As we close out Women’s History Month, we’re looking to the female business owners at Forge. These women range from podcasters to marketers to estheticians- we absolutely love the variety of companies represented in our workspace. Forge even has a member who has developed an app helping prevent police violence. Read on to find out more about the women owned businesses at Forge!
CLM Experts | Lynette Samuels
Lynette Samuels is the Founder & CEO of CLM Experts. She prides herself in possessing over 20 years of experience in credit repair, collection and business. Lynette enjoys helping people develop business relationships and create multiple streams of income while creating secure true financial education and freedom.
Since January 2017, Lynette has been building CLM Experts from the ground up. She has worked with over 250 clients to help them start their own business and repair their credit stores.
Elevate Communications | Debra Nelson
As the Founder of Elevate Communications, Debra Nelson is recognized among the nation’s leading diversity and inclusion practitioners and public relations experts. Her successful corporate career includes executive positions in industries spanning media, higher education, automotive manufacturing, construction, and gaming and hospitality. Debra leads Elevate, a firm dedicated to delivering professional development and communication services.
She is a career coach, speaker, and seminar leader on topics related to diversity and inclusion, professional development and women’s empowerment.
The Popcast | Jamie Golden
Jamie Golden is the Co-Founder of The Popcast Media Group. Jamie B. Golden has been cohosting The Popcast with Knox and Jamie since August 2013. It is a nationally ranked, weekly pop culture podcast that’s part deep dive, mostly shallow end. Jamie and Knox also launched their newest podcast, The Bible Binge, in February 2018. Both of her podcasts are ranked in top 1% of all podcasts. We love that The Popcast records their podcast right here in Forge! Jamie has over 50,000 followers on her Instagram so go ahead and follow along if you want to be entertained!
One Degree Marketing | Jacqui Jones
Jacqui Jones is the CEO of One Degree MMM and founder of Elevation Academy. One Degree MMM is a core-service marketing firm fueled by the best and brightest marketing and branding creatives who empower entrepreneurs and business owners via quality marketing services that will grow and sustain their business vision. Jacqui is a talented marketer, teacher and speaker. Check out her TEDx Birmingham talk!
Empirical Data Strategies | Jami Medina
Jami Medina is the CEO of Empirical Data Strategies. Their goal is to support small and growing businesses with the same project management, software development and implementation, custom CRM implementation and dashboard-driven analytics that the big guys provide, at a price that any business can afford. Empirical Data Strategies also offers the best in Data Science Consulting. Their expertise is in providing you with the mentorship to get big work done, make big decisions, and have easy access to information to grow your company.
Shea Shea Beauty & Brow | Shea Doriety
Shea Doriety is the Owner of Shea Shea Beauty & Brow. Shea is an Esthetician and make-up artist that has been customizing professional looks for 15 years! Shea has amazing reviews from her clients like this one- “Shea not only is a professional at what she does, but she takes care of her clients as if they are family. She gives you high class treatment, doesn’t rush you, or waste your time.”
RightThere Corporation | Maria Watkins
Maria Watkins is the Founder and CEO of RightThere Corporation. She developed the RightThere protech app/wearable device to accomplish their mission of preventing police violence. The app assists in preventing police misconduct, reducing civil rights violations and much more. The wearable device will be interfaced with the RTC Protech App and provide some of the same features. Other features will reduce dangerous encounters, such as hate crimes, child abductions and domestic disputes.
La Luna Agency | Onna Cunningham
Luna is a marketing collective founded in Birmingham and committed to serving clients across the globe. Onna is Owner of Luna and an agency professional with ten years of experience in leadership, team management, client relations, business and operational development in the marketing industry. Luna specializes in marketing strategy, campaign and messaging development, social media strategy and management, website design and development, public relations and much more!
eCure | Shawn Powe
Shawn Powe is the Founder of eCure and she is also a Nurse Practitioner. The ER isn’t needed for all medical conditions- that’s why eCure is available to take care of your telemedicine appropriate conditions. eCure will soon have CureCalls (HouseCalls), where they come to the comfort of your home. Powe believes in eCure’s vision of providing affordable and convenient healthcare. Powe’s life goals are to fight for equal healthcare for the disenfranchised while also educating the community to live healthier lifestyles.
Kameron Monet | Kameron Buckner
Kameron M. Buckner, Esq. is a licensed attorney, content creator, and social media strategist. Kameron has built an engaging and organic audience with over 100,000 followers across her platforms @kameronmonet, working with brands from Dove to Dyson to Ulta Beauty. After realizing her social media expertise and license to practice law could provide value for aspiring “Lawyer Influencers”, as well as educate content creators about the power of contracts when signing brand deals; Kameron quit her 9-to-5 law firm job to live what she calls the best of both worlds.
Are you a female entrepreneur, small business owner or remote worker looking to get out of your home office? We know it’s tough to stay productive at home. Come try out Forge! We’d love to offer you a free Day Pass to try out our coworking space. Email us at info@workatforge.com to claim your free day pass!