The Inside Story of Building Businesses

Supercharge Your Solopreneur Journey: From Clarity to Partnerships


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✨Esther Celosse, career advancement expert and leadership coach, spills the tea on the power of partnerships in entrepreneurship! Having founded two companies, Focus2Progress and Return2Career, Esther shares her entrepreneurial path as a solopreneur and what it is like to build a business with her partner. 


✨We dive into overcoming solopreneur challenges, building with complementary skills, and why your WHY matters more than short-term gains.


Esther also emphasize the importance of

  • Energy, resilience, and love when building a business 

  • Spending sufficient amount of time and energy on sales 

  • Defining how success looks like from the beginning, and 

  • Being clear when to say ‘yes’ and when to say ‘no’


  • Chapters

    00:00 Introduction and Background

    04:57 Challenges of Working with Your Partner

    09:09 Transitioning from Full-Time Job to Entrepreneurship

    15:16 Deciding What to Focus on

    18:00 Overcoming Setbacks and Challenges in Business

    23:10 Defining How Success Looks Like

    27:14 Focusing on the Sales and Delivery in Entrepreneurship 

    33:48 Working with Partnerships and Collaborations

    37:02 Choosing the Right Business Partners

    39:05 Takeaways and Conclusion


    Listen to Esther's TedTalk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKh_epJfbkw&t=3s

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