This Year (and Every Year), Community Is the Business
Dear FoundHer...Real Founder Stories for Women Small Business Owners
Lindsay Pinchuk
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🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Community isn’t a trend. It’s the business—and it always has been.
As the year comes to a close, Host, Lindsay Pinchuk, reflects on the one thing behind every milestone inside Dear FoundHer…: community.
In this solo episode, Lindsay shares why connection has always been the foundation of real business growth—long before algorithms, trends, or social media experts declared it so. From building a seven-figure company without a marketing budget to creating spaces where women truly support one another, this episode is a reminder that people don’t stay loyal to platforms. They stay loyal to people.
You’ll hear why community isn’t a “nice to have,” but essential infrastructure for entrepreneurs—especially women in business—and walk away with simple, practical ways to start building (and deepening) connection right now.
In this episode, we cover:
- Why community is the business—not a trend
- How connection and trust fuel sustainable growth
- Simple ways to build community without overcomplicating it
- How support and networking create resilience when things get hard
- Five strategies for creating connection with your community in order to sustain it.
If you’re building a business and want more than vanity metrics—more connection, more support, and more people in your corner, this episode is for you.
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| 0:00.0 | I built my first business, my seven-figure company that I sold more than 15 years ago, |
| 0:05.0 | before reels, before algorithms changed weekly, |
| 0:09.2 | before content pillars or content buckets, as I like to call them, were even a thing. |
| 0:14.5 | And even back then, what worked wasn't tricks or hacks. |
| 0:19.2 | What worked was community. |
| 0:26.1 | Welcome to Dear Founder, the podcast that pulls back the curtain on what it really takes to build and grow a successful business. |
| 0:31.6 | No gatekeeping, no fluff, just real talk. I'm your host, Lindsay Pinchuk, award-winning entrepreneur, founder, and proud |
| 0:40.3 | member of the 1% of female founders who've led their company to an acquisition. I bootstrapped my |
| 0:46.8 | first company from $500 to seven figures before selling it. I learned more from the mistakes than |
| 0:52.6 | from the wins. What started as a podcast here has grown |
| 0:56.5 | into a movement supporting female entrepreneurs like you through not only this show, but also on |
| 1:02.3 | our social media, at our live events, and in our online community, The Deere Founder Forum. |
| 1:08.3 | Each week, I sit down with some of the most influential female founders of |
| 1:12.4 | our time to uncover the highs, the lows, the lessons, and the moments that they thought they'd |
| 1:17.6 | never make it, but did. This is a space for women who want to build something meaningful, who |
| 1:23.7 | believe in collaboration over competition, and who know that success is sweeter when we share |
| 1:28.8 | it. Because here, there's no gatekeeping, just actionable advice, honest conversations, and a whole |
| 1:35.3 | lot of inspiration. So grab your coffee or your wine or whatever it is that you're drinking, |
| 1:41.1 | hit play, and let's build something amazing together. |
| 1:44.6 | Hi, everyone, and welcome back to another episode of Dear Founder. |
| 1:47.6 | I'm your host, Lindsay Pinchuk, and this is our second to last episode of the year. |
| 1:53.4 | I just wanted to start today by saying thank you, truly. |
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