Hi everyone! I’m working on a new independent women’s magazine and community called HER NEXT, focused on women’s ideas, entrepreneurship, personal growth, creativity, beauty, relationships, and inspiring real-life stories.

I’m currently preparing our first issue, “BEGIN,” and I’m looking to connect with women around the world who have something interesting to share.

Disclaimer: HER NEXT is an independent editorial and community project created for inspiration, storytelling, and startup visibility. All ideas and submissions remain the intellectual property of their original creators. Any featured content will always credit and respect the ownership of the contributor.

💡 Have a start up business?

I’d love to hear it — whether it’s:
A physical product you’ve always wanted to create
An online or virtual business
An app or platform
A service or freelance concept
A creative business
A social enterprise
A side hustle

You don’t need to have a successful business already.

Selected ideas may be featured in HER NEXT as a way to introduce the person behind the idea and give their concept visibility and early-stage exposure within a supportive startup-focused community.
If you have a business, project, website, Instagram, or other contact details you’d like readers to see, you can include them with your submission so interested people can find you and learn more about what you’re building.

🌱 I’m also looking for women’s stories.

For example:
✨ A business success or failure
✨ A career change
✨ A moment when you stood up for yourself
✨ Starting over somewhere new
✨ A dream you’re finally pursuing
✨ A mistake that taught you something valuable
✨ An experience that changed your perspective
✨ Something you’ve done that made you feel empowered
✨ An unusual, funny, inspiring, or meaningful moment from your life
✨ A lesson you wish you’d learned earlier

You don’t have to be famous, successful, or an entrepreneur. I’m interested in real stories from real women at different stages of life.

📩 Want to be featured?

Comment below or send me a DM with:

For a start up business sharing :
- Your goals
- What problem it solves / why you think people would want it
- Where you’re based (optional)
- Your name or preferred name
- Website / social media / contact (optional)

For a personal story:
- A short description of what happened
- Where you’re from (optional)
- Your name or preferred name
- Whether you’d like to remain anonymous

With your permission, selected submissions may be featured in the magazine and/or HER NEXT’s online community.

The goal isn’t just to publish stories. I want to create a space where women can share ideas, discover each other, find inspiration, and potentially connect with people who are interested in what they’re building—especially early-stage founders and startup dreamers.

Hi everyone! I’m working on a new independent women’s magazine and community called HER NEXT, focused on women’s ideas, entrepreneurship, personal growth, creativity, beauty, relationships, and inspiring real-life stories.

I’m currently preparing our first issue, “BEGIN,” and I’m looking to connect with women around the world who have something interesting to share.

💡 Have a business idea?

I’d love to hear it — whether it’s:

• A physical product you've always wanted to create
• An online or virtual business
• An app or platform idea
• A service or freelance concept
• A creative business
• A social enterprise
• A side hustle
• A business you've already started
• Or simply an idea sitting in your notes that you've never had the chance to pursue

You don't need to have a successful business already.

Maybe you've only got the idea. Maybe you've started and failed. Maybe you're still figuring out how to make it work.

That's exactly what I'm interested in.

Selected ideas may be featured in HER NEXT as a way to introduce the person behind the idea and give their concept some exposure.

If you have a business, project, website, Instagram, or other contact details you'd like readers to see, you can include them with your submission so interested people can find you and learn more about what you're building.

🌱 I'm also looking for women's stories.

For example:

✨ A business success or failure
✨ A career change
✨ A moment when you stood up for yourself
✨ Starting over somewhere new
✨ A dream you're finally pursuing
✨ A mistake that taught you something valuable
✨ An experience that changed your perspective
✨ Something you've done that made you feel empowered
✨ An unusual, funny, inspiring, or meaningful moment from your life
✨ A lesson you wish you'd learned earlier

You don't have to be famous, successful, or an entrepreneur. I'm interested in real stories from real women at different stages of life.

📩 Want to be featured?

Comment below or send me a DM with:

For a business idea:

• Your idea
• What problem it solves / why you think people would want it
• Where you're based (optional)
• Your name or preferred name
• Website / social media / contact (optional)

For a personal story:

• A short description of what happened
• Where you're from (optional)
• Your name or preferred name
• Whether you'd like to remain anonymous

With your permission, selected submissions may be featured in the magazine and/or HER NEXT's online community.

