StartUp Stories, Your Opportunity to Be a Businesswoman in a Magazine
From left to right: Angela Acosta, Audrey Tappan, Melanie Cunningham, A.Y. Berthiaume, and Carina Dietze.
Have you ever wondered how it feels to be that businesswoman woman in a magazine? Would you jump at the opportunity to be that woman if one was presented? Are you ready for your closeup?
You have the chance to step into the spotlight with StartUp Stories: Celebrating 100 Female Entrepreneurs. This is a special portrait photography project founded by Angela Acosta, a New Jersey-based portrait and personal branding photographer.
Generally, Acosta’s mission is to celebrate the modern woman in all her glory. The modern woman has a unique story filled with challenges, triumphs, and abundant untapped strengths. She is a caregiver, a professional, an activist, and a survivor. She is also working hard in her business and taking the world by storm. She deserves to have her story captured and told.
For StartUp Stories, Acosta’s aim is to capture how women have transformed their lives through entrepreneurship–one portrait at a time. Acosta and her small team of creative collaborators (introduced momentarily) are on a mission to photograph 100 female entrepreneurs and tell their bold stories to the world.
StartUp Stories is looking to inspire, raise awareness, and promote equality by capturing the stories of 100 women who have transformed their lives (and are changing the world) through entrepreneurship. The project aims to boost the self-starting, bootstrapping women’s visibility, celebrate their success, and showcase their brand by featuring each participant’s photo and story on Moondust’s digital platform and inside a final StartUp Stories magazine. Once 100 women have been photographed, Acosta plans to collate the portraits and stories into a beautifully designed magazine, which will be unveiled at a night of celebration in Manhattan.
To participate, you must be a woman boot-strap business owner (franchises or multi-level marketing do not qualify) from across the U.S. You agree to sign the model release so they can use your image. You agree to complete their questionnaire so they can get your backstory and write an article to pair with your photo. You will stay involved with the development of your article.
There are 100+ reasons to be a part of this project. The practical ones–to showcase your brand, boost your visibility, get some amazing new photos to use for your business, and connect with the other 99 participants who could be your next client, team member, or referral partner. These alone are worth one’s involvement.
Plus, you’ll have the chance to work with a dynamite group of entrepreneurs and experts who comprise the StartUp Stories team of creative collaborators. Acosta is one-half of the photography crew for the project. Audrey Tappan is the other. Tappan is the founder of HUED the Colorful Agency, serving stand-out brands with branding photography, graphics, and video.
A.Y. Berthiaume (known to most as Ally), is an award-winning author, and an international book coach and ghostwriter. Berthiaume will be working with the team’s intern and editorial assistant, Emily Cejkovsky, to write each woman’s feature story.
Carina Dietze, owner, and editor-in-chief of Moondust Magazine, will be featuring a StartUp Stories article in each print edition of Moondust, and every (I repeat, every) woman’s story and photo will also appear on Moondust’s digital platform.
Melanie Cunningham, founder of Melanie Cunningham Law, a boutique law firm that makes legal services accessible and affordable for small-business owners. Cunningham is bringing her legal expertise to StartUp Stories as a project strategist.
Having your photo and story captured, shared, and in the hands of this team of professional women entrepreneurs in and of itself is like striking it rich. Yet, there’s still something entirely more powerful to be gained than a visibility boost for your business or brand.
As Acosta states, “Portrait photography is about recognition, courage, self-discovery, self-love, and celebrating how far you've come”…For businesswomen, this message couldn’t be more important. They invest their heart and soul into their ventures, pouring their blood, sweat, and tears into making those ventures successful. The climb can be challenging and sometimes isolating. They need to be reminded to celebrate every single accomplishment along the way. Even the smallest progress is progress worth acknowledging. Not everyone can run a successful business. It takes a lot of grit, focus, and perseverance to continue to move forward and actualize your vision (all while you remain the partner, the mom, the daughter, the volunteer…). “All that these entrepreneurial women are, how they show up in the world (both inside their business and personal lives), and all the ways they hope to impact the world with their business, deserves to be recognized.” This is what’s really at the heart of all of Acosta’s work, and what underlies the entire StartUp Stories project.
StartUp Stories will capture the true essence of each photographed woman in a couture experience and will help them recognize the power inside themselves. Women have the opportunity to unleash their inner radiance in front of the camera, and then witness their true selves reflected back.
Anyone who has had the opportunity to work with Acosta leaves with newly inspired confidence in themselves. So just imagine the confidence you’ll have in not just working with Angela, but an entire team (that she has hand-selected) who is as dedicated as she is in showcasing the transformations and triumphs of women entrepreneurs like themselves.
StartUp Stories is your chance to be the celebrity woman in a magazine…celebrate your success…showcase your brand and business…share how you’re changing the world…inspire other women coming up the trail behind you…and, finally recognize the brilliant, bold, beautiful business woman that you are.
To learn more about participating in StartUp Stories: Celebrating 100 Female Entrepreneurs, visit https://promo.angelaatelier.com/signupstartupstories/.
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A. Y. Berthiaume is an award-winning author, international book coach and ghostwriter, and the founder/CEO of The Write Place, Right Time. She is also a proud sponsor of and creative collaborator with StartUp Stories. To learn more about A.Y. Berthiaume and The Write Place, Right Time visit https://thewriteplacerighttime.com.