Coming up with a business idea that takes off
Life Kit
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🗓️ 14 October 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:25.6 | Rachel Rogers graduated from law school during the 2008 recession. |
| 0:30.2 | Perfect timing. |
| 0:31.8 | And I mean, every day there was a news article about how there were too many lawyers, right? |
| 0:36.7 | Too many new law grads, |
| 0:37.9 | not enough jobs, which was the story of my life at the time. So I had to figure out what was I going to do. |
| 0:44.2 | Rachel decided to create a job for herself. She started her own practice. And because she was short on |
| 0:49.9 | experience, she asked a professor she knew to be her mentor. You know, I said basically, |
| 0:55.1 | could I call you if I run into trouble as I'm working with clients? And they said yes. And so that was |
| 0:59.6 | sort of like the partner associate relationship. I created it for myself by just asking someone |
| 1:04.4 | who was more experienced than me to just have my back. And then I started my practice and I ran that |
| 1:09.4 | for seven years. |
| 1:13.6 | Rachel eventually grew her practice to five employees. |
| 1:17.9 | And then later, she started her current company, which is called Hello Seven. |
| 1:21.2 | It's a consulting firm that teaches women how to build wealth. |
| 1:23.7 | And she has 22 people working for her now. |
| 1:26.8 | She's also the author of the book Future Millionaire. I think entrepreneurship is a great |
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