387: From Full Time Entrepreneur to Full Time Employee with Danielle Liss [High Performing Women Series]
The BizChix Podcast: Female Entrepreneurs | Women Small Business | Biz Chix
Natalie Eckdahl
4.8 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This is an option that is rarely talked about in our entrepreneurial world, but it is not unusual. Sometimes an incredible opportunity comes around for an entrepreneur to work for someone else. An opportunity that just cannot be passed up. I am thrilled to have attorney Danielle Liss back on the podcast to share how she chose to move from full time entrepreneur to a Vice President level position with a fast growing startup.
Danielle left a thriving virtual law practice to a join The Faster Way to Fat Loss team as General Counsel and VP of Affiliate Programs.
Perhaps even more surprising is Danielle’s realization that this career change has actually improved her mental health and well-being.
Danielle is free-spoken and honest in our discussion and really opens up about entrepreneurship and why she decided to return to full-time employment. But that’s not all we talk about! We also dive into lessons learned throughout her career, why CEO’s need to invest in themselves before they can really invest in their businesses and what it’s like working for an eight-figure company that is experiencing hockey stick growth!
In this episode, we discuss:
- How Danielle grew her virtual legal business
- Why Danielle decided to go back to full-time employment
- The positive impact that full-time employment has had on Danielle’s mental health and wellbeing
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Books, Tools or Events Mentioned:
- You Are A Badass at Making Money by Jen Sincero
- Rising Strong by Brene Brown
- Radical Candor by Kim Scott
Other Links Mentioned:
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Work with Us:
- One Day Mastermind
- GrowthChix Accelerator Program
- ProfitChix Mastermind
- CEOCHIX Mastermind
- Strategy Session
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| 0:00.0 | My guest, Danielle Liss, has been a long-standing member of the Bizchicks community and a former client, |
| 0:11.8 | as well as a former guest on both this podcast and our sister podcast stacking your team. |
| 0:18.8 | I think you will especially enjoy the connection Danielle and I have, |
| 0:22.7 | and in fact, we have even roomed together at a live event we both attended. In this episode, |
| 0:28.8 | Danielle and I discuss how she went from being a full-time entrepreneur with a thriving virtual law practice to a full-time employee as general counsel of a fast-growing |
| 0:41.3 | eight-figure business and how this path is intertwined with improving her own mental health |
| 0:48.1 | and well-being. Danielle is incredibly vulnerable in this episode, and when I asked her if there |
| 0:53.8 | was anything she wasn't |
| 0:55.2 | comfortable airing, she immediately said no, let's air it all. This is an incredible conversation |
| 1:01.5 | that I cannot wait for you to hear. But before we dig in, if you are new here, I would love to welcome you. |
| 1:12.4 | I'm your host, Natalie Eckdal. |
| 1:14.6 | I'm a business strategist, a swimmer, out-of-the-box thinker, author, speaker, mama, MBA, |
| 1:21.1 | and CEO of BizChicks, Inc. |
| 1:23.8 | Our business is dedicated to helping women entrepreneurs grow and skill their businesses while |
| 1:29.3 | retaining more profit and creating more time for their VIPs or very important people. |
| 1:36.3 | My VIPs are my husband Mark and our three kids ages 5 to 17, so we're juggling learning to |
| 1:43.0 | read with filling out college applications here. |
| 1:46.5 | I have a very full life running a home, family, and this dream business where we coach and |
| 1:51.4 | mastermind with high-performing women entrepreneurs from diverse industries, locations, |
| 1:56.8 | cultures, and various ages. In case you're wondering, I don't have a perfect life and I don't |
| 2:02.5 | claim to be superwoman. It all works because I have a team and coffee. Yes, I'm a bit obsessed |
| 2:08.6 | with coffee. I have help at home and help in the business. And I always encourage women to get |
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