Resilient Entrepreneurs

Many entrepreneurs start their businesses with the idea of freedom and flexibility.

But somewhere along the way, they end up doing everything themselves.

Client work, emails, marketing, admin tasks, and strategy can quickly pile up, leaving many entrepreneurs stretched thin and wondering how long they can keep doing everything themselves. If this sounds familiar, you’re not the only one facing this challenge.

And according to remote work pioneer Lesley Pyle, the solution isn’t working harder, it’s learning when to bring the right support into your business.

In this episode, Founder of Hire My Mom, Lesley Pyle joins Laura and Vicki to talk about hiring, delegation, and how entrepreneurs can grow their businesses without burning out. After more than 30 years working from home and nearly two decades helping connect businesses with talented remote professionals, Lesley has seen firsthand how the right hire can transform both a business and a person’s career.

We talk about:

• The five signs your business may already be ready to hire help
• Why you don’t need perfect systems before bringing someone onto your team
• How delegating even 10 hours of work per week can free up valuable time
• Simple ways to create SOPs while training your first hire • Why small businesses can compete with big companies when attracting talent
• How tools like ChatGPT can help you write a clear job description quickly

Lesley also shares insights into the value of flexible work opportunities and why many women returning to the workforce bring powerful, transferable skills that businesses often overlook.

If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed in your business or wondering whether it’s time to stop doing everything yourself, this conversation offers practical guidance on how to start building support.


Connect with Lesley: www.HireMyMom.com
👉 Get the free hiring guide mentioned in the episode at the show notes: 
https://youtu.be/8Nh9b8zJdAg 

What you keep to yourself doesn’t grow your business.

Because here’s what most founders don’t realise: being “good at what you do” isn’t the same as being known for it.

And if people don’t clearly see what you stand for, they can’t choose you.

In this episode, Vicki Abraham and Laura Bell go into the real conversation behind personal branding. Not the polished version. The honest one. The one where visibility asks you to speak up before you feel fully ready.

✨ Inside This Conversation

→ Why having a personal brand isn’t optional (even if you’ve never worked on it)

→ How to share your ideas without feeling like you’re exposing everything

→ The gap between posting content and actually leading conversations

→ Why the right message naturally filters your audience

→ How consistency is built through repetition, not reinvention

→ What shifts when you start saying what you actually think

If people don’t hear your perspective, they create their own version of you. And that version may not reflect what you really stand for.

This episode is a starting point, but the real shift happens when you apply it.

Explore more inside the RE Women Founders Circle, where women are building brands with clarity, support, and direction.

👉 Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/SV4SYxS8SSY

👉 Learn more about the Circle: https://www.resilient-entrepreneurs.com/RE-women-pb

Have you ever looked successful on the outside… while quietly struggling with money behind the scenes?

In this powerful episode of the Resilient Entrepreneurs Podcast, we sit down with Hilary Hendershott, founder of Hendershott Wealth Management and host of Profit Boss Radio to unpack the truth about money shame, self-sabotage, and the hidden beliefs that keep smart women broke.

Before building a $2M-per-year business and multi-seven-figure net worth, Hilary was $550,000 in debt. She lived on $8 a day. A sheriff padlocked her condo while she was at work.

What changed everything wasn’t a budgeting app.

It was rewriting her money story.

This conversation goes beyond spreadsheets and into the psychology of wealth, the “money operating system” running in the background of your decisions, and how childhood messages about scarcity silently shape your business.

If you’re a woman building wealth while battling hidden money fears, this episode will hit home.

In This Episode, We Discuss:

-Why being good at math doesn’t equal financial health
-The “money operating system” shaping your spending and investing
-How childhood messages like “there’s never enough” show up in business -Why high-achieving women overspend
-The simple financial automation system that helped Hilary climb out of debt
-Why women avoid investing and what it costs long term
-How giving away $40 a month can shift your wealth identity
-Hilary’s 7 Steps to Wealth framework

If this episode resonated with you, share it with a woman who needs to hear it.

And remember: Wealth is not selfish. Your full cup is what allows you to give.

