Maximizing Value, Minimizing Stress: Sarah Hawley on Financial Planning Business Exits

The Exit - Presented By Flippa

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5 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Want a quick estimate of how much your business is worth? With our free valuation calculator, answer a few questions about your business and you’ll get an immediate estimate of the value of your business. You might be surprised by how much you can get for it: https://flippa.com/exit -- In this episode of The Exit: Sarah Hawley’s entrepreneurial journey started at 18 when she joined her family's financial planning business. By 25, she was leading the company, building a successful 17-year career before expanding into multiple ventures. From her first financial planning exit to multiple million-dollar successes, Sarah has mastered the art of business growth, high-value exits, and client relationship management. Along the way, she navigated burnout, built a thriving community for women entrepreneurs, and faced the challenges of fundraising for her latest venture. Her story is a powerful testament to resilience, strategic transitions, and the realities of scaling businesses. -- Sarah Hawley is a serial entrepreneur and investor in startups, having founded 8 companies since 2009. Following three successful exits, she is currently the Founder & CEO of growmotely.com (the first global platform for sourcing, growing and leading remote teams), and the Co-Founder of the League of Extraordinary Women. She's personally fueled by a passion for challenging the status quo of how we work, conscious culture and leadership, community, diversity and equality, and living life on one's own terms. Website: https://www.leagueofextraordinarywomen.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theleaguewomen/ Sarah on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahriegelhuth/ -- The Exit—Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcast featuring expert entrepreneurs who have been there and done it. The Exit talks to operators who have bought and sold a business. You’ll learn how they did it, why they did it, and get exposure to the world of exits, a world occupied by a small few, but accessible to many. To listen to the podcast or get daily listing updates, click on flippa.com/the-exit-podcast/

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0:00.0	Before we get into the exit today, I want to talk about the certified M&A advisors that are on
0:05.7	Flippa. If you are an operator right now running a business and you're thinking about exiting,
0:10.8	you are going to want to get a free online business valuation on the exit landing page.
0:16.7	Without a doubt, it is the smartest thing you can do to start a process and get yourself organized.
0:23.0	So you're going to go to the URL, flippa.com, slash exit, to check out more, and let's jump into
0:28.1	the interview.
0:29.2	Below and welcome to the exit presented by Flipup, the number one platform to buy and sell online
0:34.2	businesses.
0:35.2	Flipa manages over a billion in deal value annually and combines
0:39.4	expert buy and sell side advisory with its market leading valuation tool, deal room,
0:43.9	off market offering, market insights, an AI-based deal-by-deal matching engine. Now for the exit.
0:50.9	The exit is a 30-minute podcast featuring awesome entrepreneurs who have been there and they
0:54.8	have done it. The exit talks to operators who have bought and sold businesses of all different sizes.
1:00.3	You learn how they did it, why they did it, and get exposure to the world of exits. It's a world
1:05.1	occupied by a small few, but accessible to many. On this episode of the exit, I sit down with
1:10.5	Sarah Holly.
1:11.9	And she's a fantastic serial entrepreneur, and this is a real conversation.
1:16.8	Just buckle up because we talk through some really awesome, awesome ups and downs.
1:23.1	And this is a really important episode for everybody out there, not only women entrepreneurs,
1:28.2	but just anyone operating a business
1:29.9	over the last five or so years,
1:33.4	Sarah really touches on some key points here,
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