Top 11 Female Entrepreneurs To Watch Out For In 2023

We have compiled a list of the top 11 female entrepreneurs to watch out for in 2023. These women have made a name for themselves in their respective industries, and they are sure to continue making waves in the coming year.

Whether you’re an aspiring entrepreneur looking for guidance or you’re simply interested in staying on top of the latest business trends, following these successful women can provide valuable insights and inspiration. They share their experiences, strategies, and thought processes on social media and through various platforms, giving you the opportunity to learn from the best.

So, without further ado, let’s take a look at the top 11 female entrepreneurs to watch out for in 2023. From well-known industry giants to rising stars, these women are sure to make an impact and inspire you on your own path to success.

1.    Sahara Rose

Sahara Rose has been called “a leading voice in the millennial generation into the new paradigm shift” by Deepak Chopra, who wrote the foreword to her three books. She is the host of the #1 spiritual podcast on iTunes, Highest Self and co-founder Dharma Coaching Institute, the world’s first accredited school that certifies Soul Purpose (Dharma) and Spiritual Life Coaches.

After the Great Resignation, more people than ever have left their jobs seeking a more aligned career path and that’s where Purpose Coaches come in. Dharma Coaching Institute is the only school in the world that specifically trains Purpose coaches to help people first understand who they are, then how that can translate that into their career.

Recognized by the International Coaching Federation, the institute is leading the way for spiritual certifications. They have graduated over 1,200 coaches with a whopping 96% success rate.

Graduates are trained to use the combined transformational power and wisdom of holistic tools from both Western and Eastern traditions, including chakras, Ayurveda, emotional psychology, and somatics, to support their clients in finding and living a life of fulfillment.

2.    Nina Takesh

Nina Takesh’s entrepreneurship journey is both inspiring and exciting. She founded and headed the Luxury Brand, Petit Tresor, and helped it become a major success, winning clients like Gwen Stefani, Madonna, Jennifer Lopez, and Heidi Klum. She continued to gain experience in retail and interior designing with Nina Takesh Designs, a full-service interior design firm with a discerning clientele.

Takesh is focused on growing her interior design business and uses the latest technology, such as 3D renderings, to help clients envision their new crib before moving to execution. Her firm is a one-stop solution to all interior design issues as she works hand-in-hand with architects and contractors. Her company handles all kinds of projects,  including commercial, retail, and residential.

The brand incorporates Nina’s worldly knowledge and takes inspiration from her experiences.

3.    Hazel Ortega

Hazel Ortega is a serial entrepreneur, speaker, advocate, philanthropist, and educational psychologist working to make the world a better place. A well-known speaker, she travels the world to share her story and highlight the importance of education and how it helped her move from a life of despair to a life of inspiration.

Hazel believes that education can change the world and is associated with a number of causes. She has founded High Tide Global to empower students around the world and bring funding for motivational classes, improved infrastructure, and educational programs. The organization has launched pilot programs in the US, Uganda, and Mexico, with plans to enter additional countries, including Germany, Colombia, and Brazil. Moreover, High Tide Global has joined hands with a number of individuals and organizations, including Charles Komakech, a former child soldier, who escaped and rehabilitated, and has founded the Garden of Knowledge school in Uganda.

Hazel is passionate about helping people and aims to impact more than a billion lives through education by 2032. Follow Hazel’s lifting journey by going here.

4.    Tiffany Uman

Tiffany Uman is the proud founder and CEO of Tiffany Uman Career Strategy Coach Services Inc. After 13+ years of Fortune 500 experience where she grew to senior director, she decided to pursue her true passion –empowering ambitious professionals to fast track their career success without compromising their well-being. In her signature program, Career Success Fast Track™, Tiffany dives into all things school never taught to break down any possible barriers of progression. She also shares her proven, best practices to take full control of your career so you get to where you want to go faster, without the struggle or lost time from figuring it out on your own.

