Beyond 6 Seconds

After working for years in the corporate, nonprofit, and public sectors, Rachel Werner founded RBW Strategy, her women-owned consulting firm based in the Washington, DC Metro area. She’s an expert in the full lifecycle of grants activities, and currently provides fundraising, project management and strategic planning support to nonprofit, public sector and for-profit clients. She is also an award-winning business owner who was recently recognized as a SCORE Client of the Year! On this episode, Rachel shares: Why she transitioned from working at a Big 4 management consulting company after having her first child How her experience prepared her to become an entrepreneur, build her client base, and differentiate her business What it was like starting her business while pregnant with her second child The preconceived notions she had to overcome about having a home-based business How she defined her work/life boundaries as an entrepreneur, and found support from other entrepreneurial mothers through an accelerator