Female Founders Breaking Boundaries

The majority of women I work with have some element of social impact engrained in their business whether they know it or not. It is so valuable to not only run your business in a profitable way but in a way that generates change. This week’s episode 75 of Female Founders Breaking Boundaries is about using your business to be the change!

Have you ever felt like you were WAY too busy, stressed out, burnt out, and overwhelmed, so you were advised to delegate some tasks to take things off your plate and free up some time? Except, maybe it didn't work. If getting out of the day-to-day in your business was as simple as hiring more people, then why are you still feeling overwhelmed and burned out? You are not alone! Sometimes, simply delegating tasks doesn’t work and instead shifts your workload from “doing” to “managing.”

I invite you to use the exercise that our own C-Suite clients use to take the first step in turning your team into a well-oiled, self-managed machine- and get you out of the delegation catch-22. Download the exercise here to get started!

In this episode of Female Founders Breaking Boundaries, my guest Stephanie Malon-Rufi shares how she supports businesses in creating positive change in the world and actionable steps you can take right now to have a quality, profitable business while also making an impact. Some of the things Stephanie and I cover in this episode are:

• What social impact means and how it might show up in your business. 
• Understanding the full picture of what a socially impactful business looks like both from a financial perspective and from the bigger, community-centered perspective. 
• What you can do as a business owner to become more socially responsible. 
• Balancing an impactful and quality business. 
• Reframing this idea that profit is a negative word. 

I challenge you to just sit down and think of all of the ways you are already making a positive impact in your business that you may have not thought about and use that to get inspired and figure out where you can take that to the next step. 

Thanks for listening! Be sure to tune in to all the episodes to receive tons of tools, advice, resources, support, and encouragement that resonates with the modern businesswoman and to hear even more about the points outlined above.

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As integrators, not only are we creating scorecards to keep your team accountable but we have our own scorecard to keep us on track to what we committed to doing for the company and track our own progress towards your goals. This week’s episode 74 of Female Founders Breaking Boundaries is about yes, even integrators are held accountable!

Have you ever felt like you were WAY too busy, stressed out, burnt out, and overwhelmed, so you were advised to delegate some tasks to take things off your plate and free up some time? Except, maybe it didn't work. If getting out of the day-to-day in your business was as simple as hiring more people, then why are you still feeling overwhelmed and burned out? You are not alone! Sometimes, simply delegating tasks doesn’t work and instead shifts your workload from “doing” to “managing.”

I invite you to use the exercise that our own C-Suite clients use to take the first step in turning your team into a well-oiled, self-managed machine- and get you out of the delegation catch-22. Download the exercise here to get started!

In this episode of Female Founders Breaking Boundaries, I’m sharing the importance of using a scorecard to lay out who is responsible for what and actionable steps you can take right now to use our scorecard template to keep everyone on your team accountable, even your integrators. Some of the things I cover in this episode are:

• Celebrating Alex Batdorf of Get Sh!t Done, a venture-backed serial entrepreneur who works as a strategy coach to help female entrepreneurs get sh*t done. 
• Knowing the profit goal, tracking progress towards this goal, and generating reports to show the financial status of the company. 
• Setting the right goals for the business to continue advancing towards the future vision and using milestones to break the goal up into smaller, easier tasks. 
• Knowing the outstanding to-do items from the team and overseeing that these tasks get completed.
• Creating scorecard metrics for the team themselves. 
• My deep thoughts on the Finnish Prime Minister, Sanna Marin, who has been scrutinized for “partying too much” and thus, lessening her professionalism by leading a normal life. 

As an integrator, if we’re keeping on track with our own scorecard, your team will be on track with theirs and the business will be growing, scaling, and achieving its goals. 

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Mistakes Not to Avoid with Kristen Carbone 

No More Team Meetings That Could Have Been Emails 

You may want the CEO title because of the status it holds, however, when you start to break down the roles and responsibilities of a CEO, you may uncover that you fit best as the visionary of your business. This week’s episode 73 of Female Founders Breaking Boundaries is part 2 of are you a visionary or a CEO?

Have you ever felt like you were WAY too busy, stressed out, burnt out, and overwhelmed, so you were advised to delegate some tasks to take things off your plate and free up some time? Except, maybe it didn't work. If getting out of the day-to-day in your business was as simple as hiring more people, then why are you still feeling overwhelmed and burned out? You are not alone! Sometimes, simply delegating tasks doesn’t work and instead shifts your workload from “doing” to “managing.”

I invite you to use the exercise that our own C-Suite clients use to take the first step in turning your team into a well-oiled, self-managed machine- and get you out of the delegation catch-22. Download the exercise here to get started!

