REGISTRATION IS OPEN TO JOIN THE CELEBRATION!
We are engaging Women Veterans across the State of Texas to share their brilliant ideas and innovations in celebration of Women Veterans Day 2022!
You don’t have to be an entrepreneur or a female veteran to join the celebration and cheer on these amazing women veterans as they pitch their ideas and innovative businesses that can or are driving our Texas economy.
Every year, we secure sponsors to support this event providing capital for new/existing entrepreneurs to launch/grow their businesses. This year, we are requesting your assistance, register below with a donation of your choosing to support our women veterans
COACHES & 2022 PARTNER POSSE
WOMEN VETERAN ENTREPRENEUR EXPERTISES
Every year we invite a individuals, groups and organizations to join us as coaches and to participate in our Partner Posse live play-by-play account during the pitch competition.
This year we are thrilled to have two renowned women veteran entrepreneurs join our Partner Posse, please help us welcome and thank US Navy Veteran, Star Williams, and US Army Veteran, Sistah Soldier for sharing their wealth of expertise in support of our amazing pitch finalists!
Mrs. Star Williams is a well sought-after life, career, and business coach as well as a motivational speaker. As the CEO of Power Forward Woman LLC, she is dedicated to creating success that brings balance and fulfillment to women across the globe. In addition to giving her unrelenting service in the United States Navy for more than 20 years, Mrs. Williams has given in abundance to the community.
Stemming from her passion of community involvement, she launched her own 501(c)(3) organization in March 2015 called Stars United Global Outreach, which provides support to at risk youth, serving in youth primarily in the Southern Dallas sector and Grand Prairie.
Star has also received her undergraduate degrees from University of Maryland University College in Computer Studies and Information Systems Security. She is a 2018 graduate of University of North Texas at Dallas with her Master’s in Public Leadership.
Wanda “Sistah Soldier” Petty is an intuitive storyteller, inspirational speaker, and serial entrepreneur. She’s the creator of SHE VET™ iNC. Media Consulting, the Host and Visionary Producer of the award-winning SHE VET™ iNSPIRES television show, and the Master Trainer / Recruiter of SHE WORKS DIGITAL (a virtual training and recruitment directory for Creative Women Veterans). She retired from the U.S. Army with 21 years of active duty service as a Human Resource Manager/Trainer and Recruiter. She’s passionate about helping women, service members, and veterans remove barriers that stunt their personal and professional development.
She strategically teaches others “The Art of Self-Expression™,” shaping stories and becoming masterfully indispensable in their career, using their spiritual gifts to build divine relationships, get their ViiiBE, and generate a future with possibilities with creative arts and multimedia platforms.
She’s the co-author of Amazon Best Sellers “Behind the Rank, Vol 2, God of a Second Chance, and a published author of “A Spirit Warrior’s Mindset; Life Mastery Series.” As a spirit warrior, she’s committed to eradicating unemployment and creating diversity in the working world.
WOMEN VETERANS: THE PITCH 2022 FINALISTS
Debbie K Womack is a proud US Air Force Veteran and a born and breed Texan. In the Air Force, she spent a tour living in the Orient, where she experienced the inspiration for her vision of do no harm and help people “Live life, naturally.” In Japan, she learned about kokoro, an intrinsically linked oneness of heart, mind, and spirit. During her second tour in Europe, Debbie learned the importance of water for relaxing, restoring, and revitalizing these aspects of oneness, which eventually led to the name of her newest company, Mireaux Global Inc., meaning peaceful waters. She inhaled the arts, science of technology and security while serving in the Air Force, which helped, set her civilian path as a C-level consultant.
As a consultant with the Thomas Group, Inc., Debbie led enterprise re-engineering programs focused on process improvements to increase shareholder value with Fortune 250 Companies in all industries. Taking this knowledge and experience she started her own consulting company Greater Yield, LLC. which provided the same type of services but to small and medium sized businesses.
Her professional career is filled with “firsts” and “awards.” Working on teams where she was frequently the only woman. She is a seasoned senior executive of 25+ years’ experience, and is highly respected as an executive with excellent entrepreneurial skills as well as an accomplished builder of loyal and highly productive teams.
Debbie supports and gives back to the community by providing pro bono strategic consulting services to Non-Profit organizations within the Dallas/Ft Worth area. These efforts have been directed toward assisting arts organizations, helping veterans, women, youth and social-service agencies, and town visioning and strategic planning initiatives.
Debbie won the 2012 International Stevie Award for Women in Business Female Entrepreneur of the Year – Business Services, she is a member of Women’s Leadership International, and served on the White House Committee for US Small Business Association. She was also on the co-founder and Advisory Board member of Mentors-In-Arms for the Dallas Rotary Club, which provided veterans with support and mentoring services for their businesses.
All of these opportunities taught Debbie how to live every minute of her life—working hard, playing hard, being positive, staying close to family and friends, and being open to learning new things. But it also has kept her in balance and close to her traditional conservative roots.
