The unfortunate truth is that confidence in girls begins to decline at age 8, and continues to decline through age 14 by 30%. Through hands-on activities at Female Strong Camp and exposure to entrepreneurship and mentorship through the YEA! Chicago Program, we work to restore confidence levels in girls during these challenging years. Parents, join the cause and sign your daughter up for an upcoming Camp at https://lnkd.in/gVUPrs6E or encourage her to apply for the fall YEA! Chicago cohort at https://lnkd.in/g7EgVGgF. You won't regret it! Thank you to our Founders Circle and Board of Regents members for championing the mission of Female Strong: Laurette Rondenet, Florence Ann Romano, Ryan Smith, Emily Smith, SIOR, Nick Economos, CRPS®, Liz Hayes, Khalilah Lyons, MHRIR, PHR, HCS, SWP, Brenda Dehart, Dr. Tasha Green Cruzat, Paola Sprenzel, J'ai Brown, Kristen Davis, Jen Tadin, Kandice Martinez, Mary Cunningham, Dinna Yap 💗
Female Strong
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The Future is Female Strong | Women-Led Community for Change | Empowering Females of All Ages to Step into Business
About us
Hi, we are Female Strong! We are on a mission to close the gender gap and empower young women to step up in business and life. Female Strong provides middle and high school-aged girls an opportunity to expand their self-confidence and business acumen in a supportive, women-led environment. By next year we will have seen over 1,000 girls complete our confidence-building entrepreneurial program—95% of which come from challenging circumstances and diverse backgrounds. We also offer community for female leaders and professionals of all ages. Our core offering is a six-month after-school program that teaches business principles, soft skills and life skills. Students walk away with firsthand knowledge of building a business and the skills needed to persevere in a corporate setting. Our strong focus on entrepreneurship sets us apart—no one else in this space offers what we offer. The future is female strong. Join us, won’t you?
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http://www.femalestrong.org
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- 2-10 employees
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- Chicago, Illinois
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- 2014
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Chicago, Illinois 60611, US
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Thanks to Basic American Foods, Female Strong Camp has officially gone national! In addition to accepting sponsors for Camps in Chicagoland, we look forward to expanding the reach of of this confidence-building program throughout the country. Learn more about what it looks like to host your own Camp at https://lnkd.in/gKU2c75r. Thank you BAF & Nicole Strohman for being trailblazers!
Join us in celebrating our first Female Strong camp! We recently hosted a confidence-building camp for girls in the Idaho Falls community focused on turning passions into action. ✨ Our team helped campers create vision boards for their future and the girls even had the chance to pitch their ideas to the group. We feel so honored to be part of #FemaleStrong, supporting future female leaders and creating a commitment to confidence! A big thank you to PaperSource for sponsoring the event and providing the vision board kits, as well as our planning group for putting together such a positive and memorable experience for these young ladies! #BAF #Confidence #WomeninLeadership
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Join us for a Female Strong Camp on October 12th sponsored by Stantec featuring young entrepreneur Evelyn Halbach, Founder of EcoFrenzy Games! Throughout the day, girls ages 8-12 will create vision boards, brainstorm solutions to real world problems, and explore sustainable engineering & architecture. Thank you Stantec, Kandice Martinez, and Paper Source for making this Camp possible 💗
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We are thrilled to announce Erica Williams as our 2024 Jean Shuman Sholarship recipient! This $3000 award will support Erica's academic journey at the University of Southern California, where she'll be majoring in Industrial Engineering this fall. As a 6th grader in the YEA! Chicago Class of 2019, Erica founded TopNotch Teen, a one-stop shop for teen information designed to empower young people with the resources they need to succeed. Read more about Erica's YEA! journey and what this scholarship means to her at https://lnkd.in/gGZWXQX8 We are deeply grateful to the family of Jean Shuman, especially Eric & Linda Shuman for offering this scholarship to our YEA! alumnae community. Due to the outstanding nature of this year's applications, the remaining 8 applicants will each receive a $300 award as well! Know an ambitious 6th-12th grade girl? Help us cultivate more trailblazers like Erica by encouraging her to join the fall YEA! Chicago cohort. Visit https://lnkd.in/g7EgVGgF to learn more.
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Update: “The Light Work” officially hit the best seller list this morning- no surprise here 🤩 congrats Jess on becoming a 2X best seller 🎉🎉🎉 Saturday’s executive brunch was pure magic 💫 What a powerful room! Jessica Zweig could not be more proud of you “The Light Work” is one of the most important conversations we will have over the next 10 years. It is up to all of us and look forward to keeping the conversation going. ✨Want a copy of the book? Send me a message! Working to get it in as many hands as possible! ✨Female Strong applications are open for the young entrepreneur academy! ✨ We are now solidifying Female Strong Camps for 2025. If interested in hosting send me a message! ✨Thank you BEAR Construction Company Bespoke Commercial Real Estate Beth McCarthy Smith & BIÂN for making this all happen! Onward & Upward!