In this episode of Female Founders Breaking Boundaries, I’m sharing the importance of understanding your role in your business and doing the tasks associated with it and actionable steps you can take right now to figure out where you may need to fill in the gaps of your business and hire the right person for the right role. Some of the things I cover in this episode are:

• Celebrating Karen Cahn of ifund women for bringing investors and women owned businesses together in a marketplace for coaching, support, and access to capital and connection. 
• Announcing that C-Suite Boutique has officially become an approved partner of ifund women and will be providing support to women owned businesses. 
• A few misconceptions about being a CEO and why you may not actually want that title. 
• The innate abilities a CEO must have in order to succeed. 
• What you need to know in order to hire the right integrator or another leadership role into your business. 
• My deep thoughts (& acknowledgments) to Patagonia for putting ownership of the company into the Earth’s hands by creating a trust to combat climate change. 

Before you hire, it is important to know how much help you need and in what areas you most need that help and as always, we are more than happy to sit down with you to figure that out!

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Ep 3: Do you Need an Integrator, COO, DOO, or OBM?

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When your business is something you built on your own from the ground up, it can be scary going through a divorce and having part of that potentially taken from you. This is a pattern I am seeing a lot from my clients coming to me for help through their divorce. This week’s episode 72 of Female Founders Breaking Boundaries is about protecting your business through a divorce!

Have you ever felt like you were WAY too busy, stressed out, burnt out, and overwhelmed, so you were advised to delegate some tasks to take things off your plate and free up some time? Except, maybe it didn't work. If getting out of the day-to-day in your business was as simple as hiring more people, then why are you still feeling overwhelmed and burned out? You are not alone! Sometimes, simply delegating tasks doesn’t work and instead shifts your workload from “doing” to “managing.”

I invite you to use the exercise that our own C-Suite clients use to take the first step in turning your team into a well-oiled, self-managed machine- and get you out of the delegation catch-22. Download the exercise here to get started!

In this episode of Female Founders Breaking Boundaries, my guest Hannah Smolinski shares the importance of looking at your business from a protective lens and actionable steps you can take right now to increase your financial literacy and protect yourself in all instances that may come up. Some of the things Hannah and I cover in this episode are:

• The ways in which a divorce might impact us and our business. 
• Some of the factors that go into a formal business evaluation and determining if it is necessary. 
• What options you have to protect your business from the negative impacts of divorce. 
• The importance of financial literacy and where to start in understanding your joining financial situation. 
• How to protect your own well-being during a divorce and advice for moving forward when the divorce is done.  

No matter what type of situation you are in, it is hugely important that you have a backup plan to protect yourself and your business for whatever might come up.

Thanks for listening! Be sure to tune in to all the episodes to receive tons of tools, advice, resources, support, and encouragement that resonates with the modern businesswoman and to hear even more about the points outlined above.

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FFBB: Why You Should Consider Working with a CFO with Hannah Smolinski

Whether you're leading a team of employees, freelancers, or even working with vendor partners understanding how the brain reacts to change will help you communicate better with everyone you interact with. This week’s episode 71 of Female Founders Breaking Boundaries is about what your employee needs and can’t tell you!

Have you ever felt like you were WAY too busy, stressed out, burnt out, and overwhelmed, so you were advised to delegate some tasks to take things off your plate and free up some time? Except, maybe it didn't work. If getting out of the day-to-day in your business was as simple as hiring more people, then why are you still feeling overwhelmed and burned out? You are not alone! Sometimes, simply delegating tasks doesn’t work and instead shifts your workload from “doing” to “managing.”

I invite you to use the exercise that our own C-Suite clients use to take the first step in turning your team into a well-oiled, self-managed machine- and get you out of the delegation catch-22. Download the exercise here to get started!

In this episode of Female Founders Breaking Boundaries, my guest Melina Palmer shares how every interaction we have falls in a line of change and actionable steps you can take right now to change the way you approach and react to change in order to better communicate with your team. Some of the things Melina and I cover in this episode are:

Help people to be more passionate about the work they are doing

• Quickly highlighting her first book: What Your Customer Wants and Can’t Tell You
• Breaking down the “it’s not about the cookie framework” as it applies to pricing and change management. 
• What is quiet quitting and how you can look at your team culture and retain employees. 
• How to approach tough conversations with your employees. 

When tackling these conversations always remember that change is all about you but it has nothing to do with you. 

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How to Have Difficult Conversations About Race by Kwame Christian 

Fierce Conversations by Susan Scott

As a leader myself, I take personal responsibility when a team member of mine is not performing and ask myself where I may have dropped the ball or what tools or resources have I not provided for this person to be successful. There comes a time, however, where I also have to consider if it isn’t me but rather it is time to stop investing in the employee. This week’s episode 70 of Female Founders Breaking Boundaries is about knowing when to let a team member go!

