(3BL Media and Just Means) - Count to 120. Pause and give thanks for your partner, wife, mother or sister who survived childbirth. Every two minutes, around the world, a woman dies from complications experienced during pregnancy. The most horrific part about this current reality is that most of these deaths are preventable.

(3BL Media and Just Means)- Yasmin Belo-Osagie and Afua Osei’s paths first crossed when they worked together at McKinsey & Company. But the idea to start a pitch competition and entrepreneurial training organization for women-owned, African companies was birthed a few years later during a women’s conference.