On The Mama Making Podcast, Learn why Victoria and Beth Believe You Shouldn’t Wait to Start Your Business
Beth and Victoria take apart the argument every founder mom has heard with podcaster, Jessica Lamb. You know the tropes – wait until the kids are older, the timing is better, we have more in the savings account.
But find out why we didn’t wait, instead we built two services businesses while raising nine children between us and sold both to major consulting firms. The conversation covers why corporate America is less safe than it looks, how to run your freedom number before you leap, and what a kitchen cabinet of women who won’t let you fail can do for your business.
What if you didn’t have to choose between being a great mom and building a great business? Beth Mazza and Victoria Sivrais — co-founders of Female Mavericks and authors of Entrepreneur Like a MOTHER — are living proof that you don’t. Together they’ve built and sold two services businesses, raised nine children across their combined entrepreneurial journeys, and built a 20,000-strong community of mompreneurs. In this episode they talk about the moment each of them took the leap, the power of a kitchen cabinet, why corporate America is not as safe as you think, and the practical roadmap in their book for getting from idea to scale without apologizing for being a mom while you do it. This one is for every woman who has been sitting on the sidelines waiting for permission to go.
MAIN TOPICS COVERED
- How Beth and Victoria met, built two services firms together, and sold both to large consulting firms
- Nine children between them — all born during their entrepreneurial years
- The green flags that told them they were on the right path
- Why corporate America is not as safe as we think — and why starting earlier has long-term benefits
- Building a business when your kids are young vs. when they’re teenagers — and what each season actually requires
- The power of a kitchen cabinet: cheerleaders, executors, and the people who won’t let you spiral
- Overcoming outside critics — including the people closest to you who think it’s too risky
- The freedom number: how to calculate if you can actually make the leap
- Why they wrote Entrepreneur Like a MOTHER — and what made existing books fall short for moms
- Being mom forward in the boardroom — and refusing to hide it
- Female Mavericks: the community, the book, the course, and the – – mission to get 10,000 women to seven-figure businesses
- Entrepreneur Like a MOTHER — available for pre-order September 22nd
