55. Mills Bender - Financial Tips for Women Entrepreneurs

What would you do if you checked your bank account and realized you only had $1.50 to your name?
Mills Bender is a financial consultant who gives practical and actionable advice on how women entrepreneurs can manage their finances.
Her number one tip is to know your worth and value. Never undersell yourself or let clients nickel and dime you.

Show Notes

🙋‍♀️ Out of desperation comes innovation: Mills started her financial journey with only $1.50 in her bank account. 03:05
😇 We shouldn't shame ourselves for the place that we're in right now: it is time for action. 04:22
🥅 Have a grip on the money mindset: a budget is a tool and a monetary reflection of your priorities. 06:07
🤩 Most of Mill’s clients don’t value their time enough: metrics she uses to establish hourly rates and calculate the real value of her client's time. 11:55
📈 Undervaluing ourselves creates a domino effect in the market: women need to increase their rates dramatically. 13:43
🤔 How to start attracting the type of client that you want to be working with.15:47
💎 Is it a cost or is it an investment? A great tip about rephrasing your pricing. 18:49
🌟 The silence is your biggest player: how to increase your pricing with an existing client. 19:51
🤦‍♀️ Going out of the corporate world and lowering the prices: a weird phenomenon in not valuing yourself at the start of your business. 24:12
❗ “Until you start outsourcing and delegating, you don't own a business, you own a job.” 27:43
🍁 When business growth is bottlenecked by your capacity: there's a season for everything. 30:20
👠 Adopt the mindset that everything is changing around us: feminine energy fluctuates throughout the month naturally, so this should be easy for us. 34:02
🙌 Sara Blakely trusted herself, and we all should do it: women are amazing at building businesses, just do it! 35:54

Links

 👉 Connect with Mills: www.millsknowsbills.com

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