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Just Grow With It with Natalie Barbu

Natalie Barbu

Education, Business, Entrepreneurship, How To

4.8 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

I'm so excited to finally share this with you... 🎙️ Introducing Just Grow with It - my new video podcast where I'm pulling back the curtain on the REAL entrepreneurial journey. Not the highlight reel, not the "I made it" stories from the top of the mountain, but the messy, beautiful, terrifying middle of building something from scratch. Here's what I realized: I was craving advice from someone who's still in the thick of it. Someone figuring it out in real time, making mistakes, pivoting, and yes - sometimes almost shutting down the company (been there 😅). We've hit some incredible milestones - but the path here? It's been anything but linear. And those are the stories I want to share with you. Every episode, I'm diving into the nitty gritty of being a business owner. The mistakes that cost us a million dollars, the pivots that saved us, the moment we told our investors we were shutting down, and how we managed to turn it around. And because I believe in building community around this journey, I'm also launching "The Growth List" - a weekly dose of founder insights, curated resources, and community spotlights for entrepreneurs building authentic, impactful businesses. Because if you're building something, you deserve to hear from someone who's still building too. Someone who remembers exactly how it feels when everything is breaking and you need all hands on deck. And if you have any guest suggestions - tag them below! Ready to grow with me? Let's get into it. ✨ Subscribe to my newsletter: https://thegrowthlist.substack.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We became profitable. We hit a million dollars ARR in 11 months, and we're about to hit 2 million
0:05.2	ARR in three months. Welcome to Just Grow With It. We almost shut down the company because things
0:11.3	were not going well, and it was a really, really, really hard pill to swallow.
0:15.6	The podcast where I share lessons I've learned as a founder and creator. I'll even share a story
0:20.0	about how we told our investors.
0:21.6	We were shutting down the company and how we managed to save it.
0:24.1	It would have saved us two years of spending pretty much a million dollars.
0:29.1	The mistakes, the pivots, and the wins, and how staying consistent can change everything.
0:34.1	Trust me, the second someone starts paying you you you will know everything wrong with your
0:37.5	company getting our first paying customer was so hard oh my god everything is breaking we need all hands
0:43.9	on deck we decided we were going to try one last thing to keep the company alive and then the second
0:48.7	you launch everything changes and we would never ever do that. I would say it was our biggest mistake as business
0:57.1	owners. So if you're ready to grow with me, let's get into it.

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