Ann Bancroft & Liv Arnesen
Photo: Wings WorldQuest website

Because it’s International Women’s Month, I’d like to take the time to give a hats-off to women around the world who are making strides, not only in the business world, but who are “shaping progress” in various capacities around the globe.

Yesterday evening, The Explorers Club- WINGS WorldQuest held their annual Women of Discovery Awards. WWQ’s mission “is to celebrate and support extraordinary women explorers and to promote scientific exploration, education, conservation and communication in order to motivate and inspire future generations.”

2008 Awardees

Courage Award: Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen
The first women to cross the Antarctic landmass on foot, are recognized as two of the world’s preeminent polar explorers.

• Shared mission: inspire people to follow their dreams, especially women and girls
• Bancroft: first woman to successfully ski overland to both poles
  
• Arnesen: first woman to ski solo and unsupported to the South Pole

Earth Award: Jill Fredston
She’s logged more than 20,000 miles exploring coastlines of Canada, Alaska, Greenland, and Norway in a 20 foot rowing shell.

• One of the world’s foremost avalanche experts

Air & Space Award: Birgit Sattler
She focuses on atmospheric studies and made the discovery that clouds are filled with living organisms.

Sea Award: Vera Kingeekuk Metcalf
Her community-based projects document traditional ecological knowledge and community resource management practices.

• Working to preserve Native American languages

Humanity Award: Irina Nikolaeva
A Russian linguist, she has dedicated her life to documenting endangered languages including syntax, morphology, typology, and information structure and the traditional knowledge they embody.

Field Research Award: Lene Kielsen Holm
Her project in Greenland collects observations from local sealers, fisherman, sheep breeders, and other indigenous groups to document their experiences with newly changing ice and weather conditions that have resulted from global warming.

For more information on these women explorers, visit Wings World Quest.

Dear Entrepreneur Goddesses,

Thank you so much for your patience these past few days, but the changes have been worth the wait! Welcome to the new home of Entrepreneur Goddess! As you can see, all the posts from the previous address have now been transfered to this site. From now on I’ll be posting from here…

Welcome home!

-E. Goddess

Dear Entrepreneur Goddesses,

This week has been a busy week in EntrepreneurLand for this Entrepreneur Goddess! So, please excuse the absence of articles these past few days.

In addition, I’d like to announce this blog is moving to a new home in the next few days! I have been busy preparing and transferring things for the move. It’ll be at the same address at EntrepreneurGoddess.com

Thanks for your patience during the transfer and site improvements!

-Entrepreneur Goddess

UPDATE: I will now be using this platform for my blog!

Originally posted at EntrepreneurGoddess.com: March 3, 2008

The big question when it comes to starting a service-based business: How much am I worth?

Every entrepreneur has to ask herself this question at some point in the business planning process. It can be a never-ending question spinning around in your brain over and over again. Feeling as though your livelihood and self-worth both depend on the bottom line makes the question all the more daunting and stressful. How much am I worth and how do I find out?

Suggestion 1:
Figure out how much money you need to live your life. Calculate how much money you need to pay your bills each month and how much you spend on recreation. When you have a good idea of how much you spend a month, you can easily calculate how much money you need to earn in order to live your life in your city.

Suggestion 2:
Do your research. To find out how much people in a similar field earn…ask. Ask friends, friends of friends, check online, and make a few phone calls. This could be a good starting point to establish how much your services are worth.

Suggestion 3:
Now, discount the first two suggestions I just made and imagine you have no need for money. Yes, it’s raining presidential heads! Yay! Now how much would you charge for your services?

Suggestion 4:
Ask yourself how much you want to make.

After considering the three suggestions above…HOW MUCH ARE YOUR SERVICES WORTH?

Value yourself and your services,
Entrepreneur Goddess

Originally posted at EntrepreneurGoddess.com: February 25, 2008