Ask Me Anything: Pivoting in Your 40s, Plastic Surgery, and Starting a Business With No Money
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My debut book Start With Yourself is available now. You may have seen the headlines or the clips on social media but this book is exactly what I intended it to be. A conversation that will make you think and it's a blueprint for anyone pursuing success without the toxic positivity.
Everywhere I go women ask me how I got to where I am but what they're really asking is how can they get there too. Start With Yourself is my answer and it will be your answer too.
Welcome back to Aspire. So today is a little bit different. I asked you to send me your questions and you sent me a lot of questions, hundreds and hundreds, like literally 400 questions in the span of 24 hours. So this whole episode is me answering you. No guests, no scripts, just the things that you actually wanted to ask. And of course, I cannot wait to answer them. A lot of you are in the same place right now. And honestly, it's that you're trying to start something and you're trying to start again. Some of you are wondering if you left it too late. And I want to answer all of these questions in the way that I would answer any friend, honestly and truthfully and directly.
Here we go. Let's just get straight into it. Oh, this is a really good question. I'm good at making money, but terrible at keeping it. What was the first thing you did to set yourself up financially after you started making real money? Well, I'm glad the question is after I started making real money because I was terrible as a young woman. I used to go out in the club. I would buy champagne when I did not have champagne money. I was absolutely terrible. And I did have this amazing boyfriend, amazing boyfriend. He wasn't that amazing, actually. I'm not going to give him that. I had a boyfriend who called me a squander bird, which was such a nice nickname. And it tells you everything you needed to know about me at that time in my life.
So I'm going to talk to you about what I learned later. For me, it all comes back to having a plan. I am a girl that loves a plan. And financial planning for me was always the way that I managed to hold on to what it was that I made. And so if we're talking about in a personal context, it's really about understanding like, what are your needs? Actually, what do you need to get through a month? What do you need to get through the year? What is your kind of rainy day money that you need? And having a really clear plan meant that I was able to absolutely map things out and keep something by for a rainy day. In a business context, it's about really understanding where the money comes from.
What are the advantages of starting a business with no money?
And so you will hear business people talk about margin all the time, but it's like, if you don't have good margins, you will never be good at making money. And so you'll never be able to take any money out of the business at the end of the day. So I think that an easy answer to this question is understand your money, plan for your money, and be really clear about where the money is coming from, because otherwise you'll never get good at keeping it. Was there anything you cut from the book that you wish you kept in? Honestly, no. The bit that I wanted to cut from the book was the bit about the train when I was embarrassingly angry. And my publisher won that argument. So it's all in there. Two questions are going to go together because it's the easiest way to answer them.
It's, I need the origin story. How did you and Jens actually meet? And what did your life look like back then before any of the brands? And then where were you at 28? So I have to rewind in my mind because that was quite a long time ago. So I actually met Jens when I was 24 years old. And it came about through a friend who had said to me, you know, she's at this company. There were great things happening at the company. And would I like to come over? And I was asked to come over as an employee. I had a job. I felt like I was grossly underpaid.
How can fear influence decision-making in your 40s?
And I decided that I should definitely, you know, think and look elsewhere. And on about my third interview for this particular company, Jens was the person that I had to get the final deal signed off.
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