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Julie Deane (Part 1 of 2) – She Took Less Than $1000 and Turned it Into Millions (in 5 years) With the Idea for What Would Become The Cambridge Satchel Company

May 23, 2018 | By Joy Chudacoff Leave a Comment

Julie Deane on She's Got Moxie with Joy Chudacoff

Grab your earbuds and get ready for one of the most transparent, refreshingly honest (and humorous) interviews you’ll ever listen to. Julie Deane, Founder & CEO of Cambridge Satchel, is funny, witty, clever and clearly quite brilliant.

This is Part One of Two episodes with this dynamo – truly an ALL ACCESS pass into the quick mind and interesting life of this amazing woman.

Julie shows up incredibly raw and transparent as she shares with us how she started her company on less than $1000 and since then, has created the Cambridge Satchel Company with 100 employees and sells her unique handbags in over 120 countries.

Starting as a simple business that would help to make enough money to send her children to private school to avoid her daughter being bullied, Cambridge Satchel Designs are now spotted in the front rows at international fashion weeks and runways. ‘A-list’ stars like Taylor Swift, Alexa Chung, and Lady Gaga love them. Because of her incredible success, Julie was the first woman to win Entrepreneur of the Year for all of Europe, and she has collected the Queen’s Award for Enterprise from Queen Elizabeth herself!

Today’s interview (Part 1) will be about the first seven years of founding and growing The Cambridge Satchel Company from scratch, and evolving it into a $65 million company! Stay tuned for next week’s episode to learn more about Julie’s growth, discoveries, and personal development as an entrepreneur.

You can Subscribe and Listen to the Podcast on Apple Podcasts. And be sure to leave me a Rating and Review!

When you are the founder, even if you don’t know how things can be done, you still know more about your business than anyone else on the planet.” – Julie Deane

Show Notes:

  • How Julie went from selling 1 bag to 100 – surprisingly simple ‘roll up your sleeves’ advice
  • Why not knowing **the rules** in marketing actually doubled her business and brought more profit to the bottom line
  • What Julie wrote in the 300 EMAILS she sent out DAILY to gain awareness for the business
  • She thought her bags were geared to the children’s market – until Vogue came calling!
  • How Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga and Zoey Deschanel came to love Cambridge Satchel Bags
  • What happened when the Cambridge Satchel Bag took a trip to fashion week
  • What Julie did next after firing her unethical manufacturer (at the time she had a back order of 16,000 bags with this guy)
  • Julie’s reaction when a man called her “a stupid woman”
  • Her open & honest share about how her Biggest Challenge also turned out to be her Biggest Mistake
  • The ONE ingredient you need in your business in the early days
  • and much, much more

You can go through money so quickly if you fall into that whole thing that goes with having a big ego.” – Julie Deane

Connect with Julie Deane:

Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | The Cambridge Satchel Company

You can kill yourself by trying to be perfect.” – Julie Deane

Ali Brown – When to Ditch the Entrepreneur Formula and Go After Your True Potential

September 25, 2017 | By Joy Chudacoff Leave a Comment

Ali Brown on She's Got Moxie with Joy ChudacoffI’m so excited to have Ali Brown as my first guest on She’s Got Moxie! Ali is a personal friend and mentor, and an incredibly successful entrepreneur.

Ali Brown is one of the most recognized entrepreneur coaches in the world. She has built a coaching and consulting enterprise that ranked in the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies in the nation.

Ali was named one of Forbes “Women to Watch”, one of Ernst and Young’s “Winning Women Entrepreneurs” and an “Entrepreneur Delegate” for the United Nations Foundation Global Accelerator.

Ali was also featured on ABC’s Secret Millionaire, and she has over 250K followers via her Glambition Radio Podcast, AliBrown.com and social media.

Today Ali tells us about what led her to quit her job and start her own business. She also shares amazing advice about how to stand out in your industry, and her best productivity tip.

I think you’ll find this episode engaging and truly motivating!

You can Subscribe and Listen to the Podcast on Apple Podcasts. And be sure to leave me a Rating and Review!

When you’re starting off we all have to hustle, you will have to do some things that you may not love and you gotta get it done.” – Ali Brown

Show Notes:

  • What can you do to stand out professionally
  • Why you need a formula when you first start out as an entrepreneur
  • How do you know if you should start your own business
  • What criteria should you use to evaluate important decisions
  • How to be more productive
  • What it’s like to have your husband work for you
  • Why is it important to have a vision for your business
  • How can you create a clear vision for your future
  • Why you should do the opposite of what everyone else is doing
  • How to figure out your priorities
  • What makes a business successful
  • Why being well read in your industry is important

Follow the formulas, and take all the advise you can, and say yes to everything until there’s a moment you’re ready to say no.” – Ali Brown

3 Gold Nuggets of Advice:

  1. Figure out how you are going to make money
  2. Start listening to yourself and stretching yourself a little bit more every time that you have the opportunity
  3. Trust yourself and the process

Links Mentioned:

  • Learn more about Ali’s Iconic Event
  • Listen and Subscribe to Ali’s Glambition Radio Podcast
  • Connect with Ali Brown:

Facebook | YouTube | Twitter | Ali Brown

Having the courage to change everything was my most courageous and proud moment.” – Ali Brown

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