Run The World first even Self Made Summit

Run The World held their first ever Self Made Summit on Saturday, September 24th of 2022, at Square One Mall in Mississauga, Ontario. It was a full day focusing on conversations that matter, including panel discussions that touched on the impact of the pandemic, mental health, entrepreneurship, and women empowerment with speakers and celebrities speaking about being self-made. It was a sunny Saturday morning when I got to the event, a nice warm sun was coming through the glass ceiling and flooding the event area. Beautiful tables were set with breakfast items like coffee, blueberry muffins, and my favorite, a donut acrylic wall. I took my coffee and muffin and quickly went to one of the tall breakfast tables, where everything started. I reached out to different women to start a conversation and ask about their businesses. It was a great place to network, meet new women and share information about our business and the work of like-minded women. Attending entrepreneurs, speakers, tv personnel, and changemakers throughout the different panel discussions was inspiring. Seeing other ambitious and goal-oriented women on stage speak about empowerment, while focused on how can we help each other grow, develop and become better was the highlight of the day. For a South-American immigrant (from Brazil) like myself, you can imagine the admiration that I felt for all these women that spoke at the Self-Made Summit? It was a life-changing experience, an empowering moment that I’ve never felt regarding my gender throughout my life. Why is female empowerment important? These and many other important conversations regarding our financial estate, and the fact that 80% of women will die alone in life, whereas 80% of men will die with their spouse on their side. Yes, we live longer lives, and I think I never realized how important it is to think about how I want to spend the last years of my life, with financial security and peace of mind, like any other retired person in Canada. So, let me put on my boss's shoes for an instant, I want to understand how my thinking process now as a self-made female entrepreneur will guide my business to a more stable and consistent financial situation that will provide me a much more peaceful life until after my retirement. Is it too far to think about retirement when in Canadian society, in big cities like Toronto, women are already half the workforce but making at least $10 dollars less for the same work than a man? What does that statistic look like for self-made women starting small businesses? What is the best way to deal with our business issues, to secure our growth and market competitiveness?