How To Bootstrap Your Business To 6-figures (Or More!) With Kelly Kussman & Carly Gilleland
Powerhouse Women
Lindsey Schwartz
4.9 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
If you think launching and growing a successful business requires a massive budget, think again! Bootstrapping your business is the secret to becoming a more effective and agile entrepreneur because it challenges you to be creative when growing your business sustainably. Today, Kelly Kussman and Carly Gilleland, founders and graduates of the Powerhouse Women Six Figure School, share their experiences of bootstrapping their businesses to reach $100,000 in revenue (and growing!).
In our conversation, Kelly & Carly open up about everything from the evolution of their businesses to the obstacles they faced during their initial phases. We chat about the importance of community, where they invested their limited resources, how to manage a side hustle while working a 9-5, creative funding strategies, and knowing when to invest in mentorship. If you're ready to bootstrap your way to your first six figures and beyond, this episode is a must-listen!
In this episode we talk about:
- (4:53) Kelly & Carly's journey with starting and scaling their businesses
- (13:18) The power of community, crowdfunding, and enrolling people in your vision
- (32:26) Navigating the early challenges of brand building and why Google is your best friend
- (37:37) Tips for transitioning from a corporate job to entrepreneurship
- (46:06) How to decide the best time to invest in yourself and your business
- (53:17) Who is the Six Figure School for and what are the benefits?
- (57:52) Actionable steps for launching your business
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | For me, like when I shifted to entrepreneurship, I invested in the lower ticket communities |
| 0:04.8 | immediately to be in this room and just hear these conversations just like lit my heart on fire. |
| 0:10.8 | And I was just like so excited to come and learn and hear from all of the other different |
| 0:14.5 | women that are doing things that I want to do just to get in the room and get super inspired |
| 0:18.1 | by others. |
| 0:20.6 | Welcome to Powerhouse Women, the podcast for women who know they are ready for more. |
| 0:27.3 | I'm Lindsay Schwartz, your host and the founder of Powerhouse Women, |
| 0:31.2 | and together will unlock the confidence and clarity you are looking for |
| 0:35.8 | to help you get out of your own way and into action around |
| 0:40.0 | your next big idea. |
| 0:46.2 | I have such a value-packed episode for you today. Oh my goodness. This one is a little bit longer |
| 0:52.8 | than our typical guest episodes because |
| 0:55.5 | it is the replay of a masterclass we did recently on how to bootstrap your business to the first |
| 1:02.3 | six figures or more. And I was joined by two of my best friends, two women who have come through |
| 1:09.7 | our programs and have done exactly that. |
| 1:12.9 | They've bootstrapped a business in the service industry, a product-based business, and they've |
| 1:19.6 | done it completely without funding, completely without taking on outside loans or things like |
| 1:25.7 | that. They've truly been an example of what's |
| 1:29.2 | possible when you get resourceful and you bootstrap a business. But that doesn't mean that it isn't |
| 1:35.0 | without challenges. It doesn't mean that it doesn't require you to think differently. And we dive |
| 1:40.3 | into it all in this conversation. I, this might be one of my favorite episodes. I have brought you in this conversation. This might be one of my favorite episodes I have brought |
| 1:46.6 | you in a while. This conversation was so, so valuable. My guest today are Kelly Kusman, who's the |
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