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The Get Sh!t Done Podcast teaches entrepreneurs how to gain traction and successfully grow businesses that scale generational impact. Access the stories and steps taken by badass entrepreneurs who have successfully scaled $1M+ businesses. You’ll learn what they did to grow and how they did it so you can too. Hosted by Alex Batdorf, 3X entrepreneur and CEO of Get Sh!t Done. New episodes drop every Tuesday. Get our Weekly 5-Min Traction Playbooks with the tools and resources that compliment each episode to help you grow: shegetsshitdone.com/join
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Emily Grey, founder of Flourish Market was able to leverage organic marketing to scale a profitable multi-million dollar company in 3 years.
Here's what you're going to learn from Emily:
How her moat has been making her customers the co-authors in building her business and how you can too.
How she listens to and engages customers to get 90% of their 13k followers on Instagram to vote on polls AND achieve a 93% open rate with an email list of 20k+ with thousands of responses to surveys.
How putting your face out there is one of the most powerful things you can do as an early-stage company.
And how Emily and her team learn how to manage their time and where it needs to be spent by assigning an hourly rate to what they’re doing.
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Maria Boustead, founder of Po Campo Learned the Art of Partnerships to Scale a Micro mobility Movement while growing her company 182% YOY.
Here's what you're going to learn from Maria:
How to not fall in the "build it and they will come" trap.
How to navigate being early or first to market.
How to develop meaningful partnerships with both small and larger brands. Hint: Both are impactful.
How to amplify your partnerships through an omnichannel approach.
Boosting the bottom line via an AOV and/or Acquisition approach.
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Sophia Contreras Stone, founder of Indie Tech scaled a 7-Figure Service Company funded a FinTech Company.
Here's what you're going to learn from Sophia:
How she built out her services company.
How she leaned into what was working to scale the services business to 6-figures then to 7-figures.
How Mastering enterprise sales helped her make this move and a masterclass in how you can do it too
How to build confidence in selling so you can slay your way to sales.
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Heather Udo, founder of Shoppable was able to scale a multi-million dollar company through a profit-first approach.
Here's what you're going to learn from Heather:
How to make selling central to your role as founder EVEN if you're not a "natural" salesperson.
How to avoid distractions and sell what's aligned with the vision.
How to move down market.
Show me that it's reallllll 👏👏👏 - how to get the intros you need.
How scaling profitability secured $3M down way later & surviving fundraising PTSD.
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Betsy Fore, founder of Tiny Organics was able to raise $11M 16 months after launching her company. They have now raised $13.5M to date. She is the first Indigenous woman EVER to raise Series A.
Here's what you're going to learn from Betsy:
What problem she’s solving in the food delivery space for babies with meals.
How she was able to fund this capital-intensive business without outside funding initially AND grow it 500% YOY.
How she organically grew the brand and nailed product development by building community.
Learn the key things that enabled her to raise so much money in such a short period of time. We dive into the components and things you can be asking yourself and doing to craft your story when fundraising...
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Her company grew 250%, Sold $60Million in products, and Closed Series A in 2020 when womxn founded companies received $1 Billion less than the previous year.
Here's what you're going to learn from Somdutta Singh, founder of Assiduus:
The key things you need to raise money in the early stages.
How your readiness and preparedness as an entrepreneur determines whether or not you'll raise capital.
How to recruit for talent when you have limited resources
The key to closing successful B2B AND investor deals.
Best practices for scaling into new markets from leveraging the data to doing due diligence to honoring culture.
How they became the first and largest unified cross barter supply chain and distribution partner for brands across eCommerce
And so much more...
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Meet Yulkendy Valdez & Samantha Asante - Two Black womxn Founders who chose to shut down their businesses.
Here's what you're going to learn from Yulkendy & Samantha:
Why and how they made an impact in the Education-Tech space.
How they each successfully raised capital as Black Womxn.
What they did really well in growing their businesses over the past few years.
How they got lost and what they sacrificed in the process.
What it’s like to be in the middle of closing down your business and navigating what’s next
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She Went from uncertainty to Increasing Customers 35% & Revenues by 30%
On this Queen of the week, Susan Perlman, owner of Dogtopia South Chandler, and a Queen in the Get Sh!t Done Tribe, will walk you through…
How she shifted her business model.
How she increased customers by 35% by changing her selling approach.
How she increased revenues by 30% by shortening the sales cycle
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*This conversation took place in 2018.
There are 3 ways to get an investor "Yes" when fundraising.
Here's what you'll learn from Jihan Thompson, founder of Swivel Beauty:
The 3 different Yes' you can get from an investor.
How it helped her to pitch better.
Self-care tips while you're fundraising.
And so much more...
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Meet Amal Hassan, the founder of Outsource Global.
Here's what you're going to learn from Amal Hassan:
How she pivoted her business model from vendor relationships to robust partnership relationships.
How she created and differentiated her company as one of the best outsourcing companies by using highly educated and experienced talent.
What she did well, which enabled her to templatize and scale offerings.
And so much more
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Here's what you're going to learn from Carissa, founder of Small Business Silver Linings:
How they pivoted from a consulting model to a training model to SaaS model, which increased profit margins and scalability.
How the pivot led to raising $3.5M in corporate sponsorship and what was sponsored.
