After 200 conversations with women entrepreneurs building toward $1 million and beyond, I'm recording live from Santiago, Chile, where I'm leading a global field experience for Rice University MBA students. One pattern has emerged that nobody in this space talks about enough: the journey for women entrepreneurs never ends.
In this solo episode of the She Leads Podcast, I look back at what these conversations have taught me since I first launched the show as Sugarcoated. The women founders who crossed the million dollar mark did not stop there. They started thinking about impact, exits, and how to help other women in business get to where they are. And the women still on the journey have dealt with massive debt, career resets, and loss that would have taken most people out of the game entirely. Fewer than 4% of women-owned businesses ever get past a million dollars, under 2% of venture capital goes to women, and the Fortune 500 numbers are barely moving. I lay out what those statistics actually mean and what I believe needs to change.
I also get into something we do not say out loud enough: not every woman supports other women. I have seen it, and I talk about where that comes from and how to find the people who are genuinely in your corner.
This is what 200 conversations taught me about what it actually takes for women to build past a million dollars. Tune in and let me know who you want to hear from next.
Chapters:
🎧 00:57 Conversations with women entrepreneurs across 200 episodes
💡 02:13 Shifting the focus to women building to $1M and beyond
📊 07:05 What the statistics are pointing to for women in business
🚧 14:37 Reaching $1M and pushing past it
🛤️ 20:34 Backslides, twists and turns, and forks in the road to $1M
🔥 24:12 Where support between women breaks down
🌎 29:13 Bringing more women into these conversations
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• (00:57) - 🎧 Conversations with women entrepreneurs across 200 episodes
• (02:13) - 💡 Shifting the focus to women building to $1M and beyond
• (07:05) - 📊 What the statistics are pointing to for women in business
• (14:37) - 🚧 Reaching $1M and pushing past it
• (20:34) - 🛤️ Backslides, twists and turns, and forks in the road to $1M
• (24:12) - 🔥 Where support between women breaks down
• (29:13) - 🌎 Bringing more women into these conversations
