aden + anais co-founder Raegan Moya-Jones
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
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🗓️ 13 June 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Our latest guest, Raegan Moya-Jones, never thought of herself as an entrepreneur. She was a full-time corporate cog in her thirties, with a family to help support.
Sick of her micromanaging boss, she quietly started a company in the wee hours of the morning while her daughters were asleep, and once that side business, aden + anais, hit the $1 million mark in revenue, she quit to work on it full-time. The business now generates over $100 million a year in revenue. Out of it also came a book, What It Takes: How I Built a $100 Million Business Against the Odds, a tell-all and brutally honest tale that offers advice to entrepreneurs, especially women, about how to succeed despite all odds.
It doesn’t take an MBA to be your own boss. If Moya-Jones, an outspoken Aussie and college drop-out, could build a business from the ground up, anyone can.
Moya-Jones digs into topics most entrepreneurs shy away from, even the prickliest of things like mother guilt, butting heads with investors (or co-founders), and what to really do when you’re running out of money.
There’s no magic formula to build a business, which also means you don’t have to look or act a certain way to be successful. This story will show the hopeful entrepreneur or career changer that she doesn't have to know it all. This story is about staying true to who you are, trusting your gut, and harnessing your unique talent.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Jill Schlesinger. On this episode of the podcast, we're talking to an |
| 0:07.8 | entrepreneur who found herself out on her butt. It's a really crappy place to be in when you've got meaningful money |
| 0:16.8 | invested in a company that you have absolutely no say in. If I had known that there was a chance that I wasn't going to be |
| 0:25.9 | involved in the business, I would never have written that check back in. |
| 0:29.6 | Welcome to the Jill on Money Podcast. We are presented by Marcus by Goldman Sachs. |
| 0:36.0 | So this is the program where we do provide unconventional and entertaining insights on your money and your life. |
| 0:44.0 | Today we have a wild story. |
| 0:47.0 | Reagan Moia Jones built a 100 million dollar business and then got kicked out. |
| 0:56.0 | She's written a book about the experience. |
| 0:59.0 | It's called What It Takes. |
| 1:00.0 | Here's our interview with Reagan Moia Jones. |
| 1:04.0 | You're listening to Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger. |
| 1:08.0 | Reagan Moia Jones joins us. |
| 1:11.0 | Welcome to the program. |
| 1:12.0 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:13.0 | Okay, so we start every show with a very simple question. |
| 1:17.0 | Okay. Best financial decision you've made in your life. |
| 1:21.0 | Best financial decision. Probably around property. Oh yeah? Yeah. It's not |
| 1:26.4 | starting the company? Come on. Well that obviously that I thought that was just too obvious |
| 1:31.5 | yeah that that worked out really great for me despite the fact that it was never about the money. |
| 1:37.0 | It really wasn't. It really was not. |
| 1:39.0 | You've written a book, it's called What It Takes, How I Built A 100 Million Dollar Business Against the Odds. |
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