EmpowerU: Managing Your Business AND Your Mental Health

Schedule

Tue, 26 Nov, 2024 at 06:00 pm to Mon, 07 Apr, 2025 at 08:00 pm

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Location

Rideau Rockliffe Community Resource Centre | Ottawa, ON

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Owning a business is stressful. Your mental health is critical to your success. Learn strategies to safeguard your well-being.
About this Event

Entrepreneurship can be stressful. Learn how to balance the demands of running a business with your mental health.


As a business owner, maintaining your mental health is critical to your success. Join Rise for a FREE 2-hour in-person and interactive workshop on the importance of balancing work with wellness. Guided by an expert facilitator, you’ll explore how to avoid common pitfalls like burnout, develop positive mental health practices, use tech tools to delegate and manage your workload, and learn strategies to safeguard your well-being.


About the Presenter:  

Rebecca Palmer is a strategist, entrepreneur, and ecosystem builder with over 20 years of experience in the entrepreneurial world. Her passion lies in building global relationships, designing educational strategies, and challenging the status quo. 

 A lifelong learner, Rebecca holds a master's degree in public policy, and has an extensive background in social enterprise, business building, organization management and transformational leadership.  She has had an impact on the lives of over 1500 entrepreneurial-minded youth and adults through the delivery of early-stage business training and mentorship in Canada, Moldova and Jordan.  


 About Rise: 

Rise is a national organization dedicated to empowering people with mental health and addiction challenges to achieve greater social and economic inclusion through entrepreneurship. Through training, mentorship, micro-financing, and other custom supports, Rise helps individuals develop the skills and access the capital they need to build a small business, improving their quality of life and enabling them to support their families and communities. 


EmpowerU: Business Essentials for New & Aspiring Entrepreneurs

A free and flexible workshop series to help you unlock your entrepreneurial potential and begin building a small business.

Rise empowers individuals with mental health and addiction challenges to take control of their personal and financial well-being through entrepreneurship. EmpowerU is a six-part workshop series where you’ll learn practical skills to start building a small business. Whether you’re curious about entrepreneurship, ready to test an idea, write a business plan, or need guidance on balancing business and mental health, EmpowerU offers the tools and support to advance your entrepreneurial journey.

Sign up according to your needs, interests & availability: Register for any or all of the workshop sessions. There’s no cost & no minimum commitment*.


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Rideau Rockliffe Community Resource Centre, 815 Saint Laurent Boulevard, Ottawa, Canada

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