WOMAN AS AN ENTREPRENEUR Leading Business and Creating a Difference
In the Philippine setting, Great Women Organization Philippines sets the standard in empowering skilled and entrepreneurial women in the grassroots level and honing their capacity to make their products and services globally competitive. Great Women co-founder and STAR Allure columnist Jeannie Javelosa shared the organization’s best practices and continuing search for more ingenious skills and native products around the country.
In the panel discussion, Javelosa joined equally successful Filipino women in terms of managing business: STAR Lifestyle columnist and Happy Skin founder Rissa Mananquil and Richprime Global president Myrna Yao.
To watch the panel discussion, scan the QR code with your smart phones to take you to The Philippine STAR’s Youtube account, PhilStar TV.
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We are social entrepreneurs; therefore, the purpose that we do business must always impact either social or environmental issues.
“We’re small but we choose to be small; we want to make sure that the personalized touch is still there and that keeps us social entrepreneurs on our toes.
“The women space in EchoStore has done everything from being able to purchase coffee from areas that have been full of war.
“When we begin to see, choose and purchase a product that is a woman-owned business, it actually helps the families of those women much more than if it were a maledominated business.
“It’s not about thinking that men own companies; no, it’s not. It’s about striking a balance, about being able to show that maybe, we can have more focus on women on businesses. — JEANNIE JAVELOSA ” co-founder, Great Women Organization Phils.
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What makes female entrepreneurs amazing, especially these days, is that women don’t have limits anymore. — RISSA MANANQUIL founder, Happy Skin ” “People will ask how I did it, but I was a salesperson. I try to sell as many as I can. “Later on, I always believed that we can do better — even as a woman. — MYRNA YAO president, ” Richprime Global