A Village of Women: Why Women Business Owners Matter as Mentors

May 23, 2017

By Julie Bawden Davis

As we celebrate Women’s Equality Day on August 26, we should take time to remember that mentoring and being mentored are keys to success for many women in business. It often takes a village comprised of outstretched and interlocking hands.

“There is nothing like a great mentor—someone who can guide you and provide honest, real-time, practical advice,” says Jackie Stone, CMO of MiMedia. “Mentors don't judge your thoughts, ideas or dreams—they help you achieve them. My mentors have guided me to new opportunities and pushed me to take risks.”

Life-Changing Connections

Mentoring can be life changing, believes Amber Alvarez, executive design director of Fuze Interactive, a company that teaches kids how to code. “I was frustrated in my role at a sprawling company. I felt I had good ideas, but no one to listen to them,” Alvarez recalls. She met a woman in the company she admired in the elevator and met up with her for coffee. This meeting resulted in her landing her dream job.

“During the time I worked there, she coached me to greatness,” says Alvarez. “I never imagined anyone capable of such kindness. She reached down the ladder to help me up and changed my life.”

Kristy Muir Sevy, Fuze Interactive's CEO and founder, has a similar story. “A managing partner at a big VC firm offered to help me craft my pitch, and people were amazed I got a meeting with her,” says Sevy. “She brought another woman, a CEO of a multi-million dollar corporation. They mentored me for more than an hour. This was a huge lesson that successful women genuinely want to champion other women, and that I should never be afraid to simply ask for advice. ”

Read the full article on the American Express website under the leadership forum.

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Tech Specs

Code Zubi Flyer

Fuze Install Kit

Zubi Flyer Pin Assignments

In The Box

Zubi Flyer Frisbee
Illuminator Printed Circuit Board
Magnet Wand
Instructable Booklet
Happy Face Micro-USB
Diffraction Glasses (2 Pairs)
Battery
Accessory Box

Built-In Features

12 Fun Games
Newbie Zubie, Catch the Light, Hot Potato, Copy Cat, Hand Harmonica, Telephone, Pong, RGB Light Hack, RGB Single Light Hack, Shortcut Hack, Mood Light, Name that Tune
Connect Online
Connect Zubi to a computer to learn coding
Tactile Building
Physically assemble the flyer
Educational Instructable - Learn how Zubi works, or explore fun facts about electrical current flow and different forms of energy
Creatively Explore Light
See light differently with our fun light diffraction glasses, and play with over 16 million hues of color
Digitally Explore Sound
Control 7 octaves of sound with the buzzer
Electronics Exploration
Reed & Button Switches, 7 Octave Piezo Buzzer, Circuits & Circuit Board, Microcontroller, Push Buttons, RGB LEDs, Electrical Current Flow, Forms of Energy
Arduino - Open Source
Our programs are FREE for anyone to use with access to FREE code repositories where you can explore the endless possibilities of coding your Zubi Flyer
Online Learning Portal
Our FUZE website will have a FREE learning portal that will have a minimum of three courses that will walk you through the process of changing code on your flyer

Electronics Parts

PC Board
IC MCU 8BIT 32KB FLASH 44QFN (ATMEGA32U4)
AUDIO PIEZO TRANSDUCER 30V TH
5050 APA102C THREE-COLOR LED SMD
PHOTOCELL 27-60KOHM
SWITCH REED SPST-NO 500MA 140V
TACTILE SWITCH SPST-NO 0.02A 15V
SWITCH PUSHBUTTON SPST 2A 14V

Microcontroller Specs

The Zubi Flyer is the bomb dot com for makers: 5 PWM pins, 12 DIOs as well as hardware serial connections Rx and Tx. Running at 16MHz and 5V. The onboard switch-mode boost regulator is designed to operate on 3 Volts. Power can be supplied from a 3 Volt CR123A battery or from a USB cable that provides regulated +5 Volts DC to the board. Do not run any power exceeding 5 Volts as the regulator cannot handle step-down voltage.

ATmega32U4 running at 5V/16MHz
Supported under Arduino IDE v1.0.1
On-Board micro-USB connector for programming
Rx and Tx Hardware Serial Connections

System Requirements

Real Code
Learn C
Downloads
Zubi Flyer .ZIP Library
Zubi Flyer Drivers (Windows only)
Supported OS
Mac + Windows
PIN Assignments
See PIN Assignments HERE