Why entrepreneurship isn't - and shouldn't be - for everyone with Lunya founder Ashley Merrill

Just Grow With It with Natalie Barbu

Natalie Barbu

Education, Business, Entrepreneurship, How To

4.8 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Episode 166: For ambitious and career-oriented people, starting one's own business is often the ultimate goal. But today's guest Ashley Merrill, founder of Lunya Sleepwear, chats with Natalie about how this can be a detriment to many people's happiness and success. Ashley started Lunya 10 years ago and has built the company to its now $25M per year revenue, numerous accolades, and countless super fans, but she explains why being a founder should not be anyone's automatic goal, and instead why we should all look deeper on what brings us joy in our work and our lives. Today's episode dives into: Finding balance over the course of your life instead of in a moment - there are seasons for work and seasons for play The misconceptions of what a CEO actually does Why the timing of a business is everything when it comes to approach and strategy The resilience and determination needed to get started as an entrepreneur Why you shouldn't necessarily want to be a founder and how to find the best path for your own life and happiness Thank you so much for being a part of our podcast community! Please be sure to rate, follow, review, and of course, post to your highlight reel. Follow your host Natalie on Instagram @nataliebarbu and @therealreelpodcast. Follow Ashley @ashley__merrill Thank you to our sponsors for making this episode possible. Check out these deals just for you: TAILOR BRANDS - Get 40% off when you go to tailorbrands.com/realreel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation.
0:24.3	I think not everyone should be an entrepreneur. I'm not saying don't do it because I want to kill your dreams, but I also there's an aspect of like really going, what is it that I like to do every day? And then how do I set myself up to do that versus I want to be an entrepreneur because like you know everybody's doing that. Welcome to be an entrepreneur because like you know everybody's doing that.
0:30.3	Welcome to the Real Real, where I take you behind the Instagram reel and into the
0:38.3	real lives of entrepreneurs, content creators, and anyone who inspires me and may inspire you too. I'm your host
0:44.8	Natalie Barboo and let's get into it.
0:48.6	Hello hello hello everyone welcome back to the real real podcast I'm your host Natalie
0:55.2	Barboo in today's intro I have an update I have an update that I want to share
1:00.0	from the week because this week was really, really cool and I had an amazing opportunity
1:05.4	last week.
1:06.4	So I think I talked about this on another podcast intro, but last week I was in Raleigh,
1:10.9	North Carolina, which is where my co-founder are, it's where I went to school, I went to NC State. So I went to Raleigh last week and I spoke, right? I was participating in a roundtable with Cheryl Sandberg, the CEO of Meta, who just announced
1:25.9	her resignation.
1:26.9	So, you know, she's not for C.O.O.O. for much longer.
1:30.7	But the CEO of Meta, and then also Cindy Eckert, who is a super,
1:34.2	super successful woman. She owns the pink ceiling. She is the founder of the
1:38.0	Pinkubator, which is like a female founded incubator for startups.
1:43.0	She's an investor herself, and she has sold a company for a billion dollars.
1:47.7	I really want to get her on the podcast.
1:49.2	I think that would be such an amazing episode, but I was at a roundtable with them and I was personally
1:55.3	invited by Cindy Eckert, which is so insane to me because I didn't even really
2:00.0	know that she knew who I was, so it was just a really big like honor to be
2:04.4	invited so pretty much what it was is that Cheryl which is the CEO of Meta like I
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