Breaking Ground: Women Driving Equitable Infrastructure with Danica Mason

Who's ready to rock today, Fire Nation? JLD here, and welcome to Entrepreneurs on Fire brought to you by HighLevel, the all in one sales and marketing platform. Today, we'll be breaking down breaking ground, women driving equitable infrastructure. And to drop these value bombs, I brought Danica Mason into EOFire Studios. Danica is an E and R Northwest twenty '24 top young professional and principal of Red Team GO. She has over nineteen years of leading AEC clients and winning proposals, DBE slash inclusion strategies, and civil rights management for $15,000,000,000 plus projects. Today, we'll be chatting about scaling against the odds, building equity first from day one, women leading infrastructure, and oh, so much more. And a big thank you for sponsoring today's episode goes to Danica and our sponsors. Here's something most of us don't think about until it's a problem, our phone service. Kape is a privacy first mobile carrier built from the ground up with security as the priority. If you care about protecting your digital life without giving up your smartphone, Kape makes that possible. Visit cape.co to sign up today. Are you ready for the ultimate all in one platform for entrepreneurs, marketers, coaches, and agencies? Build funnels, automate follow ups, manage clients, and even white label your own software. Say hello to our featured partner, HighLevel, and visit highlevelfire.com to start your free trial today. Danica, say what's up to Fire Nation and share something that you believe about becoming successful that most people disagree with. Well, hi, Fire Nation. And, you know, something about being successful that most people disagree with, I would say for me, is the fact that I feel like I've had to pivot multiple times throughout my career. So in the last fifteen years of owning my business, I feel like I've written business plans and throwing them out. Sometimes it feels like every month, and that's just kind of how it's gone at times. And, having that flexibility is one of those things that has served me well, but I feel like it's also made it difficult at the same time. Yeah. But I think that you've learned something every step of the way. Every one of those false starts, every one of those attempts, like, you just continue to kinda gather this knowledge, this experience, and you just become this veteran, which is why today we're talking Fire Nation about breaking grounds. This is women driving equitable infrastructure. And I wanna start by talking about scaling against the odds because Fire Nation deserves the truth, so let's drop some truth. How realistic is it for a small or minority owned AEC, that's architecture, engineering, and construction, for those AEC firms to scale into major industry players today? You know, I'm not going to lie. It's hard. And you don't see a lot of companies within this space that are women or, BIPOC owned. But with the right mentality and specializing and delivering good work, it …