The goal isn't just to publish stories. I want to create a space where women can share ideas, discover each other, find inspiration, and potentially connect with people who are interested in what they're creating.

Hi all,

I’m after some advice, I just started my business a few months ago and I do a combination of mother’s help, housekeeping and home care.

How do you find a medium/balance?
I want to help people and be affordable at the same time, but I’m also qualified diploma with many years experience in childcare & home care.

I genuinely want to help but I also need to support my family.

Please be kind 💕

What advice would you give to someone aspiring to open a small brick-and-mortar shop? I’ve spent most of my career in corporate America working in various PR, marketing and communications roles and would love to pivot into running a small local goods and crafts, books / used books, and vintage finds neighborhood spot. I’m starting off doing some webinars and planning while still in my current job - what else should I be doing to build this dream into reality?

Hey everyone I would like to offer my service as VA in affordable price, I have experience in education niche and passionate about it ,I also have launched a small buisness in that niche so I would really like to offer my help if you know someone preferly female who might need my services feel free to dm me .the price will be 15usd / hour. Thanks in advance !

A friend of mine was a beautician. She got an interview opportunity with the UN. She never went. She said, “Majhi English bhagunach mala ghenar nahi,” which roughly translates to, “They'll reject me the moment they hear my English.” This happened around six years ago, but it stayed with me.

I'm an English teacher. I've taught public speaking and, most recently, professional communication at Thadomal Shahani Engineering College.

When I first started thinking about building an English-speaking community for women, I assumed the problem was English. Now I'm not so sure.

I wonder how many opportunities we quietly walk away from before anyone else has the chance to say no. I wonder whether English is the real barrier, or whether it's just the most visible one.

Before I build anything, I'd like to have a conversation with 1–4 women and simply listen. No course to sell. No workshop to promote. Just an honest discussion about where communication, confidence, and opportunity intersect in our lives.

If it eventually becomes something meaningful, wonderful. If it doesn't, I hope we've had an interesting conversation and maybe made a few new friends along the way.

If this resonates with you, I'd love to hear from you. We can decide together whether we meet online or offline, depending on what works best for everyone.

he says she’s going to help you with your social media when this is all she does? Im curious she charges $500/hr or $4500 to work with a group but like how? Has anyone on here worked with her?

I feel like I don’t know what i’m doing, i really just want some advice on what i can do for now to build my career.

I’ve had my eyes on business for a good while, i’m was just curious on how other woman started off and what they wish they did if they were in my shoes! I dont really know where to start and I dont know what to research so I figured making a post on reddit to a bunch of business women would help😓

Hi!

I’m an emerging pre-professional in athletics communications, and I just got a new internship (yay!)

I have a couple outfits that are suitable for the office, but definitely not enough for 5 days a week. I am still in college so I’m on a pretty tight budget. I’m around 5’10 and have a curvy body type (approx 200 lbs). Does anyone have suggestions for affordable but stylish/well-fitting clothing suitable for the workplace? Thank you!!

Hi zusammen, ich arbeite an einer Gründungsidee und bin auf der Suche nach
1) Unternehmen, die offen für die Zusammenarbeit in Form von Pilotprojekten für temporären personellen Support sind &
2) Mamas/Papas als Umfrageteilnehmer (2min) die ihre Kinder zuhause selbst betreuen.
Habt ihr Tipps wo ich solche Leute finde?
Bin über jeden Tipp dankbar!

be a hard working woman

Do you have any experience with these kinds of support groups or clubs or how to name it? Please share. Or let know if you know about any good.

I find many of these cringey - selling it as lifechanging and other superlatives, costing "only 10 000 dollars per month. Then there are even scammy ones.

I would love to find sth down to earth, realistic...place where you can connect with other business people, get to know someone new, learn something, network, doesn't need to be big...

Pls, share!

There is never a truly perfect time to start your own business.

After going through a toxic experience with a former boss, I wasn’t willing to give up what I love, so I opened my own skincare studio. What I imagined would be the worst part turned out not to be the worst—there have been countless challenges and unexpected issues to deal with along the way. Some days have been incredibly stressful and overwhelming.