Watch the full episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/0tE9t2Ox1JA

What if the secret to showing up online wasn't hustle, but a system?

Because here's the truth: most women founders aren't stuck because they lack ideas or expertise. They're stuck because they're trying to build visibility without a framework to hold it all together.

In this episode, Vicki and Laura pull back the curtain on the 6S Personal Branding Framework - developed, tested, and refined right inside the RE: Women Founders Circle. This is the exact system they use with founders who are done playing small and ready to be genuinely, consistently seen. They walk through all six steps: Strategy, Storytelling, Socials, Speaking, Systems, and Scale - and this conversation is different: it's not just the marketing mechanics. It's the mindset shifts that make the whole thing sustainable.

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✨ What You'll Learn in This Episode

→ The 6 steps of the 6S Framework and exactly how each one builds on the last
→ Why strategy comes before content (and what happens when you skip it)
→ The mindset shift that transforms social media from a performance into a conversation
→ How to stay visible even during your busiest seasons — without burning out
→ Why long-form content builds trust and authority faster than you think
→ How scaling your brand brings you full circle — and why that's a beautiful thing

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💡 The Big Takeaway

Visibility isn't about doing more. It's about doing the right things, in the right order, with intention. Your perspective is already unique. Your story is already worth telling. You just need the system to share it - and that's exactly what this episode gives you.

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🎙️ Ready to Turn This Into Real Momentum?

Come join us inside the RE: Women Founders Circle - a community built for female founders who are shaping their profile and their identity.

Watch the full video on Youtube and get all the important assets!

There’s a moment in business that rarely gets talked about. It’s the moment when everything you planned seems to fall apart and you wonder if you should too.

In this episode, hosts Laura and Vicki speak with TEDx speaker and business mentor Katrena Friel about the $30,000 loss that could have ended her entrepreneurial journey but instead became the turning point for a 25-year career in speaking, coaching, and helping women build businesses faster.

Katrena shares how setbacks, self-doubt, and perfectionism can actually guide growth if you know how to listen. She explains why waiting for confidence or perfection before launching keeps so many entrepreneurs stuck and how taking action is the real catalyst for momentum.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why labeling yourself as “not confident” keeps you stuck
• How to interpret self-doubt as guidance instead of proof you should quit
• The hidden cost of over-preparing and under-launching
• What really happens behind the scenes of a TEDx talk
• Why your most powerful years may still be ahead of you

This conversation is for anyone who has hesitated, overthought, or doubted themselves and is ready to step into clarity, confidence, and speed in their business.

Watch the full episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/RQAnzk82jdc

What if the exhaustion you're feeling isn't a sign you're doing too much - but a sign you're missing something?

You've built the thing. You're passionate, committed, all in. And yet you're running on empty in a way that rest just doesn't fix. There's a reason for that and it's probably not what you think.

This week, Laura Bell and Vicki Abraham sit down with Dr. Nikia Smith, physician turned wellness entrepreneur, for a conversation that might just reframe everything you thought you knew about burnout and recovery.

In this episode:

📌The real reason rest isn't restoring you
📌The seven types of rest (and the ones you're almost certainly missing)
📌Why asking for help feels so hard - and what that's costing you
📌The small shifts that create sustainability without starting over

This episode is for women entrepreneurs and professionals who are done with survival mode and ready to build a life and business that support their energy, wellbeing, and long-term success.

🎧 Watch or listen to the full episode now and discover a healthier way to work, rest, and thrive.

Watch it on Youtube! https://youtu.be/EDV7STmpfs8

Have you ever stopped yourself from posting online because you wondered what people might think?

It’s something we see often with entrepreneurs we work with, especially women building businesses and personal brands. You may have the experience, the knowledge, and the strategy, yet still hesitate when it comes to sharing your voice publicly.

In this episode, Vicki and Laura talk about the quiet pressure many business owners feel when showing up on social media. The pressure to say the right thing or sound polished can easily turn visibility into a performance.

This conversation explores a different way of looking at it. Instead of focusing on perfection, it’s about sharing your perspective and speaking to the people who genuinely need to hear from you.