Have you ever felt like you were WAY too busy, stressed out, burnt out, and overwhelmed, so you were advised to delegate some tasks to take things off your plate and free up some time? Except, maybe it didn't work. If getting out of the day-to-day in your business was as simple as hiring more people, then why are you still feeling overwhelmed and burned out? You are not alone! Sometimes, simply delegating tasks doesn’t work and instead shifts your workload from “doing” to “managing.”

I invite you to use the exercise that our own C-Suite clients use to take the first step in turning your team into a well-oiled, self-managed machine- and get you out of the delegation catch-22. Download the exercise here to get started!

In this episode of Female Founders Breaking Boundaries, I’m sharing the importance of supporting your team members that are willing and able to continue contributing to the company. I also talk through how you can use the methods outlined in this episode to determine if it might be time to stop investing time, money, and resources into a team member. Some of the things I cover in this episode are:

• Celebrating Lauren Chamberlain, a decorated athlete and now commissioner of the women’s professional fastpitch association for appearing nude on the cover of ESPN’s body issue magazine to represent athletes and individuals of all body types. 
• How to use the conscious competence matrix and the “gets it, wants it, has capacity” model to identify if working with a team member on their pain points will resolve performance concerns. 
• Breaking down the “hire slow, fire fast” phrase and how this can help your business. 
• Letting your tools (systems and processes) speak for themselves when it comes to letting someone go.
• Comparing the EOS GWC tool and the conscious competence matrix.
• My thoughts on trusting your gut.

If it becomes clear to you that improvement is not going to happen, let the employee go immediately. Keeping them on is not only doing a disservice to your business but to that team member as well.  

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FFBB: Are You Operating in Your Zone of Genius?

FFBB: Accountability is Key

FFBB: Should You Hire to Hit Your Goals?

Stacking Your Team

When it comes to running your business, the mistakes you make and the lessons you learn are going to be the stepping stones for you to grow within yourself and help others do the same. This week’s episode 69 of Female Founders Breaking Boundaries is about mistakes not to avoid!

Have you ever felt like you were WAY too busy, stressed out, burnt out, and overwhelmed, so you were advised to delegate some tasks to take things off your plate and free up some time? Except, maybe it didn't work. If getting out of the day-to-day in your business was as simple as hiring more people, then why are you still feeling overwhelmed and burned out? You are not alone! Sometimes, simply delegating tasks doesn’t work and instead shifts your workload from “doing” to “managing.”

I invite you to use the exercise that our own C-Suite clients use to take the first step in turning your team into a well-oiled, self-managed machine- and get you out of the delegation catch-22. Download the exercise here to get started!

In this episode of Female Founders Breaking Boundaries, my guest Kristen Carbone is sharing the importance of collaboration over competition and actionable steps you can take right now to network with your community, ask for help, and get your great idea off the ground. Some of the things Kristen and I cover in this episode are:

• How Kristin’s company works to improve the quality of life for breast cancer patients even after the cancer is gone. 
• Understanding how your product can solve pain points in other communities and expanding on that. 
• The power of networking, even if you don’t think your network is in alignment with your goal- you may be surprised. 
• Recognize your weaknesses and be open to asking for help.
• Asking for and receiving criticism. 

When it comes to the communities we serve, it is never a competition but rather a collaborative effort to improve the quality of life for all that we serve. 

Thanks for listening! Be sure to tune in to all the episodes to receive tons of tools, advice, resources, support, and encouragement that resonates with the modern businesswoman and to hear even more about the points outlined above.

If you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot of the episode to share and tag me!  And don’t forget to follow, rate, and review the podcast and tell me your key takeaways!

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Female Founders Breaking Boundaries: The Perfect Pitch Strategy For Visionary Leaders with Angie Trueblood

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As a visionary, you may have a difficult time articulating the vision you have for your company. Because of this, it is so important to keep open communication with your 2nd in command so they can see the same picture of the vision as you and execute accordingly. This week’s episode 68 of Female Founders Breaking Boundaries is about staying in alignment with your vision!

Have you ever felt like you were WAY too busy, stressed out, burnt out, and overwhelmed, so you were advised to delegate some tasks to take things off your plate and free up some time? Except, maybe it didn't work. If getting out of the day-to-day in your business was as simple as hiring more people, then why are you still feeling overwhelmed and burned out? You are not alone! Sometimes, simply delegating tasks doesn’t work and instead shifts your workload from “doing” to “managing.”

I invite you to use the exercise that our own C-Suite clients use to take the first step in turning your team into a well-oiled, self-managed machine- and get you out of the delegation catch-22. Download the exercise here to get started!

