"I didn't build a business to work so hard that I burn myself out. That's why I left a 9-to-5 job. I built a company culture where we do really important work, but we say all the time, "We're not curing cancer." We have six full-time employees, we're about to hire two more, and we have another nine contractors. We're a team of all women."
"If you're a menstruating founder, you lose at least five days a month to feeling gross, plus another few days during the luteal phase, during which I feel like an insane person. Men don't have to deal with these things. That's one of the reasons we have menstruation leave at Her First $100K. We also have quarterly weeks off for our employees during which they're paid, but the entire company pauses."
"My day usually begins around 7:30 a.m. I'm not up at 5 a.m. drinking my lemon water because I like my sleep. I'm not a coffee drinker, so if I don't get at least eight hours of sleep, I'm a little grumpy. If I have to be up early for a flight, a podcast, or a press interview, that's going to impact my wakeup time, but if I have control of my schedule that day, I'm usually up about 7:30 a.m."
Tori Dunlap founded Her First $100K at 25 to fight financial inequality by giving women actionable money resources. She left a 9-to-5 job to avoid burnout and built a company culture that emphasizes important work without glorifying overwork. The team comprises six full-time employees, two incoming hires, and nine contractors, and is entirely women. The company provides menstruation leave and quarterly paid company-wide weeks off. Dunlap values sleep, typically wakes around 7:30 a.m., checks email and Slack upon waking, and does not follow early-morning productivity rituals like 5 a.m. routines.
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