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First, thank you for visiting my website!  And for taking another few minutes to learn more. I hope we find a reason to work together or connect! ​

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My Positionality

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I am a hyphenated Canadian, systemically privileged GenX, cis-het white woman originally from Northern Europe (Lübeck, Germany). I came to Canada as a child and am a modern-day settler living on treaty land (Treaty 13). My mother raised my sister and me. Various father figures--including our own--came and went. I left home at 17. I paid the bills by serving as a minimum waged worker, rock n' roll bar waitress, cleaning lady, dairy entrepreneur and artisan cheese maker, and for 18 years "worked my way up" (with the help of awesome mentors and people who believed in me) up the corporate executive in the publishing industry. After a divorce, I spent 12 years experiencing life as a single mom. I earned an EMBA at the University of Toronto. I am currently pursuing another Post-Grad Degree at the University of Guelph (Social Movements & Entrepreneurship). My life partner and muse today is a brilliant musician. I live with gratitude in one of Toronto's (tkaronto) most diverse (64% non-white) and fast-growing neighbourhoods (Etobicoke North). 

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My Worldview and Work

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I am in community with the feminist enterprise world. I read deeply, study, research, and practice activist/feminist entrepreneurship; This is my sense-making lab. I process and bring others into this work by creating content and courses for curious and activist entrepreneurs, in partnership with enterprises and organizations that support them.  

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I founded and currently steward two related enterprises: Highwire Collective (Inc.) and WIOTGrrl Press ( Project). 

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Over the past 15 years, I have created, facilitated, administered, and co-delivered entrepreneurship programming informed by feminist theory and post-growth economics for over 15 organizations and institutions.  I have also mentored and supported over 1,500 micro and self-employed entrepreneurs. I have also taught entrepreneurship to over 500+ students at the university level. 

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Entrepreneurship, for me, has been a financial lifeline, a bottomless well for intellectual inquiry, friendships, and liberatory force.  My full profile can be downloaded here. 

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Commerce Not Capitalism

 

I believe that indie commerce (whether in the form of self-employment, a micro for-profit or nonprofit organization, an unregistered collective, or a worker cooperative) and enterprise stewardship work can be powerful forms of activism, and when aligned, help spread social movement ideas and solutions. ​

 

My lived experience in this space has shown me that the reason most micro startups fail to make it past 3 years is, in part, the "one size fits all" patriarchal orientation of mainstream, now oversaturated, entrepreneurship programming, mentoring, and coaching spaces. Most force-feed a 1990's capitalist, patriarchal, colonial and tech-feudalist "lean start up" logic that is increasingly out of step with the times.  

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Entrepreneurship education and programming need to evolve and diversify. I can show you why and how. 

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I Believe

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​​Life-affirming, inclusive systemic change is inspired by nature, imagined by the people, driven by the people, for the people. 

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AI Statement

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I use and am continually learning about AI too.  I am also committed to critiquing and resisting harmful applications of AI.  I am anti-piracy, pro-transparency, pro-consent, and pro-ethical /critical use. If I reference AI-generated content for some reason in an article I write or work I produce, I will cite it in accordance with APA citation rules. I follow Feminist AI ethics practices using this framework. 

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I am part of the pause AI movement scene. I don't believe AI tech, including Agentic AI, is beyond our collective control; we can shape, define, and determine its future role in our world. 

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Social Media

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Social Media is dying. But in the meantime, you can find me on BlueSky, Mastadon and Medium. The only mainstream social media platform I regularly post on is LinkedIn.

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If you are also moving away from mega social media platforms but want to stay in touch, subscribe to my non-platform-dependent newsletter, hosted in Canada and governed by Canadian privacy law. 

 

My Teachers
 

So many people have influenced my work. Only some are noted here. 

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Favorite quotes:

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“Living is a creative act, with self-determined making or producing at its core. Colonized life is so intensely about consumption that the idea of making is reserved for artists at best and hobbies at worst. Making is not seen as the material basis for experiencing and influencing the world.” (p. 23)--Leanne Betsamosake Simpson, Indigenous writer, creator, from As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance

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"While men's revolutions have often been about dying for a cause, feminist conceived transformation is about daring to live for a cause." -Petra Kelly

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Want to meet in person?

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Each year, my partner Greg and I host a Toronto-based backyard music festival we call the "Love & Liberation Mini-Music Fest". We can only handle about 100 people. Food. Amazing local music talent. Lots of amazing people to meet! The date in 2026 is Aug 22nd.  

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If you would like to get on our invite list, please email greg(at)harlowsoundstudios(dot).com

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