"Yellowstone" TV show offers some management tactics

How Del Villar built popular elote pop-up from scratch | 4 leadership strategies that can make you a better coach | "Yellowstone" TV show offers some management tactics Created for {EMAIL} | [Web Version]( August 9, 2023 [WFF Leadership SmartBrief]( Advancing and Empowering Women Leaders [SIGN UP]( ⋅ [SHARE]( [] A Leader's Edge [] [How Del Villar built popular elote pop-up from scratch]( Aidee Del Villar had nothing last year when she opened Me Enloteces, a pop-up eatery in Dallas offering elote in various preparations, and used social media and the color pink to help grow the business into a popular sensation within 10 months. "The importance for the business to be pink is for the empowerment of women of all ages -- moms, little girls and everyone -- just knowing that the power of women is that we can do anything, that everything is possible if we just put our mind to it," Del Villar says. 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