Omi Bell

This year is a big one 💜 Black Girl Ventures is celebrating 10 years of showing up for founders, building community, and putting capital where it belongs, directly into the hands of under-resourced entrepreneurs. Ten years of: ✨ belief ✨ bold ideas ✨ community doing the work together And we’re just getting started. Thank you for being part of this journey, every founder, supporter, partner, and community member who made this possible. Here’s to 10 years of impact and many more to come. #BlackGirlVentures #BGV10 #CommunityOrNothing #FounderSupport #WomenFounders EntrepreneurLife ImpactDriven

Allow me to reintroduce myself (Swipe) CEO: I launched Black Girl Ventures (BGV) in 2016 in response to the stat that Black and Brown women were starting businesses faster than everyone else yet getting funded less that everyone else. Now we have expanded across the country and have funded people from all walks of life. We have impacted over 20,000 people from over 64 countries. I am internationally known and respected. I speak and teach domestically and abroad. ✊🏽 Artist: I began my career in community building through performance poetry. I have also written songs. Creativity fuels me. Hosting events is one of my favorite things to do. The art of moving energy from stagnant or negative to being a positive movement is a special skill I have. 😊 Journalistic: I host two SiriusXM shows - The Omi Show, Sundays at noon and Urban View Mornings 7a-10a on SiriusXM ch 126. Prior to this I was a music journalist with a couple outlets that are now out of business. I call myself journalistic vs a journalist in honor of the greats and my dear friends who went to school for journalism and are the top journalist in their fields. 🫶🏽 Funder/Investor: Through my work at BGV I have the opportunity to grant and invest in amazing companies across the country. I am careful with this title though because I am not a VC nor a traditional philanthropist. Nonetheless I do have the power and privilege of getting you funded. I don’t feel accepted by the finance world who has a sort or “sit high and look low” kind of personality but I am honored to be friends with a lot of dope people who are dedicated to the work of traditional VC investing. I appreciate them dearly. I will continue to carve my own path of what it means to facilitate funding. 💸 Human: Out of all the titles in the world my favorite one is HUMAN. I love and want to be loved. I raise issues. I parent. I cousin. I daughter. I fan. I fail. I forgive. I try. I get tried. I work. I rest. I play. I’m right. I’m wrong. I cry. I gratitude. I anger. I promise. I break. I build. I try my best to keep dreaming with my feet on the ground. 🫶🏽 This is who I am. Nice to meet you. #omibell

(Full speech) My story is not a black story or a white story or a woman story. My story is an American story. Cc: @blackgirlventures @playpits @drinkaguabonita @femly #BGV #OmiSpeaks #ResistBeingAverage #VC #CommunityorNothing #HeyOmiHomies #Entrepreneurship #Nasdaq

Chicago, we’re coming! Come ready to pitch, cheer, connect, and tap into the energy of Chicago’s founder community. How it works 👇🏾: 🥊Round 1: 60 Seconds. You’ll pitch live before a panel of BGV Champions (judges) who will vote with their thumbs: 👍 = $200 👍👍 = $250 👍👍👍 = $500 Get a “yes” from all three champions and you’ll move on to Round 2. 🥊Round 2: 3 minutes The top 7 founders get to pitch again for more funding. 🏆 Prizes: 1st Place — $10K 2nd Place — $3K 3rd Place — $2K 📆 Saturday, May 30th 🕒10 AM–2 PM 📍mHUB Whether you’re pitching or watching, pull up for the energy, the community, and the capital. Comment “Chicago” to RSVP to watch or pitch. #PullUpAndPitch #BlackGirlVentures #ChicagoFounders#SmallBusinessOwners #PitchCompetition Funding

Box Breathe to the Beat 🌬️🎶 Who says it has to be quiet for you to breathe? Sometimes you gotta regulate your nervous system through the noise. Through distractions. Through traffic. Through work. Through chaos. Breathwork doesn’t only belong in silent rooms with incense and waterfalls. You can breathe anywhere. This is box breathing: Inhale for 4 Hold for 4 Exhale for 4 Hold for 4 And today we doing it to “Let Em Know.” 💛

Breathe to the Beat 🌬️🎶 Most music is built in counts of 4. So is your breath. Inhale — 1,2,3,4 Hold — 1,2,3,4 Exhale — 1,2,3,4 Hold — 1,2,3,4 This is called box breathing — a simple breathwork technique that helps regulate your nervous system. So yes… even in the middle of the club, traffic, work stress, loud thoughts, or chaos… you can still find your breath. This one’s over that classic Dre beat with Snoop reminding us: “I wanna thank me.” 💛 Thinking about turning this into a series called Breathe to the Beat where we breathe through pop culture, trending sounds, and beats together. Should I drop one every week… or challenge myself to do one every day? 👀

