Most people think marketing is the exciting part of a business. Diane will tell you why operations is actually the sexiest thing in the room.

Diane Mayor spent years in investment banking before burning out completely, and now works as a fractional COO and business consultant helping founders build the systems that hold everything else together. Her take is simple. Marketing gets people through the door, but operations is what decides whether they ever come back.

What you'll get from this one

• How a cocktail napkin in a bar turned into a career as a fractional COO
• Why operations is the glue holding every other part of your business together
• What an eleven dollar product taught Diane about what happens after someone hits buy
• Why handing AI a system you don't understand might be riskier than it feels
• The system you're already running every day without realising it
• The honest truth about what's really happening behind the businesses you admire online

If you're...

a founder who's poured everything into your marketing and never quite looked at what happens once someone actually buys from you, this one's for you.

Connect:

Diane Mayor: LinkedIn

Priya: ⁠@priya_p08⁠

Podcast: ⁠@insidethefounder_

Most people think systems and workflows are the boring part of business. Ania will tell you they're the part that gives you your life back.

Ania is the founder of She Creates, known online as the Notion girl, and she helps female founders get organised in Notion so their business actually supports them instead of running them into the ground. Before any of that, she burned out twice before turning 25, which is exactly why she's so direct about rest, play and what systems are really for.

What you'll get from this one

• How a rabbit hole of organising other people's businesses turned into Ania's own
• What it actually felt like to walk away from something she'd built her identity around
• The real lesson Ania took from burning out twice before 25
• The biggest misconception founders have about systems and platforms
• One simple way to start with Notion without overwhelming yourself
• Why offloading everything out of your head and into one space changes how you operate

If you're...

a founder who feels like everything is living in your brain and you're one dropped ball away from a meltdown, this one's for you.

Connect:

Ania: @shecreatesmgmt

Priya: ⁠@priya_p08⁠

Podcast: ⁠@insidethefounder_

Most people think a money mindset problem comes from one big dramatic moment. Emilie shares how it almost never does.

Emilie Nutley is a money and business strategist who helps founders build wealth without burning themselves out to get there. After running her business one way and burning it to the ground when she had her son, she rebuilt it from scratch around the life she actually wanted, and that's the lens she brings to this conversation about money, identity and the stories we inherit without ever choosing them.

What you'll get from this one

• Why your brain treats one pound in the bank the same as a million, and what that means for how you spend
• The word people use to describe how women spend money, and why Emilie thinks it's time to take it back
• How people pleasing quietly shows up in your pricing long before you notice it
• What it actually takes to build wealth once you get past the budget spreadsheet
• Why building a business around your life, not the other way around, started as a survival decision for Emilie

If you're...

someone who has done the mindset work and still feels like money is something that happens to you rather than something you have a say in, this one's for you.

Connect:

Emilie Nutley: @Emilienutley

Priya: @priya_p08

Podcast: @insidethefounder_