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Spokane & Inland Northwest

For women who are sick of this sht and ready for something different. Fuk the good ol' boys club.

HIKE is building what nobody built for us. Money, resources, and a community that holds, whether things are going well or the whole world is on fire. Not a networking group. The foundation for community resilience.

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where it started

"I have lived around the world and, in most of my experience, when you arrive somewhere new, somebody has already saved you a seat. Walks you to the market. Tells you which office to go to and whose name to use when you get there.

Then I came back to the US, and that was missing. You are supposed to arrive, figure it out by yourself, and call that independence. HIKE is my refusal to accept that this is how it has to be."

Stephanie High, Founder

Focusing on women

90%

of woman reinvest their income into their family and community. For men, it's only 30 to 40 percent.

Women are the highest-leverage entry point for strengthening a region. When they have resources and relationships, everyone downstream of them benefits. That single piece of math is the logic behind everything HIKE does.

Source: World Bank; UNAC, 2012; World Economic Forum, 2014

73%

of Spokane County women ages 16+ are in the labor force.

ESD, 2025

1 in 5

employer firms in Spokane are women-owned.

U.S. Census, 2022

46.5%

of all Washington State businesses are women-owned.

SBA, 2024

What we are building

Somebody has to imagine it first.

The phone in your hand showed up in a novel before it showed up in a lab. Flight, screens, satellites, video calls. The world we live in got drawn by writers before engineers ever built it.

We have no picture of what a futuristic community looks like when it is built around care instead of extraction. Where people add to the pie instead of fighting over slices. That vision does not exist yet outside the imagination, so we are making it.

Visionary Lab

Quarterly · In-Person

Research-informed conversation on the systems women navigate. Built to produce tools, not just awareness. Inaugural session: November 2026.

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What makes Us Different

This is not a just another networking group.

There is enough here. Enough money, enough knowledge, enough opportunity. It is just siloed.

Disconnected. Never got introduced. HIKE is about changing where resources flow and who they flow between, not adding another event to your calendar.

That makes this community infrastructure, not charity. The goal is not more events. It is a community that can hold its own weight when things get hard.

Our Four Pillars

What it means to truly belong to a community.

Most communities ask you to prove you belong before they let you in. HIKE works the other way. There are four things every person needs to go from surviving to thriving, not just in business, but in the community around them.

Seen

You get found by people looking for exactly what you do.

Heard

You get a say in rooms that used to decide without you.

Connected

You get people who show up when it goes wrong.

Considered

You get in front of the people holding the money.

What we are building

An economy is just people who know each other.

Every dollar in this town has a path. It goes to someone, that someone spends it somewhere, and where it lands the second and third time is what decides which businesses are still here in five years.

Most of those paths got set by who happened to know who. Somebody's cousin. Somebody's golf buddy. That is not a market, that is a habit.

So we are building new paths on purpose. A room every month where women meet the women they will hire, refer, buy from, and call when something breaks. Small enough that you actually remember names.

That is not networking. That is a local economy getting rewired, one introduction at a time.

Happy Hour Tour

Monthly · In-Person

Rotating stops at women-owned venues across Spokane. No sales pitches. No scripted networking. Just women in real conversation.

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Real results

Real results from real women.

"I posted my Spark program in the directory — it's a significant investment, so I honestly wasn't expecting much. But someone enrolled after finding me through HIKE. It's working."

Brandy Ferrer, CEO & Founder, Pathfinder Strategies

"What stood out at HIKE Happy Hour was the energy. It wasn't sales-driven, and it didn't feel like the typical networking environment. The conversations were authentic, and I left with multiple leads that came naturally through connection."

Anna Marie, Grant Writer, SpokeAnna

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Weekly / Monthly · Free · Inland Northwest

Early access to events, funding updates, and what is actually happening in Spokane's women's economy. No noise. No gatekeeping. Just the information you need, when you need it.