Episode Description
Getting fired can wreck your confidence, or it can clarify your priorities fast.
In this episode of Women Like Me Stories & Business, Julie Fairhurst sits down with Jen Kornoely to discuss entrepreneurship, money mindset, pricing confidence, and the hard lessons many women learn when they become their own bosses.
After losing a corporate job for reasons unrelated to performance, Jen made a powerful decision: she would never again let anyone else control her income, stability, or options. What began as a photography hobby became a real estate photography business, but the dream of being her own boss quickly met the reality of taxes, cash flow, pricing, and understanding that revenue is not the same as take-home pay.
Julie and Jen dig into personal finance for women and why money conversations are essential for entrepreneurship. They explore why so many women underprice their work, how scarcity thinking shows up in business decisions, and what changes when women start having honest conversations about value, numbers, negotiation, and financial confidence.
Jen also shares how personal development books and business books helped her advocate for herself, grow her confidence, and think differently about business. She talks about accessible learning tools like Libby and Hoopla, and why you do not need to pay MBA-level prices to start building your business and financial knowledge.
The conversation also explores Jen’s women-only community, She Reads, She Leads Book Club, where women vote on business, finance, and mindset books each month and meet on Zoom to turn ideas into action. This is not just about reading more books. It is about implementation over inspiration, learning what to keep, what to leave behind, and why community can become a genuine business strategy.
If you are a woman entrepreneur, author, coach, creative, photographer, service provider, or home-based business owner who has felt isolated, unsure about pricing, or ready to get smarter with money and business, this episode will give you practical next steps and a serious boost of momentum.
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