Money Talks: Angel Investing – Featuring: Jessica Zander

At DyMynd we focus on a woman’s relationship with money, and how best to empower women forward towards a healthier sense of financial security. Understanding a woman’s emotional financial security can help her in life and in business. This year it is important that we break down these barriers so that we can all rise and stand together. DyMynd wants …

Chicago’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: Addressing the Female Funding Gap

For many of us, the idea of angel investing can be intimidating. The startup industry seems to be getting an immense amount of publicity thanks to TV shows like Shark Tank and Silicon Valley, companies like Facebook and Uber, and inspiring people like Elon Musk who’s successes have been widely celebrated and publicized. We often hear incredible stories about a …

Money Talks: Angel Investing – Featuring: Valerie Kahan

At DyMynd we focus on a woman’s relationship with money, and how best to empower women forward towards a healthier sense of financial security. Understanding a woman’s emotional financial security can help her in life and in business. This year it is important that we break down these barriers so that we can all rise and stand together. DyMynd wants …

Money Talks: Angel Investing – Featuring: Monika Black

At DyMynd we focus on a woman’s relationship with money, and how best to empower women forward towards a healthier sense of financial security. Understanding a woman’s emotional financial security can help her in life and in business. This year it is important that we break down these barriers so that we can all rise and stand together. DyMynd wants …

Money Talks: Angel Investing – Featuring: Carolyn Leonard

At DyMynd we focus on a woman’s relationship with money, and how best to empower women forward towards a healthier sense of financial security. Understanding a woman’s emotional financial security can help her in life and in business. This year it is important that we break down these barriers so that we can all rise and stand together. DyMynd wants …

Money Talks Part 3: Where Women’s Relationships With Money Sit Today

Since our journey with money is tied to Emotional Financial Security (EFS), defined as the degree to which one worries or has concerns about their future finances, regardless of their current financial standing. So high EFS isn’t about the size of your bank account, brokerage account or the size of the business you own, it is a state a mind. …

I Am My Own CFO

As women, we are slow to own the fact that each one of us is a Chief Family Officer and a Chief Financial Officer. We are reluctant to give ourselves credit for all we do and our accomplishments. In fact, Viola Davis after winning her Oscar this past Sunday said “I suffer from the Imposter Syndrome.” She went on to …

Want to Connect with Someone? Start By Being Human.

A recent study by Relative Solutions LLC states “Women want more engagement, more collaboration and have a broader view of what they want from their resources than their male counterparts”. Women tend to build relationships across a table, meeting for coffee or lunch. Women are very comfortable with direct engagements, sharing the day-to-day events of their lives. Men, on the …