Designing For Resilience (with co-host Cary Fortin)

Startup Parent

#181 - Welcome back to co-host Cary Fortin! We're back for another friendship episode, where Sarah and Cary talk about business design, parenting stress, and dealing with the pandemic. In this episode, we take you behind the scenes of The Wise Women's Council and the Class of 2021, and the ways that we think about community design and creating strong containers for personal growth.

If you haven't heard the story of how the Wise Women's Council started, listen in as Sarah describes what it took to create a program while pregnant with her second kiddo (and with a toddler at home). Business as usual wouldn't work, so she thought differently about what a mastermind community might look like, and how to bring a network of teachers in so that she could run a program while also taking leave in the middle of her own program.

In this episode:

• How too much ego can get you into trouble if you design a business where you (and your personality) has to be at the center of the business.
• How we are scaling the Wise Women's Council and what it looks like to grow a program and a community while maintaining intimacy.
• The container and the structure set-up, and the work it takes, to create truly intimate and honest conversational space.
• What many business owners miss when trying to create strong communities.
• Some of the lessons learned from running masterminds, retreats, and events for over a decade, and how to create a great program and experience.

This episode is a casual conversation with lots of sideways chatter and banter between long-term friends Cary and Sarah. We also have episodes with guest experts and speakers, but this one includes everything that friends talk about (including adult language), so listen with headphones if you have kids around.

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