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How To Ask for Money and Capital With Confidence (For Female Founders Ready to Stop Shrinking) #90

Episode Notes

As women we want our "work to speak for itself", but that strategy doesn't work when you're asking for money. When you're asking for money or raising capital, you have to be comfortable putting yourself out there and speaking about yourself, your strategy, and vision with conviction, confidence, and inner authority that this will work even when you don't have the evidence (yet) or very little thereof. 

Here's how to cultivate that energy, the mental models, and how to overcome common pitfalls that women often fall into.

We talk about:

• the real issue: what destroys confidence during pitch conversations 
• keeping momentum during uncertainty: toxic grit that create scarcity vs love-driven grit that allows you to spot opportunity
• the Growth Edge framework: why your discomfort zone is the territory where your nervous system needs training and how to train
• the neuroscience of abundance vs. scarcity and how it makes you more resilient and a fast learner
• simple practices to train your confidence and self-belief muscle so you stop shrinking yourself

Chapters

00:51 VC Pitch Lessons & Insight for Female Founders

03:22 Giving Pushback to Men and Inner Authority

04:35 Comfort & Self Belief When in the Unknown

06:55 Grit Love vs Fear and Why this Matters to Your Ability To Receiving When You're Trying To Raise Capital

10:58 Practice Your Pitch

12:13 Practices That Will Help You To Stop Shrinking Yourself When It Matters Most

13:32 Permission Slips Framework

15:01 Final Pep Talk