As in her own career, Tiffany achieved 7 promotions in under 10 years and was even the Head of Marketing for multi-million dollar brands. Her proven framework has served hundreds of clients across 20+ countries & 30+ functions and industries to reach their career goals in record time,  as well as achieve $1M+ in salary raises combined in the past 2 years alone. Her commitment to seeing her clients succeed along with her own countless successes, led to her being named the Top Coach 2021 by Coach Foundation and just earlier this year, she co-authored and published her first book titled: “Stuff I Wish I Knew Earlier – Living Your Career Potential”. To Learn more about the woman of many talents, Tiffany Uman, click here.

5.   Kati Cattaneo

Kati Cattaneo is a real estate agent serving the Los Angeles area. Recognized as a “Rising Star” by The Hollywood Reporter, Kati is known for catering to entertainment industry professionals, including well-known celebrities.

She enjoys being there for her clients and helping them not only during the buying process but also before and after the escrow closes. She works with both first time and seasoned buyers and sellers and is admired for her reliability, professionalism, work ethic, genuine spirit, friendliness, and willingness to go above and beyond.

Kati has plans to expand her business and introduce new brands. She’s looking to work with like-minded agents and start serving more areas, including Santa Barbara, the town where she was born and raised.

Know more about Kati’s exciting entrepreneurial journey and her future plans by following this link.

6.    Melissa Dlugolecki

Melissa Dlugolecki is a “regular person” who has created “irregular results”. As a bereaved mother, she worked through the overwhelming pain of her grief and now hosts a globally top ranked podcast, Grief and Guts, which is designed to show people what is possible for them, no matter what their circumstances are.

Her works mission is to show people their possibility through entrepreneurship, as she coaches and consults on business strategy, bringing creative ideas and always grounds into authenticity. She has built her own 6 & 7-figure businesses and has coached over 1000 others into their dream life.

Melissa’s entrepreneurial journey is both fascinating and full of surprises. Not only did she start amidst a painful grief journey, she was 100K in debt at the time she invested in her first business coach. As a former high school educator, her knowledge of business blended with her resilience and ability to teach others has been the perfect recipe for an incredibly unique, and powerful, path. In addition to building a business empire, she signed a publishing contract with Mike Michalowicz, New York Times best-selling author who has  built several multi-million dollar companies and is currently working on her second book.

She offers 1:1 business consulting through MD Consulting, where she identifies holes in the business, trains teams, systemizes processes, integrates sales cycles, and brings creative ways to monetize into the strategy. Additionally she offers group coaching that blends emotional intelligence with business strategy, in a community-focused means, in her program, elevate.

7.    Gail Kasper

From humbling beginnings, Gail Kasper started Gail Kasper Television LLC with only one coaching client. That one person worked for ADT Security Services, Inc., a Fortune 500 company, and resulted in Gail’s sales program being the resource for multiple ADT offices along the East Coast. From there, Gail’s portfolio diversified and today, Gail is an author, two-time TEDx speaker and television personality. Her works have impacted millions of people whether through her speaking engagements or national media appearances, including ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX affiliates. Gail has also appeared on over a dozen international Top 250 Podcasts.

Gail Kasper Television LLC is a high-level communications company that helps both the novice through the most tenured individual improve their public speaking skills, on-camera hosting skills, or sales presentation performance.

Creator of SAD-T™ (Systematic Attitude Development-Technique™), a technique she utilized to get logical and take steps in her life, versus face the trap of immobilization and being stuck, Gail is the author of the self-help parable Unstoppable: 6 Easy Steps To Find And Achieve Your FIRE; Sell Like A Cocakatoo: How To Master The New Way Of Selling In A Rapidly Changing World; the children’s book series Apollo and Winslow, and multiple audio books available on Apple Books. 

