Fran Pastore is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Women’s Business Development Council, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting female entrepreneurs. After helping a number of Waterbury businesses open and grow in the last several years, the Council has established offices in the city – and is poised to deliver more “capital and confidence,” as Fran says, to women-owned enterprises. Hear Fran describe the biases that still exist in society, the reasons for starting her business in 1997, and why she thinks Waterbury has something special in store, as The Waterbury Talks with Fran Pastore.
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