A bit about your hostCatherine Neyman.

“I built Vmeste because the room I needed didn't exist yet — so I built the room, and invited every woman I admired into it.”

Catherine grew up in Russia at a time when ambition was something women were expected to soften. She didn't soften. She studied languages, fell in love with the way words travel between cultures, and at 28 she founded Bilingva — a translation agency that today serves global brands across three continents.

Building Bilingva taught her something she didn't expect: the technical part — the operations, the contracts, the invoicing — wasn't the hard part. The hard part was the loneliness. The lack of a room where women founders talked honestly about the messy middle of building a company.

So she started recording conversations. One a week, with a woman whose work she admired. She called the project Vmeste — Russian for together — and she put the conversations on YouTube because she didn't want them locked behind a paywall.

Today, Vmeste is dozens of conversations on YouTube and counting, a small but growing community, and a handful of in-person gatherings each year. It's not a course. It's not a mastermind. It's a community of women who lift each other up, on the record and off.