Nearly 40 local businesswomen, from real estate and retail to banking and construction, gathered last week on a rainy morning at D\u2019Lite Bistro & Bakery for Women Who Build, an Islander News LocalConnX event focused on entrepreneurship, leadership and personal growth.<\/p>\n
The conversation featured Key Biscayne entrepreneurs Florencia Maggi, founder of Hummingbird Journey, and Alejandrina \u201cAli\u201d Mej\u00eda, co-founder of the internationally recognized lifestyle brand Eberjey. Attendees heard candid reflections on success, struggles, challenges and the evolving role of founders as their businesses grow.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe entire experience felt thoughtful, engaging and genuinely special,\u201d Mej\u00eda said. Maggi described the conversation as \u201cso natural and really aligned.\u201d<\/p>\n
Guests were welcomed with a breakfast spread by D\u2019Lite owner Alessandra Zurek, who sponsored the event and was pleased with the strong turnout.<\/p>\n
\u201cI found Ali and Florencia\u2019s comments inspiring and helpful,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The event was moderated by Vivian Galego-Mendez of BHHS EWM Realty and chair of the Key Biscayne Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly 40 local businesswomen, from real estate and retail to banking and construction, gathered last week on a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[96607,92831,126,96609,123,125,124,96608],"class_list":["post-211004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-dlite","tag-dlite-bistro-and-bakery","tag-key-biscayne","tag-local-entrepeneurs","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-women-who-build"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}