DON'T JUST GET INSPIRED, TRANSFORM YOURELF
The 2025 Women's Leadership Circles were created exactly with you in mind.
Take the next step into your power - become the most effective business owner and manager you can be by learning more about your strengths and how to build on them. Get inspired feedback and expert mentorship support. Connect with other women experiencing similar challenges.
Deeply invest in yourself and your vision. Build your awareness and skills, re-spark your core enthusiasm, open the gates to greater prosperity, and unearth even more of your personal power, bravery, and confidence along the way.
Mt. Shasta Circle meets from
January – June
Redding Circle meets from
April – September
Applications are open until the circle capacity is reached (or the first meeting date)
Space is limited to create an intimate and interactive exchange.
The application process ensures a carefully curated community of women leaders.
This is a top-notch, grant-funded training opportunity valued at over $2,000, is offered through The Women’s Business Center at NO COST to participants.
Please note that to be considered for the Women’s Leadership Circles program, you must complete the application and be a WBC client. If you're not a current client, becoming one is a free, no-cost service. This guarantees you access to resources, mentoring, and additional classes beyond the Women’s Leadership Circles. Fill out the application here: CLIENT APPLICATION LINK.
The Circle was wonderful – to listen to other women was very powerful.
2020 Women's Leadership Circle Participant
WHAT ARE WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP CIRCLES?
Women's Leadership Circles give you a dedicated space to prioritize your goals, offering the guidance and community to help you build the business and life you’ve always dreamed of.”
Women’s Leadership Circles are intimate, ongoing groups for entrepreneurial women. Participants explore leadership themes, personal challenges, and goals. With two touch points each month (one in person and one online for 6 months), the Circles foster deep connections and lasting relationships.
Sessions combine skill-building, personal exploration, and supportive sharing. Members are encouraged to face challenges and aspirations in a safe, nurturing environment, where active listening and a commitment to empowerment guide every interaction.
In this space, find inner resources, outer strategies, and sisterhood to help you:
- Step into authentic confidence
- Awaken your highest potential
- Make courageous professional choices
THIS IS FOR YOU WHEN YOU ARE...
A Female Small Business Owner or Non-Profit Director Who…
- Wants to become a more decisive leader in her life and business
- Participates in the community and desires to create a greater impact in the region
- Aspires to elevate her leadership skills and self-belief
- Manages teams or leads groups, seeking new ways to foster health and happiness at work
- Understands the value of inner work for achieving outer success
- Is evolving and dedicated to personal growth
- Feels called to join a supportive and inspiring group of women
Embarking on this six-month journey is a pathway to personal evolution through exploration and discovery.
Your wisdom is within.
The Leadership Circles allows you the time and space to access higher frequencies of inspiration, inner authority, and clarity.
MEET YOUR GUIDE
Joy Taylor
Joy Taylor is a dynamic advocate for women's leadership and business mentorship, focusing on authentic leadership and conscious entrepreneurship. As the founder of A Soul-Inspired Life, she helps women align their personal and professional lives with their deeper values. Joy has empowered thousands of women to build thriving, purpose-driven businesses through her intuitive business strategies.
She created The Business Soul Map, a strategic tool designed to help entrepreneurs clarify their vision and grow businesses that reflect their values and signature energy.
Joy has also contributed to state and national economic development initiatives, served on the Mt. Shasta City Chamber of Commerce Board, and is the former Director of The Women's Business Center in Northern California.
As a best-selling author, speaker, and passionate leader, she continues to inspire women to lead with purpose and create meaningful impact.
Joy recognizes that since everyone is an individual, their road to success will be unique. She has a keen sense of a person's strengths and challenges and instinctively knows how to help each other attain their highest potential. Her patient and insightful mentoring is the foundation for our business achievements.
- Judi Heimpel
THE SIX TOPICS WE'LL EXPLORE...
MONTH ONE:
Authenticity and Intuition at Work:
Embrace your unique style of self-expression and trust your instincts. Explore the importance of authenticity in leadership and find new pathways to your intuition. Be a more discerning leader, making better choices by relaxing into your heart for guidance.
Leverage your Intuition
MONTH TWO:
Accessing Flow States for Ultimate Productivity:
Get into optimal performance and creativity through embodiment practices that open your natural momentum and joy. Discover techniques to awaken your bright genius, enhancing your focus and inspiration as you accomplish more with less effort and more ease.
Increase your ProductivityMONTH THREE:
Speaking Truth and Creating Healthy Agreements:
Practice communication styles that lead with compassion and curiosity. Learn how to build strong business relationships founded on clear agreements and foster collaboration. Promote a culture of trust and transparency, empowering your team and enhancing workplace relationships.
Communicate with Clarity
MONTH FOUR:
Dynamic Public Speaking and Video Creation:
Present with confidence and engage your audience by revealing your strengths and vulnerabilities. Our training will equip you with effective public speaking techniques and strategies for creating impactful video content that resonates with your audience.
Speak with Ease and JoyMONTH FIVE:
Confidence - Empowered from Within:
Explore and cultivate your self-assurance and resilience. Learn to ground into your essence and personal power. With interactive group activities, discover new levels of intention and strength that you can naturally apply to all areas of life and work.
