Success Bully

In Episode 24 of the Success Bully podcast, we get into it for #AugustAction. My phenomenal guest Rian Buckley CEO and co-founder of Fitcode, a fashion data company that enhances the denim shopping experience by focusing on fit, not size, does not mince her words when it comes to what she wants. While scaling her fashion tech startup and weighing investment options, Rian stated with such steady determination, "I wanted the power." And by power she meant… the power to choose. We talk about what inspired her to create a solution for a clear problem in the e-commerce space and her goal to remain a cash positive company.

On this week's episode of the Success Bully Podcast, we revisit bonus content from a series featuring two amazing Boss Ladies. Amy Nelson, Co-founder & CEO of The Riveter and Tina Nole Founder and Executive Producer of Larj Media.

As an entrepreneur, I'm often so focused on that journey that I forget to harken back to my corporate days. In honor of my corporate trailblazers, we're revisiting thoughts on active leadership mentorship and taking what you learned or what you want to unlearn when building out your own business. Wherever you are with your journey, don't forget to "Build, Lead, Mentor… Repeat."

In this week's Success Bully podcast, We're excited to kick off another series. #AugustAction! This month is all about putting action towards your Big Hairy Audacious Goal. I'm thrilled to have the founders of Davies + Dixon Makenzie Davies and Kelsey Dixon as guests. Davies+ Dixon is a bi-coastal digital Marketing and brand communication agency. Kelsey challenged us all to view perfection differently... "Perfection is Procrastination." Kelsey and Makenzie share their coming of age story, making the leap into entrepreneurship, the changing types of fear and most importantly the need to just go for it.

We're rounding out our #JulyJumpstart series with the phenomenal Sarah Blankinship CEO & Founder of RightSciences. In this episode, Sarah gives a heaping spoonful of truth, "Hope is not a Strategy." Hope is simply not enough for entrepreneurs, female founders, goal driven individuals, visionaries and badass alike. It's all about daily actions that ladder directly into your Big Hairy Audacious Goal.

We're more than halfway through the #JulyJumpstart series. I happen to listen to my own podcasts and I will say I keep coming back to this series for a shot in the arm. In Episode 19 of the Success Bully Podcast, Sarah Blankinship, CEO of Right Science and Co-Founder of CEO Wattage shares a personal mantra that is near and dear to her heart. She has "A Strong "No A$$hole Rule" when it comes to building an influential network or courting investors.

It has worked out brilliantly as she has successfully navigated pivots, bootstrapping, international expansion and disruptive seed round in a highly regulated industry.

The #JulyJumpstart continues with more mic drops from Sarah Blankinship, CEO of Right Science and Co-Founder of CEO Wattage. In Episode 18 of the Success Bully Podcast, we are challenged yet again. Sarah shares her experiences pitching investors, preparing and winning pitch competitions and her desire for each of us (small business owners, founders, and individuals alike) to choose your 300 words to define the problem, your solution, your total addressable market, how you are going to ship it, scale it and ultimately win.

It's never too late to "#StartTheThing." We're kicking off a series called the #JulyJumpstart. While most people would lean into the lazy days of summer, we here at Success Bully encourage you to start on new goals or recommit to your plans in progress. In Episode 17 #StartTheThing of the Success Bully Podcast, we have a special guest. In this series, the amazing Sarah Blankinship, Founder and CEO of RightSciences and Co-Founder of CEO Wattage shares her journey from technologist to unintentional entrepreneur.

Despite challenges and setbacks with raising VC funding, bootstrapping a business and navigating the tumultuous waters of a highly regulated and misunderstood industry, Sarah candidly shares her recipe to keep winning. In part 1, Sarah speaks directly to those would be entrepreneurs, scalers as well as accepts her own challenge to "#StartTheThing." We're pleased to report she has already completed her challenge.

In this week's Success Bully podcast, I give you some tips to pull you back from the edge of illogical despair. I'm going to share snippets of actual conversations with real people that I had in the past week. Their names and storylines have been changed to protect their identities (I have always wanted to say that). I'm fairly certain we have all been there… Spinning out of control based on a completely hypothetical scenario that has less than a 1% chance of it actually happening as you have described it. Grab your bullhorn and step in as your own best hostage negotiator with these simple steps to get back on track.

Special thanks to Larj Media (larjmedia.com) for giving me a fancy bullhorn.