We Rise By Lifting Each Other
Host Michelle Beck, will be searching out and speaking with those who give back and provide opportunities or goods to those in need . . . just because. Helping others fills your soul. Everyone benefits when goodness is shared. There will be times in life when you give less and need more. If you help someone, they may help someone else and the circle keeps going. Whether it be the sharing of information, time, or physical things, the giver will be richer for it.
We Rise By Lifting Each Other
MESO - Elevating and Empowering Under Resourced and Excluded Entrepreneurs
Host Michelle Beck welcomes MESO – Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon, Cobi Lewis – CEO/Executive Director & Joshua Jacobs – Business Development Manager. MESO’s mission is to elevate under-resourced and excluded entrepreneurs to build resilience, equity and thriving communities through access to capital tailored business assistance and education.
Cobi Lewis has earned a reputation as a dynamic force in the realms of community development and corporate responsibility. As the executive director and CEO of Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon (MESO), she leads the nonprofit’s work to provide historically underserved entrepreneurs in Oregon and Southwest with access to capital, technical assistance, and education to empower them to launch small businesses. In addition to recently being named one of the Portland Business Journal’s Top Executives for 2024, Cobi serves on the board of directors of the National Association of Minority Contractors – Oregon and Portland Housing Center and is a member of the Leadership Council of the Albina Vision Trust.
Joshua Jacobs is the Business Development Manager for Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon (MESO) and their satellite offices. In this role, Joshua oversees a team of business advisors who work with small business owners to develop their strengths, improve their businesses, accomplish their goals, and become successful. Joshua has also been a successful entrepreneur himself. He has run an IT consulting business, a marketing consulting business, an event production and promotion company, and now runs his own business which offers DJ and event services.
For today's "Happy Hour" we are learning about Guinness Beers.
“Our technical assistance, which is our one-on-one advising, that is free for any business that comes to MESO. We offer 10 free one-hour sessions through that process. That's our short-term, what we call, “Engage” program.” – Joshua Jacobs
You can find more MESO at www.mesopdx.org and follow at https://www.instagram.com/mesopdx/ and https://www.facebook.com/MESOPDX.
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