102 - From Founder to CEO with The Jill James

The MaYapinion® Podcast

Jill James is a female powerhouse, who helps self-funded business owners go from being the founder to CEO. This is the cure for entrepreneurs who work 80+ hours a week, which can be fixed in a matter of a couple of weeks, without losing any profits. She is not the one to give generic advice like "raise your prices" or "hire more people." Jill comes from humble beginnings – she comes from a small town of 1000 people in rural Wisconsin. She then was a Wall Street banker as well as COO for a venture-backed tech start-up while being 7-months pregnant, and realizing that something had to change. Today, she has worked with hundreds of self-funded businesses and helped them develop into multi-million dollar companies.

What makes Jill a great leader? In her own words: "It's of the utmost importance to me to be a partner and ally for the people I work with and align my expertise to their values and goals by listening. I lead through the lens of service."

Show Notes:

01:15 Jill James talks about how she started her career and how she was able to write a newsletter “how to start your business in 10 weeks” on a daily basis.

03:01 Jill talks about how she started her Company “The Jill James”; what kind of founders she works with, how she does help businesses grow what basics she insists on, how she turned from founder to CEO, why most people are against that switch,

07:57 Jill explains “love like dislike hate” exercise, and how important it is to avoid doing things you hate and how that hate can drag you down,

12:08 Jill explains the major differences between the characteristics of the CEO and the Founder thinking, why we should keep the checkbook under our control as a CEO to avoid any serious mistakes. Why understanding the mechanics of your business is much more important than knowing about numbers because you can learn the numbers.

15:35 Jill talks about the importance of building a professional team and finding partners to get advice and help from them to gain much time and money to run your business in the way you want,

18:55 How founders create values and vision of how the business will function and how that helps the process of taking decisions and make it much easier and more efficient.

23:41 Jill talks about her two programs “Founder to CEO” and “the business design Bootcamp”, how she works with her clients and what program work for each client, how she adapts to each special case to help them reach planned goals

27:57 What are the clients that Jill works with, what are the most important things to make the business succeed, how working with a variety of businesses helps her work with many customers and help them make the right decision and boost their activity,

31:19 Jill gives advice to women about stepping up into leadership

Follow Jill James:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/jilldjames

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Hx2ojDHha71dNG0m5p65g

Visit her website here:

https://thejilljames.com/

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Maya

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