065: Harness Your Rainbow Superpowers in Business with Matthew VanHorn, Co-Founder of LGBTQ Entrepreneur

Written By Rhodes Perry

Matthew VanHorn co-founded LGBTQ Entrepreneur, a coaching business aimed to support rainbow family members take the entrepreneurial leap. Matthew started his first coaching business 7 years ago where he supported gay, bisexual, and queer men gain more confidence and self-love so that they could improve their intimate lives. He and his partner Caleb both experienced great success building their own businesses, and now they work together helping people in the LGBTQ community gain the confidence, clarity, and courage it takes to make a big difference with the work they do.

This Episode is Sponsored By

·      Rhodes Perry Consulting, LLC

·      Register for the Employee-to-Entrepreneur Coaching Program

·      Gain solutions to build a more inclusive workplace culture

Questions Answered in this Episode

·      Who is Matthew VanHorn, and what does his business do?

·      What motivated Matthew to start a coaching practice for LGBTQ people?

·      How does Matthew empower LGBTQ communities?

·      How can you get in touch with Matthew?

Resources Shared in this Episode

·      Visit the LGBTQ Entrepreneur Website

·      Follow LGBTQ Entrepreneur on Facebook

·      Connect with Matthew on LinkedIn

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Rhodes’ Top 3 Recommended Resources

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3. FreshBooks cloud accounting is a great resource if you’re exchanging time for money and you need a simple solution for tracking project hours, invoicing clients, and managing payments. Consider trying FreshBooks for one month of free service when you visit: https://goo.gl/Z6vFBt.

Rhodes Perry

Rhodes Perry, MPA is an award-winning social entrepreneur, best-selling author, and keynote speaker. He helps leaders build belonging at work to achieve industry breakthroughs. His firm offers transformative leadership development, change management, and capacity building solutions for senior executives focused on advancing their organizations’ diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) commitments. Nationally recognized as a LGBTQ+ thought leader, he has two decades of government and nonprofit experience having worked at the White House, PFLAG National, and the City of New York. Media outlets like Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and the Associated Press have featured his powerful work as a (DEI) influencer.

http://www.rhodesperry.com
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