Weekly show where my featured guests and I explore the financial and business challenges women face on the entrepreneurial journey to success. You'll hear them talk about the money side of their businesses in ways you've always wanted to know about, but wouldn't dare ask. They openly share their disappointments, failures, successes, and everything in-between as they grew sales ranging from 6 to 9 figures. Knowing where your business stands financially helps you make critical decisions with confidence. It's simply the best way to be sure you grow a business that fuels the life you want to live.
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episode 9: The Journey of Linda Lopeke
Linda’s CEO journey started after a traditional corporate career in finance and banking as a system engineer. Her first business venture was launched in 1982 to fill in a gap in the technical writing for the technology industry. Then, in 2002, she realized the internet was taking off and she saw many people were selling false business advice, so she decided to start SmartStart as a way of providing the foundational business, leadership skills and core competencies that would be required to succeed in business, whether an online or offline business. Her business model is created as a thank you to the 5 mentors who gave Linda amazing opportunities to grow in her career.
Linda and I talked about the five core competencies in building a business, key lessons that she learned about finance during her corporate career and how she applied this finance skill to her business and to teach her children, her reasons to build SmartStart philanthropy program and her advice for other entrepreneurs.
This episode is brought to you by my own CFO program, where I help CEOs and entrepreneurs how to grow their business through the power of finance and positive cash flow. This program is created for CEOs and entrepreneurs who have 6 figures or 7 figures business but, either they struggle to pay themselves like a true CEO or they treat their business like a credit card for their clients or they simply do not know where all their money go. To find more about my CFO program, book a call with me christina@christinasjahli.com or sign up for my FREE videos training series.
Connect with Linda:
Website: https://www.smartstartcoach.com/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/smartstartcoach/
SmartStart philanthropy: https://www.smartstartcoach.com/smartstart-philanthropy-program/