Marie Forleo: “If you don't do everything in your power to market the friggin' heck out of it, you are stealing from those who need you."

9 to 5ish with theSkimm

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Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Marie Forleo is an author and entrepreneur who has built one of the fastest growing companies in the country. She’s the founder of MarieTV and B-School, a digital educational program that develops mission-driven entrepreneurs and has helped 44,000 graduates. Her new book Everything is Figureoutable comes out on September 10th and is available now for pre-order. On the couch, Marie explains why she quit her first job on Wall Street to pursue her passion, even when it meant choosing between that and a steady paycheck (6:52). She shares how her journey to confidence came from disciplines as wide ranging as publishing, to bartending, to dance (15:30) and told us the one thing that makes her tell entrepreneurs to, “wake the eff up” (22:09). This episode of Skimm’d From the Couch is sponsored by AC Hotels by Marriott.

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0:00.0	Today's Skin From the Couch is presented by AC Hotels by Marriott, a modern hotel experience
0:06.2	with a focus on purposeful design. If you have something that you truly believe in, a product, a service, a message that
0:19.6	you feel could positively impact others and you don't do everything in your power to market the
0:24.4	fricking heck out of it you are stealing from those who need you most.
0:28.8	The episode today is about being a multi-passionate entrepreneur which is a term that we just learned. Marie
0:34.7	Forlio has so many things that she's good at and I think it's amazing to hear
0:39.6	that she thought about it as kind of like a weakness for a long time.
0:44.0	It was one of those episodes where I just wanted to not speak and just let her talk.
0:48.5	We've all been in those moments where you're like, I don't know what to do next.
0:51.5	A lot of things appeal to me or nothing appeals to me and she figured out how to kind of take all of those feelings and turn it into a huge umpire. I highly recommend to listen.
1:06.7	I'm Carly Zaken. I'm Danielle Weisberg. Welcome to Skim from the couch. This podcast is where we go deep on career advice from women who have lived it.
1:10.5	From the good stuff like hiring and growing a team to the rough stuff like
1:14.8	negotiating your salary and giving or getting hard feedback. We started the skim from a
1:19.9	couch so what better place to talk it all out than where it began on a couch.
1:27.0	Our guest today is Marie Forlejo, an entrepreneur who has built one of the fastest
1:35.4	growing companies in the country. She's also an author, founder of Marie TV and an
1:41.8	impactful content creator.
1:44.4	Her online educational platform, B School, develops mission-driven entrepreneurs and she's helped
1:50.1	launch upwards of 44,000 graduates. Most recently she has written the book
1:55.6	Everything is Figure Outable. It's coming out soon. Labeled by Oprah as the quote
2:01.8	thought leader for the next generation. I mean it doesn't get any better than that.
2:06.1	Welcome to the couch. Thank you so much for having me. This is wonderful. We're gonna we're gonna jump
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