketing

I need feedback on validating my value proposition, attractiveness of content and audience segmentation.

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• Sales, first customers, and go-to-market
• Pricing, packaging, and offers
• Founder capacity, leadership, and role evolution

Guidance on taking HapHunt from current state to sellable asset. I'm bootstrapped and solo, building a verified restaurant-data moat with acquisition as the goal, and I want advice from people who've positioned and sold a data company. Plus support building a B2B sales/GTM motion (pricing reports for restaurants) that runs inbound; cold outreach doesn't scale to a founder of one. Intros to restaurant operators welcome.

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• Using AI inside my product or workflows

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• Using AI inside my product or workflows
• Clarifying my business strategy and model
• Positioning, messaging, and brand story

On AI: I want to integrate it more intentionally into my offerings, either as a product or as advisory support for organizations building bespoke in-house agents for trust-based, human-first cultures. Would love help strategizing this. On brand expansion: I'm also moving into storytelling and keynote speaking. I'm not yet sure how to fold this into my existing brand without it feeling crammed in as an add-on, or swinging too far and overtaking what I've already built. Some brand-shifting-but-not-overwriting ideas would be welcome!

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• Positioning, messaging, and brand story
• Brand, design, and content marketing
• Founder capacity, leadership, and role evolution

I'd love to find a team of people who are passionate about entrepreneurship enablement via tools and community.

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• Clarifying my business strategy and model
• Brand, design, and content marketing
• Positioning, messaging, and brand story

I’m particularly interested in how experienced operators build a portfolio career that combines meaningful client work with intellectual capital, advisory relationships, and room for the right opportunities as they emerge. I value conversations with people who have built this kind of model themselves, work closely with CEOs and founders, or can challenge my thinking about where my experience is most valuable in the market.

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• Pricing, packaging, and offers
• Capital strategy and fundraising readiness
• Founder capacity, leadership, and role evolution

We have been bootstrapping for awhile now and need to raise funds to get us to the next level. Always open to mentorship and guidance!

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• Positioning, messaging, and brand story
• Clarifying my business strategy and model

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• Clarifying my business strategy and model
• Using AI inside my product or workflows

I’m exploring what’s next, not just in my career, but in my sense of purpose. I’m looking to be inspired, learn from others, and discover what I could create by bringing together my strengths in strategy, creativity, community, and business.

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• Capital strategy and fundraising readiness
• Sales, first customers, and go-to-market
• Positioning, messaging, and brand story

I need help securing warm introductions to executive leadership at Brooks Running for the ideal partnership (specifically CEO Dan Sheridan or CPO Carson Caprara). I have a finalized pitch deck featuring my product as well as a proprietary marketing initiative that builds a permanent, next-gen brand philosophy for their company, and I need network leverage to get it in front of the right decision-maker.

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• Using AI inside my product or workflows

Would love input on AI automations + intros to any speaking opportunities. In 2027 I want to be able to speak at more local business events.

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• Using AI inside my product or workflows
• Legal, IP, and risk
• Clarifying my business strategy and model

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Three things right now: women at a career, health, or life inflection point who'd want hands-on coaching or a workshop experience. An intro to anyone organizing women's wellness events, retreats, or corporate programs who might want to host a workshop. And honest feedback from other founders on offerings.

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• Sales, first customers, and go-to-market
• Pricing, packaging, and offers
• Founder capacity, leadership, and role evolution

Social Media Marketing - Looking for ways to grow my audience and I have a difficult time with consistency. I also want to be stronger at sales. What are emerging trends and how do you stay consistent in selling services as a solo-founder?

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• Founder capacity, leadership, and role evolution
• Brand, design, and content marketing
• Positioning, messaging, and brand story

I am currently seeking warm introductions to internal hiring teams, HR talent acquisition, or creative directors at innovative corporations and agencies in the Greater Seattle area. Specifically, I am looking to connect with companies focused on luxury, lifestyle, premium retail, or design-forward industries where my international brand strategy experience can add immediate value

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• Positioning, messaging, and brand story
• Sales, first customers, and go-to-market
• Clarifying my business strategy and model

We are recruiting a cohort of beta “design partners” who will run product decisions through the platform and provide feedback that will inform future iterations of Crosshatch. If you have founders or product leaders in your network who might be a fit for this program, I’d love an intro!

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• Positioning, messaging, and brand story
• Using AI inside my product or workflows
• Clarifying my business strategy and model

Right now I mostly need feedback on which approach to choose and how to begin implementing my project.

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• Using AI inside my product or workflows
• Founder capacity, leadership, and role evolution
• Clarifying my business strategy and model

SLED contracting and relationship building

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• Legal, IP, and risk
• Founder capacity, leadership, and role evolution
• Sales, first customers, and go-to-market

Feedback always - it is gold. Learning funding options/opportunities as this is my first startup where I will likely need some funding.

