Your Potential Is Bigger Than Your Paycheck with Special Guests Beth Mazza & Victoria Sivrais
On Climbing the Corporate Ladder Without Breaking a Heel, Beth and Victoria explain why corporate stability is the most expensive thing a woman can believe in.
Most women who stay in corporate stay for one reason. The money arrives every two weeks whether or not anything closed. That is the entire argument, and this episode takes it apart.
Dr. Cynthia Bentzen-Mercer spent thirty years in executive leadership, most of it as EVP and Chief Administrative Officer of an $8 billion health system. She now advises CEOs on how they value the people who work for them. We loved talking to her about the one reason women stay in corporate – stability. In our heads, we need the paycheck to pay for our family. Thise episode takes that argument apart.
Mothers still earn 63 cents for every dollar fathers make. Corporate stability is a fallacy: 18 percent annual turnover, people doing everything right and getting cut anyway, a pay gap that went from 84.0 cents in 2022 to 82.7 in 2023. Dr. Cynthia let us pitch the alternative. Entrepreneur Like a MOTHER is the playbook for building something you own, so the number you earn is not someone else’s decision.
How much of your potential is still waiting to be explored? As part of our July series on potential, Dr. Cynthia sits down with Beth Mazza and Victoria Sivrais, co-founders of Female Mavericks, to challenge the beliefs that keep so many women from building the businesses and lives they’re capable of creating. After more than 20 years of friendship, mentorship, entrepreneurship, and raising nine children between them, Beth and Victoria have learned that realizing your potential isn’t about taking reckless risks. It’s about making informed, intentional decisions rooted in strategy instead of fear.
Together, they discuss why so many women underestimate what’s possible, how to calculate your “Freedom Number” before leaving corporate America, and the simple “1% Rule” that can help determine whether your business idea has seven figure potential.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
Why women often underestimate their entrepreneurial potential.
How to calculate your personal Freedom Number.
The 1% Rule and how it can validate a business idea.
The importance of understanding your market before you launch.
Why every entrepreneur needs a trusted “kitchen cabinet” of advisors.
One practical action you can take today to move closer to your potential.
If you’ve ever wondered whether you’re capable of building something bigger, this conversation offers both the encouragement and the practical framework to help you stop drifting and start moving toward the future you’re meant to create.
