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Sharifah Hardie
Empowering dreams, turning challenges into opportunities—let's thrive together!
Sharifah Hardie
Empowering dreams, turning challenges into opportunities—let's thrive together!
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Entrepreneur, business consultant, author, and media personality
Has raised millions of dollars and guided businesses in securing funding
Experienced speaker who has addressed audiences of thousands
Early podcaster and technology adopter with deep digital experience
About Sharifah Hardie
Empowering dreams, turning challenges into opportunities—let's thrive together!
I'm Sharifah Hardie, an entrepreneur, business consultant, author, and media personality with a passion for empowering others. As the founder of The People’s Chamber of Commerce and Sharifah.ai, I help entrepreneurs and organizations discover opportunities, secure funding, and build sustainable businesses.
Why Book Sharifah Hardie as Your Podcast Guest
Ready to Record
Will Promote Episode
Remote & In-Person
Negotiable
Podcast Fee
Actionable, Not Abstract
I bring concrete steps, scripts, and decision frameworks so your listeners leave with moves they can make immediately, not just inspiration.
High-Stakes, Human Stories
I bring real stories of layoffs, reinvention, and risk that keep listeners emotionally invested while still grounded in practical lessons.
Funding and Growth Clarity
I bring clear explanations of funding, capital, and growth strategies that demystify money conversations for your audience.
Engaging, Candid Dialogue
I bring direct, jargon-free conversation that makes complex business topics accessible and keeps episodes easy to follow and shareable.
Episode Angles & Topics
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Let’s Go Get the Money: Real Talk on Funding
Give your audience a clear, honest roadmap for finding and asking for the money their ideas need.
Why great ideas fail without capital, relationships, and positioning
How everyday entrepreneurs can prepare to ask for funding
Common mistakes people make when pursuing money
Practical first steps listeners can take this week
Reinvention After Setbacks
Engage listeners with real stories of starting over and the strategies that turn setbacks into new opportunities.
Being laid off repeatedly and what it teaches about career control
How to think about risk when the path disappears
Reframing "no" and uncertainty into the next move
Tools listeners can use when they feel stuck or defeated
From Early Web to Early Podcasts
Offer a long-view perspective on digital entrepreneurship that helps your audience navigate today’s noisy online world.
Building a first website in the early 1990s
Launching a podcast in 2009 and lessons from early adoption
How digital shifts keep reshaping opportunity
What today’s entrepreneurs should focus on online
Community, Commerce, and Creating Opportunity
Show your audience how to build businesses that are rooted in community, relationships, and shared opportunity.
Why The People's Chamber of Commerce was created
How community and business growth intersect
Turning local relationships into strategic partnerships
Actionable ways listeners can create opportunities where they are
What You'll Get From This Interview
Audience Takeaways
Listeners leave with clear next steps for finding opportunities, asking for funding, building relationships, and navigating setbacks without sugarcoating the realities of entrepreneurship.
Hot Topics
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Real-world funding conversations that demystify how everyday entrepreneurs can position themselves to secure capital.
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Candid discussions about layoffs, setbacks, and reinvention that keep listeners engaged through relatable, high-stakes stories.
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Step-by-step breakdowns of how to turn vague ideas into concrete business moves your audience can implement immediately.
Why Trust Me
Decades of experience across business development, technology, media, marketing, fundraising, politics, and entrepreneurship.
Founder of multiple organizations focused on funding, opportunity, and sustainable business building.
Has raised millions of dollars and helped businesses pursue and secure funding.
The Ideal Show
Podcasts focused on entrepreneurship, small business growth, funding and capital access, leadership, resilience, women in business, technology and digital media, community-focused business, and practical success strategies.
Recent Podcast Appearances
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Key Achievements
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Founded The People's Chamber of Commerce to help entrepreneurs and organizations identify opportunities and secure funding.
Founded Sharifah.ai to connect entrepreneurship, technology, and opportunity discovery.
Founded Ask Sharifah as a platform for practical business guidance and strategic support.
Raised millions of dollars and assisted businesses in pursuing and securing funding.
Published multiple books on business, entrepreneurship, and related topics.
Spoken before audiences of thousands on entrepreneurship, leadership, and resilience.
Launched a podcast in 2009, embracing digital broadcasting before it became mainstream.
Built her first website in the early 1990s, adopting online presence long before it was standard.
Ran as a political candidate, bringing business and leadership ideas directly to voters.
Developed the "Let's Go Get the Money" approach to entrepreneurship and access to capital.
Professional Experience
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Founder
The People's Chamber of Commerce
Supports entrepreneurs and organizations in identifying opportunities, securing funding, and building sustainable businesses.
Founder
Sharifah.ai
Helps entrepreneurs and organizations discover opportunities and leverage technology to grow and sustain their businesses.
Founder
Ask Sharifah
Provides guidance on funding, strategic partnerships, and practical business growth strategies for entrepreneurs and professionals.
Speaker Topics
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What Sharifah Hardie Can Speak About:
Entrepreneurship insights
Business consulting strategies
Access to capital
Funding for small business
Sustainable business growth
Women in entrepreneurship
Social Media
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