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• Sales, first customers, and go-to-market
• Capital strategy and fundraising readiness
• Legal, IP, and risk

Getting introductions to potential customers and putting our product in front of more people. Get fellow marketers' feedback on new features we are developing.

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• Using AI inside my product or workflows
• Sales, first customers, and go-to-market

1) Advice: I'd love advice on self-publishing my book from anyone who has done it before. 2) Podcast Guests - people who want to share their own story of what's NEXT for them 3) Coaching clients - know anyone who is stuck on finding what's next? send them my way!

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• Pricing, packaging, and offers
• Finance, cash flow, and operations systems
• Using AI inside my product or workflows

Intros to female-founded startups that need marketing strategy and execution but that aren’t ready for a fulltime marketing exec hire.

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• Clarifying my business strategy and model
• Positioning, messaging, and brand story
• Sales, first customers, and go-to-market

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• Legal, IP, and risk
• Clarifying my business strategy and model
• Capital strategy and fundraising readiness

I want help deciding how to structure and grow three distinct but connected brands without losing focus: expanding Build With Chericka, growing Love + Leisure’s destination wedding and group travel business, and creating a sustainable revenue and funding model for SistaCircle. I would value introductions to aligned funders and strategic partners, along with legal guidance around entity structure, trademarks and intellectual property, contracts, privacy, and risk across consulting, travel, digital resources, and a wellness community.

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• Pricing, packaging, and offers
• Founder capacity, leadership, and role evolution
• Sales, first customers, and go-to-market

We are growing our membership and are excited for the partnership with Swell, which provides discounted membership to Swell members.

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• Pricing, packaging, and offers
• Sales, first customers, and go-to-market
• Founder capacity, leadership, and role evolution

I’d love to meet mission-aligned founders, media creators, strategic collaborators, and parents seeking entrepreneurship mentoring for their children.

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• Pricing, packaging, and offers
• Sales, first customers, and go-to-market
• Clarifying my business strategy and model

Looking for input on clarifying my service model and how to package and price fractional support the right way, plus introductions to founders who could use hands-on help with events, travel, or day-to-day operations as I build out my go-to-market.

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• Clarifying my business strategy and model
• Sales, first customers, and go-to-market
• Pricing, packaging, and offers

Right now, I need help sharpening OUInvest’s business model, pricing, and go-to-market strategy as we move from early traction into repeatable growth. I’d especially value feedback on which customer segment we should prioritize first, how to package our education, community, AI tools, and cohort experiences, and what our strongest initial revenue model should be. I’m also looking for introductions to community organizations, financial institutions, employers, or other partners that could pilot OUInvest with their members or customers.

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• Using AI inside my product or workflows

Looking to meet founders building technology for hospitality, foodservice and consumer brands, senior operators at multi-location restaurant groups, and emerging CPG founders. Always interested in new technology, smart partnerships and companies at an inflection point around growth.

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• Clarifying my business strategy and model
• Using AI inside my product or workflows
• Sales, first customers, and go-to-market

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• Positioning, messaging, and brand story
• Clarifying my business strategy and model
• Using AI inside my product or workflows

I’m shaping a flexible solo practice across coaching and consulting while staying open to the right fractional or in-house role. I’d love help clarifying the strongest offer, audience, positioning, and pricing—and deciding what to test first so I can move from lots of useful organic conversations to a simple, sustainable way for people to work with me.

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• Sales, first customers, and go-to-market
• Using AI inside my product or workflows
• Positioning, messaging, and brand story

I'd like to hear how AI has changed the way you deliver for clients. I'm working out where it fits in mine. Also, I'm a team of one, so when clients have me at capacity, nothing is lined up behind them. How do you keep a pipeline warm when you're heads-down?

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• Pricing, packaging, and offers
• Legal, IP, and risk
• Founder capacity, leadership, and role evolution

networking for speaking engagements and feedback on solution packages

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• Clarifying my business strategy and model
• Sales, first customers, and go-to-market
• Pricing, packaging, and offers

Reaching adult children of aging folks (Age 30-50ish)

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• Clarifying my business strategy and model
• Pricing, packaging, and offers
• Legal, IP, and risk

Feedback and thought partnership on turning early ideas into real products, especially from founders who’ve built consumer or family-focused businesses.

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• Clarifying my business strategy and model
• Sales, first customers, and go-to-market
• Finance, cash flow, and operations systems

I need to get clarity so that I can start actioning!

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• Clarifying my business strategy and model
• Founder capacity, leadership, and role evolution
• Sales, first customers, and go-to-market

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• Clarifying my business strategy and model

I need guidance on scaling from part-time freelancing to full-time business.

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• Founder capacity, leadership, and role evolution
• Sales, first customers, and go-to-market

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• Brand, design, and content marketing
• Sales, first customers, and go-to-market
• Pricing, packaging, and offers

Help me connect: HR, Talent, Learning & Development and women's leadership leaders who are rethinking how organizations support and retain experienced women. Help me build: Employer pilots, speaking opportunities, community partnerships and conversations with women who want to shape what Spark becomes next.