How false metrics of success nearly tanked her company at a couple of stages.
How decreasing prices increased profit margins.
How asking for money is a mindset shift where the shift allowed her to stop underselling herself.
And so much more
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Meet Rach Junard, Co-Founder of You Good, Sis?
She Increased Partnerships by 60% in the Pandemic
On this Queen of the week, Rach Junard, co-founder of You Good, Sis, and a Queen in the Get Sh!t Done Tribe, will walk you through…
How she increased partnerships by 60% in the pandemic.
How she leveraged email marketing and outsourcing.
Why she saw a major spike in word of mouth.
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Here's what you'll learn from Michelle Huie, founder of VIM & VIGR:
How leveraging data available enabled her to get hyperfocused on areas producing the best results that enabled her to scale.
How she created points of no return that enabled her to take strategic steps into entrepreneurship that set her up for success.
How she defines traction as not just numbers but also a feeling.
How she combats the loneliness of entrepreneurship.
How she is starting another company while continuing to scale VIM & VIGR but this time why she's considering raising venture capital
And so much more
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She Turned Community into a Thriving Business
Here’s what you’ll learn from Gesche Haas, founder of Dreamers & Doers:
Why she decided on a membership model.
How the leadership in a community will make or break it.
How to determine pricing and take the shame out of charging for membership
How to attract high-quality members through curation.
The lessons she's learned building community that are often underestimated
And so much more...
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Meet Ellie Lum, Founder of Klum House.
On this Queen of the week, Ellie, and a Queen in the Get Sh!t Done Tribe, will walk you through…
How she fully bootstrapped Klum House through self-generated sales.
How she grew Klum House 20x from just the $4k that I invested back in 2015 to a company just shy of $1M today.
How she landed 2 strategic partnerships worth $20K in Q2 2021.
Here’s how you can support Ellie: She's looking for PR and landing large wholesale deals.
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Her cancer diagnosis Launched a Multi-Million Dollar Clean Alcohol Company.
Here’s what you’ll learn from Leah Caplanis, Founder of Social Sparkling Wine:
Where she got the initial capital to scale in a capital-intensive market.
How she learned to conquer sales and master distribution before producing the product and how you can navigate the system.
The reality of how long it can take to get into top-tier retailers like Costco, Target, Walmart.
How she was able to grow a multi-million dollar brand and raise $4.5M to scale.
Strategies of owning your value chain and going DTC and mistakes she wants you to learn from in rolling out new product.
And so much more...
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"My ancestors lost businesses, homes, livelihoods.. not for me to sit around and be like "well, where can I go within reach?" Be bigger than that."
Meet, Archel Bernard, the founder of Bombchel.
On this Queen of the week, Archel, a Queen in the Get Sh!t Done Tribe, will walk you through…
How opening a retail location grew business 5x in 3 months.
How she went from selling dresses in out of a pick up truck in Liberia to getting stuck in the US, which led to launching a fast growing retail brand in the middle of a pandemic
How she built an African-first brand and how she expanded to the US.
Why being small allowed her to outpace retail giants.
Mistakes she's learned from in expanding product based on customer requests vs the data.
How she funded her retail expansion through sales and how she manages investment in new product.
Here’s how you can support Archel: She's looking for new manufacturing leads for growth and website development to expand globally and customers to visit their Atlanta location to give them feedback.
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“Your mother is hunting you down with a shotgun, you need to get home.”
Paige Williams's ability to tap into and tell the story of her upbringing in Mississippi as a queer woman was the catalyst for scaling the now successful, Audpop, a 2-sided marketplace to 250,000 members, 75,000 filmmakers, Nearly $1M ARR, where the majority of the stories being told on their platform, focus on the underserved from people of color to LGBTQ+, whose stories are often overlooked.
Here’s what you’ll learn from Paige:
How she monetized her creativity into a scalable tech platform.
How diverse storytelling became their superpower for scale.
How she mastered enterprise sales to develop a 2-sided marketplace with a strong supply and demand.
Lessons from how crushing debt almost folded her company but became the biggest teacher that fueled her to navigate the company to the next level of growth.
Why she's now raising VC after years of successfully bootstrapping.
And so much more...
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She increased revenues by nearly 1000% MOM & Earned 24% More Than Her Goal.
Meet, Kelly Twichel, the founder of Access Trax.
On this Queen of the week, Kelly, a Queen in the Get Sh!t Done Tribe, will walk you through…
How she leveraged pre-orders to fuel growth.
How she tested Google Ads to accelerate growth.
The tools she used like Mailchimp and Streak to optimize for results. Subscribe & Rate Now. #getsshitdonepodcast
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**Disclaimer: This interview took place in 2019.
Farissa Knox, founder of RLM MedIA, runs 2 businesses successfully as a full-time mama & wife.
She credits it to her natural gifts as a womxn and approaches it the same way she raises her kids and runs her household.
Here’s what you’ll learn from Farissa:
Frameworks she uses to make decisions to delgate while running 2 companies.
A killer approach to managing and nurturing your team to work in a way where they don't need you.
The most important thing to remember that will remove the pressure of perfection.
How to maximize your teams talents and your time for growth and scale and when to outsource.
How to maximize your time for the best ROI before you hire.
And more…
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