You Find Your Edge When You BREAK | Emmie Faust - Female Founders Rise
scale with soul1 Jul 2025

You Find Your Edge When You BREAK | Emmie Faust - Female Founders Rise

From burnout to community leadership.... After 18 months of Long Covid, perimenopause, and complete breakdown, Emmie Faust channelled her recovery into creating one of the UK's most impactful founder communities - Female Founders Rise.

🧠 What You'll Learn

  • What does burnout actually look like and how to bounce back
  • The surrender mindset that turned a passion project into an 8,000-member community
  • The people-pleasing trap that keeps founders stuck and how to break free
  • Turning her breakdown into an 8,000-member community - Female Founders Rise
  • How to build sustainable founder communities while prioritising mental health
  • How to monetise a community without compromising your mission or accessibility

📖 Chapters

00:00 - The breaking point

01:05 - Rising from the ashes

04:59 - "Founder burnout is huge..."

06:30 - The Founder's Dilemma: Pushing Until You Break

08:21 - Early Warning Signs You're Approaching Burnout

11:39 - The Surrender Experiment: Letting Go While Taking Action

14:58 - From Self-Doubt to Self-Confidence

17:15 - The People-Pleasing Trap

23:28 - Building Female Founders Rise: From 10 to 8,000 Members

28:47 - The Art of Gut-Based Decision Making

33:14 - The Community Monetisation Challenge

38:29 - IMPACT first - INCOME second

41:55 - Why Everything Should Cost Something

47:02 - The Two Questions That Changed Everything

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