The Mistakes That Made Her Millions: Kim Perell on the Power of Failing Forward | Live from the 2025 Powerhouse Women Event
Powerhouse Women
Lindsey Schwartz
4.9 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
One of my favorite things about the Powerhouse Women event every year is bringing together brilliant, like-minded women together in one place. Today, you're getting a front row seat to a very special LIVE stage where my dear friend Lori Harder sat down with Kim Perell, serial entrepreneur, speaker, author, and startup mentor. She shares how she turned a $10k loan from her grandma into a $100M business, the "70% rule" to transform overthinking into instant action, and the importance of finding your tribe, your mentors, that'll guide you to the next level of success. Plus, the biggest red flags founders should avoid, building a healthy relationship with failure, protecting your energy through designated life audits, and even more tactical needle-moving tips!
HIGHLIGHTS
00:00 How Kim built a $100M company from a $10k loan.
07:00 What is the biggest mistake that cost you millions (+ how did you get through it)?
10:00 The "70% rule" to stop overthinking and make faster decisions.
13:30 How your relationship to failure can help you as a leader.
17:15 Kim's life audit hack to protect your energy and remove toxic energy drains.
20:25 How do you manage risk, balance, motherhood, and entrepreneurship?
26:00 Why asking for help is so important (+ how to ask for it).
31:30 How to know when and where to invest in.
32:40 Tips to overcome the 4 P's (perfectionism, procrastination, paralysis, and pessimism).
35:40 How did you build a strong support system of women?
40:50 The three things Kim looks for when investing.
43:10 What is the biggest ask you have for our audience?
RESOURCES + LINKS
Get your copy of "Mistakes that Made Me a Millionaire" by Kim Perell HERE
Learn more about Kim Perell HERE
Join the waitlist for the 2026 Powerhouse Women Event HERE
FOLLOW
Kim: @kimperell
Powerhouse Women: @powerhouse_women
Lindsey: @lindseymarieofficial
Visit the Powerhouse Women website: powerhousewomen.co
Join the PW Community Facebook Group: facebook.com/groups/powerhousewomencommunity
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | When I rise, we all rise. Like when I'm able to do great things, when you're able to do, when |
| 0:06.2 | every single one of you pushes past something, it is a game changer for the next generation |
| 0:11.3 | of women. We need to be the ones to lift each other up. We need to be the ones to give a hand. |
| 0:17.5 | I want us to be successful together. That's why we need each other. It's like this is |
| 0:22.9 | the moment. We need to also show the next generation what support looks like. |
| 0:30.4 | Welcome to Powerhouse Women, the podcast for women who know they are ready for more. |
| 0:37.8 | Let's go. |
| 0:39.8 | Introducing your host and the founder of Powerhouse Women, Lindsay Schwartz. |
| 0:45.1 | Hi. |
| 0:46.1 | If you're hungry to grow and expand your career, business, and life, you're in the right place. |
| 0:51.5 | You ready for your breakthrough? |
| 0:52.8 | Let's do it. |
| 0:53.5 | Powerhouse Women! Thank you. you're in the right place. You ready for your breakthrough? Let's do it. |
| 0:55.3 | Powerhouse Women! |
| 1:06.4 | I have such a treat for you in today's episode. This was one of the most powerful segments from the 2025 Powerhouse Women event. And something we're going to be doing for the month of November is sharing some of our |
| 1:14.1 | favorite moments from the 2025 event while we count down to the official announcement |
| 1:20.1 | of the 2026 event dates. |
| 1:22.9 | Those are coming very soon as well as our annual Early Access Flash Sale. |
| 1:28.5 | So November 24th, mark your calendars. |
| 1:31.9 | November 24th, you will have one week to get the lowest prices offered on the 2026 tickets, |
| 1:38.4 | and you can add yourself to the wait list. |
| 1:40.5 | Make sure you do not miss a thing by going to powerhousewomen event.com and just know that |
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