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This weekend, Female Strong hosted an Executive Womens' Brunch and Book-Signing at BIÂN to celebrate the launch of Jessica Zweig's newest release 'THE LIGHT WORK'. Thank you to all the amazing women who came together to celebrate each others' achievements and pay it forward to the next generation of female leaders. This event was generously sponsored by SIMPLICITY Cold Pressed Juice, BEAR Construction Company, and Bespoke Commercial Real Estate 💛 Watch our website https://femalestrong.org/ for more electric events like these and to support our youth programming. Emily Smith, SIOR, Paola Sprenzel, Beth McCarthy Smith, Gloria Athanis, Vibez Fit
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✨ We're thrilled to share this inspiring interview with our CEO and Owner, Laurette Rondenet, on Daytime Chicago, WGN-TV! In the segment, Laurette discusses the empowering mission of Female Strong and the incredible work being done to support young women in leadership. Edlong is proud to sponsor the upcoming fall program, and we can’t wait to see the impact it will make. Watch the full interview here: https://bit.ly/4cgYGkr and join us in supporting the next generation of female leaders! 💪 #FemaleStrong #WomenInLeadership #CompanyCulture #EdlongEnriches #Edlong #FemaleStrong
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Thank you Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition North America, Inc., Ryan Smith, & Abbye Lakin for hosting a phenomenal food science Female Strong Camp this week! Because of Camp sponsors like Ajinomoto, ARCO/Murray, Forward Space, LLC, Wurkwel Ventures, LLC, BEAR Construction Company, Wintrust Financial Corporation, Jelmar, LLC, Primera Engineers, Heidrick & Struggles, Basic American Foods, Edlong Flavor Solutions, Stantec, and Paper Source, we are able to offer FREE programming for girls throughout Chicagoland and beyond! Parents, we have several exciting programs coming up this fall. Watch our website at https://lnkd.in/gVUPrs6E for more information as Camps are announced. Companies, we want to host a program with you in 2025! To learn more about hosting your own one-day event for girls 8-12 years old, visit https://lnkd.in/gKU2c75r or stop by our event tomorrow to chat with us in-person - https://lnkd.in/gE2tPcrp Sabrina Patlan Paola Sprenzel Sarah Austin 💗
This week, our North American Headquarters in Itasca, IL, proudly hosted the second annual Female Strong Summer Camp, welcoming girls from the Chicagoland area to connect with peers, learn from female leaders, experiment in our labs, and even develop their own business plans and ideas. Huge thanks to our friends at PaperSource for providing materials for each aspiring leader to create their own mood boards, and to Female Strong for supporting the growth and wellbeing of our future leaders. #FemaleStrong #AHN #Ajinomoto #YouthEmpowerment #FemaleEntrepreneur #CloseTheGap #AllInForHer #ChangeTheRatio #FoodAndBeverageIndustry #FoodAndBeverage #Science #Chemistry #WeAreFemaleStrong
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In studies across the country and globe, researchers have found that women are more likely to suffer from imposter syndrome than men across all age groups. There are various reasons for this, some of which include a general lack of confidence and mentorship, and a higher exposure to stereotypes. So what can we do? At Female Strong, we are on a mission to instill confidence in women at a young age, combating feelings of self doubt and giving girls the confidence to go forth and follow their passions. We do this through programming like the Young Entrepreneurs Academy (YEA!), which fosters leadership, resilience, innovation, and financial literacy among middle and high school-aged students. Visit https://lnkd.in/g7EgVGgF to learn more about Female Strong's Young YEA! Chicago cohort which kicks off in October!
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Join us on Saturday! Great people, great vibes, great cause ✨ https://lnkd.in/gE2tPcrp
Come join me Saturday to celebrate Jessica Zweig's book launch for her second debut "The Light Work" Female Strong will be hosting the official Chicago book signing @ BIÂN this Saturday from 12-1:30. We will have books onsite for purchase & capacity is limited so will drop a RSVP link in the comments to save your spot or preorder your signed copy! This book is a total deviation from her first best-seller "BE" We are in a crisis right now with more than 50% of #female #entrepreneurs expressing feelings of burnout or mental health challenges. Jessica is on a mission to help us go from burned out to burning bright — there has never been a more critical time for this conversation. Here is what people are saying about the new book: 🌟 Rebecca Minkoff “If you are a burnt-out female entrepreneur looking to reignite the light inside your soul again, look no further than Jessica Zweig’s THE LIGHT WORK” 🌟 Dr. Will Cole I The Art Of Being Well “The Light Work is a spiritual empowerment book, here to wake you up to the truth of what your body is truly capable of: to heal itself so you can heal the world.” I could not be more proud of you Jessica ✨ for DARING GREATLY with a message unlike anything we have heard before. Consider me your hype girl this week & always! 💫 If you are unable to attend but want a signed copy- we will send you one via link in our comment section. Onward and Upward! #Thelightwork #author #chicago
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