ANDRE HEART | BUSINESS MENTOR FOR WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS

Because I believe the world becomes richer, more human and more beautiful when women fully take their place in it.

I was born in the French-speaking part of Belgium, the oldest of four children. Freedom has always mattered deeply to me — maybe because I know exactly what it feels like not to have it. After five years living in Portugal, that pull toward freedom is what brought me to the United States. This is where I feel most inspired to build, create, and make an impact.

Shyness ruled most of my early life, painfully so. Obesity and broke bank accounts came later. Entrepreneurship didn’t rescue me right away either — for more than three years, I worked relentlessly without being able to pay myself a salary. Failure, self-doubt, the quiet question of whether I’d ever actually make it — all of that came before a colon cancer diagnosis changed the entire direction of my life.

What does success actually mean? What do I want to do with the rest of my time here? Somewhere in that reckoning, I stopped chasing happiness and started letting meaning be the compass instead.

The answer that emerged was simple, and it’s stayed with me since: I want to help people become free enough to be who they truly are — and brave enough to build a life around it. Success, I’ve come to believe, isn’t the goal. It’s what tends to follow a life full of meaning.

Why women?

Because I see you. Because so many women helped shape the man I am today. Along the way, I met extraordinary women — brilliant, intuitive, creative, full of heart — who were still quietly questioning their own worth. That moved me deeply, especially knowing that for centuries, women have had far less room to shape this world, in business, in leadership, in society at large.

That’s changing now. I want to be part of it.

More women trusting themselves.
More women creating.
More women leading.
More women turning what they love, and what they have to give, into businesses that actually matter.
More women building financial independence without a 60-hour workweek attached to it — women who can have it all and still feel free.
More women living and working entirely on their own terms.

Not because women should replace men. Because the world becomes richer, more human, more beautiful, when women fully take their place in it.

That’s the work I’ve chosen. I want to help women stop asking « Am I good enough? » and start asking instead, « How can I use my gifts to make a difference? » My role, as I see it, is to help them touch the beauty of their own soul — to trust the intuition that’s been quietly guiding them all along.

Because when a woman finally sees what she has to give, and finds the courage to bring it into the world, she doesn’t just change her own life. She changes the people around her. And in her own way, she changes the world too.