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Episode 64: The Tough Love Every Six Figure Founder Needs

June 16, 2026

What 23 Multimillionaire Founders Have in Common

I know a founder who spent three months making what she called strategic pivots after one underperforming launch. New model, new offer, new platform, and every few weeks a new reason why the original decision was wrong. I watched the whole thing. What I saw was fear wearing a business plan.

I just got back from a weekend with 23 multimillion-dollar female founders, and I came home with three things I've been too polite to say. Every one of those women started exactly where you are. What they did differently comes down to hustle, money, and staying the course.

Halfway through day two, I heard about an opportunity, saw the ROI instantly, and wrote a $30,000 check on the spot. I hadn't invested at that level in years. I'd been heads-down building, and somewhere along the way I'd stopped doing something I used to do without thinking in my first 10 years: paying to be in rooms with people who were smarter than me in the areas I was trying to grow. The SBA reports that 88% of business owners with a mentor say having one is invaluable, and UPS research shows that mentored entrepreneurs are twice as likely to build businesses that survive five years or longer.

If you've been putting in the hours and the results still don't reflect it, at least one of these three is going to explain why.


RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

  • Revenue highs are exciting. The unexplainable dips that follow? Not so much. If you are a female founder making six figures or more annually, the problem isn't that things aren't working. It's that you can't yet see what is. And you can't repeat what you can't see. My Free Live Training fixes that. Click here to join.
  • High-six-figures is a ceiling for a reason. What got you here stops working here. If you're a female founder earning $500K or more annually and you've already tried it all, what you need next isn't another strategy. It's someone inside your business showing you the way forward. The Milly Club is my private six-month coaching program for women growing toward their first million. Apply here.
  • Leanne Lopez Mosley on Instagram
  • Leanne Lopez Mosley's website

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In the last 16 years, I've quit my job, started and scaled my own business to $120 million, become a New York Times Best Selling Author, and taught over 100,000 students how to build a business they love. I've learned more than a thing or two and The Amy Porterfield Show is where I get to open my playbook, yearbook, and entrepreneurial diary to share them with you!

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