🔥 THIS IS THE FUTURE. WOMEN TAKING THE FINANCIAL WHEEL. 🔥
If you’re sick of the endless parade of “nos” and the gatekept wisdom of the Old Boys Club, then buckle up and hit play on this week’s episode. Hailey Handler—unstoppable founder of KAIA—joined me for an unfiltered, all-out convo about what it actually takes to shake up the funding world for women. More than just another startup story, Hailey is rewriting the rules, flipping the table, and unapologetically building her own power structure.
👉 Here’s what you need to know (and feel in your bones):
1. Stop Waiting for Permission. Build It Yourself.
Hailey didn’t wait for an invitation. She saw the gap—millions of women with ideas, soul, and grit, shut out of funding where decisions are made by the same homogenous groups. “Forget the boys’ club. Build your own table,” she says. If you want a seat… carve out your own damn chair.
2. Money Is Power. Let’s Claim It.
If women are the most powerful economic force on earth (spoiler: we ARE), then it’s time we managed, invested, and redistributed resources our way. KAIA isn’t just a platform—it’s a movement, an ecosystem where women support women, reclaiming agency over how, where, and why money flows.
3. Alternative Funding = Safer, Smarter, Stronger.
Hailey is done with the dangerous myths, the predatory practices, and the ignorance around equity. KAIA’s donation and rewards-based crowdfunding protects founders, letting you build with your people, earn meaningful rewards, and give contributors real skin in the game—without losing control of your destiny before you’re ready.
4. Community Is Everything. Connect. Share. Vote With Your Dollars.
Every contribution on KAIA is a vote for a better future (sometimes with as little as $100). You’re not only backing a founder—you’re joining a legion, getting discounts and rewards on things that actually matter (think wellness, doula care, NOT just another water bottle).
5. You’re Built For This Long Game.
Women are designed for incubation, for nurturing, for seeing through the hard, the painful, and the uncertain. Hailey reminds us: “History repeats itself, and in the end, it all makes sense.” Entrepreneurship—the REAL kind—is feminine, fierce, and backed by centuries of cooperative credit, survival, and innovation.
6. Self-Actualization Is Non-Negotiable.
Building a business? Mothering, birthing, expanding? Don’t shrink. Make wellness your way of life. Sleep, say ‘I love you’ to yourself, move, meditate, eat for vibrance. The journey is nothing without the battle scars–wear them with pride.
7. Don’t Buy the Bullshit.
The fairytale of “happy and successful” handed down to us? Burn it. What truly lights you up, what lets you show up loud, proud, imperfect, and messy? Rewire everything you’ve been told about leadership, ambition, and what’s possible for women.
👑 Ready to act? Here’s your rebellion checklist:
Question everything.
Learn what equity really means before you sign.
Find your people (on Instagram @kaiawomen, and right here).
Support women founders with your wallet, your voice, your networks.
Prioritize your own vibrance fiercely.
Reject every limitation, comparison, and manufactured box.
Leave the financial system better than you found it.
THE FUTURE IS BUILT BY WOMEN WHO REFUSE TO PLAY SMALL.
Let’s make funding, wellness, and community a way of life. For all of us.
👊 Subscribe, share, show up. You belong at the center of this revolution.
— Megan Swan
“I am here for this. There’s no way I’m not going to build the most incredible alternative funding marketplace I can to support these amazing women.” – Hailey Handler
Drop a comment: what patriarchy-approved rule are you smashing this week? Let’s get loud.
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