Building a Business That Includes You with Faith Clarke

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When we talk about building businesses that work for us, what does that actually mean in practice?

This week on Here’s What I Learned, I’m joined by Faith Clarke—organizational culture strategist and co-creator of Feminist Founders—for a deep, energizing conversation about values-led business, strategic collaboration, and how we unlearn the reflex to fix everything... especially when it’s uncomfortable.

Faith shares what she’s actively practicing right now: noticing the pull to fix when discomfort arises, and instead pausing to ask, what does my body need right now? That question alone cracked open so much for me—and I think it will for you too.

We also get into what it really looks like to build a business your way—including letting go of morning meetings, resisting hustle culture, and treating collaboration as co-creation... not another to-do list.

This one is full of grounded wisdom, gentle challenges, and the kind of strategic insight that makes you rethink how you lead, spend, and show up.

 

Topics:

• The hidden cost of using your strategic brain to avoid discomfort
• What it looks like to design your business around your actual life
• How Faith reframes collaboration as “holding the other corner of the sheet”
• What equity and liberation can look like inside your business (without the overwhelm)
• The weight of invisible labor—and what we can do about it, together

 

Whether you’re reimagining your business systems, craving more aligned partnerships, or just tired of putting yourself last… this episode is your invitation to do it differently.

 

You can find Faith at:

Website: faithclarke.com

Substack: faithwithlife

 

Mentioned in the episode:

• Feminist Founders on Substack

 

 

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