September at HEN was about asking questions, sharing experiences, exploring new perspectives, and finding ideas that work for your business.
With 20+ opportunities for women entrepreneurs to learn, connect and exchange ideas, September created space to ask questions, share experiences and explore what works for each business. The conversations moved across business advisory, MSME funding, customer onboarding, content strategy, LinkedIn, AI, branding, intellectual property and sustainable growth. At the same time, HEN created room for honest discussions, peer learning and different points of view—reminding us that there is no single formula for building a business, and that the right approach often begins with understanding your own needs and challenges.
to turn questions into conversations, conversations into insights, and insights into steps that work for your business.
1) 4 HEN Workshops & Business-Building Sessions
1.1) Who Deserves a Seat at Your Business Table?
- The right advice can change the decisions behind your growth. HENizens explored when a business needs advisors, who belongs around the table, and how to build relationships that bring experience, perspective, accountability, and meaningful value—not just impressive names.
1.2) Subsidy & Finance for MSMEs: What Can Your Business Access?
With CA Yashwant Mehta, Sales Coach — Partner, KYM & Associates
- Turn government schemes from alphabet soup into business opportunities. HENizens got practical clarity on MUDRA, PMEGP, CGTMSE and PSI—understanding eligibility, documentation, application considerations, and how government incentives can work alongside project finance when planning for investment, expansion, or a new venture.
1.3) Content That Moves Customers: From Attention to Action
With Alpana Mandal, Founder, Spacebar
Great content doesn’t just get attention—it knows what to do with it. HENizens explored the TOFU–MOFU–BOFU framework to understand how content can attract the right audience, build preference and trust, and ultimately encourage action. They also learned how to turn one customer problem into multiple purposeful content ideas across the buyer journey.
1.4) HEN Virtual Networking Meet
HEN Virtual Networking Meet
The strongest connections begin with a conversation, not a pitch. HENizens from across cities, sectors, and stages of business came together to introduce their journeys, understand each other’s work, and find common ground. The meet created space for genuine conversations, new allies, and collaboration possibilities that can continue well beyond the virtual room.
2) HEN Tuesday Meets and Night Addas
HEN Tuesdays → Bring the business problem to the table and let the community bring the possibilities. From festive inventory and lead generation to AI vs. photography, community management, free consultations, and entering new markets, HENizens brought real-time business challenges to the conversation—sharing experiences, ideas, introductions, and practical next steps to move each question forward.
HEN Night Addas → From financial literacy and smarter money management with Manalee Verneker CFP®, CWM® to a hands-on accounting software demowith Khyati Rathod, these informal conversations extended questions from HEN Office Hours into practical, deeper discussions—helping HENizens explore better ways to manage both personal finances and everyday business operations.HEN Business Builder BootCamps
3) HEN BootCamp & Sales Mentoring
September’s HEN Sales Session with Neetu V Bansal – Sales Coach got founders examining where sales were slipping—from lead quality and follow-ups to pricing objections and customer trust.With real business challenges on the table, we explored what needed fixing before spending more on marketing.Because sometimes, growing sales starts with plugging the leaks.
- HEN Power Circle Exclusive: HEN x Indian Women in Dubai Networking Meet: Different markets. Shared experiences. New possibilities. HEN Power Circle members connected with women entrepreneurs from Indian Women in Dubai, exchanging business experiences, market insights, referrals, and collaboration ideas—showing how one conversation can take your network beyond borders.
- 6 Weeks- Build Your Linkedin Client Engine, With Manish Tiwari, Sales Coach → Stop sounding corporate. Start sounding relevant to the buyer. HENizens worked hands-on with attention-grabbing hooks, persuasive content frameworks, buyer-focused language, mobile-friendly post structures, and AI-assisted editing—turning LinkedIn content from something to “post” into a tool designed to start conversations and create client opportunities.
4) In-person Networking Meets
3 In-person Networking Meets → Kolkata and Mumbai Office Hours and Bangalore Founder’s Table brought entrepreneurs together for candid conversations, shared experiences, and valuable connections, creating space for fresh perspectives, collaboration, and forward movement.
5) 9 HEN Live: Conversations on Growth, Resilience & Scale
From questioning what really drives business growth and brand visibility to understanding AI, IP, sustainable scaling, personal patterns, and the value of human expertise, September’s HEN LIVE conversations encouraged women entrepreneurs to look beyond the obvious, ask better questions, and find clearer ways forward.
5.1) Is My Body Type a Dress Code?
With Radhika Shukla, Founder of LemonHush → What if fashion stopped telling you what suits you—and simply let you choose? A candid conversation on building a differentiated, unisex and size-inclusive fashion brand, finding an underserved customer need, and using customer conversations to shape products, brand identity, and a D2C business. Watch Here
5.2) Do You Really Need to Scale Like Everyone Else?
With Yukti, Business & Breathwork Coach → Growth doesn’t have to look the same for every business. An honest conversation on building a service business around your strengths, capacity and ambitions—from selling expertise and navigating pricing to finding a growth model that feels both commercially sound and personally sustainable. Watch Here
5.3) Why Do You Keep Coming Back to the Same Crossroads?
With Nadia Sethi, Co-Founder of Healmee → Sometimes, the decision isn’t the problem—the pattern behind it is. A thought-provoking conversation on recurring choices, belief patterns and self-awareness, exploring how Akashic Records and Quantum Mindset work can offer a different lens for understanding what keeps us stuck—and finding a path from insight to clarity and action. Watch Here
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5.4) AI, IP & Ownership: The Questions Founders Aren't Asking Yet
With Priyanka Changia, Co-Founder HEN India, and Gauri Waghmare , MD, Gaurivandana Legal Services → Building with AI is exciting. Knowing what you actually own is essential. A timely conversation on AI-generated work, employee and freelancer contributions, patents, copyrights, trademarks, open-source tools, APIs and third-party platforms—and how founders can turn intellectual property from an afterthought into a strategic business asset.
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Looking Back: September was about asking the questions
September was about asking questions, talking through business challenges, and learning from the experiences of others.
Through expert led sessions, HEN LIVE conversations, networking meets, HEN Tuesdays and Night Addas, HENizens shared experiences, explored different approaches, and found ideas they could take back to their businesses.
Because sometimes, moving forward does not mean doing more or following every piece of advice. It means understanding what your business needs and choosing what works for you.
And that is what made September at HEN meaningful.
There was no single formula to follow and no expectation to figure everything out at once. There was room to ask, listen, reflect, and decide what made sense for each business.
One question could start a conversation, and one conversation could help shape the next step.
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Article Contribution by – Sapna Garg
