Jenny Vazquez-Newsum

It’s been a busy month, but nothing has worked harder than Zohran Mamdani’s clapbacks and the Ninja Turtles at the Thanksgiving Day Parade.

November 2025 | caught a stride with work, family, and friends. Grateful 🥰

Thoughts from the month…

October 2025 | LA > Scotland > LA > NYC > LA > couch couch couch!

September 2025 | What is time even doing??

Thoughts from work and life recently.

It’s all so much. Pick something to carry, friends, but don’t carry it all ❤️

August 2025 | A lot of sunshine. A lot of family time. A lot of meaningful work. A lot of KPop Demon Hunters.

July 2025 | Family, Friends, NYC. Not a bad way to spend a birthday month.

10 years!

May and June 2025….because who has time for IG when the world is burning 🫠.

Refusing to be joy-less, but leveraging the energy that joy provides to stay aware, awake, and in the game.

Sending love to you, my friends.

“Confronting the earnings gap for Black women could create 1.2–1.7 million US jobs and raise annual GDP by 1.4–2.1% — or $300–450 billion.”
— Goldman Sachs, Black Womenomics Report

Look, Goldman Sachs is not in the business of wasting money. They’re in the business of making (a lot of) it. So when they set out to invest in 1 million Black women, they didn’t do so as a feel-good, give-back initiative. It’s absolutely a business strategy, and I commend that.

When Black women founders succeed, the entire economy succeeds.

These past 3 months in the Black in Business program were pivotal. It’s been a tough economic and professional climate for — just this past week, our $24k government contract was canceled (and an Office of Racial Justice defunded) amid mounting pressures.

It’s been make-or-break. And I’ve had moments where folding seemed like a real possibility.

But Goldman’s Black in Business program came right on time. With the strategic and precise support of NYU Stern School of Business professors, my incomparable business advisor, my fellow growth group entrepreneurs, my accountability partner, and the many brilliant minds across the broader cohort — I received the exact injection of clarity, guidance, and motivation I needed to navigate this turbulence.

I also have to say this: Black women are building companies with vibrancy, resilience, joy, and intention.

And that is exactly what our economy needs right now.

Congratulations to all Cohort 7 graduates. We did that — and we will continue to do it.

April 2025 in photos.

No one knows, but there’s a princess kitchen in the back of my “office.”

There was something about birds this month.

Podcasting at UCLA. What a journey.

As a former kid athlete, I’m excited for this era of being a spectator of kid sports!

I found the photo of the cat that best represents me after searching for it for months 😹.

Many, many dumplings.

Wine festival & Smitty’s w/ besties.

A flashback to my LA marathon playlist (on a CD!)

I’m ready for some May flowers. You?