Women's Entrepreneurship in the North

The Finance Cafe

In this episode Shannon sits down with Xina Cowan, Co-director, EntrepreNorth to discuss what it means to be culturally grounded as an organization, how we can close the wealth gap and empower Indigenous women entrepreneurs, challenges faced by Indigenous women entrepreneurs in the North, the need for relationship-based patient capital that aligns with Indigenous values, and how indigenous women are reclaiming their power and place.

Xina lives and works in Whitehorse on the traditional territories of the Ta’an Kwäch’än Council and the Kwanlin Dün First Nation. Her ancestry is Irish, Scottish, and Mohawk and she is honoured to be learning her family's shared histories. She is the granddaughter of Barbara Monture Malloch and the great-granddaughter of Gilbert 'Slim' Monture from Six Nations. After studying Human Relations at Concordia University in Montreal, Xina moved to the Eeyou Itschee Cree community of Wemindji in 2013 and began her career in Indigenous programming. Since then, Xina’s work has taken her all across the North. As EntrepreNorth’s Co-Director she is primarily responsible for leading Marketing and Communications, Community Outreach and Partnership Development. Xina is also a certified Coach and is the Host and Producer of EntrepreNorth's podcast series Venture Out which shares the brave stories of Northerners who are inspiring innovation and community wellbeing through business. ​

Prior to joining EntrepreNorth, Xina was the Development Manager for Indigenous projects at Youth Fusion and was the Editor of WIOT Magazine at Rezolution Pictures. Her (not so) side passion is promoting Indigenous fashion designers and artists. She is a Marketplace Jury Member for Indigenous Fashion Arts Festival (IFA) and is particularly invested in supporting the incredible talent coming from the Circumpolar Arctic.

EntrepreNorth is a project on MakeWay's shared platform that is focused on empowering Indigenous entrepreneurs to build sustainable businesses and livelihoods across the North. We believe Northern Indigenous entrepreneurs can be catalysts of prosperity and drivers of social change within their own communities and much of our work supports them on that pathway.

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Website: https://www.entreprenorth.ca/

Venture Out Podcast: https://www.entreprenorth.ca/venture-out-podcast.html

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/entreprenorth/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EntrepreNorth/

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