Connect Who or what is your inspiration in business?

As a Hispanic female business owner, I've had the great fortune to work with other amazing female leaders throughout my career. I'm inspired by them daily. For the tool we're building, I was inspired by my beginnings in non-profit fundraising and a former client tackling the tremendous challenge of global climate change. We wanted to create an easy way for them (and so many other non-profits) to tell and share compelling stories of the amazing and hard work they're doing.

How do you stay motivated?

Running a business and building an AI-powered tool simultaneously is no joke. I'm fueled by our mission to merge storytelling with good works. My amazing team backs me up daily by joining in this work. I'm driven by my passion for our work, our clients, and this project. We've supported NGOs around the globe, and I believe in my core that what we're building could be a game-changer. We're scaling our proven storytelling methods to empower the non-profit industry globally.

What would you do with the $25,000?

Funds would go directly toward our AI-powered tool. We will pay engineers to build out code and functionality, contract a product designer to improve the user interface, and launch marketing to bring Beta users into the platform. We've identified key outlets through my existing network to help us target the right users. We're ready to take this tool to the next level by providing features such as content generation driven by organizational analytics and simulated storytelling coaching.