The Big Whisper is an entrepreneurship education and coaching platform dedicated to nurturing healthy businesses. We offer learning experiences, strategy coaching, and self-guided tools to help you grow profit and impact.
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This can be both the exciting and isolating part of the entrepreneurial experience.
Our classes, coaching experiences, and tools are intentionally designed to help you feel more guided, strategically supported, and less alone during each phase of your entrepreneurial journey.
Learn foundational business-building skills, gain strategic knowledge, and strengthen your entrepreneurial muscle.
Clarify your strategy, organize priorities, hone your focus, have space to gut-check, thought-partner and make decisions.
Designed to help you do the foundational introspective work to grow yourself and your business.
90% of women-led businesses generate less than $100k in revenue per year.
We aim to help grow the number of women-led businesses generating bigger profit and impact.
For the last century business has predominantly been driven by bottom-line aims and growth for greed’s sake, fueling an unhealthy culture of consumer and worker exploitation and environmental extraction.
We aim to help cultivate an ecosystem of businesses supporting one another in practicing healthy social, economic and environmental businesses practices.
A lot of unhealthy business practices stem from a lack of consciousness about self. The more one knows herself the more she can know and help her community and make the impact she seeks to make.
We aim to help founders deepen self-connection, expand self-knowledge and open up to the opportunities of awakening that present themselves on the entrepreneurial journey.
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Hi, welcome, I’m Alison Gilbert.
I created the Big Whisper so that emerging entrepreneurial women have a dedicated support system to help them build and grow their businesses.
I know firsthand—both as a founder and from consulting, coaching, and workshopping with hundreds of women entrepreneurs—having a real sense of co-building support can help an entrepreneur feel freer, creatively safer and more focused to move forward on her business.
We’ve designed this learning and coaching platform to meet you at each phase of your entrepreneurial journey and in the ways that are most supportive to your individual needs and building-style—from classes that share foundational business-building knowledge in a group setting, to one-on-one coaching containers for more individualized support, to self-guided tools to help you strengthen your entrepreneurial muscle.
Our primary focus is to help you grow profit and impact, and together help make this world a healthier place through the medium of business.
Think big and build.
Warmly,
Alison