In this episode of Female Founders Breaking Boundaries, I’m sharing the importance of developing and strengthening the relationship you have with your 2nd in command and actionable steps you can take right now to use the method I use with my clients to connect regularly and remain on the same page with one another. Some of the things I cover in this episode are:

• Celebrating Cara Belvin, founder of empowerHER, a non-profit organization that mentors and supports girls who have lost their mothers.  
• Examples of what a 2nd in command might look like in your business. 
• The benefits a monthly check-in call can have not only on the relationship you have with your integrator but the business as a whole. 
• The key areas you should be focusing on during your check-in calls. 
• What can happen in your business when you and your integrator are not on the same page with your vision. 
• My thoughts on asking yourself, ‘I CAN do this, but do I NEED to do this.’

You and your 2nd in command are a team and your monthly check-in call is going to be the tool that ensures you remain on a united front when it comes to staying in alignment with your vision. 

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FFBB: What is the Difference Between a Visionary and a CEO?

FFBB: Are You Sabotaging Your Team?

More than likely, the majority of you have had experience working remotely over the past couple of years. While there are many benefits to a remote work environment, there are challenges to overcome when it comes to creating a more cohesive and collaborative team in a remote setting. This week’s episode 67 of Female Founders Breaking Boundaries is about building team culture in a remote workplace!

Have you ever felt like you were WAY too busy, stressed out, burnt out, and overwhelmed, so you were advised to delegate some tasks to take things off your plate and free up some time? Except, maybe it didn't work. If getting out of the day-to-day in your business was as simple as hiring more people, then why are you still feeling overwhelmed and burned out? You are not alone! Sometimes, simply delegating tasks doesn’t work and instead shifts your workload from “doing” to “managing.”

I invite you to use the exercise that our own C-Suite clients use to take the first step in turning your team into a well-oiled, self-managed machine- and get you out of the delegation catch-22. Download the exercise here to get started!

In this episode of Female Founders Breaking Boundaries, I’m sharing what team & company culture really mean and actionable steps you can take right now to create a remote work environment that fosters effective communication and collaboration. Some of the things I cover in this episode are:

• Celebrating Sarah Cunningham, director of client services at AKQA who, as an amature boxing athlete herself, is speaking out about the importance of women having their own lives outside of their work identity. 
• Distinguishing between online businesses and remote teams. 
• The challenges to overcome when creating and working in a remote environment. 
• How a remote workplace impacts team culture.
• The tools that our client’s teams are using to foster a culture of remote employees who are working together cohesively. 
• The pros (that outweigh the cons) of having a remote team. 
• My deep thoughts on this competition over community mindset that is stunting our growth as entrepreneurs. 

Although remote work comes with its own unique challenges, in most instances, the positives far outweigh the negatives.

Thanks for listening! Be sure to tune in to all the episodes to receive tons of tools, advice, resources, support, and encouragement that resonates with the modern businesswoman and to hear even more about the points outlined above.

If you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot of the episode to share and tag me!  And don’t forget to follow, rate, and review the podcast and tell me your key takeaways!

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FFBB: What is the Difference Between a Visionary and a CEO?

FFBB: Creating a Profitable Team with Ashley Cox

FFBB: No More Team Meetings That Could Have Been Emails

The problem most companies have when they outsource work for website design and development is they get back a finished product they love but don’t know how to edit the site on their own. Hooked on Code changes the structure of the development process to make updates easy as the business changes and grows. This week’s episode 66 of Female Founders Breaking Boundaries is about hiring an agency!

Have you ever felt like you were WAY too busy, stressed out, burnt out, and overwhelmed, so you were advised to delegate some tasks to take things off your plate and free up some time? Except, maybe it didn't work. If getting out of the day-to-day in your business was as simple as hiring more people, then why are you still feeling overwhelmed and burned out? You are not alone! Sometimes, simply delegating tasks doesn’t work and instead shifts your workload from “doing” to “managing.”

I invite you to use the exercise that our own C-Suite clients use to take the first step in turning your team into a well-oiled, self-managed machine- and get you out of the delegation catch-22. Download the exercise here to get started!

In this episode of Female Founders Breaking Boundaries, my guest Torre Capistran shares the value in delivering a freelance experience with an agency skill level and actionable steps you can take right now to use the culture index assessment to understand your unique traits. Some of the things Torre and I cover in this episode are:

• The number one issue clients have when it comes to outsourcing for a custom website and how Torre’s company works to change that. 
• Client benefits from outsourcing web design and development to a niche agency that works within their unique skillset and values.
• Admittedly being bad at some things to be the best at others to book more aligned clients.  
• Questions to ask when you’re considering working with a web agency:
  • Can you run me through your process?
  • How much time would you estimate that is needed from me as the client to complete this project?
  • Can you show me what my website will be like to edit myself once it is launched?
  • In what instance would the cost of this project go beyond the initial bid and what is the likelihood of that?
  • Will you be building a custom theme or do you use a builder?
  • What do I get in exchange for my dollars and what do I get back in return if you don’t deliver on what you’re promising me?
• Breaking down my culture index results to better understand how I am operating within my natural traits and visualize the gaps in my traits that my team can fill. 

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