Female Veterans: Winning in the Transition to Entrepreneurship!

Join us today on Women Leading the Way Radio as Michelle Bergquist, your host of Women Who Lead, interviews Denika Mafnas, U.S. Air Force Veteran and owner of Denika Glam.

Denika is going to share her motivating story on transitioning from the U.S. Air Force into civilian entrepreneurship.  Owning a business requires focus and structure, skill sets that can be transferred from military service. Denika will tell us about her challenges and successes in creating a business that gives back to other female veterans needing a boost and continued encouragement to move forward into civilian life.

According to the National Women's Business Council there are over 90,000 veteran women-owned businesses primarily service-based in health care and social assistance (18 percent); other service industries (14 percent); professional, scientific and technical services (13.9 percent); and retail trade (12.9 percent). Almost 90 percent of these businesses are firms that the founder is the only employee.

As the CEO and Co-Founder of Connected Women of Influence, Michelle Bergquist is a passionate advocate for women in business. At Connected Women of Influence, we believe that more women need to lead in business and everything we do is center-focused on designing platforms, programs, connections and collaborative opportunities for b2b women to prosper, succeed and lead the way in business today!