Season 2 is here. 🎬💛 From May 18–June 18, we’re going live every weekday for The 30 Day Show: BGV Edition — real conversations around business, culture, capital, and what’s happening right now. What makes this show different? We throw the interview link out to the PEOPLE. No over-curated guest list. No gatekeeping the interview seats. No “same 5 people on every podcast.” We open the floor and let real voices speak. Which means every day brings new perspectives, unexpected conversations, and people we may have never discovered otherwise. And clearly y’all were ready 😅 30 days. 3 interview slots a day. ALL slots booked within 30 minutes of sending the link out. Season 2 cohost is my friend, business bestie, and powerhouse in beauty + business: @takiaross 💛 📍Monday–Friday ⏰ 6am PST–7:30am PST ⏰ 8am CST–9:30am CST ⏰ 9am EST–10:30am EST Watch live on IG, YouTube, LinkedIn at BGV Foundation & @omibell channels. See y’all May 18. Let’s run it back! 🥰 #The30DayShow #BlackGirlVentures #bgvfoundation

🚨 The 30 Day Show: BGV Edition is Coming 🚨 From May 18th–June 18th, @omibell and @takiaross are going live every morning for The 30 Day Show: BGV Edition, a 30-day livestream series centered on real conversations around business, culture, capital, and what’s happening right now. Across 30 days, the show will bring together founders, leaders, creatives, and community voices to share honest perspectives, bold ideas, and real-time reflections on what this moment is calling for. This is more than a livestream. It’s a space for real talk, community insight, and conversations that move culture forward. Tune in each morning and be part of the conversation. #BlackGirlVentures #The30DayShow #LiveShow #Entrepreneurship

The original AI isn't digital. It’s Ancestral Intelligence. 🧬 If you are leading a company, a team, or simply leading your own life, you aren't just competing with "hard work." The landscape of business is changing. The people who are truly moving the needle aren't just "doing"—they are awakening something deeper. Ancestral Intelligence is available to you right now. It is the wisdom that outlasts trends and the insight that builds teams differently. You aren't out here doing this organically on your own. You are being called to awaken what is already in your blood. Watch Becoming Omi with the 3B Society:✨ Daily | 6-7:30 am CST / 9-10:30 am EST ✨ YouTube: The Omi Show ✨ Community: @becomingomi

Often, we look for external validation or a physical "home" to feel safe. But the most expansive space you will ever inhabit is internal. What you’re moving through right now isn’t a distraction—it’s a signal. It’s calling for you to: Listen: Not to the noise, but to your own rhythm. Activate: Your intuition is a God-given, universal compass. Return: Home is a state of being, not a coordinate. You already hold the answers. You are simply learning how to hear them. Watch Becoming Omi with the 3B Society:✨ Daily | 6-7:30 am CST / 9-10:30 am EST ✨ YouTube: The Omi Show ✨ Community: @becomingomi

If you’ve been white-knuckling your schedule, operating on fumes, and wondering why nothing feels like enough even when everything looks good from the outside…this evening was designed for you. On May 7th, Coterie is partnering with wellness practitioner and impact artist Omi Bell @omibell for Coterie Calm: a breathwork and sound bath experience built for high performers who are ready to stop running on overdrive and actually regulate Here’s how your evening will feel: > 5:00 PM Arrival & Networking: release the weight of the day, develop relationships, get settled > 5:45 PM Breathwork: cortisol drops, clarity rises, the reset rivals hours of sleep > 6:15 PM Body Scan + Sound Bath: crystal bowls and stillness dissolve what the body’s been holding > 7:00 PM Integration & Journaling: what surfaced deserves a home, let the insights land > 7:30 PM Closing & Mingling: a gentle return, light snacks, leaving more open than when you arrived Omi has guided 50,000+ people through nervous system regulation. She built Black Girl Ventures from nothing, hit her own wall in 2022, and came back having remembered something most of us forget… …that the sharpest decisions come from the most regulated nervous systems. Rest is a performance strategy. Orange County, May 7th. Spots are limited. Members, RSVP via Circle.

What you reach for in an emergency…was always available to you. Urgency just makes us move differently. Calling people. Pulling things together quickly. Building something just to get through. And it works just enough to survive the moment. But that’s not strategy. That’s survival. I’m learning to pause in the middle of need. To breathe before I build. Move from intuition. Not urgency. 💛