Are you a woman on a mission?

It doesn't matter!

Some of our members are new to business with no previous experience and they haven't come up with a name yet. Our more experienced members love helping ladies to get started and see them fly! Others are established business owners who work for themselves or have grown their businesses and lead teams that mean they no longer get involved in the day to day operations. We have members at all stages in their journeys, who find that membership brings them different benefits. But the most important thing is, we are all honest and share with authenticity to help build relationships and encourage others to rise, whatever our industry or sector. Whoever our customers are. Because it's not about selling or networking for marketing purposes in Inspire, it's about building beautiful relationships to help one another rise.

Anyone is welcome to join us - if you consider yourself a female business owner in the UK (or are planning to become one imminently) and think you have something to gain (and maybe even something to give, even if that's just kindness) by being a part of it all, jump on in!

To answer this question, it's easiest to explain the difference you'll notice in heart-led leaders. Maybe you are one and don't even realise it! Heart-led leaders value authenticity, honesty, vulnerability and put relationships with people as their priority, not making money.

Can you be a successful business owner and be heart-led? Yes, absolutely.

Because relationships where trust is held, is what will lead people to choose you/your business/brand as the one they want to work with, buy from or work for as members of your team! If there's no relationship, there's no trust. If there's no trust, there's no transactions, and that means, no money coming in! So in a roundabout sort of way, hopefully you'll see that leading with heart and building trust is actually critical to business success long term. 

Characteristics of heart-leader leaders: NOT spammy, manipulative, coercive or pushy. Instead they ARE looking to build community, connection, and deliver value. Value is a real focus of a heart-led leader. The desire to really serve customers/clients well, deliver a quality experience and maintain relationships long-term is a focus for heart-led leaders! This includes how they look after their teams and is a golden thread in how they live their entire lives, not just how they run their businesses. It's a way of life, and a state of being. Heart-led leaders care about how your day is going and how your family are as members of their team. They're interested in you not just because you work for them but because you are a human and you matter and have a place in their heart.

Mutual support, trust, vulnerability and the ability to share honestly is crucial. This only happens when we are in relationships where trust is present. And these relationships is what our membership is about fostering. We love to help you grow your business through the power of relationships and working together with other women.

If you're new to business or very experienced, it doesn't matter when you understand that relationships are always valuable when all parties share the same intention: to help one another rise! If you love this ethos, come and join us!

In SO many ways! Members who engage in the opportunities available regularly and consistently report:

• Increased confidence
• Increased focus and efficiency in decision-making
• Feeling more positive
• Making good decisions
• Feeling empowered by helping others and the feel-good of giving back
• Increased sales
• Increased business skills
• Increased knowledge
• Finding trusted suppliers and business service providers
• Making great friends
• Making new connections who introduce you to those who can provide expert help and advice
• Finding people you can collaborate with on a Win-Win-Win basis

Yes and no! The Inspire Network is a networking group for business owners, which encourages members to be "proper networkers" and help one another by creating connections with our wider networks and circles. This is a good group to join if you don't like salesy referral networks where you have pressure to send everyone work. We believe you should find people you align with and help them out, and ensure reciprocity wherever possible. We see one another as fellow humans on our own missions both within business and beyond, and to achieve these missions, we need (and want) to build relationships as individuals with people we like. At Inspire we do relationship-building and meaningful peer support as a community rather than "referral networking" and we don't expect anyone to be put under pressure to make referrals unless they want to! 

We're not just a network though! We are a membership-based organisation that focuses on collaboration and peer support. We are a not for profit organisation focused only on helping women to develop a very close-knit community where they support rather than sell, so members are discouraged from viewing one another as "prospective customers" and instead to see the opportunity to help one another. You'll see better results in your business when you put people first.

If you're joining us because you want to sell to members, that's probably not a good idea, as we focus on relationships first and that's not about getting sales, it's about helping one another as human beings. 

Sales follow when we behave with integrity and kindness and set aside our hidden agendas.

If you are willing to get involved consistently and learn from others, and take up the opportunities we offer you, and come from a genuine desire to help and serve, then you will probably find you get business fom others in our community and their networks - but this shouldn't be your primary reason for joining. Instead you should be joining to widen your circle and be able to ask for connections when needed.

You may promote your products or services during Speed Networking because we do like to support one another with referrals - but if you don't come to meetings, you may not experience the support in terms of referrals. It's all about relationships remember!

It is absolutely possible to boost your sales by attending our meetings consistently - WITHOUT being a Spammy Pammy, and our genuine desire to help one another, as farmers rather than hunters, is partly why our active members love coming to our meetings.

Yes, within the parameters we set out, and we advise you not to seek to sell to other members as a priority, but instead to educate and inform them so they can help refer you business!!

The Inspire Network meetings are a place where you get a chance to meet to chat with others and find out more about them, as well as to share about yourself and see how you might be able to help others, which is what we consider networking in a more traditional context to be about.

We encourage you to use our app/web browser-based group to connect in between meetings and find like-minded members to become part of each others' Secret Sales Team where you feel you can trust each other to really deliver quality and value to those you refer to each other, and also you may choose to use members services to support one another, but it's not an expectation.

Our app-based groups are also available to access via your browser, and participating actively in these is the best way to make sure you're in the loop with fellow members. We also use this channel to share details of our upcoming sessions and access is within the platform itself so you don't need to be digging around for links.

There is nothing additional to pay to attend The Inspire Network networking sessions which last 1hr and are usually at lunchtime, so you can take a break and join us with your cuppa/lunch. The days vary to help as many people as possible access meetings.

We run meetings every month except August and December.

No. We know you have many priorities and demands on your time.

As a member of The Inspire Network we encourage you to come at every other month wherever possible as your attendance adds value to others as well as yourself. 

We do ask that you come to what you can once you've signed up and that you monitor the Events tab which are updated monthly in our members-only group.

Meetings are just 60 minutes and focused, so as not to take up too much time.

The Network group associated with our membership is hosted on Guild which is designed for mobile use first, so it's really user friendly while on the go. It's available on an app which is recommended, but also within your website's browser. You will be sent an email upon joining with details of how to join. You should ensure that your email used when signing up for a profile on the app matches your Inspire Network Membership details and ensure your name also matches the name you registered with.