Meet Lilly Field

We were lucky to catch up with Lilly Field recently and have shared our conversation below.

Lilly, so great to have you with us and we want to jump right into a really important question. In recent years, it’s become so clear that we’re living through a time where so many folks are lacking self-confidence and self-esteem. So, we’d love to hear about your journey and how you developed your self-confidence and self-esteem.

One place my confidence really shows is on a stage with a microphone in my hand. What blows my mind is there was a time I barely had the courage to talk to someone one on one. I had speech impediments that left me anxious, straight-up weird, and challenged by all things communication.

The journey to self-esteem unfolded with baby steps. I learned to ask good questions. I’d walk into networking, which was once terrifying, with one thought-provoking question. It gave me a bridge into connection and confidence because I knew where to start. It removed the unknown of what to say and replaced it with a simple strategy. The more I used it, the more connections opened, and I realized I love connecting with humans and brought valuable insights through our conversations. Each time, it got easier.

This broke me out of my shell, but what truly unlocked my full force of self-esteem and confidence was knowing my purpose and choosing to live it. I’m here to inspire people to live their wildest dreams. One major way I do that is by supporting women to build abundant, impactful businesses that nourish their dream day to day, their highest purpose, their desire to give to their family, and the legacy they want to leave behind.

During my first opportunity to speak on stage about my business, my emotions were riding the edge between anxious and excited. This wild energy was building in my body, nearly bursting over. In the moments before it began, a key perspective clicked. I remembered I’m connected to a purpose way larger than me. By stepping forward into my gifts, with full confidence and self-esteem, I get to support so many other women wanting to build their dreams. In that moment, this fear flipped into fuel. After sharing, people were in interested in the content, but beyond that, they were amazed with my presenting skills. They felt the passion behind the message.

I feel confident when my deeper why drives every word. With this perspective, my ego gets out of the way. It’s the ego and its voices of limitation that bog down our confidence and self-esteem. When we’re in tune with the infinite and connected to our deeper why, that sense of “I can do it” naturally emerges. On days when I’m feeling shaky, I remind myself of my deeper calling. In the moments before sharing on a stage, when my body is shaking, I remember it’s bigger than me and I turn that anxiousness into pure energy to power my purpose.

On a tangible level, I let it sink in when people reflect the value I bring. At one point, I even kept a list. I seek to be a value giver, to be of service in the world through all that I do. I also make sure I’m filling my own cup, focusing not only on the to-dos or mistakes, but on the value I’ve given and the impact I’ve made. Seeing the value in yourself is where it starts, I believe. And when that’s hard to access, I remember the moments when people share how I’ve made an impact on them.

All in all, remember you’re infinite. That makes you an unstoppable badass. That fuels your purpose to play in uplifting humanity.

Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?

I am a founder obsessed with turning vision into reality. Ultimately, I want my life to be a living inspiration that anything is possible when you devote your full heart and go all in.

I currently lead two companies: Founder Flow & Celium: The Team Intelligence Platform.

Founder Flow supports female founders with a simplified, cycle-aligned path to business launch. Celium serves leaders to build their dream team with a living map to guide team development, hiring, and collaboration.

To dive deeper…

In my building journey, I always wanted people taking the entrepreneurial leap alongside me. Because it truly takes a village to grow a vision. So I was called to make a coaching support program around the launch process. Women get stuck in their heads about doubts, confusion, and imposter syndrome, and it holds us back from our highest potential and purpose. So this 12-week accelerator is designed to give the practical business skills and strategies, but also to empower the intuitive, natural leader within every woman. We disrupt classic masculine business models and lean into the secret business superpowers within every phase of the feminine hormone cycle. That’s really the most epic part—to build through alignment, not the grind. It’s a path to growing a business that nourishes your day to day, your purpose, your family, and leaves a legacy beyond you.
Learn more here: https://www.wombwise.biz/female-founder-business-accelerator

My newest startup, Celium, emerged out of a passion-fueled pitch that won me a team for a 2-day business hackathon (wild). The vision is rooted in the realization that the big-scale problems facing humanity need collaborative, innovative teams, not lone geniuses. And thus, Celium emerged to help leaders grow dream teams. We turn AI-driven team analysis and personality assessment insights into an interactive dashboard that keeps your team growing towards a shared North Star Vision. Instead of relying on resume and gut alone, Celium gives teams a clear, living map of how people work best together and strategic plays for hiring, role design, team development, and conflict resolution. The result is alignment to one North Star Vision, friction turning into collaboration, and a culture that grows people and grows the business.
Learn more here: https://celium-seven.vercel.app/

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?

