999 Drea Lynn: Smart Quitting

Mindset Shifts: Moving From Employee to Build Wealth as a Business Owner With Confidence 

Making the transition from corporate day job to business founder is never easy, even with the best-laid plans. 

So, when it comes time to make your big leap how can you avoid all the pitfalls of a plan that quickly turns to panic?

For Drea Lynn, the very first entrepreneurial lesson – how and when to pivot – came faster than expected. 

A corporate COO who had spent years leading high-performing teams, Drea went from six-figure salary to six-figures in debt before she built her multi-million-dollar consultancy, and she now helps professionals make the leap into entrepreneurship with the four-phase Smart Quit framework, and entrepreneurs escape burnout, scale with confidence, and take control of their business and life with The Smart Shift System®.

So today we talk about the art and strategy of making a “smart quit” from corporate life. 

The biggest lesson? A massive mindset shift – including finding inspiration through personal missteps, getting comfortable outside your comfort zone, and embracing the inherent unpredictability of building a business.  Financial planning is important too, so you don’t run out of cash as you bootstrap to your first paying customers, and as Drea says, and it’s 100% accurate, progress always takes longer than what you expect. 

More about Drea Lynn at drealynn.co

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More about Drea at How To Smart Quit and at DreaLynn.co

Drea Lynn is an attorney, former corporate COO, and author of Smart Quit who helps
entrepreneurs escape burnout, scale with confidence, and take control of their business and life with The Smart Shift System®. She also helps professionals make the leap into entrepreneurship with a four-phase framework.  After years leading teams inside high-growth organizations, she walked away from the corner office – and the six-figure salary – to build her own consulting business. The exit didn’t go to plan: she landed in six figures of debt before rebuilding to half a million in revenue.  Her mission is to help one million people quit smart, build bold, and live free.

 

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