Meet Julia Pimsleur

We recently connected with Julia Pimsleur and have shared our conversation below.

Julia, looking forward to learning from your journey. You’ve got an amazing story and before we dive into that, let’s start with an important building block. Where do you get your work ethic from?
I credit my work ethic to growing up with a single mother in New York City in the eighties. It was a dangerous time with high crime rates and mass murderers like Son of Sam in the news every day. I was going to a private school on scholarship and my mother was working long hours as a teacher, so I started babysitting at 13. At 15 I was working after school at a local food court and started spending summers living with wealthy families in the Hamptons taking care of their children. I shared lessons learned from those work experiences – which I called “diapering for dollars” – in my book Million Dollar Women. Those early experiences taught me some of the most essentials skills you need for success as an entrepreneur and leader: hard work, delayed gratification, basic psychology and refusal to quit.

Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?
Economic empowerment is my jam. At my social venture Million Dollar Women, which is celebrating eight years of coaching amazing women, I focus on helping women entrepreneurs scale their businesses to seven figures and beyond. What excites me most is seeing women transform their mindset from feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or not able to lead a successful business to clearing those beliefs and then getting the skills to turn their dreams into fact. Through my books Million Dollar Women and Go Big Now and our online coaching programs, I’m passionate about making financial success possible for more women. One of the most rewarding aspects of my work is fostering a supportive community where women help each other succeed, including an on line community for women going big called The Network.

I’m thrilled to share that we’ve also just launched a new sales program – Sales CURE© Live – as we have seen over our eight years of working with women small business owners that very few women have gotten sales training.

After selling $32MM in products and services, I decided to help women small business owners boost their confidence selling, since this is one of the key skills you need to build your business. You can see all of our programs at millionwomen.com. Feel free to set up a call, as I always love to meet women small business owners wherever they are on their journey.

Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?
Looking back, I’d say the three most impactful qualities in my journey were resilience, the ability to ask for help, and a mindset of constant learning. Resilience was key because building a business isn’t a straight line—it’s full of ups and downs. I learned early on that asking for help wasn’t a sign of weakness but of strength. Surrounding myself with mentors and advisors made all the difference. And finally, the mindset of constant learning helped me grow as an entrepreneur and a leader. It also inspired my second book, Go Big Now, which shares eight essential mindset practices used by top CEOs, leaders and change makers.

For those early in their journey, my advice is to actively work on building resilience by embracing challenges rather than avoiding them. Don’t be afraid to ask for help—build your “team” of mentors, peers, and experts who can guide you. And never stop learning. Invest in your personal and professional growth as much as you invest in your business. The more you grow, the more your business will, too.

Any advice for folks feeling overwhelmed?
When I feel overwhelmed, I remind myself to “accelerate into the turn,” a concept I wrote about in my book Go Big Now. It’s a metaphor borrowed from when I was sixteen and learning to drive: when you hit a sharp turn, the instinct is to slow down, but that is actually when you need to speed up to stay in control. The same applies to life and business—when things get tough or overwhelming, instead of pulling back or freezing, I try to lean in and do more, not less. If you try twenty things, one or two of them is bound to work, but if you retreat and go into negative self talk then you’ll just go deeper down the rabbit hole. And don’t forget—when things are hard, this also when it’s most important to ask for help and tap into your support system. You don’t have to do it all alone. Find your people and keep them close. I also found so much wisdom in books. Some of my favorites: The Art of Living by Thich Nhat Hanh, Daring Greatly by Brene Brown, Leveraging the Universe by Mike Dooley, The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks.

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