Hiiraan Online Review
Saturday, August 1, 2015
“How To Be a Muslim Woman Entrepreneur: Step-by-Step Guide to Starting a Business in 90 days”
By Hodan Ibrahim
Hodan Ibrahim is a Somali-Canadian entrepreneur. She wrote a book entitled: “How to be a Muslim Women Entrepreneur: Step-by-Step Guide to Starting a Business in 90 days” on the last few years of her experience as a Muslim female entrepreneur. The book documents her experiences, challenges, and the obstacles she faced as an entrepreneur working in marketing and publishing.
Her interest in business began after graduating university with a Bachelors of Arts in Political Science and International relations, she ended up leaving Ottawa shortly after to live and work in Alexandria, Egypt at the age of 21. While she was there, she was exposed to the harsh life that many people lived and wanted to examine how she could make things better. After much research and travel, she determined that business was one of the best way to help empower people. Without economic empowerment, it is difficult to have a stable, just society.
When she came back to Canada, she was determined to help people and started many businesses from personal development workshops to a successful digital marketing agency, Think Disrupt that provided marketing solutions to mission-driven organizations. Within a few years, she had accumulated years of experience both in personal development and in business and wanted to share it with other Muslims, Somalis and young entrepreneurs who want to empower themselves.
The book discusses many key topics that are important to the Muslim community and especially the Somali community. She makes a strong case for encouraging entrepreneurship in our communities
1) Supporting Women Entrepreneurs: The lack of support for Muslim women entrepreneurs, especially Somali entrepreneurs. Although the Muslim and Somali community is very entrepreneurial, we don’t have the proper support system to help young female entrepreneurs who want to start their businesses. Muslim woman face challenges of making a living, getting married and having children. It’s a hard balance and helping more woman start businesses from home can help relieve that stress.
2) Encouraging our youth to start businesses: Somali high school drop-out is one of the highest in Canada. The traditional system (going to school and getting a job) isn’t the only solution. We must encourage those entrepreneurial youth to take a risk and start their own ventures
3) Change Starts at Home: The book encourages parents and communities to look at supporting entrepreneurship within their homes and communities. Change starts at home and if we want to create new economic conditions for the next generation, then we must start teaching them to become self-sufficient.
Her books is a short, yet inspiring read. She provides you an inside look into her own personal story deciding to take the entrepreneurial path covering all her success and failure over 5 years. She maps out a step-by-step guide to starting your own business through easy-to-understand language providing you with the most up-to-date modern business knowledge today. It is a motivational book for anyone who is thinking about or who wants to start their business. Whether you are an aspiring or emerging entrepreneur, you will surely find many positive results from applying the principles in this book.
To purchase a copy of the book, visit Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/How-Muslim-Woman-Entrepreneur-Step-By-Step-ebook/dp/B010WNC7W8
If you wish to read more of her work, visit her blog: hodanibrahim.com
You can watch her video tutorials on Youtube here