{"id":3441,"date":"2015-11-20T21:31:37","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T02:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bizwomenrock.com\/?p=3441"},"modified":"2015-11-20T21:31:37","modified_gmt":"2015-11-21T02:31:37","slug":"when-your-gut-speaks-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bizwomenrock.com\/beta\/when-your-gut-speaks-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"When Your Gut Speaks, Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By:\u00a0<a class=\"link ng-binding\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/moiraforbes\/\" target=\"_self\">Moira Forbes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>This is part of a series, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/moiraforbes\/2015\/09\/28\/if-i-had-a-time-machine-6-power-women-share-most-valuable-career-advice\/\" target=\"_self\"><em>\u201cThe One Thing,\u201d<\/em><\/a><em> which asks today\u2019s most successful leaders to identify the single most important lesson they\u2019ve learned on a given topic.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Launching a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/business\/\" target=\"_self\">business<\/a> inevitably presents hurdles that even the most seasoned entrepreneur can\u2019t anticipate. Equally challenging is figuring out when and how to scale that business\u00a0while facing a\u00a0daily grind that\u2019s often anything but routine.<\/p>\n<p>The women featured here have built thriving, multi-million dollar businesses while successfully navigating the hurdles that are an inevitable part of the entrepreneurial journey.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>What\u2019s \u201cThe One Thing\u201d you didn\u2019t see coming when launching your business?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nobody Reaches The Top By Themselves<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe biggest challenge I faced was building my team.\u00a0When you\u2019re working so much, your team members become your family.\u00a0Most of us spend more time with the people we work with than with our own families, so we should nurture those working relationships and make them as strong as possible. It took me a while to figure out who I could and couldn\u2019t trust and who I should keep closer to my side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tweet_line\"><span class=\"tweet_quote\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=http%3A%2F%2Fonforb.es%2F1PEcAyU&amp;text=%22Build%20out%20a%20solid%20team%20that%20can%20make%20your%20vision%20come%20to%20life%20and%20at%20the%20end%20of%20the%20day%2C%20just%20have%20fun.%22\" target=\"_blank\">Build out a solid team that can make your vision come to life and at the end of the day, just have fun.\u201d<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"vestpocket\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"vestpocket\">\n<p><em>-Michelle Phan, Founder, Ipsy<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>28-year-old\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/natalierobehmed\/2015\/10\/05\/how-michelle-phan-built-a-500-million-company\/\" target=\"_self\">Michelle Phan<\/a>\u00a0parlayed a makeup tutorial on YouTube (that generated 40,000 views in just one week) into the booming beauty business, Ipsy.\u00a0 That business is now valued at over $500 million.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Find Your Inner Superhero<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrowing up in the matriarchal culture of the Philippines and with parents who split everything 50\/50 at home and at work, gender bias was not front and center in my experience growing up.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t until I attended a women\u2019s college and then entered the workforce here that I realized a gender gap even existed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/moiraforbes\/2015\/11\/12\/when-your-gut-speaks-listen-and-more-advice-on-building-a-million-dollar-business\/?ss=forbes-woman\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE THIS ARTICLE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By:\u00a0Moira Forbes &nbsp; This is part of a series, \u201cThe One Thing,\u201d which asks today\u2019s most successful leaders to identify the single most important lesson they\u2019ve learned on a given topic. Launching a\u00a0business inevitably presents hurdles that even the most seasoned entrepreneur can\u2019t anticipate. 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