We also talk about a simple mindset shift that makes posting feel much easier: imagine you’re speaking to one person, not an entire audience.

If social media has ever felt intimidating or unnatural, this episode offers a refreshing reminder that your voice, and your point of view is exactly what helps the right people find you.

Sometimes the biggest obstacles in business aren't your competitors, algorithms, or even cash flow - it’s the patterns you've been carrying since childhood.

You've built your business, shown up consistently, and still there are moments when self-doubt, perfectionism, or the urge to control everything creeps in. If that sounds familiar, this one's for you.

Laura Bell and Vicki Abraham sit down with Human Conditioning and Emotional Awareness Expert Jacqlin Richards - author of F*ck Up Your Kids with Grace and Humour - to talk about how your early life experiences are shaping the way you lead, make decisions, and relate to the people around you.

This starts as a conversation about parenting and quickly becomes about you - and each of us. The childhood programming you grew up with, how you were guided, labelled, or protected, shows up in your business as overthinking, people-pleasing clients, avoiding risks, imposter syndrome, and struggling to back yourself when things get uncertain.

With nearly two decades of research and personal work in human behaviour, Jacqlin, Laura and Vicki explain why building a business is about so much more than strategy. It's about learning to parent yourself, embrace your humanness, and make decisions from a place of curiosity rather than fear.

If you want to stop exhausting yourself by forcing confidence, and instead build something that actually feels like you, this is a great place to start.

Watch now → https://youtu.be/TMbWqni2-io 

👉 Learn more about Jacqlin Richards’ work and her book F*ck Up Your Kids with Grace and Humour here: https://www.wayofthewolfpack.com/home 

We've noticed something interesting about the entrepreneurs we work with, especially us women. Your marketing can look absolutely polished on the outside while you’re still feeling uncomfortable on the inside.

In this episode, Vicki and Laura talk about why so many skilled, experienced business owners still struggle to show up confidently in their marketing. The pressure to sound perfect creates distance instead of connection (which is the opposite of what we're trying to achieve).

This is a conversation about shifting away from selling and toward storytelling. Using real experiences and honest moments to build trust with the right people. Because when marketing feels human, it becomes easier, more natural, and actually attracts clients.

We talk about why traditional marketing often feels forced and out of alignment. How perfectionism keeps you from being seen and heard. Why vulnerability creates trust faster than polished messaging ever could. We share a simple storytelling framework that removes the pressure to perform, and we discuss why a small, engaged audience can lead to genuine business growth.

If you've been doing all the right marketing steps but feel like a fake, this episode might help you reconnect with your message and share your story with more clarity and confidence.

It's a grounding conversation about marketing your business in a way that actually feels true to you. Watch until the end.

Why confident entrepreneurs still hesitate when they say their price

You know your worth. You've got the credentials, the experience, the client results. And yet when it comes time to say your rate, there's that pause. That moment where your voice almost wobbles.

If this sounds familiar, you're not alone. And according to financial clarity expert Linda Hunt, it's not actually a confidence problem.

In this episode, Linda (Founder of SumSolutions) shares what she discovered after years of being overworked, underpaid, and wondering why the numbers never seemed to match the effort. She walks us through the framework that helped her move from burnout to alignment, and why pricing has less to do with spreadsheets and more to do with feeling safe.

We talk about:

📌Why undercharging often has nothing to do with numbers (it's a nervous system issue)

📌How your body influences the way you speak about money—and what to do about it

📌Why time is your most valuable asset and how most of us are miscalculating it

📌The shift from trading hours to pricing for transformation

📌What it actually looks like to build a business that honours rest, not just revenue

Linda's got a book coming out called The Money Conversation, and this episode gives you a preview of the mindset shifts that make sustainable pricing possible.

This one's for you if you're ready to stop hustling harder just to stay afloat and start building something that actually supports your life.

Listen or watch now → https://youtu.be/lZ5JSdOCvgQ

Connect with Linda: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindaahunt/

👉 Learn more about Linda’s work and her Perfect Pricing Formula at SumSolutions.com