Lead with Powerful Presence
MONTH SIX:
The Evolved Masculine and Feminine Aspects of Leadership:
Explore your leadership style and qualities. With honesty, evaluate and assess your masculine and feminine traits in leadership and choose how to grow, enhancing your effectiveness and balance as a leader in various contexts.
Be an Integrated LeaderI've gained clarity, feel a renewed sense of motivation, and am beyond excited to tune into more of your fabulous offerings. Heartfelt thanks for the way you model womanhood. Your voice impacts beautifully!
- Ana Cadena MS Posture, Functional Movement & Breath Coach
ONCE YOU APPLY...
We’ll let you know your next steps for joining a circle. The application process allows us to create a cohesive group, aligning the members' intentions with the session topics, activities, and discussions.
Each woman will bring her gifts, challenges, and goals to the meetings and receive multiple benefits such as …
- Personal and professional transformation, especially authentic self-confidence
- Friendships, community, and networking (for growth, partnership, resources, and referrals)
- Creating a well-run business with efficient operations and systems
- Growing your business– the courage to think bigger and expand
- Increasing profit with better choices
- Clarity of direction in actualizing your visions in alignment with your values
- Leveraging time by hiring others and building a team
- Expanding your outreach through empowered marketing ideas
- Following your passions to create a more fulfilling business
- Implementing innovative ‘outside of the box’ solutions that make a more significant impact and catalyze your company’s mission
If you’d like additional support with private business coaching, the Women’s Business Center offers access to highly skilled professionals. Check out our calendar for other services, see link.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Registration Dates
- Application and Registration Open: We'll notify applicants as we review them.
- Close of Registration: once the circle is full or January 10th.
Schedule of Sessions
January 2024
- January 15 (Wednesday): In-Person Session, 3-5 PM (Mt. Shasta)
- January 29 (Wednesday): Zoom Session, 4-5 PM
February 2024
- February 12 (Wednesday): In-Person Session, 3-5 PM (Mt. Shasta)
- February 26 (Wednesday): Zoom Session, 4-5 PM
March 2024
- March 12 (Wednesday): In-Person Session, 3-5 PM (Mt. Shasta)
- March 26 (Wednesday): Zoom Session, 4-5 PM
April 2024
- April 9 (Wednesday): In-Person Session, 3-5 PM (Mt. Shasta)
- April 23 (Wednesday): Zoom Session, 4-5 PM
May 2024
- May 14 (Wednesday): In-Person Session, 3-5 PM (Mt. Shasta)
- May 28 (Wednesday): Zoom Session, 4-5 PM
June 2024
- June 11 (Wednesday): In-Person Session, 3-5 PM (Mt. Shasta)
- June 25 (Wednesday): Zoom Session, 4-5 PM
Applications & Registration Dates
- Applications & Registration Open: We will review applications and notify you as we go.
- End of Applications & Registration: When the cohort is full or by March 14, 2025
Schedule of Sessions
April 2025
- April 2 (Wednesday): In-Person Session, 3-5 PM (Redding)
- April 16 (Wednesday): Zoom Session, 4-5 PM
May 2025
- May 7 (Wednesday): In-Person Session, 3-5 PM (Redding)
- May 21 (Wednesday): Zoom Session, 4-5 PM
June 2025
- June 4 (Wednesday): In-Person Session, 3-5 PM (Redding)
- June 18 (Wednesday): Zoom Session, 4-5 PM
July 2025
- July 2 (Wednesday): In-Person Session, 3-5 PM (Redding)
- July 16 (Wednesday): Zoom Session, 4-5 PM
August 2025
- August 6 (Wednesday): In-Person Session, 3-5 PM (Redding)
- August 20 (Wednesday): Zoom Session, 4-5 PM
September 2025
- September 3 (Wednesday): In-Person Session, 3-5 PM (Redding)
- September 17 (Wednesday): Zoom Session, 4-5 PM
One of the most powerful aspects of these circles is the connection with other power women business leaders, creating the safe space to grow together.
So as much as we would love to welcome all we do have eligibility guidelines of our participants.
Participants Must:
- Be a business owner or high level business manager for over 1 year WITH a net business income.
- Be willing to participate in all 6 of the circles sessions.
- Be highly interested in your personal development and growth.
Space is incredibly limited to maintain the integrity of a small, intimate cohort. (We select 15 participants per cohort.)
Due to that matter, if you can not carve out the 2 hours once a month to participate and concrete it on your schedule, we ask you to consider waiting for a future year cohort.
The Women’s Leadership Circle program is valued at $1,200. However, we are offering it at no cost to participants as part of our commitment to supporting business owners and the community. To qualify, you must be a Women’s Business Center (WBC) client and complete a separate application for the Women’s Leadership Circle.
If you're not yet a WBC client, becoming one is free and gives you access to resources, mentoring, and additional classes beyond the Women’s Leadership Circle.
Apply to become a WBC client here: CLIENT APPLICATION LINK.
Apply for the Women’s Leadership Circle here: WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP CIRCLE APPLICATION LINK. (Mt. Shasta)
Space is limited, and spots will be awarded to the first eligible applicants.
