Episode Description
Brittany Gonzales is the Founder of The Clarity Collective, a woman-led community supporting local SME businesses. She is also the Co-Founder of SolveX, a startup that helps SMEs to scale with technology, transforming chaos to clarity one client at a time.
In this conversation we chat about Brittany's career trajectory from finance, accounting and risk management to founding businesses and curating Communities, with a collective focus on bringing about transformation in businesses and for female founders.
Brittany spoke about her work in external and internal audit, then we discussed risk assurance and management. She talks about exactly what it is and how impactful risk management is for organizations, businesses, SMEs and startups.
Risk management is about analyzing risk potentials within your company and across the industry; to put controls in place to minimize the risk to save the company from potential danger.
Brittany said that entrepreneurship is in her blood, having helped her grandmother and family in the early years in their businesses. She then spoke about her transition out of the Corporate world to focus on helping in the family businesses and then in her own businesses Luxe Events and SolveX.
She talks about her creative side like wanting to be an interior designer but went the Corporate route. However she fuels her creativity by curating beautiful spaces in her Event Management business Luxe Events.
She spoke about SolveX their mission, goals and intent which is to help SMSs businesses. We discuss the ideal customers for SolveX and how they can add value by customizing solutions for clients.
Brittany talks about The Clarity Collective, her inspiration for it and the intent. At the heart it is to support women led businesses and projects by supporting each other in a tangible way like shopping, promoting and creating opportunities for each other.
In essence she said "if we don't support each other we will die" Therefore we need Community and Connection to survive.
We spoke about the Collective's first Clarity Walk and Popup Market and how the ecosystem is being built, through meaningful connections, sharing of resources, tangible purchasing of products and the relationships being built.
Brittany talks about what is new and up coming in The Clarity Collective for service businesses and the profiling, and the meaningful work happening in the Collective.
This is a conversation about a woman moving with clarity; pivoting from Corporate to entrepreneurship, to equipping women in a Collective which can change the world.
Bio
Brittany Gonzales has over fourteen years experience in the Financial Services and Risk industries, twelve of which was focused in External and Internal audit, Regulatory due diligence for Mergers and (M&A) Acquisitions. Having gained this experience after eight years at PriceWaterhouseCoop (PwC).
She is a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors.