26 Ways to Use the Founding Females® Mastermind to Grow Your Business
If you’re building a business and feeling like you’re doing it all on your own, you’re not alone. Growing a business can feel overwhelming, especially when you're constantly Googling answers, second-guessing your next move, or wondering where your people are.
Inside the Founding Females® Mastermind, women are growing faster because they’re surrounded by others who get it. They’re sharing wins, working through roadblocks, landing collaborations, growing their visibility, and showing up for each other in powerful ways.
That’s exactly why the Founding Females® Mastermind exists.
This blog gives you a behind-the-scenes look at 26 powerful ways members are using our Mastermind to grow their businesses, build momentum, and create real connections with other driven women.
We’re a group of over 60 female entrepreneurs coming together to grow businesses, share resources, generously share wisdom, and cheer for one another.
From collaborating on client work to getting featured in our email list of 1,100+ subscribers, the opportunities inside our female business mastermind are plentiful and so is the support.
If you’ve been looking for your community, consider this your invitation to take a closer look at how to use our women’s business mastermind to grow your business.
And if this sounds like something you need in your life, join our waitlist to be notified about when Membership Week opens again.
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26 Ways to Use the Founding Females® Mastermind to Grow Your Business
Whether you're just getting started or scaling up, the Mastermind is a powerful growth engine for your business. Here's how to make the most of it:
1. Complete the Member Feature
We want to tell the world about you. Once inside, take advantage of getting featured on our marketing platform. We turn your story into a full blog post (complete with SEO-boosting backlink) on our website that receives over 12,000 visits every year, feature you in an email to our 1100+ list, and highlight your biz several times a year on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn, with a combined audience of over 5,000.
2. Schedule Coffee with Another Member
Jump on a virtual coffee sesh with another member to connect with another human who gets it, brainstorm ideas, learn about each others businesses, check for referral opportunities, and not feel so alone.
3. Use the Members-Only Discount Codes
And submit one of your own! We have a dedicated space for members-only goodness as a thank you for being part of this amazing community. Save on products and services our incredible community offers as experts in their respective fields. You’ll find everything from photography discounts, to coaching discounts, to jewelry discounts. Add an incentive of your own as a way to connect with other bright-minded women in our community.
4. Add the Founding Females® Member Badge to Your Website, Socials, and/or Email Signature
Boost your credibility and show your clients you’re investing in yourself. Display the Founding Females® Mastermind Membership badge in lots of visible places to set yourself apart as a leader.
5. Show Up and Engage
Something magical happens in your brain when you prioritize attending our strategic coaching calls live. Visit the Events tab, RSVP to all calls, and mark them in your calendar. Consider it "you" time. Plan to share your experiences and insights so we can grow together.
6. Take 15 Minutes to Prepare Before Jumping on Calls
Ask yourself, "What do I want to get out of this call?" This will help you go in with intentionality, ask specific questions to a group of women who can lend expertise and insight, and get the most out of your membership.
7. Check in Regularly
Designate at least one day of the week as your “check in day” where you catch up on posts in our private community away from social media, respond to messages, and engage your mind in growth strategy.
8. Add a Post
Feeling stuck? Need some inspiration? Have a particularly challenging client and you’re not sure how to respond? Pop your thoughts into a post and let other members rally around you.
9. Set Your Membership Pin Somewhere You’ll See It Often
All new members receive a shiny enamel Founding Females® Mastermind Membership pin in their first month because truthfully, you won’t feel inspired every day. The membership pin will help remind you why you started and that you have an entire community of women who have your back.
10. Host a Co-working Sesh
Prefer to work with friends? Set up a Zoom sesh and invite others to join for laughs, accountability, and inspiration while you get your work done.
11. Join a “Power Circle.”
Power Circles are tighter knit accountability groups who check in with one another, encourage each other, share wisdom, and get granular on each other’s businesses.
12. Request a Hot Seat
Share your vision, dreams, and challenges with the group on a one-hour call and let the group pour into you with a focused brainstorming session. You get the benefit of fresh ideas and other members get the benefit of hearing all the inspiring input - it's a win-win!
13. Attend a Founding Females® Meet Up (or Start One of Your Own)
Founding Females® Meet Ups are free, in-person opportunities to connect with a community of like-minded women. Show up, pour in, and follow up afterward to widen your network and check in monthly with a healthy dose of motivation.
14. Do the Internal Work
Inspiration is great, but allow that feeling to move the needle in your business by pairing it with action. Take time to process the lightbulb moments you learn inside the community. Reflect on how you’ll change your habits for better outcomes. Hold yourself accountable for growth every month. Journal about your vision and give yourself permission to want what you want. Your business needs you to grow into the next iteration of yourself and the women around you can help you do that.
15. Download the Mastermind Prep Sheet
Before each monthly Mastermind call, download the Mastermind Prep Sheet and spend 15 minutes prepping your mind for the dialogue. Use the Prep Sheet to take notes on lightbulb moments, takeaways, and inspiration you hear on the call.
16. Meet Up with Another Member IRL
Find a member in your area or plan a visit while you’re traveling. Virtual connection is amazing, but nothing beats an IRL hug.
17. Live Interview Other Members
Set up a time to interview each other on your social platforms. Make it personable. Chat through the highs and lows of business, what kind of clients you each serve, and how you create transformation with your offerings.
18. Dive into the Founding Females® Resource Library
Use the templates, download the guides, take the Press Release 101 Course (regularly $99 but complementary with membership), and watch the trainings. The Founding Females® Resource Library is packed with transformative goodness and it only continues to grow.
19. Follow Other Members
Make sure you’re getting notified of all the good stuff. Head to Members > Top (in the drop down) to see a list of all members in the Founding Females® Mastermind (there are over 60!). Explore their profiles and click “follow” so you can stay in-the-know.
20. Share a Win!
It’s easy to feel judgement when you share wins out in the wild, but in the Mastermind, we warmly welcome hearing about other members’ wins and celebrating! It’s not bragging; it’s inspiration. Your wins inspire the rest of us about what's really possible when it comes to building a business.
Land your dream client?
Fire a not-so-great client?
Hit a revenue milestone?
Finish that SOP?
Share it with us!
21. Initiate a Collaboration
Whether it’s an Instagram giveaway, or Leadership Retreat, a Boss Babe photoshoot, or teaming up for a client project, tap into the magical synergy in the Mastermind by heading up a collaboration. When it comes to strategic partnerships, collaborating compounds the results! Check out these articles about how we’re walking this out at Founding Females®:
22. Launching Something Awesome? Share in the Community!
Let us get behind your launch and add momentum. Share your launch details with us. Members might be willing to add it to their newsletter, share your social media posts, and might even need your offering themselves.
23. Share Your Goals
Have a BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) you’re working toward? Share it with us so we can help keep you accountable, help clear your path, and cheer you on toward success.
24. Set Up an Expert Speaking Session
Share your expertise with our community. Let’s set up a call so you can help educate and pour into other members. They’ll get a first class ticket to learn more about your expertise and be able to refer your way when the opportunity arises. And because we believe women shouldn’t work for free, Founding Females® has a budget set aside for compensating speakers.
25. Tell Us About Your Ideal Client
Share a post about who you’re looking to connect with and the transformation you help create. We might have someone in our networks who needs the exact thing you offer!
26. Message Other Members
Dive into the chat feature inside our private community to message other members one-to-one. Whether it’s an industry-specific question you need help on or just want to holla atcha girl, use the chat feature to connect with the other amazing women in the community.
Conclusion to 26 Ways to Use the Founding Females® Mastermind to Grow Your Business
It’s not just you. The culture we live in pushes independence and self-sufficiency. That’s the message we’re fed, but we can choose to build our businesses more effectively. Building a business doesn't have to be lonely or confusing. Having a community of support is the “secret” so many women have discovered.
Inside the Founding Females® Mastermind, women are growing faster because they’re surrounded by others who get it. They’re sharing wins, working through roadblocks, landing collaborations, and showing up for each other in powerful ways.
If even one of the ideas in this post made you think, “Wow, I could really use that”—then this is your sign. You don’t have to figure it all out on your own.
Sign up for Founding Females® Membership Week waitlist and learn more about surrounding yourself with women who are ready to grow with you.
Finding Community in Female Entrepreneurship
Who’s in your circle? If you don’t have a female entrepreneur community yet, it’s time to find your flock.
Momentum begins in the circles you’re already part of, so if you aren’t part of a strong interconnected community of women, start here with Founding Females®.
At Founding Females®, we have lots of opportunities to join an uplifting, supportive, ambitious female entrepreneur community.
The Founding Females® Women’s Business Mastermind is more than just a group of women — it’s a community of bold, growth-minded women entrepreneurs who get it. Inside our private, off-social platform, we share insights, celebrate wins, and support each other through the real challenges of running a business.
Founding Females® Meet Ups - Meet Ups are free, monthly, in-person meetings where we focus the conversation around problem solving business challenges. Click the link to learn more about existing chapters of Founding Females® Meet Ups, or start one of your own.
Join our Founding Females® email community to receive updates, business tips, and entrepreneurial guidance from women who are building and scaling successful businesses.
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About Founding Females®
At Founding Females®, our mission is simple but bold: to help women build businesses that thrive—and feel good doing it. We create empowering spaces where women can openly share challenges, celebrate wins, and receive the kind of peer support that sparks real momentum.
Led by small business educator and unapologetic dream-chaser Francie Hinrichsen, Founding Females® offers a powerhouse lineup of resources including our signature online mastermind for female entrepreneurs, in-person business events (like our annual women’s conference and local Meet Ups), and the must-have guidebook Dream, Build, Grow: A Female’s Step-by-Step Guide for How to Start a Business.
Francie believes that any woman with a dream on her heart deserves a seat at the table—and she’s here to help you pull up your chair. [Click here to learn more about working with Francie.]
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