Episode 336: From $30k Per Year To Multi-Millionaire, Having Faith Over Fear & Building Generational Wealth Through Entrepreneurship With Mignon Francois
Journey To Launch
Jamila Souffrant
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Mignon Francois, entrepreneur, best-selling author and renowned baker, joins the Journey To Launch podcast to discuss going from drowning in debt to building a multimillion dollar cupcake empire.
We chat about marketable capabilities that stay at home moms bring to entrepreneurship, how vulnerability and transparency builds profitable businesses, and the power of looking to the past to inform your future.
In this episode you'll learn more about:
- Going from selling a few cupcakes to a neighbor to a multi-million dollar business
- How The Great Depression inspired Mignon to build her cupcake empire
- The importance compounding skill sets, failures and redirections have in determining future success and happiness
- Owning the things you're part of, keeping the faith during challenging times, leaning into your community, and more
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| 0:00.0 | I turned that five into sixty that night and I took that sixty. I put the five back that I started with and turned that fifty five into six hundred by the end of the week and it's been that same money that I've been |
| 0:15.0 | flipping for the last seventeen years to the tune of over five million cupcakes sold. When you show up to the life that you want to create, it will manifest itself and that's what I saw happen. |
| 0:29.0 | Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast with your host, Jamila Sufron, as a money expert who rocks her top. She helps brave juniors like you get out of debt, save, invest and build real well. |
| 0:45.0 | Join her on the Journey to Launch to Financial Freedom in five on four, three, two, one. |
| 0:57.0 | Financial independence is not having to work for money anymore, but financial freedom is about having options. You can have financial freedom while on the Journey to Financial Independence and my brand new book, your Journey to Financial Freedom, a step-by-step guide to achieving wealth and happiness will show you exactly how to achieve that. |
| 1:17.0 | Your Journey to Financial Freedom comes out December 5th, but you can pre-order today and get my brand new course, Firestarter, the financial independence blueprint for free to get started on how to chart your course to more money, less debt and more freedom today. |
| 1:34.0 | Discover how to define FI and financial freedom for yourself, work on the FI component and the FI formula, calculate your FI number and more with this brand new course. |
| 1:45.0 | The program includes four video lessons taught by me, a companion workbook to help you implement the lessons and more. |
| 1:52.0 | You can get the course for free immediately when you pre-order one hard copy of my book, Your Journey to Financial Freedom today. |
| 2:00.0 | Go to journey to launch.com slash book to order the book and get your free course. |
| 2:08.0 | Hey, journeyers, I have a special treat and offer for you. I'm working on my first book, Your Journey to Financial Freedom, a step-by-step guide to achieving wealth and happiness. |
| 2:18.0 | It will be out officially December 5th and I'm working to get it in the hands of as many people, journeyers as possible. |
| 2:27.0 | I know that this book has the ability to change lives and so the way that I'm thinking about doing that is by tapping into my journey or community. |
| 2:35.0 | That's you and here's what the deal is. I am waving my speaking fee and podcast advertising fee for the next few months and instead asking organizations and small businesses to pre-order copies of my book, pre-order my book in bulk copy. |
| 2:53.0 | So what does that look like? You can either have me come speak to your organization or company to talk about general personal finance topics to do a Q&A. |
| 3:01.0 | I would zoom in and do that or you can tap into the awesome community of journeyers who wants to hear more about your business if you're an entrepreneur and advertise on the podcast. |
| 3:12.0 | And all you have to do is pre-order bulk copies that means multiple copies of my book. |
| 3:17.0 | It is going to be easier than you think it is. I don't have that many spots to be able to offer this but I wanted to get this out to you. |
| 3:23.0 | If you are interested in not only helping this book reach more people but getting a lot of value out of it too by me speaking to your organization or company or advertising on the journey to launch podcasts. |
| 3:34.0 | Now if this sounds like something you may be interested in, let me know. |
| 3:38.0 | So email me at hello at journeytalange.com. Also go to journeytalange.com slash bulk orders that's B-U-L-K orders O-R-D-E-R-S for more information. I hope to hear from you soon. |
| 3:54.0 | If you want the episode show notes for this episode, go to journeytalange.com or click the description of wherever you're listening to this episode in the show notes. You'll get the transcribed version of the conversation, the links that we mentioned and so much more. |
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