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Empowered Human Design: A “She Started It” Success Story

Nette Hargreaves is the owner of Empowered Human Design. Nette aims to support the empowerment and wellbeing of women and families using her methodology of ‘human design’. Her mission is using her 20+ years of personal development experience to help her clients juggle their personal wellbeing with the demands of family, work and community.

Nette offers personal and family consultations and is available as a speaker and facilitator for retreats, courses, masterminds and events. She is also the author of “Purposeful Parenting: A practical human design handbook for raising confident, authentic and resilient kids”.

By applying to the She Started It grant, Nette was able to use the funds to design her website in order to increase awareness of her services, with assistance from our expert Tanya Rodgers. This also allowed her to install software to support her clients and in the process drive traffic from her social media profiles to her website and newsletter.

 

How has the She Started It grant improved your business? 

The main impact from the She Started It grant was motivation along with a funded website. The latter was particularly crucial for my business as the basis for my work is the ability to run a human design chart. Prior to receiving this funding, I had to use other people’s websites for this. This also applied when people found me through networking or social media – I had to send them elsewhere for their chart and risk losing the connection.  

“Having the chart software on my own website has eliminated this. It has also given me control over the information displayed as well as the ability to sign people up to my mailing list, which now has 220 subscribers.” 

 

How have you found the support you’ve received from coaching? 

I’d like to highlight here that Tanya Rodgers is an absolute joy to work with. She is clever and creative and I have just hired her for some website updates & additions.  

Overall, I am super grateful for this funding and how it has helped my business have more visibility.

Visit Nette’s website: https://www.empoweredhumandesign.com/

BIPC Devon are proud to continue to support small businesses with free advice, events, and coworking spaces as well as our fantastic female-focused business-boosting resources.

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Our databases cover things like market research and statistics, finding funding, guidance on intellectual property and so much more. We provide interactive webinars throughout the year to teach you things like writing a successful business plan, ways to make an impact at networking, and how to boss social media. You can book 1-1 business surgeries with experts from a variety of fields and so much more.

All of this is available, for free, to anyone in Devon who is thinking about starting a business. Simply pop into Exeter, Barnstaple or Paignton libraries, click the “get started” button or email us at bipc@librariesunlimited.org.uk to find out how we can help you launch or grow, the business of your dreams.

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