Grace Lever Discusses Hollywood’s Influence on Lifestyle Businesses, Personal Branding, and Female Entrepreneurship

Explaining the sharp increase in female entrepreneurship over the past few years requires a review of recent history tracing back to the origins of female entrepreneurship occurring right around the turn of the previous century. Since such a lengthy look into the past naturally takes one back to two particularly influential locations -- Hollywood and New York City -- Grace Lever notes it is only fitting that both locales continue to play such a crucial role in the empowerment of the current generation as well as many future generations of female entrepreneurs, regardless of geographic location.

Lever, who founded GraceLever.com & The Doing Academy with the goal of creating a large community of supportive and successful female entrepreneurs, offered substantive insight on the impact of Hollywood on the explosive rise of female entrepreneurship currently occurring all over the globe. Although Lever offered praise for New York City’s role in this still-emerging trend, the global visibility of the Hollywood community has enabled female entrepreneurs in the Southern California region to wield an outsized influence on the growing community of entrepreneurially inclined women.

This influence is especially apparent among female entrepreneurs focused on creating lifestyle businesses and personal brands, as no community has succeeded in these areas of entrepreneurship to a degree approaching Hollywood’s female entrepreneurs. With the guidance and support of entrepreneurial experts like Lever, women entrepreneurs in places as far away as Australia have achieved remarkable levels of success in creating lifestyle businesses and personal brands of their own. As a result, more and more women are leveraging their professional success to live a lifestyle they had previously only dreamed of.

Of course, it is not only the influence of the exceptional success of Hollywood-based female entrepreneurs or the expert guidance and support offered by Lever that has enabled women entrepreneurs to enjoy such immeasurable successes in recent years. Lever notes that the positive influence of successful entrepreneurial communities and the expert guidance offered by high-achieving peers only magnify the qualities and characteristics already possessed by aspiring female entrepreneurs.

In fact, Lever has long espoused the notion that women are especially well suited for entrepreneurial success precisely due to these specific qualities and characteristics. It is for this reason that Lever has enjoyed so much success in empowering females to pursue entrepreneurship, and the longtime entrepreneurial advocate pointed out that the sense of empowerment instilled in women allows their innate entrepreneurial talents to rise to the surface in the most meaningful way possible.

A number of recent reports and studies have indicated that not only is entrepreneurship on the rise among women worldwide, but female entrepreneurs are outperforming all others by a substantial margin. As Lever pointed out, this is yet another indication that women possess an innate understanding of entrepreneurship -- an understanding that is at least partially due to the longstanding and still potent influence of Hollywood’s own community of successful female entrepreneurs.