Are You A Career Conscious Black Woman Ready To Take Your Business To The Next Level? Call The Career Whisperer!

The Mentors Circle: a new mentorship program through Project She Went for Her Dreams, a Brooklyn-based business and career coaching firm, will provide scholarships to five promising Black women entrepreneurs to receive free mentorship with prominent Black women leaders.

Black women are currently the fastest growing group of entrepreneurs, starting businesses at twice the rates of non minority counterparts. Yet as founders, Black women face unique challenges that adversely impede the growth and success of Black owned businesses.

Meet The Founder

Ariane Hunter, also known as the “career whisperer for career conscious women,” has charted an unconventional career path as an MBA holding marketing/advertising professional, a photographer, business and career coach, entrepreneur and founder of Project She Went for Her Dreams.

To date, she has worked with hundreds of women that have since gone on to publish books, quit their jobs and successfully start new businesses, relocate across the country, and head up new business initiatives within their companies.

Business Challenges

BGA: What do you think was the biggest business obstacle (outside of sexism and racism) that your clients faced prior to your mentorship?

Ariane Hunter: One of the biggest challenges I often hear from our clients is visibility. Oftentimes we are working behind the scenes in our business or at our jobs and we have trouble marketing ourselves or putting ourselves out there.

As we work to become leaders, part of this is journey is becoming more comfortable in openly sharing our voices, ideas thoughts and opinions.

Daily, we must push past any discomfort and know that we belong and our voices as Black and Brown women in businesses needs to be heard.

BGA: At what level of entrepreneurship does your ideal client need to be at
to properly benefit from your program?

Ariane Hunter: Typically our clients fall into two categories. They are within the first three years of building their business or they are more experienced and wanting to step out and bring more visibility in being the face of their brand.

BGA: Are there any businesses that you won’t or can’t work with?

Ariane Hunter: Primarily we work with both senior executives and/or small service-based businesses.

About Project She Went For Her Dreams

Project She Went for Her Dreams serves to increase the number of women entrepreneurs in the marketplace. To date, the company has served hundreds of women to launch and grow businesses across a variety of industries.

Clients have gone on to build award-winning nonprofits that have changed the course of education in low income communities. Some have become leading voices in traditionally male-dominated fields like technology and 3-D printing.

Many have doubled their salary, helping to shrink the wage gap many women and women of color in particular are currently facing. Client highlights include: Women in Stem Leadership at Stony Brook University, Women’s Catalyst groups at Hewlett Packard and Oracle.

AmericanExpress, AT&T, Cornell University, Deutsche Bank, & Kate Spade, DVF, ABC Home, AHA Life,Council of Urban Professionals & Cornell University.

To join the movement and donate to the scholarship program please visit The Mentors Circle.