Julia Pimsleur is the author of the book Million Dollar Women: The Essential Guide for Female Entrepreneurs Who Want to Go Big; the founder of kids language company, Little Pim; and a speaker recognized for her mission of helping one million women reach one million in revenues by 2020.

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Your Big Idea: Successful Entrepreneurs have One Big Idea. Follow JLD’s FREE training & you’ll discover Your Big Idea in less than an hour!
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Handy– Julia’s Small Business Resource
Million Dollar Women– Julia’s book
Julia’s 10 Mantras – The 10 Mantra’s everyone should adhere to
Little Pim – Julia’s children’s language company
The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer– Julia’s Best Business Book

3 Key Points:

Stay. Standing.
You can be low on capital for a long time, but you can only run out of it once.
This isn’t a dress rehearsal—this is real life, and you only get one shot. Start trying to win the game TODAY.

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Time Stamped Show Notes

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[00:48] – John introduces Julia to the show
[01:20] – Julia’s story
[02:35] – Shoot for the moon—even if you miss, you’ll land amongst the stars
[02:51] – How Julia generates revenue
[06:00] – Worst Entrepreneur Moment
[06:05] – Getting screwed in a consignment deal
[08:48] – We get caught up in the business—but we can’t let that impair our judgement
[09:22] – Just stay standing
[09:59] – Focus on extending your runway
[10:07] – Entrepreneur AH-HA Moment
[10:56] – Raising venture capital with NO background
[11:56] – You can be LOW on cash forever, but you can only run out once
[12:46] – How much money you have has nothing to do with what you can be
[14:06] – If you want to be X, you need to start doing X
[15:02] – Julia’s 10 Mantras
[15:49] – Julia’s BIGGEST strength AND weakness?—optimism
[17:18] – This isn’t a dress rehearsal—THIS IS YOUR LIFE
[21:07] – Fired-Up about going to Australia
[22:09] – The Lightning Round
- What was holding you back as an entrepreneur?—Getting fired
- What is the best advice you have ever received?—Make it easy for people to work with you
- What is a personal habit that contributes to your success?—Get up early
- Share an internet resource, like Evernote, with Fire Nation—Handy
- One book to have on your bookshelf?—The Art of Asking

[26:55] – Be like water around rocks

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