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Member Insights: Fresh Starts
The theme for January is "Fresh Starts." What are you planning for your business in 2021? As I embark on a new leadership role in 2021, I am excited and ready for this challenge. While my firm, Sassetti LLC, is celebrating 100 years, we have an...
A Message From Our President: Driven by Purpose
Many of us will agree that finding our purpose in 2020 felt like searching for a needle in a haystack. With the upheaval of COVID-19, the elections, the closure of many small businesses, and the added stress of placing family and our businesses all under one roof, you...
Purchase A Raffle Ticket for Female Strong
Please consider purchasing a raffle ticket to help support Female Strong, an organization that is passionate about helping young girls become leaders. Click Here for the raffle. From their tween to teen years, confidence in girls drops 46%. As business women, we know...
Member Insights: Driven By Purpose
Simon Sinek once said that “Everyone has a WHY – it is the purpose, cause or belief that drives every one of us.” What is your purpose? ***The built environment impacts everyone. Whether in the form of providing equitable shelter, universal beauty or responsible use...
2020-2021 NAWBO Chicago Board of Directors Installation
NAWBO Chicago Names First Latina President Elizabeth Colón Has Been an Advocate for Women Since Childhood CHICAGO, 2020 -- The first Latina president of the National Association of Women Business Owners - Chicago Chapter has been preparing for her new role for...
Ginna Ryan
Ginna Ryan Ginna graduated from Miami of Ohio with a Degree in Business in 1984 and moved to Chicago to work for E.F. Hutton. She joined JMB Realty in the internal marketing department the following year and stayed with the company until the firm dissolved its...
Let’s Take A Retirement Test Drive
As a new year approaches, you are likely putting plans in place for your future. With the dilemmas we’ve all faced in 2020, you may be second-guessing any plans you’ve tentatively set. Retirement is probably something you’ve been dreaming about for years – and we...
Denise Cavanaugh
After serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Peru, working with HeadStart parents in Chicago, and managing a VISTA program in West Virginia, and year in University of Pittsburgh grad school, Denise Cavanaugh ended up in Washington DC. First job turned into first...
Let's Take A Retirement Test Drive
As a new year approaches, you are likely putting plans in place for your future. With the dilemmas we’ve all faced in 2020, you may be second-guessing any plans you’ve tentatively set. Retirement is probably something you’ve been dreaming about for years – and we...
Rebecca Fyffe
Rebecca Fyffe is a socially conscious entrepreneur and is the CEO and director of research of Landmark Pest Management, an award-winning innovative, green pest control firm. Landmark controls insects and humanely manages wildlife in the interest of human health and...
Member Insights: In The Flow
Business owners have had much to wrestle with this year. What tips do you have to help our members project/manage their cash flow, keep more of their hard-earned cash, and/or access more capital before they are financially strapped?Linda FormanLinda Forman CPA, P.C....
A Message From Our President
Brave is… I don’t know about you, but fall is my favorite time of the year. I enjoy seeing the leaves changing colors, the weather becomes crisp, and I look forward to enjoying a hot cup of pumpkin latte or eating a pumpkin donut. If we compare our lives to the...