Female entrepreneurs and aspiring businesswomen from across Cavan and Monaghan are coming together for this year's National Women's Enterprise Day. The event is taking place between 5.30pm and 7.30pm at the Errigal House Hotel in Cootehill. The Local Enterprise Office (LEO) initiative, which is now in its 18th year, will see an expected 150 women in business from Cavan and Monaghan come together.
This collaborative event is hosted by the Cavan and Monaghan Local Enterprise Offices together with Cavan Women in Business Network and the Monaghan Women in Business Network. Aprilanna Barker, from Dinkins Bakery, is the NWED Ambassador for the Local Enterprise Office in Monaghan. Speaking to Northern Sound, Aprilanna said that it's important to empower women who want to step into the world of business and share their ideas.
"I do feel like women maybe don't have the confidence sometimes to share their ideas," explained Aprilanna. "The idea could be brilliant but sometimes confidence is lacking. If ladies can believe more in themselves and if we can empower more women to have the confidence to take that leap of faith that then that would be great. Women are amazing multi-taskers, our whole psyche is attuned to dealing with 50 million crisis all going on at once and we manage to get through them successfully on a daily basis. We have a very good personality that would make sense if we turned that towards business, but it's all about having the confidence in your ability to become successful."
