Aug 11, 2021
Jadah Sellner is a best-selling author, business mentor, host of the Lead with Love® Podcast, and sought-after international keynote and TEDx speaker. Jadah helps founders grow their businesses to the next level without sacrificing what matters most. Jadah has seen a lot of success throughout her career, but it didn’t always start that way. Her first business was a complete failure, but she never gave up. Jadah shares her dare to leap story and how she was able to prevail against all odds.
Key takeaways:
- A little bit about Jadah and how she built her company.
- In 2008, during the financial crash, no one was hiring. Jadah had to become her own boss out of necessity.
- Jadah admits that she and her husband had no business starting a business!
- Unfortunately, starting a business with Jadah’s husband really hurt their relationship and their marriage. There was so much financial stress happening.
- Jadah had to move back to California and stay with her husband’s in-laws. There were 10 people living under one roof.
- When Jadah reached out and asked for help, that’s when things changed for her, but it can be hard for women to ask for help.
- Be proactive in your own success!
- When we hit a wall and when we hit failure, we can completely give up or keep pushing through.
- Reach out to your network or new groups and never take no for an answer!
- How did Jadah get started with her green smoothie business?
- In 2012, Jadah grew her company’s Instagram followers by 30K people! Things were really blowing up.
- How did Jadah keep focus while her company was growing?
- Jadah has a policy of “no comment” left behind. Which means she responds to everyone! It’s tiring but so worth it because everyone gets seen.
- Education doesn’t make or break you. Jadah does not have a college degree; she didn’t go to school for this and was still able to come out successful.
- Women have a lot of added pressure to provide for their families while also balancing their health and wellness.
- We need to be surrounded by other visionaries that are pulling us up and keeping us grounded on what really matters.
Resources:
Quotes:
“Something happens where we fail or we get rejected, we go into, ‘I will never put myself in that situation again.’ But for me, I just had to keep going.”
“Don’t take no as a rejection. It’s just no for right now!”
“There’s extra societal pressure on us as women building meaningful businesses but also still having the energy and presence to have meaningful lives.”