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. …
Money Talks Part 2: Past Money Messages that Drive Our Relationship with Money Today
We know that the relationships that we have today are often driven by the money messages of yesterday. In Part 2 of our review of DyMynd’s Money Talk Blog Series we reflect and analyze the key money messages that women throughout Chicago have received over the years. When it comes to money, women were given all sorts of messages, for …
Money Talks Part 1: What Were Your First Experiences With Money? Love? Hate? Meh?
At DyMynd, as part of our Money Talk Blog Series, we have been asking women when they first began to learn about money, and gain financial knowledge. Through our research and talks with women across Chicago we have found out so much about how women feel about and relate to money. In this three part reflection we will discuss what …
Money Talks: Exploring Women’s Relationship with Money – Featuring: Katherine Hatter
At DyMynd we focus on a woman’s relationship with money to break down the barrier for financial empowerment. Money has culturally been a taboo subject and we have found that women are told not to talk about it in public. This leads women to feel uncomfortable about their finances and uneasy to share their stories and experiences. This year …
Money Talks: Exploring Women’s Relationship with Money – Featuring: Dianne Akers
At DyMynd we focus on a woman’s relationship with money to break down the barrier for financial empowerment. Money has culturally been a taboo subject and we have found that women are told not to talk about it in public. This leads women to feel uncomfortable about their finances and uneasy to share their stories and experiences. This year …
Money Talks: Exploring Women’s Relationship with Money – Featuring: Kim Taylor
At DyMynd we focus on a woman’s relationship with money to break down the barrier for financial empowerment. Money has culturally been a taboo subject and we have found that women are told not to talk about it in public. This leads women to feel uncomfortable about their finances and uneasy to share their stories and experiences. This year …
Money Talks: Exploring Women’s Relationship with Money – Featuring: Maria Doughty
At DyMynd we focus on a woman’s relationship with money to break down the barrier for financial empowerment. Money has culturally been a taboo subject and we have found that women are told not to talk about it in public. This leads women to feel uncomfortable about their finances and uneasy to share their stories and experiences. This year …
Money Talks: Exploring Women’s Relationship with Money – Featuring: Nancy Stern
At DyMynd we focus on a woman’s relationship with money to break down the barrier for financial empowerment. Money has culturally been a taboo subject and we have found that women are told not to talk about it in public. This leads women to feel uncomfortable about their finances and uneasy to share their stories and experiences. This year …
Money Talks: Exploring Women’s Relationship with Money – Featuring: Betty Sharples
At DyMynd we focus on a woman’s relationship with money to break down the barrier for financial empowerment. Money has culturally been a taboo subject and we have found that women are told not to talk about it in public. This leads women to feel uncomfortable about their finances and uneasy to share their stories and experiences. This year …
Money Talks: Exploring Women’s Relationship with Money – Featuring: Alli Brennan
At DyMynd we focus on a woman’s relationship with money to break down the barrier for financial empowerment. Money has culturally been a taboo subject and we have found that women are told not to talk about it in public. This leads women to feel uncomfortable about their finances and uneasy to share their stories and experiences. This year …
Money Talks: Exploring Women’s Relationship with Money – Featuring: Jennifer Smith Tapp
At DyMynd we focus on a woman’s relationship with money to break down the barrier for financial empowerment. Money has culturally been a taboo subject and we have found that women are told not to talk about it in public. This leads women to feel uncomfortable about their finances and uneasy to share their stories and experiences. This year …
Money Talks: Exploring Women’s Relationship with Money – Featuring: Diana Peters
At DyMynd we focus on a woman’s relationship with money to break down the barrier for financial empowerment. Money has culturally been a taboo subject and we have found that women are told not to talk about it in public. This leads women to feel uncomfortable about their finances and uneasy to share their stories and experiences. This year …
Money Talks: Exploring Women’s Relationship with Money – Featuring: Raheela Anwar
At DyMynd we focus on a woman’s relationship with money to break down the barrier for financial empowerment. Money has culturally been a taboo subject and we have found that women are told not to talk about it in public. This leads women to feel uncomfortable about their finances and uneasy to share their stories and experiences. This year …
Money Talks: Exploring Women’s Relationship with Money – Featuring: Ann Linton
At DyMynd we focus on a woman’s relationship with money to break down the barrier for financial empowerment. Money has culturally been a taboo subject and we have found that women are told not to talk about it in public. This leads women to feel uncomfortable about their finances and uneasy to share their stories and experiences. This year …
Money Talks: Exploring Women’s Relationship with Money – Featuring: Monika Black
At DyMynd we focus on a woman’s relationship with money to break down the barrier for financial empowerment. Money has culturally been a taboo subject and we have found that women are told not to talk about it in public. This leads women to feel uncomfortable about their finances and uneasy to share their stories and experiences. This year …
Money Talks: Exploring Women’s Relationship with Money – Featuring: Mary Lou Giustini
At DyMynd we focus on a woman’s relationship with money to break down the barrier for financial empowerment. Money has culturally been a taboo subject and we have found that women are told not to talk about it in public. This leads women to feel uncomfortable about their finances and uneasy to share their stories and experiences. This year …
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 …
Make a Good Impression in 7 Seconds – Now on TheGlasshammer.com
TheGlasshammer.com recently published an article I wrote on the value of networking titled, It Takes Seven Seconds to Make a Good Impression. I think women have an abundant list of excuses for not actively networking. We must get over it. A strong network provides a group of people who have your best interests at heart, will give you their best …
Use These 5 Tips to Help Spring Clean Your Finances.
Some of the clutter and chaos in our lives we don’t have control of but, we can de-clutter our financial lives. You know how good you feel after a good spring-cleaning of your closet when everything is thrown out, donated or organized? We have five tips to help spring clean your finances. Spending Plan – If you are like me …
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 …
The many ways DyMynd helps firms
One of the hardest questions for us to answer here at DyMynd is “exactly how does DyMynd help?” Our response is usually something along the lines of, “Where do we begin?!” DyMynd has countless benefits and applications to firms that inherently struggle to know their clients better and then to capture and retain that information, let alone act against it. …