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Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan

#95: Brit Morin, Founder of Brit + Co. Asks You to Be Messy, Get Creative, & Take the Leap

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan

Heather Monahan

Self-improvement, Education, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Brit Morin’s goal has always been to help women find their passion. Brit grew up on creativity and technology and after working at Apple and Google in their early years, she combined her two loves to start her own company. After some messiness, a lot of data, and just a bit of faking it, Brit + Co was born. Now she has been able to build it into $75M+ in revenue, nearly 400 million users on the website, 1.2 billion pageviews, and so much more. Join us, as Brit shares her story, the lessons she's learned, and how she is turning around and teaching other women to follow in her footsteps.  About the Guest: Brit Morin is the founder & CEO of Brit + Co, a lifestyle and online learning company providing classes, content, product and experiences geared towards young women with a creative spirit and a do-it-herself attitude. She has also been awarded various accolades, including Ad Age’s 40 Under 40, Adweek’s Creative 100, Forbes 30 Under 30, Fortune’s Most Promising Entrepreneurs, Refinery29’s 30 Under 30, one of Parents magazine’s Most Influential Millennial Moms, and one of ELLE magazine’s American Women at 30. Morin is the author of the bestselling book, Homemakers: A Domestic Handbook for the Digital Generation, which debuted in early 2015. She is a regular lifestyle expert on Good Morning America, the Today Show, Live with Kelly & Ryan, Rachael Ray and more. Finding Brit Morin: Visit Brit + Co: https://www.brit.co/ Follow Brit + Co on Twitter, Instagram, & Facebook: @britandco Sign up for Selfmade: https://tryselfmade.com/  Read Homemakers: A Domestic Handbook for the Digital Generation Listen to her podcast: Teach Me Something New Follow Brit on Twitter, Instagram, & Facebook: @brit To inquire about my coaching program opportunity visit https://mentorship.heathermonahan.com/  Review this podcast on Apple Podcast using this LINK and when you DM me the screen shot, I buy you my $299 video course as a thank you!  My book Confidence Creator is available now! get it right HERE If you are looking for more tips you can download my free E-book at my website and thank you! https://heathermonahan.com  *If you'd like to ask a question and be featured during the wrap up segment of Creating Confidence, contact Heather Monahan directly through her website and don’t forget to subscribe to the mailing list so you don’t skip a beat to all things Confidence Creating!   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0

Come on this journey with me each week when you join me. We are going to chase down our goals

0:05.8

Overcome adversity and set you up for a better tomorrow

0:12.2

Hi and welcome back. I'm ready for my close up. Hi and welcome back.

0:14.0

I'm so excited you're back here with me yet again.

0:17.0

So thanks for joining me.

0:19.0

Okay, I need to give you some updates, some crazy things.

0:22.0

Someone brought this up to me on LinkedIn

0:25.4

in a post randomly asking me what happened

0:28.6

with Harper Collins leadership and my book.

0:30.9

All right, so let me just,

0:32.0

I'm gonna give you the quick overview.

0:34.5

I pitched myself to my agent 14 times, she said no.

0:39.7

On the 15th time, she said yes to my book proposal we sent the proposal out I think to maybe it was 10 or 15 different publishing houses the first five came back no I was freaking out and then we got a bunch of yeses we decided on Harper

0:53.5

Collins leadership and I'm glad we did I have a great relationship with my

0:57.7

point person at Harper she's awesome totally gets me gets the, and is pushing me to be better, which I love.

1:07.3

Okay, you gotta be around people who are pushing you to do the work and be better,

1:11.9

even though it can be frustrating sometimes.

1:13.6

So let me explain what I mean by that.

1:16.2

So I had, I believe it was a 65,000 word count obligation

1:21.7

contract with Harper that I had to deliver a 65,000 word

1:27.0

manuscript on December 1st. Yeah, yeah, it was December 1st. Okay so I ended up writing 65,000 plus 8,000 words which I thought was nice of me. I thought that oh my

1:39.8

gosh they get this for free they didn't pay for that you know but whatever

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