Share Your Strut With Shannen Stewart of Heels & Handshakes

This week, we welcome Shannen Stewart to The Renaissance Podcast! Shannen is the Founder of Heels & Handshakes, an all membership organization for business owners and women in business. When Shannen moved back to Nashville in 2012 after being immersed in the hospitality industry in Orlando, she found that she missed having a community of women to lean on. She created Heels & Handshakes in 2013 to ensure that the multitude of women that made up the majority of the workforce would all have positive and collaborative interactions to enrich their lives both professionally and personally. What started out as ten women meeting for cocktails and conversations has evolved to over 3,000 women in the Middle Tennessee community, and the collaborative spirit has grown with it.

In the episode, Ashley McDuffie, Social Media Strategist and Graphic Designer on the Renaissance team joins us as co-host in place of Sydney, and shares her experience working with the Heels & Handshakes organization.

Here’s what you’ll hear about in the episode:

How Shannen listened to her members during the pandemic to give them what they needed to succeed The importance of collaboration over competition Focusing on quality over quantity when networkingHow to work smarter not harderHow to weed out toxicity in your life and careerLeaving a corporate job to pivot to purpose-driven entrepreneurshipWhat “STRUT” means in the Heels & Handshakes community and how important it is to share yours as a womanLearn more about Heels & Handshakes by visiting: https://www.heelsandhandshakes.com

Get social with Heels & Handshakes: https://www.instagram.com/heelsandhandshakes/