On a personal note, a highly active lifestyle combined with the long-term effects of a childhood accident began to take a serious toll on Debbie’s body. Pain management became the name of the game, joined by insomnia and lack of energy. To make matters worse, Debbie watched her loved ones’ experience daily pain with little to no relief.
One day, she came across a passage from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Nature: “In the woods, I feel that nothing can befall me which nature cannot repair.” This became the basis of Debbie’s lifelong quest to find a better way to deal with pain, recover more quickly from injury, and reestablish her kokoro. She researched holistic and natural medicines and studied advanced technology applied to enhance nature. Eventually, Debbie found and spent three years learning the ins and outs of this “new” natural industry involving cannabinoids and ancient natural remedies.
When Debbie found the right products for her, a host of benefits resulted: her daily pain was greatly diminished, she felt more limber and stronger, her sleep improved, and she had more energy throughout the day. She shared her discovery with friends and family, and they began experiencing similar changes. Debbie decided to take her corporate experience and combine it with her journey to help herself and others heal, and established Mireaux Global Inc. in 2020.
Kelli Mumphrey is a proud United States Navy veteran who recognizes her life as a gift meant to be of service to others. In just two months after transitioning from active duty in 2014, Kelli and her husband received a few unexpected fast pitched curve balls. Kelli and her husband found themselves homeless with a one-year-old daughter sleeping on relatives’ couches and spare rooms, while expecting their second child. Grinding day in and day out, Kelli worked a 9 to 5 as a government employee, while serving as a Navy SELRES drilling reservist at Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth all while trying to be a present wife and a breastfeeding mother.
Always on the go, Kelli found herself in situations where she would resort to pumping and dumping her breastmilk in public restrooms, and in other places she felt were unsanitary, uncomfortable, and inadequate. Frustrated by the lack of access to convenient and sanitary public spaces to express breastmilk while away from her home, in 2018, Kelli created MilkSpace, LLC a business that provided outdoor public space operators and event organizers with a pop-up canopy lactation space to address the gap in outdoor breastfeeding amenity solutions.
In 2019, Kelli experienced two miscarriages. Turning her tragedy into triumph, Kelli took a leap of faith by making a life-changing decision to create her own narrative and entered the world of entrepreneurship full-time! Kelli left the security her government career and created another business, Realize Every Aspiration Can Happen (R.E.A.C.H.) Grant Consulting, LLC using her professional government skill sets to assist non-profits to apply for grants. Despite Covid-19, Kelli was able to continue to operate MilkSpace, LLC but as an e-commerce business with a social impact initiative to serve low-income Black women in their breastfeeding journey with business technical assistance from the Veteran Women’s Enterprise Center and the Dallas B.U.I.L.D. grant.
Kelli’s 2021 participation in the Dallas, Texas Impact Ventures’ Local Entrepreneur Accelerator Program (LEAP) and BIG win with the Veteran Women’s Enterprise Center’s 4BusinessRecovery Pitch competition enabled Kelli to refocus on the original purpose of MilkSpace, LLC, as a mobile lactation service on wheels! Kelli is now hard at work developing her Mobile MilkSpace fleet to be the #1 DFW business in demand to deliver premium mobile breastfeeding solutions for outdoor public space operators and event organizers. Kelli is a proud H.B.C.U. graduate of Virginia State University where she earned a bachelor’s degree in Mass Communication (Public Relations). She has also earned two master’s degrees in Management and Entrepreneurship from American Military University.
Tiffany Jones-Lewis, a women’s fashion designer exclusively for Tall, was born in Memphis, TN. Her fashion journey begins at the age of 14 when her mother invested in her first sewing machine. Standing 6’1”, she became interested in sewing when she found it difficult to shop for clothing items that fit her tall frame. Focused on everyday wear, she specializes in pants and jumpsuits for women 5’9” and taller. Her goal has always been to help women feel beautiful day to day without the stress of shopping.
She joined the military in 2011 and later finished her college journey online. She graduated with her business degree from the University of Memphis in 2016. This was the start of bringing her creative skills into an official business. So, begin the journey of TJL Collection, a brand named from her Father (Jones) and husband (Lewis) who pushed her to believe that she could start her brand. To further her skills, she went to Fashion School in Honolulu, HI.
Outside of fashion, she loves to connect with women through events. She has produced more than 10 fashion shows, hosts numerous networking events and hosts an annual vision board party and Tall Girl Meet Up. She believes that confidence starts from the inside and radiates out. There is power in women coming together.
Tiffany has a natural desire to continue to connect with woman and youth through fashion. She loves to meet people and grow with other creatives. Fashion is a way of life.
We know that Women Veterans have some amazing business concepts and outstanding businesses serving our communities and driving our national economy.
During this Pitch Competition, the Women Veteran winners will claim bragging rights for their branch of service, because every military branch believes they have the best of the best.
And the winner’s City will make it claims as the best place for female veteran entrepreneurs.
Now is the time to join the celebration as we continue our commitment to educating, validating, and commemorating women who have and are serving in our military every
Women Veterans Day!
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