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🌻sold my first company. building the next.
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In this reel, Drew Rogers reflects on the funding landscape for female founders.

She talks about how not every business needs outside investment, but for sectors like tech, health tech and fintech, access to capital can play a much bigger role in how quickly a company can grow.

She also reflects on the progress being made - more female founders, more dedicated funds and more visibility - while questioning whether that progress has yet translated into a genuinely level playing field.

Things are moving in the right direction, but there is still some distance to go.

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Preparing a business for sale starts long before the transaction itself.

In this carousel, Drew Rogers shares how she approached the process - breaking the business into different areas, understanding where each one stood, creating a roadmap for improvement, and using external valuations as a reference point.

The key takeaway: if you want a stronger valuation, you have to build the business to support it.

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A business valuation isn’t just one number.

In this reel, Drew Rogers explains how she broke the business down into different departments and areas - sales, marketing, branding, reviews, NPS, systems, operations and looked at each of them separately to understand where the business stood and what needed to improve before a sale.

She also spoke to business brokers for an external view, but instead of accepting the first valuation, she spent time working through those areas so the business could support the value she wanted to achieve.

A useful reminder that preparing a business for sale can start long before the actual transaction.

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For Drew Rogers, entrepreneurship wasn’t one sudden leap.

It was a staged process - saving money, setting milestones, and using mornings, lunch breaks, evenings and weekends to test whether she could genuinely build something of her own.

Only after that, did she feel ready to step away from the security of a full-time job.

Sometimes the motivation to build starts with curiosity, but the confidence comes from preparation.

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Drew Rogers built a business from nothing, lived and breathed it, and then made the decision to sell.

What stood out to me was how much of that process had to be carried quietly - with only a small circle knowing what was happening.

Knowing it was the right decision didn’t necessarily make it an easy one.

A few reflections from our conversation on the hidden side of selling a business.

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A few lessons from one founder journey that stayed with me.

Building a business is rarely just about growth. It’s also about resilience, knowing when to slow down, making difficult decisions, and understanding what comes after a major milestone.

In this conversation, we touched on:

• why bootstrapping can be the harder road
• what burnout really feels like
• the loneliness that can come with selling a business
• why an exit is not necessarily the end of the story

The full conversation is now live on Money Made Simple.

Save this carousel if any of these lessons resonate with you.

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The full episode with Drew Rogers is now live on Money Made Simple.

Drew has built, scaled and sold businesses - and in this conversation, we go beyond the success story and talk about what the founder journey actually feels like behind the scenes.

We spoke about:

• Why bootstrapping can be the harder road
• What real founder burnout feels like
• The loneliness of selling a business
• Knowing when to step back and recover
• Building again after an exit
• Resilience, growth and the decisions that shape you along the way

What I enjoyed most about this conversation is that it focuses on the part people don’t always see - the pressure, the uncertainty, the difficult decisions and the lessons that stay with you.

🎙️ The full episode is now live.

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We’re back doing what we love - amplifying and promoting brilliant women of colour business founders! 🥳

In our latest episode, we meet @imdrewrogers , the exited founder of My Language Lab.

Drew shared her journey from leaving a finance career to growing a language learning company, which she sold last year.

We spoke about her experiences, the importance of pursuing passion, overcoming challenges, taking risks and empowering women of colour in business.

It was a fascinating conversation - we hope you enjoy it!

🎧 Listen now on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

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