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b'About the Episode\\nIt was incredible to connect with Anita Kemp and Dr. Amanda Williams to chat about the Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub (WEKH). During our conversation they also pointed out that it was just in time for International Women\\u2019s Day on March 8, 2021. How fitting! \\nWEKH is an organization that is challenging the stereotypes of women entrepreneurs through many different initiatives including:\\n\\n\\nSharing the stories of successful women owned businesses\\n\\n\\nMapping the entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem\\n\\n\\nSharing resources widely on their website\\n\\n\\nCollecting and sharing data\\n\\n\\nIdentifying who\\u2019s doing what, what\\u2019s working, and what are some of the promising practices. \\n\\n\\nIn this episode they chat about the research they\\u2019ve conducted on women\\u2019s entrepreneurship in Alberta along with the intricate stories that were woven within the data about women entrepreneurs. \\n\\nAbout the Guests\\nAnita Kemp is the Alberta program lead for the Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub. She is an entrepreneur and life long learner at heart who quit her job in the corporate world of finance to start her own business.\\nDr. Amanda Williams is an assistant professor in the School of Communication Studies at Mount Royal University. She is a key faculty member involved in the Alberta hub of WEKH. She has her toes in many pockets of research around women\\u2019s entrepreneurship both locally and globally. She is a member of the Canadian Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) team and a research fellow for the Centre for Innovation Studies. She has published many reports on the state of entrepreneurship that can be found at www.thecis.ca.\\n\\nResource Links\\n\\xa0\\n\\n\\nhttps://wekh.ca/\\n\\n\\nhttp://thecis.ca/ \\n\\n\\nhttps://wekh.ca/research/gem-canada-report-on-womens-entrepreneurship-in-alberta-2017/ \\n\\n\\nhttps://www.mtroyal.ca/AboutMountRoyal/MediaRoom/News/wekh-alberta-regional-hub.htm'