Believe Crew Podcast: How to Grow a Six or Seven-Figure Business with Joy
Most advice on scaling boils down to: work harder, grind longer, sacrifice everything. Our founder, Meghann Conter, calls BS.
On the Believe Crew Podcast, she shares why only 2% of women-led businesses ever hit 7-figures, and why the answer isn’t more hustle. Sustainable growth happens when women ditch outdated playbooks, lean into collaboration, and stop pretending their personal and professional lives are separate.
🚀 What Actually Fuels Growth
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Values > Vibes. Early on, Meghann realized that love and fun (yes, FUN) had to be baked into the foundation. Sprinkle them on top like confetti and they’ll blow away. Build with them, and they stick.
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Collaboration > competition. Women are wired for community but years of patriarchal programming taught us to claw to the top. It’s long past time to flip that script.
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Stages matter. At $250K you need systems. At $500K it’s retention. At $1M+, mindset shifts drive everything. Skip a stage, stall your growth.
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Business mirrors the personal. If you stop growing personally, your professional ceiling finds you fast.
🐣 Power Partnerships: Not Golden Eggs, but Golden Geese
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Forget chasing the one-off “golden egg” client. That’s short-term thinking (and frankly, exhausting).
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The real payoff? Golden Geese. Power partners who keep laying opportunities again and again.
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Picture it: a CFO + CMO teaming up, serving the same clients from different angles. Different lanes, same mission, bigger impact.
🌱 Vulnerability as a Business Strategy
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Most events? Everyone’s buttoned up, pretending they’ve got it all together. Cue comparison, imposter syndrome, and burnout.
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At The Dames, we rip off the mask. Vulnerability? Welcome. Bad days? Welcome. Kids, dogs, cleaning hacks, messy emotions? Pull up a chair, they’re all invited.
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Real leaders create spaces where women can unravel without fear, knowing they’ll still be supported every step of the way.
🌍 The Ripple Effect of Collaboration
- Collaboration’s impact doesn’t stop at growth. It shapes company cultures, families, and entire communities.
- Across global lines, industries, and stages of business, we rise faster together.
- Alignment matters: when you know yourself, own your strengths, and partner with women who complement (not duplicate) you, the results multiply.
- This is how we shift the face of business — not by grinding harder, but by creating spaces filled with ease, flow, laughter, and collaboration.
All of the above was just the highlight reel. For the full story (plus a few laughs), tune into Meghann’s episode on Believe Crew Podcast:
