Are you looking for sales strategies?
Seeking balance to avoid burnout?
Or feeling overwhelmed and need just one quick pivot to turn it all around?
Join VSEDC for one of our upcoming workshops, series or cohorts – available for free to entrepreneurs from Los Angeles County.
Closed Mouths Don’t Get Fed
Wednesdays, March 4, 11, 18 (3-part series meets weekly)
5:30p – 8p
Instructor: Derrick Brew
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(This course is at capacity. If you would like priority access to our next session, email gabla@vsedc.org to join the waitlist. Trust is, this is one you will not want to miss.)
Selling is the lifeblood of entrepreneurs. Closed Mouths Don’t Get Fed teaches founders how to talk about their offer, ask for the sale, and sell themselves without apology. This workshop trains entrepreneurs to speak with confidence, articulate value, and close a deal with real belief in their product.
In Closed Mouths Don’t Get Fed you will learn to:
✔ Describe your offer clearly
✔ Practice asking for money without shrinking
✔ Understand value vs. features vs. pricing
✔ Make a real sales ask during the workshop
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In Her Power
Tuesdays, March 10 – April 14 (6-session cohort meets weekly)
5:30p-8p
Instructor: Jazz Keyes
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Entrepreneur longevity requires more than revenue — it requires regulated leadership, financial confidence, and operational sustainability. This program equips women founders with the tools to strengthen CEO identity, align mindset with money, and build systems that support energy, focus, and high-performance execution. Participants will develop practical burnout-prevention strategies, improve emotional regulation in leadership and sales environments, and implement pricing and value frameworks that increase confidence and financial stewardship. Through structured peer mastermind engagement, founders will expand their support network while building a personalized CEO action plan designed for long-term business resilience and growth.
Participants enrolled in In Her Power will learn to:
✔ Reframe wellness as a business strategy for longevity and execution
✔ Develop emotional and nervous system regulation techniques for high performance
✔ Strengthen identity and confidence as a woman CEO with agency, boundaries, and decision-making power
✔ Apply mindset + money alignment tools to pricing, value, stewardship, and self-worth
✔ Build burnout-prevention practices and nervous system regulation strategies for high-performance moments
✔ Recognize personal capacity limits and design systems that support energy, focus, and intentional recovery
✔ Navigate the emotional load of entrepreneurship with community rather than isolation
✔ Engage in a peer mastermind to co-strategize challenges, share resources, and expand possibility
✔ Access wellness modalities that support long-term entrepreneurial longevity, not just symptom relief
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Quick Fix. Big Shift!
Thursday, March 12 (1–session workshop)
5:30p-7:30p
Instructor: Jazz Keyes
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One clean fix can improve speed, reduce cost, or increase conversions — and most businesses are sitting on those quick wins. Small problems cost real money. Quick Fix, Big Shift is a live improvement lab where founders identify one operational bottleneck and fix it during the session.
In Quick Fix. Big Shift! you will learn to:
✔ Diagnose operational friction
✔ Apply improvement framework in real time
✔ Increase efficiency or revenue with one fix
✔ Build a habit of iterative improvement
VSEDC’s small business programming is presented by our SBA South LA Women’s Business Center, and made possible by a generous grant from the Citi Foundation.
All opinions, conclusions, and/or recommendations expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the SBA.
