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Running your own race, understanding your business model and making smart guesses with Hattie Willis
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#013 - Designing involves innovating. However, innovation requires a lot of guesswork. Making intentional guesses requires the right mindset, techniques and courage. In this episode, Hattie Willis, founder of the entrepreneurship education company, Guessworks, shares her biggest learnings from the world of venture building and corporate innovation. Hattie unlayers the real drivers that help changemakers innovate - exposing yourself to the right amount of risk and understanding not just designs, products and technologies, but also business models.
In this episode:
- Pick your own race that gives you energy
- Have your own authentic story to tell
- Be aware of where you get your energy from
- Hattie's top learnings from founders
- Look after your mental health as a founder
- Get an accountability partner
- And much more
Shownotes
Business Model You Book
https://businessmodelyou.com/the-book/
The School of Life
https://www.theschooloflife.com/
Secret Leaders Podcast by Dan Murray-Serter
https://www.secretleaders.com/
Not My First Guess Podcast
https://notmyfirstguess.buzzsprout.com/
https://www.instagram.com/notmyfirstguess/
https://twitter.com/NotMyFirstGuess
GuessWorks
Hattie Willis on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hattie-willis-she-her-2b47b376/
Show credits
Illustrations by Isa Vicente
https://www.instagram.com/isadezgz/
Music by Brad Porter
Episode edited by Niall Mackay
https://sevenmillionbikes.com/
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Chapters
1. Intro (00:00:00)
2. How Hattie got started in venture building (00:01:38)
3. Career self-awareness (00:08:57)
4. Hattie's top learnings from founders (00:12:41)
5. Managing imposter syndrome (00:16:04)
6. Impact of lack of risks for intrapreneurs (00:23:39)
7. Founding your own company (00:27:34)
8. Being aware of where you get your energy from (00:28:58)
9. Making guesses as an founder (00:33:44)
10. Looking after your mental health as a founder (00:37:14)
11. The value of having coaches (00:40:11)
12. Business models are the real drivers (00:46:02)
13. Understanding your business model (00:48:44)
14. What would Hattie do differently? (00:50:56)
15. One common myth Hattie would like to debunk (00:52:58)
16. Hattie's last message to humanity (00:55:32)
17. Recap summary (00:58:31)
18. Hattie's new podcast (01:02:52)
19. Finding Hattie online (01:03:50)
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