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What happens when the barriers to building technology come down, but the confidence to walk through the door hasn't caught up yet? That's the gap Jessica Anderson built Girl Tech HQ to close. Jessica Anderson is the founder of Girl Tech HQ, a Skool community of more than 600 women learning to build businesses with AI.

She's a business growth and visibility strategist, AI educator, speaker, and three-time entrepreneur whose path started somewhere unexpected: a degree in forensic anthropology and criminology and years as a death investigator.

In this conversation, Jessica explains why access to AI doesn't automatically create confidence, and what it was like to go from walking into a scene with full authority to building trust from scratch as an entrepreneur. She makes the case that your lived experience is your strongest asset ("that's your category of one") and shares the networking motto she lives by: "if your mouth is closed, so is your business."

Along the way: the discomfort of charging for a community she wants to keep open to everyone, her dream of local Girl Tech HQ chapters around the world, and the bread aisle analogy that explains why there's room for every women's community.

How you can support Jessica (her asks)?

Join Girl Tech HQ on Skool. Ask your questions, build your confidence, and know that you belong in the rooms you think you belong in It's free to join: https://www.skool.com/girltechhq

Have expertise to share? Reach out to see if highlighting you and your business may make sense: https://girltechhq.com

Connect with her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrsjessanderson

Find more about our host, Nicole Alos, ICF-PCC, CEC at www.NicoleAlos.com or on Linkedin at https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolealos

About the Host

Find more about our host, Nicole Alos, ICF-PCC, CEC, Founder of Socratyc and Socratyc Sidekick: https://www.NicoleAlos.com

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