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We are a community of multiracial and multicultural entrepreneurs on a journey toward healing, restoration, and shared prosperity.

Just BE centers the needs, well-being, and brilliance of under-resourced entrepreneurs, including BIWOC-led businesses, co-creating purposeful opportunities for learning, collaboration, and play. 

[Who We Are For]


  • Are ready to center their healing, fast-track their business, build legacy, and not feel alone in their small business journey

  • Has a service- or product-based business

  • Feels “over-incubated” and done with one-size-fits-all business programs

  • Are curious about exploring cooperative business models

  • Are committed to advancing our culture of economic, gender, and racial justice

  • Is seeking holistic forms of wellness that address systemic harm, prioritize community well-being, and is trauma-informed, LGBTQ+ inclusive, and disability-affirming

  • Is excited to be an active member of a vibrant community of diverse entrepreneurs, including BIWOC-led small businesses, build community, and share their expertise

Just BE is for the BIWOC Entrepreneurs who…

[The Deets]

Members Access:


Members enjoy full access to all active programs.
Non-members can join single sessions or attend free gatherings.

01.

FREE Monthly Kindred Connection Business Support Group

02.

15% Off All Just BE Programs

03.

Our Online  Community & Resource Hub via Mighty Networks

04.

First access to ecosystem business resources or opportunities 

Membership Contributions

SLIDING SCALE

*1 month free for all annual plans

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PLAN

MONTHLY

Community Care

Collaborator

Shared Prosperity

$48/ Month

$78 / Month

ANNUAL

$528/ Year

$858/ Year

$108/Month

$1188/ Year

Kindred Connections

A monthly third space gathering in Oakland and Richmond, CA for Black, Indigenous, Latina, AAPI, and gender-expansive entrepreneurs of color—and their families—to connect, recharge, and build community beyond home and work.

Cost:
Free for Just BE members
Sliding scale for non-members


COBIZY Women

COBIZY Women is a free coworking and lunch day for women of color entrepreneurs and their families offered in partnership with COBIZ, a Black-led coworking space in Richmond, CA. Enjoy a day of welcoming space to work, connect, and share an organic whole-foods lunch in community.

Cost:
Free for everyone


Radical Rest Series

We are proud to partner with Soul Flow Oakland to offer quarterly intentional healing spaces for our community of entrepreneurs. Through yoga, dance, and acupuncture sessions, we provide opportunities for self-employed women to decompress, build peer connections, and strengthen their emotional and relational capacity during an increasingly volatile sociopolitical climate.

Cost:
15% off for Just BE members
Sliding scale for non-members


Somatic Coaching

Somatics is a path, a methodology, and a change theory by which we can embody transformation, individually and collectively. We offer 10 sessions of 1 hour, one-on-one somatic coaching to self-employed women of color to embody new ways of being that combat stress, trauma, and burnout. 

Cost:
15% off for Just BE members
Full price for non-members


REAL Peoples Organizing Collective (RPOC)

Just BE is a member of RPOC, a program of Restore Oakland and the REAL People’s Fund that organizes small business owners in the city of Oakland to advocate for shifts in policy and dignified resources that ensures sustainability for cooperative and BIPOC businesses in the area.

Cost:
Free for everyone
Just BE members receive financial childcare, transit, and meal support during live actions

Community
Blessings

Just BE has been integral to my entrepreneurship journey because simply put, the team and the community has been there from the beginning. I got seriously practical and empathetic advice when I was just dreaming up my first side-hustle small biz, Hey Ma Goods Co. and that encouragement empowered me to get going. I had the most fun and felt the most seen at their regular social meetups and to top it off, I was truly honored when they bet on me to design the brand identity for their 2020 For the Culture virtual holiday market—to date, it is one of my proudest portfolio pieces. They have seen me grow, cheered me on, and supported me like only Black women can.

Brittany Luby

OWNER, HEY MA CREATIVE

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