1. Communication –
I heard this quote: “The #1 Responsibility of a leader is to set and communicate the vision.” from Leila Hormozi, on her podcast. It felt so deeply true for me because my leadership journey has been one of letting go of control and learning to communicate what I’m needing support with. This is truly what unlocks our capacity to build epic visions: working together, rather than wearing all the hats. And I see in my day-to-day that communication is the #1 skill to get there, whether running a meeting or offering constructive feedback that gives opportunity for growth and self-leadership, rather than micro-managing.

The simplest communication tool: Say what you mean, mean what you say. “Say what you mean” = just be real. “Mean what you say” = let your communication emerge from a deeper why.

Secondly: Get in reps. I recommend practicing pitching and public speaking as often as possible. It’s 50% reps, and 50% embodying the courage before you actually feel it. There’s scientific research by Amy Cuddy backing that embodying confidence physically leads to feeling confident mentally. So get into a power pose, hype yourself up, then do the scary thing. Remember the difference between anxiety and excitement is a mindset shift away.

Lastly: learn frameworks to support you. I love the principles behind “Nonviolent Communication” by Marshall Rosenberg for conflict resolution or any framework of radical responsibility through I-centered language. My personal framework is “always start with why.” When people (partner, family, team, colleagues, clients) know why something matters, they’re more likely to be on board because we care about meaning as humans.

2. Collaboration

When you don’t try to wear all the hats, you open up capacity to let others in. You get to bring unique perspectives, skills, and gifts together in synergy. As a team, you fill each other’s blindspots and support each other in stepping fully into your genius zone. It feels like magic in the moments, but collaboration is embedded into our human DNA.

Best way to learn this skill = doing it. Invite a friend or colleague into a collaborative project. Get to know the “genius zone” of all the people you meet. Then call on them when you need support in that zone. More often than not, people want to help and collaborate. To make it go smoothly, be clear about your roles and responsibilities from the start. Trust the other person to do their part, while offering each other both grace, accountability, and honest feedback.

3. Intuition

As an entrepreneur or human in general, you make a million micro-decisions a day. The more efficiently you make decisions, the more you stay in flow. Trusting, not toggling. Clear, not confused. Intuition has helped me in mastery of the decision-making process.

When my fascination for intuition first sparked, I explored the work of Sonia Choquette (literally the intuition queen) and trained myself on her simple practices to better listen to my intuition. Habits as simple as pausing to take three deep breaths, saying the question aloud, then responding aloud with the first natural answer can reveal the deeper truth of your intuition. The actual hardest part about intuition is not hearing the answer, but heeding it. Because it’s often pulling us towards our higher calling, and that’s stretchy. But, the more you say yes to the intuitive impulse, and get the good feedback from life for doing so, the more this intuitive guidance will become baked into how you make decisions in life and in business.

We’ve all got limited resources, time, energy, focus etc – so if you had to choose between going all in on your strengths or working on areas where you aren’t as strong, what would you choose?

YES, Go ALL IN on your strengths. We’re in an era where AI can takeover a lot of tasks and run them just as efficiently or more than humans. That means human ingenuity and uniqueness are the next forefront of value. Your unique spark. This special sauce: your stories, strengths, and soul purpose = the ultimate package you can provide to the world.

I’ve done the silly thing where you try to wear all the hats, Renaissance woman style. Now that I have a business partner and epic people on my team, it’s pure magic. It allows me to recognize and uplift other’s genius zone, while embracing and living in my genius zone on the daily. We need each other as humans. And when you get stuck in the fully independent, “I can do it all” path, you miss out on an essential element of what it means to be human. To come together & create a legacy larger than ourselves.

But, there’s one nuance, trying the unfamiliar. You might never know a secret strength until you try it. So it’s important to lean into the edges that scare you a little and excite you a lot, too.

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