December 2025: Let’s Light Up the Last 4 Weeks!
Estimated Read Time: 4 Minutes
Why, hello, Launcher!
This time of year can feel like a LOT, especially when you’re juggling life, business, and the final sprint to close out 2025. 😅 Wherever you are on your path towards 2026, just know that we see you and we’re cheering you all on as we wrap up this wild year together.
So let’s light up these next few weeks with both hustle and joy. In this edition you’ll find:
2 awesome grants you can apply for that are short and sweet, and a clear playbook to ensure your applications are in tip top shape.
Registration link for our January 13th webinar: Authenticity Sells: Turning Your Story Into Your Superpower. You won't want to miss this conversation!
A quick escape to take your mind off the holiday stress: A non-business podcast that’s sure to have you laughing all the way through the holiday season.
To your success,
🩵 🚀 The Ladies Who Launch team
🤑 GRANT DEADLINES (US-ONLY)
Ladies Who Launch maintains a free database of available grants for US-based businesses. If you are not based in the United States, please reach out to the funding organization directly to learn if your business qualifies.
[$5K] FAIRE SMALL BUSINESS GRANT. Online wholesale marketplace, Faire, is offering $5000 in platform credit for select retail businesses to stock their shelves in 2026.
DEADLINE: DECEMBER 31, 2025[$5K] HER AGENDA BREAKTHROUGH GRANT. Rhonesha Byng, CEO of Her Agenda, and 2020 LWL Grant Recipient, is awarding $5,000 to one ambitious woman entrepreneur ready to take her business to the next level. We love a full circle moment!
DEADLINE: JANUARY 18, 2026
🗓️ UPCOMING EVENTS
Events marked with a computer emoji (💻) are virtual, and events marked with a handshake emoji (🤝) are in-person. Not every event featured will be produced by Ladies Who Launch.
💻 [JANUARY 13, 2026] AUTHENTICITY SELLS: TURNING YOUR STORY INTO YOUR SUPERPOWER. We’re so excited about this one – it’s the perfect way to kick the year off right! Register to hear author, Fortune 500 speaker, and fellow entrepreneur, Elena Miller, break down how to use your lived experience to build emotional connection with your audience, differentiate your brand, and attract the right community for your business.
💥 POWER PICKS
Power Picks is your grab-and-go stash of listens (🎧) and reads (📚) that pump up your brain the way a hype song fires up your stride.
📚 THE EXACT GRANT PLAYBOOK BEHIND $1K–$250K WINS. Combine this playbook with refined AI prompting, and you’ll have a streamlined way to go after grant funding.
🎧 BOOTSTRAPPED & BOOMING WITH KITSCH’S CASSANDRA MORALES THURSWELL [45 min] Cassandra’s story is proof that bootstrapped brands can fly just as high as those that have been supported by investment funding.
🎧 THE HOME COOKING PODCAST. This podcast is pure JOY. Listening to hosts Samin Nosrat and Hrishikesh Hirway talk through what they’re cooking, answer questions from listeners, and make horrible puns along the way is candy (cane) for the soul.
🩵 LAUNCHER SPOTLIGHT
Launcher Spotlight is where we shine a bright, sparkly beam on a woman-owned business that’s blasting forward with guts, grit, and serious glow.
Missy Moran of @missymoranstudios
LWL Newsletter Subscriber
My glow is my strategy for business success. And it’s yours too! When you feel good, you make better decisions, attract better opportunities, and move with better energy. Rituals I lean on:
Daily meditation (15 minutes) to clear my mind and start my day with ease.
Lymphatic suit sessions to reduce stress, boost energy, and keep my body flowing with less inflammation.
Fitness & joyful movement. I dance as much as I can in the kitchen, go to yoga classes, and I do not skip my strength & conditioning. Movement is medicine!
Time with the people who make me feel grounded and lit up. Quality time with people who lift and empower always soothes my soul during the stressful months, and keeps me focused and inspired on what’s next.