Hidden Gems: Meet Beth Caldwell of Beth Caldwell’s Circle for Women

Today we’d like to introduce you to Beth Caldwell.

Beth, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
I’ve been writing books since before I could read. My mom used to bind them together with yarn. I’ve also been gathering groups of women together since I was a Girl Scout. I hated when my troop took a break for the summer, so I would host little circles in the living room with girls from the neighborhood. I would collect articles from my mom’s magazines like Ladies Home Journal or Family Circle, drag chairs into the living room to make a circle. I’d pass out the magazine clippings and give each girl a time slot to teach the content. If I wasn’t at a Girl Scout meeting or having a meeting at home, I was off reading a book or writing one.

After having a traumatic experience with a teacher in sixth grade, I became silent. She humiliated me in front of the class, scolded me for being too smart, and reading too much, and overall being “too much”. She said no one would like me, no one currently liked me, and certainly no boys would ever like me. She took my glasses away from me (punishment for reading during class). All through middle school and high school, I kept my head down, not wanting to be a “show off” or “too much”. I stopped reading or writing for pleasure and spent most of my time trying to fit in.

It wasn’t until I had children of my own that I rediscovered my love of reading and writing. I started hosting women’s circles again, at that time, circles of moms, and I loved it. I started looking for opportunities to facilitate events at work and in the community. Once I built my confidence back, I started hosting events on my own. The first one was in the conference room at my work. I bartered for getting the room for free in exchange for letting people from the company come for free. It was a workshop on how to start your LinkedIn profile. After that, I started offering workshops every month, and in a few years, I had an organization, Pittsburgh Professional Women.

One thing that kept happening is people would ask me, “Will you teach that workshop again?” or let me know that they wanted to attend but couldn’t. And people from out of town started asking me to come to their towns. One day at my son’s soccer game, I had the idea to write a book with my most popular workshop content. My first book was released on my 40th birthday. Since then, I’ve written 14 more books, and I have a new one due to be released in 2027.

I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
I became a single mom when my children were 2 weeks old and 2 years old. That was tough. I relocated back to my hometown of Pittsburgh and started fresh.

About a year later, my youngest son was diagnosed as profoundly deaf, and later his diagnosis was autism.

We experienced food insecurity over the years, and during the recession of 2007, I had to get financial support from our church to pay the mortgage.

As you know, we’re big fans of Beth Caldwell’s Circle for Women . For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about the brand?
I have created a women’s organization that extends outside of Pittsburgh. I call it the Circle for Women. Workshops and social gatherings are held weekly online, and we get together in person a few times a year. I offer a Monday Morning Workshop each week called “Success Circle,” teaching women how to create systems in their business and learn client attraction marketing. There’s also a mastermind group that meets on Mondays for women who are scaling and growing. I host open office days. But what makes this group really different is that, along with business coaching and training, there are social events called “The Connection Café”. And my most favorite offering happens on Saturday mornings twice a month. It’s called GROUP.

-Growing
-Resilience
-Owning our power
-Unlimited
-Possibility

Because here’s something I’ve learned. When women are worried, sad, scared, frustrated, grieving, or overwhelmed, their business or career suffers. Women don’t separate life and work. So the GROUP sessions offer a compassionate, judgement-free space to learn and heal. We cover topics like rejection, caregiving, perfectionism, fears of visibility, fears of success, betrayal, imposter syndrome, clearing money blocks, etc.

Is there any advice you’d like to share with our readers who might just be starting out?
Your business will grow faster when you stop asking, “What will people think?” and start asking, “What do I want to create?”

Pricing:

• Success Circle is $55/month

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.circleforwomen.org/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beth_a_caldwell/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bethacaldwell/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bethcaldwell/
• Youtube: https://youtube.com/@bethtoldme
• Other: https://www.amazon.com/Beth-Caldwell/e/B00BZPS1C8