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HenIndia is Her Entrepreneurial Network meant for India Women Entrepreneurs.

22/09/2026

| Don’t Just Like It. Add to It. 💛

A ❤️ or 👏 is nice. But a thoughtful comment can start a conversation.
That’s what HENs practised at this Engage Hour.

We jumped into small breakout rooms, opened each other’s Instagram pages and looked at them like a potential customer would:
👉 What would I ask?
👉 What makes me curious?
👉 What useful thought can I add to this post?

And then — commented right there. No “I’ll do it later.” 😄

The idea is simple: when HENs engage meaningfully with each other’s content, we’re not just increasing engagement. We’re helping build conversations, visibility and stronger digital footprints

Likes are easy. Conversations make you memorable.

21/09/2026

|

When India met Dubai Met
And the conversation quickly moved from introductions to possibilities. 🇮🇳 × 🇦🇪**

We had this meed dedicated to women entrepreneurs from **HEN India** and **Indian Women in Dubai** come into one room with one intention:

- Meet. Understand. Explore what we can build together.

We started with 45-second introductions—not just *“What do you do?”* but:

👉 What are you building?
👉 Who is your customer?
👉 What kind of connection or enabler are you looking for?

And suddenly the room had founders across **design, HR, nutrition, wellness, digital marketing, food, coaching, technology and more** discovering where their worlds could overlap.

There were business updates too—from a founder selling nearly **300 glasses of Ragi Ambli in 10 days**, to conversations around AI tools, Meta Ads, LinkedIn, technology adoption and new projects taking shape.

Then came the breakout rooms, where we moved from **knowing names → starting conversations** around AI, business challenges and possible collaborations.

Because cross-border collaboration rarely begins with a contract.

to all the participants in the room.

Here’s to more conversations that make our networks—and our businesses—bigger than our geography. 💛

20/09/2026

HEN Mumbai Office Hours | A Lot Can Happen Around One Table

We came to work together for a day. And somewhere between presentations, laptops and food by Daugdo, we ended up working on each other’s businesses too. 💛

Then the room got into the stuff founders are actually figuring out:

👉 I hate making reels. Do I really have to?
👉 My ₹599 group program isn’t converting. What do I change?
👉 How do I sell something people don’t yet realise they need?
👉 How do I turn old customers into referrals?
👉 Can my service become a subscription?
👉 Do I educate first and sell later?
👉 How to build funnel for d2c business targeting a niche

And instead of generic answers, HENs started building possibilities for each other.

The Bride Within got repositioning ideas around preparation vs programming and being the “best friend” helping a bride prepare for life after marriage.

A struggling group-coaching funnel opened up ideas around doctor referrals, health-test centres, expert podcasts, profile trust and monthly problem-led programs.

For businesses that need customers to experience the value before wanting it, we discussed storytelling, workshops, collaborations and showing the making/process — rather than jumping straight to Buy Now.

And customer retention? Referral systems, old-client nurturing, brand recall, success stories, loyalty programs and subscriptions all landed on the table.

And two conversations need more room 👀

🌙 HEN Night Adda with Khyati — App Demo for inventory management and cloud invoicing solution
🌙 HEN Night Adda with Manalee — Financial Freedom

That’s Office Hours for us.

Bring your laptop. Bring your work. Bring the thing you’re stuck on.
Someone in the room may have already tried it. 💛

18/09/2026

Sometimes your ‘competition’ is actually your next collaborator.”

Himani Joshi, Founder - Eduhive Creative Studio, Antara Acharya , founder - Mulberry Design and Gunjan Pai founder - Copylove work in the same creative ecosystem.

On paper, that could make them competitors.

At HEN, it made them collaborators. 🤝

Their different expertise came together, conversations turned into possibilities, and today, the three are working together on a project for a perfume brand.

More expertise at the table.
Different perspectives on the same brief.
And hopefully, a much stronger outcome for the client.

Their little note to us made our day:
“HEN — thanks for bringing us together 🥰”

And perhaps that's the real value of networking.
Not how many people you meet.

But whether, among those people, you find someone you can build something with.
This is what we love seeing inside HEN — connections turning into collaborations, and collaborations turning into business.

17/09/2026

| Bring the Business Problem to the Table

Festive inventory. Finding leads. AI vs photography. Free consultations that never seem to end.

