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Hope your week is going well, because this week, we have something different. No frameworks. No tips. No "here are five things you should be doing."
This week, we are celebrating.
March is Women's Month, and this Sunday is International Women's Day. And while the internet will be full of quotes and graphics and the occasional corporate post that means absolutely nothing, we wanted to do something that actually felt like us.
So we went into our community, and we found them. Women who transitioned careers, built products, launched businesses, and stepped into rooms they once thought were out of reach.
This week, in celebration of International Women’s Day, we are spotlighting a few of those women and sharing opportunities for women across the globe.
Meet our Women
Omolara Olarerin
The woman feeding businesses and employees, one order at a time.Omolara turned a skipped lunch into a B2B food delivery platform, Pocketfood, which has now delivered over 500,000 meals. She has survived funding challenges, inflation, and a full business pivot and came out the other side stronger, sharper, and still building. That is not just entrepreneurship. That is grit with a roadmap.
Fresh out of the PMHelp course, Ngozi landed her first PM internship while raising a family and managing the full weight of motherhood. She did not wait for the perfect moment. She created one.
Favour came to product management from Architecture and brought her systems thinking, cross-functional collaboration, and problem-solving. From blueprints to backlogs, the medium changed, but the mindset never did. She is proof that no experience is ever wasted.
Neto did not enter tech through a computer science degree or a bootcamp. She entered through lived experience as a lawyer, a freelance hairstylist, and a consumer who watched talented beauty professionals get left behind by a market that had no proper infrastructure for them. So she built it. KB Matrix is a two-sided SaaS platform that centralises operations for beauty professionals while creating a trusted booking experience for clients. From product strategy to go-to-market, she led it all. She is building proof of that every day.
Ifeoma's journey into product started with a LinkedIn post she almost scrolled past. She found PMHelp, completed the free course, and earned her certificate; the first real proof that she was becoming who she had decided to be. She secured an internship through the community, then entered a hackathon with a teammate, built a solution from scratch, and placed first. From piecing together free articles to winning as the PM on a two-person team, Ifeoma did not just transition into product. She arrived.
Ibtihaaj tried virtual assistance, social media management, and digital marketing before she found her direction. It was overwhelming until she found the product space and, with it, a community that helped her focus. She is still finding her way, and she will be the first to tell you that. But she keeps showing up. In product management, showing up consistently is already more than most people do.
Oluchi began her product management journey during one of the hardest seasons of her life, with no backup plan, time taken off to care for her mum, and deep uncertainty about what 2026 would even look like. Instead of waiting for clarity to come to her, she went looking for it. She joined PMHelp, asked questions, sought feedback, built an MVP, and kept upskilling until she had something to show for it. She ended the year with her first PM role. Resilience is not the absence of fear. Oluchi is proof of that.
Pearl is a Senior Project Manager who saw a gap in the running world and decided to fix it by building Stridely, an app that matches runners to the right shoe. What makes her story remarkable is not just the idea. It is that she is coding the entire backend herself. Cloud deployment, API integrations, data pipelines, all of it. Pearl is proof that the only ceiling that exists is the one you stop pushing against.
Chidubem’s journey into product began on the ground in delivery and field operations, where she constantly saw the friction slowing teams down.
Instead of ignoring those problems, she transitioned into product management to solve them.
She has since led automation initiatives that reduced manual processing by 40 percent and improved ROI by 35 percent.
Her strength lies in turning messy operational problems into scalable solutions that teams and customers actually use.
Behind every story here, there was a moment, a question, a frustration, a decision to try something new. None of them waited for perfect conditions. None of them had a guarantee. They just kept moving.
And if you are reading this, wondering whether there is a door with your name on it, I am here to tell you that there is.
Opportunities for Women
Here are a few opportunities currently open for women looking to grow their leadership and product careers:
Advancing Women in Leadership MBA Scholarship at Newcastle University
A scholarship designed to support women pursuing leadership roles in business.International Women’s Forum (IWF) Leadership Fellows Program
A global leadership development program for emerging women leaders.Women in Product Certificate at ECornell
A specialised program designed to help women grow their careers in product management.2026 Milead Fellows Program for Young African Women Leaders
A leadership program focused on empowering young African women leaders.
Before you go
When people talk about innovation, they often focus on products. But behind every product, every transition, every breakthrough, there are people choosing courage over comfort.
The women in this week’s newsletter remind us that progress doesn’t always start with perfect conditions. Sometimes it begins with a question, a frustration, or the decision to try something new.
And sometimes, it begins with building your own table.
If you know a woman in the PMHelp community doing incredible work, we celebrate you not just this month but every day.
Keep doing good work, we are rooting for you!
With 💜
Your buddy from PMHelp