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A Year of Kickstarting Women’s Dreams

I love helping to make people’s dreams come true!  For the next year I will highlight and financially support a different Kickstarter campaign every month.  I’ll interview the artist/musician/author/creator and post a blog about this amazing woman and her dream.  Having just completed my own Kickstarter, I know how grueling it is to get your idea in front of enough people to successfully fund a campaign.  I want to help by bringing visibility to great projects, along with donating a percent of my online sales.

Each month I support a Kickstarter campaign and spread the word through my program, “Giving Back.”  I’m passionate about helping women to fund their dream projects, especially after I went through the process myself.

This month I am featuring “The Empowerment Project: Extraordinary Women Doing Extraordinary Things”, a documentary about women which aims to create positive content for women by shining a light on inspirational, powerful, and strong women in many career fields across the United States. Made for women by an all-female film and production crew!

I interviewed Sarah Moshman last week to learn more about the project, her background and what inspired her and friend, Dana Michelle Cook, to take on this ambitious Kickstarter campaign.

Sarah and Dana both come from reality TV backgrounds producing on shows like “Dancing with the Stars”.  Together they have produced two short documentaries about female empowerment under their production company Heartfelt Productions.

Their first interview for the current project features 2013 Sundance Best Director Winner Jill Soloway (Six Feet Under, United States of Tara) as she discusses how women should follow their inner impulse when it comes to directing.  Jill then interviews her long-time friend and collaborator, Jane Lynch.  These conversations with women who are making their mark in the world will be the focus of future episodes.

The Kickstarter campaign is specifically to raise money so the film crew can travel cross country for one month interviewing and filming ten amazing women.  They want to shine light on what it’s like to be a woman in their professional position, what it took to get there, what it’s like to balance a personal life with work, as well as any advice or stories they can share. The goal is to create a webisode for each story, ultimately making a 10 part docu-series as the end result.

Moshman explained, “We feel as though there isn’t enough positive content available in the media for women these days and we want to be a part of that shift towards a better balance.”

This project will only be funded if at least $25,000 is pledged by Monday May 27, 12:31pm EST.  Traveling across the country for a month with 4 women is not cheap. Sarah and Dana need the money for equipment rentals (camera, audio, lighting, etc), accommodations, transportation from city to city, food, permits, insurance, hard drives, memory cards, and the list goes on and on.

I would love for you to join me in supporting this campaign.  Remember:  every dollar counts, even $1, $5 and $10 contributions! 

Click here to support this amazing project!