Just another HEN Tuesday.
This week, HENs brought the questions currently sitting on their business desks:
👉 A corporate order comes with an impossible deadline — take the opportunity or say no?
👉 Organic + referrals are working, but where does the next lead channel come from?
👉 Hire a community manager, outsource it or build the relationship role in-house?
👉 With AI making content cheaper, where is professional photography still worth paying for?
👉 Giving free consultations to build trust — where do you draw the line?
👉 Want business from another market like the US — where do you start building the right relationships?

There wasn’t one magic answer. There were experiences, introductions, ideas and a few very clear next steps.

That’s HEN Tuesday. Someone brings a question. Everyone brings what they know. And business moves a little forward.

16/09/2026

with the 80s fever in air... we thought slets see how would HEN be in 1980s... and here is a glimpse of the same!

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yesterday or today... if you are a woman entrepreneur building business alone... share your journey from now to forever... visit www.henindia.com

15/09/2026

| Government Funding — But Where Do You Even Start?

MUDRA. CGTMSE. PMEGP. Subsidies. Guarantees.

We’ve heard the names. Understanding what could actually work for your business? That’s another story.

At our HEN Meet with CA Yashvant, we unpacked government funding for MSMEs — from collateral-free loans and subsidies to what banks actually look for before saying yes.

Some important conversations:
👉 Loan vs subsidy vs government guarantee — they’re not the same.
👉 Can a new/pre-revenue business get funding? Potentially, yes — but your business plan, projections and documentation matter.
👉 MUDRA, CGTMSE or PMEGP? Different businesses and funding needs call for different routes.
👉 Manufacturing businesses may have access to additional state-level incentives.
👉 And perhaps most importantly: don’t approach funding casually. Your credit history, ITRs, banking, projections and project report all tell the bank whether your business is ready for money.

Because sometimes capital may be available.

The first challenge is knowing what to ask for — and where to look. 💛

If you are a woman entrepreneur and want to be part of such conversations - visit www.henindia.com

14/09/2026

We came to work. And somewhere between laptops, lunch and conversations… quite a few businesses got brainstormed too. 😄

This Kolkata Office Hours had HENs working alongside each other, but the group discussion quickly travelled across everything founders are figuring out right now:

👉 What comes after Instagram? Pinterest for authority? YouTube? WhatsApp Stories? Lives? And when we discover a new brand online, what actually makes us trust it?

👉 Influencers in 2026 — still influencing buying decisions or increasingly becoming reach + discovery channels? And where do micro-influencers fit?

👉 B2B sales — trade fairs, networking, Alibaba, WEConnect and finding the right corporate doors to knock on.

👉 Hiring in the AI era — do we hire people with AI skills or train good existing people to become AI-efficient?

👉 SEO → AEO — when should a growing business invest in each, and how is discoverability changing?

👉 And because September = Diwali planning 😄 — what are people actually gifting? Budgets discussed ranged roughly from ₹1,000–₹3,000, with everything from dry fruits and tea cakes to German silver, diyas, décor and quirky products on the table.

🤖 Our favourite experiment of the day?
Using Claude to build content across TOFU → MOFU → BOFU, and then connecting the thinking to Notion as a content management system.

Less “What should I post tomorrow?”
More “Can I build a content system?”

And of course, Office Hours also meant working, exchanging contacts, comparing tools, talking through individual businesses and borrowing generously from each other’s experiences.

💛 A special thank you to Anuradha Jalan , for hosting us at , and to Anvi GANDHI of , for lunch.

And gratitude to every HEN who showed up with a laptop, a question, an experience or an opinion — that’s what made the room work.

13/09/2026

August at HEN

We learnt. We questioned. We showed up. We tried things. We changed a few things. And then tried again. 😄

HENs worked on finding the right people on LinkedIn, building brands that actually sound like them, pricing smarter, collaborating better and becoming a little more comfortable with being seen.

Because building a business isn’t only about getting bigger.

It’s also about getting clearer.
More confident about your voice.
More intentional about who you build with.
And brave enough to say, “Yes, I belong here.”

A big to our HEN Believers, Mentors, Partners, Speakers and every HENizen who brought her questions, experiences, wins and wobbles into HENation this August.

Different businesses. Different journeys. One place to BELONG.

12/09/2026

Himani Joshi, Founder - and Krupa Joshi, Founder - in conversation - talking about impoatance of a Branding Expert in the world of AI

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