I’ve never been afraid to start something.
I’ve launched ideas with no money, no team, and no blueprint more times than I can count. But what I don’t talk about enough is how lonely that starting point really is.
The silence after the big idea.
The way your voice shakes when you tell someone you love what you’re trying to build.
The polite nods, the concerned glances, the advice to just apply for another job—something stable, something "real."
I’ve always known I was building something bigger.
But I didn’t actually start building until someone else said, “Yes, I see it too.”
For me, that someone was Millicent.
Her “yes” didn’t come with funding or fanfare. It came with presence. With accountability. With someone else showing up in the Google Doc, replying to the email thread and dreaming just as loudly as I was.
That was the shift.
I wasn’t alone anymore. And I realized I had never really had that before—someone consistently showing up for me the way I’d always shown up for other people.
For the first time, I had a partner. Not a boss. Not a mentor. A peer and that changed everything.
I think about that moment all the time.
Because for years, I watched other people have what I didn’t:
● A cohort.
● A circle.
● A group text where ideas turned into opportunities.
And let’s be honest—those circles were rarely made with women like me in mind.
When Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, talked about what helped him succeed, he didn’t say it was venture capital or having the perfect idea. He said it was his peer group.
The people who challenged him to think bigger.
The ones who pushed him to question what he thought was true.
These are the people who were building the future alongside him—not waiting to be invited in.
Issa Rae echoes this same sentiment:
“We have a tendency to try to network up, when it really is about networking across—like who’s next to you, who’s struggling, who’s in the trenches with you, who’s just as hungry as you are. Those are the people that you need to build with. It’s about calling your college mate, it’s about calling your co-worker and saying, “Hey, you trying to do this? I’m trying to do this project.”
And it hit me.
This is the part most women never get access to.
We don’t get the all-boys’ club disguised as a tech incubator.
We don’t get surrounded by people who expect us to succeed.
We’re taught to network up, not across.
To be grateful for mentorship instead of hungry for community.
To prove ourselves in isolation before we’re allowed in the room.
And that’s the lie.
Because what I’ve seen—again and again—is that when women are surrounded by people who see them, hear them, and hold them to the highest version of their vision?
They build faster.
That’s what we’re building with Multi-Hyphenate Women.
Not just another Slack group.
Not a performative “girlboss” networking club.
But a real space where ambitious women come to build—and not alone.
We’re building an ecosystem where showing up as you are is enough to get started.
And where the community itself becomes the accelerator.
Because when we look around at what’s being built in AI, in media, in tech—we’re not just underrepresented. We’re under resourced.
And if we don’t build our own rooms?
We’ll keep getting left out of theirs.
Which brings us to the big headline: We are launching the world’s first AI-powered community for Multi-Hyphenate Women.
Why?
Everyone’s talking about AI like it’s the next gold rush.
The truth is, technology has never been neutral. It reflects the people who build it—and too often, those people don’t look like us. That’s why AI tools aren’t built for our voices, our names, our images, or our stories. When systems don’t see you, they erase you. And if we don’t claim space inside this AI wave, we’ll be written out of the future too.
Cause here’s what they’re not saying:
When women aren’t at the table, the tools don’t work for us—they work against us.
AI is already being used to track us.
To predict our behavior.
To flag us as risks in hiring pipelines.
Or to misidentify us in facial recognition systems.
And when you ask most AI tools to generate an image of a woman?
You already know who shows up.
It’s not us.
It’s not our hair, our skin tone, our language, or our reality.
That’s what happens when we’re not part of building the future—our stories get left out of the data.
And it is no longer enough for us to sit on the sidelines; we need to be active participants in training and building the future.
As UN Women put it:
The world has a gender equality problem, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) mirrors the gender bias in our society.
Here’s the other side:
Women are already using AI to close the gap.
To reclaim time, launch businesses. and to speak louder, faster, and smarter in rooms that once required silence.
And that’s where an AI powered community comes in.
Because it’s not just what tool you use.
It’s who you’re using it with.
And why.
When we’re in a community that sees us, we don’t just use AI—we retrain it.
We repurpose it.
And we make it work for women like us.
Inside the Multi-Hyphenate Women community, we’re doing it differently.
Here’s what that looks like:
Peer Circles where accountability isn’t forced—it’s natural. You show up because you want to.
Strategy Co-Working so you’re not tweaking your Notion page or campaign deck in a vacuum.
Live Trainings + AMAs with women who are building the thing and breaking the rules while they do it.
AI-with-Intent Workshops that help you build faster, write better, and actually get seen—with values, not vanity.
And the big one, Full access to our FREE Business Strategy + Content GPT—trained specifically to help you write, plan, and market. —because access should never be gatekept.
We built this for the version of us that was tired of figuring it all out alone.
The version that needed someone else to believe it was possible—just long enough for us to believe it too.
If you’ve been craving a space like this, today is your lucky day, cause the doors are officially wide open!
This is our pilot chapter.
Our inner circle.
Our test kitchen for what community can look like when it’s done on purpose.
If you’ve ever whispered to yourself, “I just need one person to say yes,”
we’re already saying it.
We see it. We see you. Let’s build.
👉 Join the Founding Cohort | Learn More About The Community Here
Accountability Corner: One month in and already crying (happy tears)
We grew so much this past month.
And honestly, we have you to thank for it.
Thank you to everyone who said yes.
Everyone who clicked on this newsletter.
Who sent a DM.
Who jumped on a call with us.
We love you guys so much—it’s overwhelming in the best way.
Here’s where we’re at:
We’ve officially welcomed two new team members to Multi-Hyphenate Women!
Eniola Busari, our new Community Manager, who you’ll be getting to know very well (she’s already cooking up magic behind the scenes)
And Michelle Yedwa, our new Social Media Manager, who’s working on an exciting campaign dropping in August that we cannot wait to share with you. Spoiler alert: it’s very us.
We also 4X’d our monthly revenue goal—yep, in our very first month of operations.
And guess what? We did all that by going all in on one platform:
LinkedIn.
No complicated strategy. No paid ads. Just real stories, and real connection.
Of course, we’ll be expanding to other platforms—but for now, LinkedIn is home base, and it’s working.
What we learned this month
This month taught us one thing loud and clear:
Pivot early. Pivot often.
And don’t wait for permission to change direction.
The offer we’re selling now?
It’s completely different from the one we launched with.
And that’s okay.
We got on calls with real clients—women who trusted us with their money and their vision—and we listened.
We asked hard questions.
We looked at the industry and had real conversations about where it’s going.
Like:
If tech keeps moving the way it is, will we still be needed in 10 years?
And if not—how do we make sure we’re the ones shaping what comes next?
So we’re doing what builders do:
We’re upskilling.
Learning.
Testing.
Rebuilding.
And we’re inviting you to do the same.
What this next month is about
This month, we’re:
Launching the Multi-Hyphenate Women community (finally!)
Rolling out a new offer that gives you strategy, support, and AI-powered content done with you (peek at it here 👀)
And most of all—we’re learning.
Here’s what we’re encouraging every woman in our community to do:
Get clear on what you need to learn next. Is it AI? Funnels? Managing a team?
Name your learning goals out loud—in the group, on a call, in your journal.
Connect with someone else on the same path. We’ll help you match up inside the community.
Share your learnings. Teach, post, swap tips. What you know could help someone else leap forward.
We’ll be dropping what we are learning too—links, lessons, tools, wins, failures. All of it. Because we’re building in public, with you.
And as always:
Our inbox is open.
Just hit reply. We read every message. We respond. We're here.
Let’s keep growing together.
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