First To Arrive, Last to Leave

Some people ramp up for a long time getting ready to say goodbye to their corporate job. Others decide it's time to make the leap while eating lunch in their car. Ashley's story is one of a random moment where she decided enough was enough, and it was time to take control of her future and schedule.

Ashley shares her story of growing to multiple employees, and how her hiring tactics have changed from employee #1 to employee #5. She also discusses what she implemented in her business to make sure she was attracting the right team.

She also talks about how her mindset has changed while growing her business, and the most important lesson she learned about embracing her uniqueness.

To learn more and connect with Ashley, visit: https://www.heyprettypenny.com/?r_done=1

To learn more about Courtney's company, visit: https://purveyorsoffragrance.com/

To learn more about Erin's company, PodGrowth, visit: https://PodGrowth.co

When Morgan was working her corporate job, she repeatedly saw a need for large event companies to be able to track how their season tickets were being utilized.

Finally, she decided to take on the task herself and launched her first company. She quickly realized, though, that the solution wasn't just about helping companies sell their tickets, but helping them track their usage of them. Not coming from a technology background, Morgan had to quickly become a technology company.

Two Saas solutions later, Morgan continues to grow her company, Event Finders, and she joins us on this podcast to talk about her journey from employee to launching an event company shortly before 2020.

We discuss how she made the transition to a technology company, the obstacles she had to overcome when events went away for almost a year, and how she's developed new products from her customer's needs.

If you'd like to learn more about Morgan, visit: EventfindersUSA.com

Starting and building a business is hard enough, but as a woman, sometimes it can feel like the odds are stacked against you.

In this episode of First To Arrive, Last To Leave, Courtney and Erin are joined by Ieshea Hollins, of Direnzic. Ieshea is a Cybersecurity expert and started her company as a way to help people who may have the odds stacked against them because of cyber issues. Her main mission is to educate the world from large corporations to parents about the dangers of a forever-evolving industry.

Ieshea shares her journey of being a female in a male-driven industry in addition to some of the advice she was given about hiring males to act as the leader of her company in addition to never telling anyone she was the CEO.

She also talks about how she had to overcome contractor issues, how she had to do a complete revamp of her business to go back to the heart of her company, and the reason why she started it in the first place.

To learn more about Ieshea or to connect with her, visit: https://direnzic.tech/

To learn more about Courtney's company, visit: https://purveyorsoffragrance.com/

To learn more about Erin's company, PodGrowth, visit: https://PodGrowth.co

After a change in leadership inspired Dave to finally go out on his own, the path to entrepreneurship wasn't exactly a straight path. Dave shares his story of starting a company that may not have worked out, but lead him to his current companies, D1 Experts and Texas Economic Development Connection. 

Dave shares how he found his opportunity to help attract new companies to the great state of Texas, and how his company thrived during the pandemic. He also shares how once he tasted entrepreneurship, even though it was harder than he ever dreamed, there was no going back.

Dave also talks about how the Goldman Sachs 10,000 business changed his business forever. 

If you're interested in learning more about Dave's company, visit:

https://d1experts.com/

If you would like to attend's Dave upcoming event, visit:

https://weinspiretx.com/

To learn more about Courtney's company, visit: https://purveyorsoffragrance.com/

To learn more about Erin's company, PodGrowth, visit: https://PodGrowth.co

Deb Purvin never let being a woman hold her back from any of her ventures. After graduating from Harvard, and working in banking, she found herself in real estate. After building up her own portfolio properties in several states, she sold off everything to spend more time with her family while sailing around the world.

Eventually, her entrepreneurial spirit got the best of her, and she found herself buying an entire ski resort in the Northeast. After turning the business around by creating a co-op with other businesses within the town, Deb sold her company again.

She now focuses on helping other business owners understand their financials and grow their businesses by running her program, Business Owners MBA. 

She also shares her hilarious stories of being a working mother in a world that wasn't quite ready for the concept. 

To learn more about Deb, visit: https://businessownersmba.com/

To learn more about Courtney's company, visit: https://purveyorsoffragrance.com/

To learn more about Erin's company, PodGrowth, visit: https://PodGrowth.co

Welcome to First To Arrive, Last To Leave, the podcast where we talk to Goldman Sach's 10,000 Business Grads to learn more about what it takes to build businesses that become the heart of their community.

In this episode, we meet hosts Erin Gregor and Courtney Radloff and learn more about Courtney's business, Purveyors of Fragrance. Courtney talks about her journey from a Skin Therapist to making candles in her kitchen for fun, to closing huge contracts!

She also discusses how some words of encouragement and a huge order came from a thank you note.

We hope you'll join us for more episodes as we talk to more graduates and learn how they grew and scaled their businesses.

To learn more about Courtney's company, visit: https://purveyorsoffragrance.com/

To learn more about Erin's company, PodGrowth, visit: https://PodGrowth.co