Growing, Unlearning and Owning the “Messy Middle” (Season 2 Ep. 2)
We chat with Alex Batdorf, a powerhouse in every aspect of the word. Across her career, Alex has created large-scale tech-forward products and companies focused on helping people step into their power, be their best selves and get shit done. Speaking of… her company Get Sh!t Done is a platform focused on centralizing and curating access to growth and scale resources for female entrepreneurs to have optionality and scale their companies successfully.
In this episode, we wanted to take the conversation back to how Alex became the Alex that we all know and love today. We talk a lot about optionality and how the blanketed template advice given to entrepreneurs is one of the worst things floating around on the internet today. We explore her background growing and scaling as a black woman and how she's working to provide the tools for other marginalized groups to break the systems that hold them down.
Alex’s mission is to redefine the narrative of entrepreneurship by helping women mindfully scale companies that have impactful and intentional growth while giving them the power to do it on their own terms. If you know us here at HB&C, you know we are completely here for it! Tune in with us on this powerful conversation.
What can you expect from this episode:
Alex dives into how her entrepreneurship journey and passion for equity all started. She talked about her family and the emotional tools that helped get her to where she is today. [4:47 - 10:12]
In response to Alex’s story, Mari shares her thoughts about her own experience with privilege and identity. Alex highlights the importance of creating spaces to have conversations instead of blanketed advice. [11:04 - 15:17]
Alex gets into her younger years of success, one of which is being CEO of her first company at the age of 19. Alex gets vulnerable and shares her experience of being a hyper-achiever. She talks about a major turning point for her when she decided to resign from her former company and shift out of hyper-achievement and more into hyper-productivity. She shares how much therapy and the support of her family, especially her grandmother, have played a huge role in her path. [17:08 - 23:53]
Alex shines a light on her unlearning and the critical points that impacted her as a leader. She tells us about an unexpected yet freeing point in her life that brought her to do the next best thing for herself which led to Get Sh!t Done. [24:28 - 33:00]
We hear front and center about how Alex built her company, Get Sh!t Done. She also gets vulnerable about her anxiety and the years of work she put into moving forward on her journey. She brings up “microwave culture” a term she got from her grandmother and how our need for immediate satisfaction cripples our ability to last through the hard parts of entrepreneurship. Alex also dives into how she came to support women in moving through the revenue pipeline by focusing on traction. [34:36- 42:29]
Recommended resources in this episode:
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