You Built the Business - Now Pay Yourself with Ebonee Slater

This episode contains discussion of pregnancy loss, infertility, and a health crisis. If you are struggling, please reach out to a licensed therapist or mental health professional.Ebonee Slater never wanted kids. Then she met her husband at 35, lost a pregnancy, and spent the next eight years and eight rounds of IVF to have her daughter Blessing at 43. She also built a multimillion dollar real estate firm, survived being laid off from a Big Four consulting executive role while on her first maternity leave, and burned out so hard it put her in the hospital.What came out of all of it is FounderPay — a system that helps mom entrepreneurs build a business they can reliably bet on, starting with actually paying themselves.In this episode we get into the layoff that lit the fire, the burnout that forced a reset, her P.A.I.D. framework for getting off the revenue roller coaster in 90 minutes, why paying herself literally saved her marriage, and what she wants every exhausted underpaid mom in business to know right now.You should listen if:You're running a business but have never written yourself a consistent paycheck and you know it's a problemYou've been laid off, pushed out, or just done with corporate and you're figuring out what's nextYou want to hear someone who has been through it all and come out the other side still building, still fighting, still unapologeticTake Ebonee's free FounderPay Gap Diagnostic — five questions, one honest reflection of whether your business feels dependable enough to support your life, and the right next step from there: https://founderpay.co/#diagnosticI'm also opening up free coaching spots on the show. If you've got a story you're telling yourself that's keeping you stuck, or you just need some fresh eyes on your business, apply HERE and we'll work through it live.New episodes every Thursday. If this resonated, leave a five-star review and share it with a fellow renegade who needs to hear it.