Girl Code: Unlocking the Secrets to Success, Sanity, and Happiness for the Female Entrepreneur

What is the one thing that you feel women business owners need on
their journey?
Confidence, a thick skin and an inner circle to exchange ideas, help with the
pain points and be a shoulder to cry on occasionally. I know I cheated by
stating three things, but who’s counting?
How do you handle fear?
Sometimes I simply have to bulldoze through the fear and think to myself,
“I can do this!” I’ve also learned to live with a greater amount of
uncertainly and constantly remind myself that I’m not going to die if this
fails. When struggling, I dissect the fear, analyze it, reframe it, and then its
sometimes just taking the leap and trusting your gut. The bottom line is to
live your fear and face it. Even the most successful people have fears and
insecurities but it’s how we each choose to handle it. Even though facing
fear is difficult, know that what you are doing is for something bigger,
better, greater.
What does your average day look like?
My schedule is rather insane, and the pace will make even the
adventuresome weary, but it is phenomenally exciting and exhilarating.
Sometimes I’m not sure how I do it all. This is a recap of this last Monday
and is not atypical – conference call at 6:30 am to France, catch up on email
and paperwork, call to distributor in New York, team conference call to
discuss priorities and objectives, meeting to go over marketing plan and
initiatives for the holidays, followed by budget discussion, then analyze
first-half sales results by state, interview, call with prospective investor
regarding equity options, strategy discussion with top distributor, more
calls, emails, reviewing documents and planning/forecasting, followed by
call with China at 11 pm, and finally in bed at 12:30 am. Recently I did
fourteen cities in twenty-one days, and even four states in a day. There is
fast food, crappy beds and no time for exercise, but...it is also amazing

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dinners, meeting terrific people, creating moments of happiness and having
my dream come to fruition.