Women-Owned Businesses to Inspire You This Year
Women business owners are resilient, creative, and awe-inspiring to one another. Women often face heightened challenges in the business world and have to work harder to make a name for themselves. However, there are so many women who continue to find a way to break through the social constraints.
Today, 11.6 million businesses are owned by women and generated $1.7 trillion in revenue in 2017. Whether you’re in college studying business, about to launch your own operation or have years of experience under your belt already, you can find inspiration from some of these incredible women.
Here are the most inspiring women-owned businesses to follow.
1. Kreyol Essence
Yve-Car Momperousse is the CEO and co-founder of Kreyol Essence, a beauty brand of natural hair and skincare products. What makes Kreyol Essence special is its partnership with farmers in Haiti who source its products’ key ingredients.
The company was first launched to solve problems such as uncontrollable hair, hair loss, dry skin, and eczema. Now, Momperousee’s business has evolved into a social impact brand—creating work for farmers, helping the environment, and changing relationships that people have with Haiti.
2. The Honey Pot Company
The CEO and founder, Beatrix Dixon, created the natural feminine care product brand The Honey Pot Company. Her brand offers women a new kind of feminine care products, all-natural and plant-based. For years, women have had concerns about the toxic chemicals in feminine hygiene products—linked to breast cancer, asthma, and reproductive problems.
Dixon has scaled her business to a multi-million dollar company selling various plant-based feminine products. As a result, women finally have options that were difficult to find not long ago.
3. AVA
Lea von Bidder of AVA created a fertility tracking bracelet, which has helped thousands of women to get pregnant. The brand’s mission is to help women understand their bodies better by donating 20% of every sale to women’s health research and development.
AVA is making women’s lives easier by utilizing artificial intelligence to help track their ovulation cycles. Bidder’s passion is to improve the standard of care for every stage of women’s reproductive cycle.
4. Liberate
Live Bowser is the founder of the mental-fitness studio, Liberate. The company offers women a way to exercise their minds, helping them reach their goals through intention-setting journaling.
Liberate provides unique methods to help slow down racing thoughts while strengthening courage and resilience. Bowser encourages creating a better balance of clarity, connection, and confidence around goals.
5. La Gotta Swimwear
La Gotta Swimwear is a company owned by Valeria del Rey, that provides women with elegant and luxurious swimsuits. For many years, women have looked for swimwear that highlights their natural curves without being too over the top. The Puerto Rican designer has gained significant popularity due to their designs, sustainable practices, and gorgeous prints.
6. Jungalow
Justina Blakeney is the designer of the blog-turned-brand Jungalow. Over the years, Blakeney’s style has evolved and taken on many different facets. But colors, patterns and plants have all been the core components of what defines her unique style.
One of the biggest factors for her is the global influence of architecture, print, pattern and artifacts of various cultures. Jungalow offers home décor with the latest terra-cotta and rattan materials.
Blakeney’s focus is to allow people to create a home with their own personal tastes so they can feel light and cozy.
7. United Sodas of America
Marisa Zupan, CEO and co-founder of United Sodas of America, brings new light to the soda market. The soda industry has been synonymous with excess sugar, caffeine and synthetic ingredients.
But after a two-year process of taste-testing and natural flavor development, United Sodas of America launched in 2020 to bring a new name to soda. Zupan reimagined soda in its simplest form—offering a healthier alternative with premium ingredients and fun flavors.
8. Women Unlimited
Women Unlimited is an organization focused on helping female leaders in major corporations like Colgate, Adobe, and Prudential.
Dr. Rosina Racioppi is the CEO and president of the company. Her mission is to give women the chance to advance in their careers, and she works with business leaders who are passionate about shifting the corporate landscape.
9. Sarah Ann Stewart International
Sarah Anne Stewart of Sarah Ann Stewart International is changing women’s perspectives of dieting, exercising, and insecurity. Her objective is to make women feel confident and empowered to achieve their health and wellness goals each day.
Many women struggle to find peace with their bodies under societal pressures. So, Stewart teaches women how to strengthen their relationship with food and their body to help them live the life they truly desire.
10. Social Savvy HQ
Social Savvy HQ, owned by Jessica Hobbs, is a social media marketing company helping service-based entrepreneurs grow on social media. Hobbs uses proven organic content strategies to help business owners convert and sell out their launches.
From working at a corporate marketing agency in New York City, Hobbs now has a team of content creators and a full client roster. Since the launch of her own business, she’s helped many entrepreneurs book out their own clients while owning their space through media outlet interviews and features.
Finding Inspiration Everywhere
Many women business owners will tell you the path to success isn’t so straightforward. It may not happen overnight, and of course, it’s different for every entrepreneur. However, the women-owned businesses listed here will show you that the key ingredients of success are confidence, passion, connection, and pure determination.
Hopefully, you found these women incredibly inspiring and will use that as fuel to drive your own business.