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Michelle Weinstein, AKA The Pitch Queen, is the host of Success Unfiltered, which features an array of unique and inspiring guests. She talks to all kinds of innovators and achievers, including multi seven and eight figure entrepreneurs, Shark Tank veterans, authors, performers, and investors.

Her guests share their most intimate stories, no holds barred. It’s the raw and vulnerable stuff that you don’t always hear about, like major rejections, epic failures, and unrelenting setbacks.
They share their most inspiring stories of overcoming adversity, never giving up, and achieving success beyond their wildest imaginations.

She created this podcast to help entrepreneurs realize that they are NOT alone. Everyone who has attempted something epic has had their share of setbacks, failures, and NOs. By sharing unfiltered stories from extraordinary individuals who overcame hardships and ultimately achieved their version of success, her hope is to inspire others to stay in the game and hold out for their own dreams.

Her mission and goal is to inspire rising entrepreneurs to break through barriers, overcome obstacles, and make a bigger impact in the world. It’s her passion to show people how to take action, own their value, and grow their top-line revenue. You CAN build a successful and flourishing business and make a global impact by doing what you love, and Success Unfiltered will inspire you ever step of the way!

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124 | Mada Seghete Shares How to Believe in Yourself and Push Past Business Fear

Oct 9, 2019

124 | Mada Seghete Shares How to Believe in Yourself and Push Past Business Fear

Are you holding back from taking the leap into your business?

Mada Seghete leads the growth marketing team, and is one of the co-founders of Branch. She was included in Linkedin’s Next Wave, 150 top professionals in 15 industries all under 35.

Anyone who has closed a business knows how hard it is. It’s emotional and painful. Your business is like your baby, and it’s hard to let go!

When I closed FITzee Foods, and started the Success Unfiltered Podcast, I learned that I had to ask myself an important question: “Does continuing with this help me in the long term?”

That meant that I had to say NO to things that did not help me. 

Instead of trying to continue to solve pain points and continue with my old business, I had to completely end FITzee Foods, and embrace my new life as The Pitch Queen!

I was not able to serve my ideal client’s pain points until I embraced my business and was 100% a YES to that new business!

This week’s guest, Mada Seghete, was told NO from investors for her “Fitbit for dogs” app that she had created. When it came time to move on to her new business, Branch, Mada learned that in order to be successful, she had to make a complete leap from her old business into the new. Once she made that decision, and leaped into her new business, Mada saw her new business grow!

If you’re ready to make the leap into a new business, make sure that you tune into this episode of Success Unfiltered!

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Special thanks goes out to Mada Seghete for taking the time to chat with Michelle. Be sure to join us next week for our next new episode!

If You Don’t Believe In Yourself, Nobody Else Will. But why is doing it so hard? Most entrepreneurs can learn strategies. But the strategies are useless if your mind is stacked against you. What do you do to stop the negative self-talk and become your own biggest cheerleader? Start by investing in the most vital asset your business has: YOU. Grab my FREE guide Believing In Yourself (For REAL This Time) and let me show you how!

Here are a few key secrets we talked about in this episode:

  • Michelle introduces Mada Seghete.
  • Mada shares about her experience with app creation and all her entrepreneurial experience.
  • Mada and her team were trying to create an app like Fitbit for dogs, and were told NO from investors!
  • At the beginning, it’s easy to think when you’re not getting investment money, that it’s about you, not your product!
  • When they started connecting with their ideal client, the pet owner, Mada and her team found that people were not interested in their product for their pets.
  • Facing rejection was the hardest thing Mada and her friends had ever faced. They lost a lot of money, and one even had to stay on another friend’s couch because they lost everything.
  • It was helpful to understand that NO’s came from customers, not from investors. The market was small, and already saturated.
  • Hearing a NO helps you refine your business model!
  • If customers say YES and investors say NO, then you may be able to get traction to eventually gain investors.
  • Transitioning between businesses was one of the hardest, most depressing times of Mada’s life.
  • Mada’s biggest NO was when her green card was denied, and she had to wait six months before she could reapply.
  • During that time, she started Branch, her current company.
  • When Mada was in her low times, she wallowed in grief and frustration for a while: then she said NO to grief and frustration and moved on and realized it was time for her to believe in herself.
  • When they decided to sell their app, they were asked to continue working on it. But they realized that it NO longer served their purpose and long-term goals.
  • Your company and your entrepreneurial journey is your baby, and it’s hard to let go!
  • “We were just kept holding onto it because it was this thing that we had built. And looking back it seems crazy to me that we did that.” ~ Mada Seghete
  • When it comes to closing a business, you should ask yourself a few questions: “What am I gaining? What will I gain in the long term by doing this, and focusing my time on this, and how valuable is my time, and should I focus on this?”
  • When it comes to business, and attracting investors, you just have to jump in completely! It’s the only way you can make your business work.
  • “Say NO when you know that you cannot deliver.” - Mada did, and was very clear that she would not be able to deliver.
  • Mada shares what she would tell her younger self.

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If You Don’t Believe In Yourself, Nobody Else Will. But why is doing it so hard? Most entrepreneurs can learn strategies. But the strategies are useless if your mind is stacked against you. What do you do to stop the negative self-talk and become your own biggest cheerleader? Start by investing in the most vital asset your business has: YOU. Grab my FREE guide Believing In Yourself (For REAL This Time) and let me show you how!


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