HALEY HOFFMAN SMITH

Episode 35 is on fire with Author, Speaker, Entrepreneur, and Director of Community at NextGen, Hayley Hoffman Smith. Hayley brings a tremendous amount of insight into this episode and shares her early journey with starting a non-profit organization, writing books, and helping build a community of entrepreneurs.

About Hayley:

Haley Hoffman Smith is the author of Her Big Idea, a book on creativity, ideation, and women’s empowerment which debuted as a Top 3 Bestseller in Women & Business. She is a regular keynote speaker who recently spoke at Harvard, Yale, Microsoft, SoGal Ventures, and more. She has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, and the Washington Examiner, and writes for Entrepreneur and Thrive Global. A recent Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University, she wrote her honors thesis on how women develop their sense of self agency in entrepreneurship and venture capital. She is also the founder of the Her Big Idea Fund in partnership with Brown University’s Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship, which awards grants to women who apply with BIG ideas. Having founded an international nonprofit for girls’ literacy and empowerment at age 18, she has harnessed her own self agency to surpass doubt surrounding her age and gender.

She is the Director of Community for Next Gen Summit, the premier entrepreneurship community of 5,000+ members, and sincerely enjoys consulting and connecting with other entrepreneurs. She cares deeply about identifying and obliterating the limits women feel in the pursuit of their ventures, so they may live in their full power and create their own BIG ideas.

Find Haley Online:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/haleyhoffmansmith/

Website: http://haleyhoffmansmith.com

Couple shout-outs on the episode:

New Degree Press where she worked with them to publish her book- https://www.newdegreepress.com

Link to her book, Her Big Idea -> https://www.amazon.com/Her-Big-Idea-Genheration-Entrepreneurs-ebook/dp/B07DJY56PN

Books she’d recommend:

Grit by Angela Duckworth – https://www.amazon.com/Grit-Passion-Perseverance-Angela-Duckworth-ebook/dp/B010MH9V3W/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1546296992&sr=1-1&keywords=grit+angela+duckworth

The Creative Curve by Allen Gannett – https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Curve-Develop-Right-Idea-ebook/dp/B075PVQ99T/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1546297026&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Creative+Curve

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