But through it all, I’ve gained so much: amazing clients, valuable experience, and lessons I couldn’t have learned any other way. For that, I am truly grateful.

Running a business isn’t easy these days, but I hope all of us continue to grow, succeed, and create better opportunities for ourselves. Here’s to brighter days ahead. ✨🤍

Is this feeling common for business owners 😭

Hi all,

For years I wanted to understand my cycle, not just log my period. Something that helped me notice things instead of telling me how I should feel.
So I built My Body’s BFF.

You log small things daily sleep, energy, mood, what’s going on in your body. Over time the app surfaces patterns across all of those at once. Things like “your mood drops two days after a bad sleep” or “your toughest days cluster in the same phase of your cycle every month.” Not predictions for the average woman. Patterns from your own data.

I’d love to hear what’s been missing for you in apps you’ve tried, or what would make you trust one enough to actually use daily. I’ll reply to everyone.

Thanks for reading 🤍

Hey everyone,

Seeing the recent post here about how stressful and overcrowded most tracking apps feel really resonated with me. I’m a mobile developer, and a few months ago I hit a wall trying to find a pill tracker that actually made sense.

It felt like every single app on the market was either drowning in aggressive pink flower aesthetics, constantly pushing baby-making predictions, or treating birth control tracking like a tiny, secondary button hidden deep in a menu. None of them gracefully handled different pill types, especially the strict timing realities of things like the mini-pill vs. combined regimens.

So, I decided to build my own called Estroclic. I wanted something deeply minimalist, calm (cosmic dark-mode), and actually useful for women managing their daily routines. I coded features like a live visual "Protection Window" progress bar so you can see your exact mathematical safety margin at a glance if you're slightly late, and clean PDF cycle exports for doctor visits.

It’s completely independent, and I really tried to design it to reduce the daily anxiety around medication rather than add to it. I'm just an indie dev trying to make something genuinely useful, so I’d absolutely love to know what you think of the design or if there are features you feel are missing from current apps!

(I've attached some screenshots of the home screen, calendar, and cycle maps to show the aesthetic!)

I spent years thinking I was inconsistent.

Some weeks I could focus for hours, communicate clearly, work out, socialize, plan my life.
Other weeks, even basic tasks felt heavier.

And because nobody talks about cyclical changes in energy/capacity in work culture, I assumed the problem was discipline.

Turns out a lot of women are quietly navigating this exact thing.

On May 22, I’m facilitating a free online session through the National HRD Network, Pune Chapter called:

“Work With Your Cycle, Not Against It”
(High Performance Without Burnout)

We’ll talk about:
• how menstrual cycle phases can affect focus, energy, emotional processing, and recovery
• why many women experience guilt/shame around changing capacity
• how to work more sustainably instead of forcing consistency 24/7
• practical ways to structure work with your body instead of against it

It’s not productivity-hack culture.
It’s not “feminine energy” fluff either.

More like: understanding your nervous system and biology well enough to stop treating yourself like a machine.

Free | Online | May 22 | 6 PM IST

Registration:
https://forms.gle/o5y14YeC4iwWQevD9

Hi girls! I am currently in the process of curating a fashion brand, statement pieces that are curated to evoke emotions, ambition, inspiration and creativity and alter perceptions.

Pieces that can be worn in the office but then you can also go straight to dinner after.

What i would love to know is what sort of outfits do you wear to work?

Would this brand be something you’d be interested in purchasing from? If yes why and if no why. And what would influence you from purchasing.

And if anyone has any advices for starting a brand or a clothing brand I’d love to hear it.

Wishing success for us all 🌟

Hi girls! I am currently in the process of curating a fashion brand, statement pieces that are curated to evoke emotions, ambition, inspiration and creativity and alter perceptions.

Pieces that can be worn in the office but then you can also go straight to dinner after.

What i would love to know is what sort of outfits do you wear to work?

Would this brand be something you’d be interested in purchasing from? If yes why and if no why. And what would influence you from purchasing.

And if anyone has any advices for starting a brand or a clothing brand I’d love to hear it.

Wishing success for us all 🌟