I respect the passion you have for your business, and know what it feels like to navigate this realm as a womxn of color. It's empowering, but ripe full of obstacles that our white womxn and/or femme counterparts don't experience to the same degree.As of 2020, in the US alone, 44% of womxn-owned businesses have been established and run by womxn of color, equating to a 20% increase from 1997.But despite the vivacious entrepreneurial spirit of womxn and femmes of color such as ourselves, the odds are stacked against us. Barriers to start-up capital, business financing and more create hurdle after hurdle.I realized that throughout this immense struggle, that I, along with fellow womxn and femmes of color, needed the opportunity to be more visible, vocal and authentic with the entirety of our identities.That meant stepping away from the white-washed and colonialistic methods of communicating the services and/or products being provided by our businesses and fully embracing who we are as womxn and femmes of color.