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The Microbusiness Mom - America's Microbusiness Expert is Gina Robison-Billups -- CEO, author, popular speaker, owner of multiple microbusinesses, and mother of two. Gina has walked the path of microbusiness ownership and knows what it's like to be strapped, struggling, alone, and ultimately successful in your dream of entrepreneurship.
As the founder and CEO of The National Association For Moms In Business - the nation's leading association representing Entrepreneurial, Executive and CEO moms, Gina has spent the last six years supporting, educating, serving and representing the needs of business moms.
Gina started the organization in 2001 as a fluke
thinking that she would find the national association that represents
moms who are business professionals, and after a year and half realized
there wasn't one. Gina knew, from personal experience and from other
women's stories, that there was a deep bias against mothers in the
workplace and they were being passed over for career advancement and
business contracts just because they were moms. Gina then
sold her business so she could devote herself full-time to the
association. Today, it is still the only association representing
moms in
business. www.nafmib.org
In addition, Gina started Moms Making a
Million in August 2008 which has the mission of reducing poverty in
America by helping one million moms by 2015 have a plan to earn/create
one million dollars in personal net worth. The progress of the program
has been slow because Gina was diagnosed with a very aggressive breast cancer
in Nov. 2008. She still worked during that time and grew the program
much more slowly than she hoped. The program has grown to 215 members
in the first year while Gina was in treatment. More information about
that can be found at www.momsmakingamillion.com
Gina meets audiences - mainstream American business owners - right where they are in their entrepreneurial journey. 50% of America's business owners are home-based businesses and 85% of all registered businesses in the U.S. are "microbusiness" - meaning they have 5 or less employees and started with $35,000 or less initial capital investment. Gina helps give these business owners sound marketing, business and balance habits and tips that are do-able and will help them create the business and lifestyle of their dreams and the freedom they desire.
Her work with home based business owners and mom business owners has earned her the title of the "Home Based Business Advocate" for the state of Nevada in 2003 and 2007 from the Small Business Administration, and she was named as a national finalist for The Women's Congress 2008 Champion for Women Awards. Gina is also the Co-Chair of the National Healthcare Committee for Women Impacting Public Policy. She serves to help bring a voice microbusiness owners, particularly women-owned, through her work with WIPP as well as serving in partnerships with CARE.org, MomsRising.org, MomsVoteMatters.org, Create Your Dreams Awards, and the SBE Council. Gina is also the founder and board member of The International Association of Working Mothers.
Gina was most recently asked to be a member of a kitchen cabinet on small business ownership to Elizabeth Vale
, the White House Business Liaison in the Office of Public Engagement.
Gina is the co-author of The Accomplishment Journals-
the daily planning and accountability system designed initially for
executive moms to be more effective and create a sense of a balanced
life has now expanded into a series of journals
available to more than only moms! Look for that to be available for
purchase in January 2010.
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