Episode notes
There is a piece of data out there that completely blows up one of the biggest lies we have been handed about who gets to start something and when. Harvard Business Review analyzed 2.7 million business founders and found that 50-year-old entrepreneurs are twice as likely to build a successful startup as 30-year-olds. Twice as likely. And the average age of a successful entrepreneur is 42, not 25.
So the age our culture has decided is the beginning of too late? Turns out it's actually the beginning of your peak.
In this episode, Trish makes the case, backed by real data, that women over 40 are not starting from behind. They're starting from the strongest possible foundation, and most of them don't even know it yet.
This one is for every woman who has been quietly carrying an idea and telling herself she's probably a little too late, a little too far from where she thought she'd be, and maybe not quite the right person to pull it off. The data says otherwise.
Inside this episode:
- The Harvard Business Review study on 2.7 million founders, and why the numbers completely change the story about age and entrepreneurship
- Why the number one reason women over 40 start something of their own is not desperation, and why that changes everything about how they build
- Why this episode is for every woman over 40, not just the ones with a career background
- The specific advantages that only come from decades of lived experience, including pattern recognition, audience understanding, and being done performing
- Why your specific combination of everything you are, everything you've done, and everything you've been through is a fingerprint with no competition
- What it actually means to build something designed around who you are instead of bending yourself into someone else's structure
- What the research says about how older entrepreneurs approach their work differently, and why that turns out to be the wisest possible way to build something that lasts
"You're not starting because you have to. You're starting because you finally can. And those two things produce completely different outcomes."
Resources:
- TLC Creative: tlcmediadesign.com
- Free mini-course, Package What You Know: tlccreative.myflodesk.com/welcome
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