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There's a version of your business that looks great from the outside and feels like chaos from the inside. A lot of us are living in the gap between the two. Joy Foster spent years there, and she's refreshingly blunt about all of it.
Joy is the founder of TechPixies, a UK training company that's helped more than 16,000 women return to work, change careers, and start businesses of their own. It's her third company. And for years, she ran it the way plenty of founders run theirs: sharp on the thing she was building and lost on the things that keep it alive.
She didn't know what a P&L was. She took a £150,000 loan just to keep her team paid, and she's still paying it back. What changed wasn't a magic hire or a big round. It was Joy slowly learning to get out of her own way and let the company run without her propping up every piece of it.
If you've ever felt like a fraud at the parts of your business you never trained for, this one will land. Growth doesn't wait for you to feel ready, and nobody hands you the operating manual. You figure it out while the thing is already moving.
Not knowing all the details doesn't disqualify you. It just means you're in the messy middle, same as the rest of us.
🎧 Listen now to hear how Joy is turning clueless into confidence.
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