Stories of social entrepreneurs

Three daughters, 32 years old, and many dreams and challenges. Black social and cultural entrepreneur from the Soteropolitan suburbs. Renata de Jesus built her life by participating in black and feminist social movements. Transforming reality makes it vibrate.

Renata discovered early on that motherhood is often a lonely place. It's a moment of self-knowledge, of understanding yourself as a new woman, of waking up from another place. Pregnant with her third daughter, she found it difficult to return to the standard professional environment: leaving in the morning and returning only at night, facing crowded buses and long working hours. He also discovered that he could combine his professional activities with social activism and the raising of his daughters. After all, unlike what she originally thought, entrepreneurship isn't just about selling a product or service. Social entrepreneurship isn't necessarily that. And Renata has qualified in courses on this subject. That's how she felt free to be a social entrepreneur. That's when her horizon opened up to combine her passion with entrepreneurship.

In line with her ideal of seeing a lighter world for women, Renata and 3 other friends came together to help other people, especially women who are mothers, blacks, professionals who want to reposition themselves in a labor market that can be cruel and permeated by a society that denies mothers as women to be “only” with their children. Thinking about this and the various social contexts, they created a network strengthened and stitched together by empowerment that enhances feminine strength.

The Mainhas Network is made up of these four women who work in cultural production, encouraging art and who met during an entrepreneurship course. According to Renata, most women, when they become mothers, embark on the path of entrepreneurship. It is the rebirth of women, of the artist, of the professional, of true powers.

Renata is an example for her daughters. For her, “when women get together they are able to move a lot of things”. And that's how, in a collaborative network, she feels motivated to continue impacting people around her.

Through the window of the future, Renata already sees a space for all these women with a collaborative store, coworking, venue for themed events, courses. A place where mothers can take their children and grow up with them.

The world of Renata's daughters will be a world of greater autonomy for women thanks to people like her, who so many others continue to fight and enjoy what their predecessors achieved, with less violence and more freedom to exercise whatever they