142. Build the Room: How Leaders Create Access, Visibility, and Opportunity with Marilynn Joyner

Marilynn Joyner has spent much of her professional life creating access where she saw a gap. In this episode, Kimberly and Marilynn discuss how that instinct shaped Her Workplace and eventually pushed Marilynn further into entrepreneurship.

They unpack what Marilynn has learned about asking for introductions and continuing after rejection, along with why face-to-face connection remains central to how she leads. Marilynn also shares how she is building Fund Her Network as a step toward her long-term goal of investing in women-led companies.

In this episode: How Marilynn turned her experience in corporate America into the foundation for Her Workplace Why access has become a core theme across the businesses she is building What entrepreneurship has taught her about asking, fundraising, and hearing "no" Why creating your own rooms through events and private gatherings can increase visibility How thinking 10 years ahead is shaping Marilynn's next business moves Connect with Marilynn Marilynn Joyner: LinkedIn: / Her Workplace: Fund Her Network: Learn more about my public speaking program - The Visibiltiy Shift: