Women Supporting Women in Business with Co-Founders of Forward Female

MYOB Podcast

MYOB: S1, E4: Mind Your Own Business Podcast, Episode 4 with Forward Female co-founders Lauren Cheek and Priscilla Presley and Career Strategy Expert and Host Elizabeth Upton.

Description:

Join us as we speak with the co-founders of a global community and development platform that helps women grow and start their businesses! Learn about how they pivoted into becoming an international company during the pandemic. We discuss the realities of starting your own company, how the company started over a good glass of rosé, and the power of fully committing. We discuss the common motivating factor behind success, what it’s like to put yourself out in the world, and why trust and reputation are so important. In this episode you’ll discover ways to show your boss that you are really motivated and geek out with us on a good calendar system. As a bonus the ladies lead us through the four-step Forward Female Framework. Welcome to the show!

Highlights:

• Recognizing the similarities in each other (globally)
• Productivity and mapping out your tasks by utilizing your calendar
• The common motivating factor behind success
• Career tips and ways to be noticed by your boss; why it’s important to go the extra mile
• The importance of trust and your reputation and how you put yourself out into the world
• Why details matter and importance of being a self starter
• The power of fully committing and deciding to invest in yourself
• Realizing that you are worth it
• Bonus: Go though the Four-Step Forward Female Framework

Show Notes: S1, E4:

00:00 - Intro

03:46 - Mission and vision of Forward Female and how they’ve had to pivot during the pandemic.

07:06 - 2020 was Forward Female’s first year in business. How the pandemic helped them to become an international company and was a “blessing in disguise”.

08:04 - Recognizing the similarities in each other (globally).

08:25 - The importance of having a mentor and how having one pushes you up the hill.

12:24 - Airport Analogy : You go to the airport and you know you want to go somewhere,

If you have no idea where you want to go, you might end up in palm springs in july with no idea where you are going. If you buy the ticket, dedicate yourself to going there, you can figure out the how along the way.

14:07 - The importance of putting on your own oxygen mask first.

15:12 - Forward Female community networking and workshops.

17:00 - Deciding to invest in yourself and realizing that you are worth it.

19:15 - Transitioning to a hybrid model.

22:46 - How Prisicilla got started in the entertainment industry. She asked herself “what is it that I really want?”. The creation of Forward Female.

27:12 - Why Priscilla quit her job at EXTRA.

27:27 - How FF was created as a response to the competition they witnessed in the entertainment industry between women (and how catty were to each other).

27:55 - Deciding to create her dream job.

28:20 - The power of fully committing.

30:20 - Lauren transitioning/folding The Minimalist Movement into Forward Female.

32:50 - You are not meant to do it on your own.

34:16 - What are the biggest challenges as a new business owner?

35:30 - At first you are thinking about the colors, design, fonts, being able to do yoga in the middle of the day. But if you can take a step back and be willing to dive in, do the work and deal with all the BS, understanding your business from the inside out is going to get you through it.

36:12 - Understand that your business will change and evolve “12 thousand times”.

What you build when you first start out is not necessarily going to be what it turns into.

36:35 - There are daily challenges but it’s important to go back to “your why” and why you are doing it.

40:35 The Four-Step Forward Female Framework - An exercise to support you in the decision making process:

• Step 1: Why are you doing it?
• Step 2: What is it actually?
• Step 3: The how. How do we make “the what” happen?
• Step 4: The when. What is the timeline of execution?

41:50 - The importance of “by whens” and why you need to set deadlines.

43:50 - Geeking out on a good calendar.

47:40 - You have to have that diligence and impeccability when it comes to your time and what you are doing with it.

49:00 - Do you have that self - motivating factor?

50:50 - Career advice: ways to show your boss that you are really motivated. People notice when you put in the extra work, show up on-time, follow up with them, when you are diligent and hungry and you want it.

57:23 - “The skills can be taught but the mindset and the heart that goes into what you are doing comes from within”.

57:50 - Your reputation and going the extra mile and why it’s important to build trust.

58:20 - Vibrations!

59:45 - Getting in contact with Priscilla and Lauren at Forward Female

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Quotes:

“You are not meant to do it on your own.” - Priscilla Presley

“Understand that your business will change and evolve 12 thousand times.”- Priscilla Presley

“Being an entrepreneur is not all sunshine and rainbows and sometimes you go into it thinking that it is.” - Lauren Cheek

“You have to have that diligence and impeccability when it comes to your time and what you are doing with it.” - Elizabeth Upton

“The skills can be taught but the mindset and the heart that goes into what you are doing comes from within.”- Elizabeth Upton

“People notice when you pay attention to details and when you go that extra mile.” - Lauren

“If you’re so focused on the end destination then you’re missing the whole point of life.” - Lauren

“A little rosé is all you need” - Lauren Cheek

Contact Info/Resources:

Guests: Co-founders Lauren Cheek & Priscilla Presley

forwardfemale.com

**FREE 30-Day Free Trial for MYOB listeners (and $19/mo there-after)

https://portal.forwardfemale.com/landing/plans/61053

You can also schedule a discovery call on the website or DM on social @forwardfemale

Host: Elizabeth Upton (Instagram, Facebook, & LinkedIn)

www.elizabethupton.com

@myobpodcast

@elizabethuptoncoaching

https://linktr.ee/MYOBsocial

Email us to be a guest on the show: [e-mail]

Discuss your business strategy 1:1 with Elizabeth: https://calendly.com/elizabethupton/strategy-call

PA/Admin Support: Yasmin Senouci (IG)

@yasminsenouci

Original music by Adrian Vaca (Instagram & Facebook)

www.adrianvacamusic.com

@adrianvaca

Duration : 62.32