Forging Your Own Path with Maggie Partin

Freed Stories

Are you in the corporate world looking to make the scary jump to entrepreneurship? Are you worried about the road to entrepreneurship being a lonely one? If your answer to either of those questions is yes, then the Freed Stories podcast is for you!

The Freed Stories podcast seeks to bridge the gap between wantrapreneur and entrepreneur. Join me, your host Jackie Heil, in this episode as I interview Maggie Partin, co-founder (alongside yours truly) of Freed Media and someone who made that scary jump from the corporate world to entrepreneurship. Maggie and I discuss how she got started on her entrepreneurship venture, describing herself as a “multi-passionate entrepreneur.” She encourages new entrepreneurs to trust their instincts and to take risky leaps if need be, and she shares with us the challenges of entrepreneurship, such as how it can be frustrating to do something that has never been done before because there are no answers out there; you have to learn on your own.

Being on your own is, after all, often the scariest part of wanting to move toward entrepreneurship. The road to entrepreneurship can be lonely, but it doesn't have to be! We at Freed Fellowship seek to build a community of entrepreneurs and bridge that lonely gap, and Maggie and I discuss that loneliness and how to overcome it, and she also provides us with what she considers to be the three core things to do if you're just starting your journey of entrepreneurship: (1) surround yourself with people who will support you and hold you accountable for what you say you're going to do; (2) have a clearly defined mission statement that you define right from the get-go; (3) be prepared for things to go awry and have a back-up plan in case they do.

I hope that you'll join me on the Freed Stories podcast as guests share their stories of entrepreneurship – their successes, their failures, their goals, their hopes, and so on! Be sure to hit that subscribe button so that you never miss an episode!

Time Stamps

[0:05] – Jackie Heil provides an overview of what the podcast will cover overall as well as what this particular episode will cover.

[0:54] – Jackie welcomes Maggie Partin, the other half of the Freed Media duo, to the podcast.

[1:16] – Maggie gives us some background information about herself such as how she got started on her entrepreneurship venture.

[2:19] – We learn what a typical day's routine looks like for Maggie.

[3:39] – Maggie explains how she balances her personal life with her work life.

[4:50] – We discover what Maggie's career dream was as a child and how that led to what she ended up doing, such as how she was interested in architecture and building homes.

[7:19] – Maggie tells us about how she was temporarily an events and parties planner but how that burned her out physically and emotionally, which led her to start ventures such as Stitch Fix.

[9:51] – Maggie offers us advice on what to do if we're looking to move from the corporate world to entrepreneurship like she did.

[12:26] – Jackie comments on Maggie's advice, adding that some people don't realize how lonely self-employment and entrepreneurship can be.

[12:53] – Maggie illustrates how she deals with loneliness as an entrepreneur and finds the balance between feeling lonely and enjoying time to herself.

[15:10] – Maggie sheds light on what she has learned from The Fellowship.

[17:22] – Maggie lists off and explains what she considers to be the three most important things about starting a small business.

[20:27] – Jackie asks Maggie what she would have told herself five years ago if she could and where she sees herself five years from now, and Maggie shares that she hopes to own a home and also run several multimillion dollar businesses.

[22:27] – Jackie brings the episode to closure by thanking Maggie for joining her.

Links and Resources

Maggie's Instagram Page

Stitch Fix

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