New financial opportunities for women owned businesses to continue to grow [Video]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – Equity, fairness and equal opportunity. These are all goals for a new program trying to put women on the road to success as they start a small business.

Getting your foot in the door to become a small business owner could become a little easier for women around Kansas City and beyond. One local financial firm looks to close the gender gap on investments available to female entrepreneurs by launching a new program any woman who owns a business can become part of.

Casey and her sister Sloan Simmons of Kansas City set out to open their own store 28 years ago.

“It was impossible,” Casey recalled when it came to finding a bank that would loan them money.

No matter where they went, nobody would offer them a loan or investments to grow their retail shop ‘A Store Named Stuff’.

“We were always asked what do your husbands do for a living? …