Niching Your Way to Wealth with Stephanie Breedlove

<p>Today, I am interviewing Stephanie Breedlove of Breedlove Capital. Stephanie co-founded Home Pay, a full-service company that helps families process, payroll, and taxes related to their household employees. I heard from John Warrillow about Stephanie's experience with selling her company for over $50 million to Care.com. Super inspiring to hear about some of the struggles that she had to go through all the way to what she's up to now.</p> <p>Many of us who are founding companies deal with all sorts of things that can come up and it can be easy to get distracted by the small stuff when in reality, the potential can be so much bigger than we realize. When you hear her story and how she niched and how that played out for her success, it is very inspiring and will likely give you some ideas about how you can increase the value of your own company. Enjoy!</p> <p>Stephanie shares her insights:</p> <p>- "I will say the number one thing that I have become is more self-aware and, I think that's really hard for people. And, when you are an entrepreneur, I do think that you are more successful if you can look in the mirror and recognize the warts and work on them, which none of us like to do. On the flip side, recognize the great moments that have happened. And, you're the one leading that ship and those moments and pat yourself on the back. So I feel like one of the gifts that come to me in this journey is the highs and the lows that come with self-awareness. And, I will say, I think that makes you a better person."</p> <p>- "Absolutely nothing can replace the value of hard work and sacrifice. As long as it's, you know, burning you out and you're finding balance in that process, nothing replaces that hard work, the sacrifice, the compromise. And I love this adage, that failure is a learning for something next. And that's something next may be the greatest thing you ever do. And that's what makes you feel like a rock star? I mean, that those risks, the hard work, the compromise, the failures, all these things that sound