In this week's episode, Jillian Ryan takes us behind the scenes of Marie Mae's Business School, and shares her journey from working as a geopolitical risk consultant, to creating a side hustle, to cultivating well run and kind businesses in order to alleviate poverty around the world.

Jillian delves into what it takes to bootstrap a business, the process to reverse engineer a business to fund impactful work, and how a global pandemic impacted her business classes.

Key takeaways from this episode:
- Quality control, how to operate more efficiently, and how you go after additional markets are some of the biggest questions out there for business owners.
- It's possible to successfully reverse engineer a business to fund impactful work.
- If there's a will, there's a way: technology can be your best ally to pivot your business to new needs and still be able to make a change.
- Sometimes in life you just have to take action and figure it out along the way.
- Don't hold back from sharing the behind the scenes of your business and your impact: it will make a bigger difference than you think.
- Your audience needs to know what they're funding with their purchase.
- Before you take action, LISTEN carefully to what the problem is that you're trying to help solve.

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