Gail’s advice to any prospective entrepreneur:

1. Don’t do it alone. Seek out mentors who have been through it before. Gain knowledge, contacts, and support. Why reinvent a wheel that is successfully rolling?
2. Become an excellent communicator, even if your job is sitting behind a computer. When you are an excellent communicator, you can talk to anyone – you can lead an industry.

8.   Livia Devi

Livia Devi defines herself as a “New Earth Leader, 5D Mentor, and Entrepreneur” empowering and transforming the global community of conscious creators, entrepreneurs, thought leaders, influencers, and change makers.

Bringing a revolution into the world of leadership, Livia is a catalyst for the New Earth and a New Era of evolution of consciousness and technological advancement. She founded Livia Devi Global in 2019 to support awakened beings from around the world and help them shift from the 3D old paradigm into the 5D quantum entrepreneurship by working with advanced 5D-7D Quantum Technology.

Livia has already made a name in Asia and Europe and has plans to expand in the US. She’s working with a niche audience and has helped hundreds of people access dimensional realities not yet accessible to most people. She takes people on a deep journey of self-realization that helps them find success and peace. To learn more about Livia Devi, click here.

9.    Perri Chase

Perri Chase is building a Feminine empire devoted to the return of Feminine energetics and Embodied Spirituality guiding both women and men into a new era of Being. Her body of work includes understanding Universal Law & Energetic Mastery, Magic Led Business️ a body of work she created to do business in line with Feminine Values, Communication as a Spiritual Practice, Relationships, Boundaries, Addiction and more.

At the core of her body of work is her modality SXBMB️, a guided clitoral stroking practice. It is done in the privacy of one’s home to music and a guided meditation with incredible results for women reconnecting with the truth of their bodies.

“I teach energetic laws and frequencies by guiding women to have an embodied experience of the lesson, powered by their own life force,” she explains. “It is one thing to intellectually understand something. It’s a whole other thing to know a teaching in your body. No one can take that from you.”

Perri’s former life was as Headhunter on Wall Street and a technology startup founder. Her awakening 2008 occurred in meeting an enlightened master put her on a journey of becoming a spiritual teacher herself.

10.   Hope Zvara

Hope Zvara is a leader and innovator working to improve truck drivers’ wellness and fitness standards through her company Mother Trucker Yoga. She has taken a male-dominated industry by storm and has made it to top publications like Forbes, Yahoo News and PBS.

Zvara has been noted as being the one to have brought yoga to the industry. And she is on a mission to change the lives of drivers globally. She has already helped over 200,000 drivers and Zvara aims to reach more than 1 million drivers by 2031.

With over 20 years of history working in the yoga and functional fitness industry, Mother Trucker Yoga has made one of the biggest impacts industry wide.. Her company helps all kinds of drivers, including Uber drivers, truckers, and bus drivers. Her focus is on people who spend hours behind the wheel and often end up neglecting their health. Zvara encourages drivers to make small changes to their routines.

The success behind her company lies in a simple approach called that she calls The 15 Minute Wellness Method™,, which doesn’t involve complicated, gym-based programs, but instead only asks drivers to dedicate a few minutes each day to bettering their health, something that has been her foundational principles since she started Mother Trucker Yoga, and long before she started the company. Drivers can access content through the mobile app and enjoy products such as custom-made fitness tools and pain relief creams.

11.   Ashia Thompson

Ashia Thompson is an author, entrepreneur, and Certified Public Accountant; with over 6 years of accounting experience. In 2018, she founded Top Tier Accounting, an elite full service accounting firm offering strategic tax planning, payroll, and bookkeeping services. The company only caters to the crème de la crème as it only serves business owners who make at least six figures.

The company helps businesses and individuals save money on taxes and maintain their finances. The firm enjoys a BBB rating of A+ and serves a variety of businesses. Thompson believes that the success of a business lies in the value it offers and is working to make Top Tier Accounting a major brand. She’s focused on innovation and offering a complete experience to her clients. To learn more about Ashia Thompson, click here.

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