Your Grandest Vision Will Get You There

Maybe you have an early stage venture and early traction or customers. But are you really on your way to scaling it out and making a shift in society and your industry?

The primary thing you have to dig deeper into is your Vision. Most likely you have pieces of it. But what would the world look like if you succeeded in reaching everyone in the world? How will you create massive value for many stakeholders? How will things fundamentally change? These questions help you not only define your most powerful Vision, but they help you embody your highest leader-self. Which means fulfillment and success even in the short term.

When I was building Iesha Learning, my sex ed venture in India, this meant imagining what the world would look like if I succeeded. There would no longer exist any sexual violence. Boys and girls would treat each other with empathy and respect. Age-old taboos and traumas would be destroyed globally, forever.

From that place, I was able to identify which stakeholders could carry this vision out, and identify different distribution and financing models that could make my vision a reality.

People often ask me how I managed to reach such scale (~600,000 students) in a couple of years, no investment capital, and a team of three people. It’s because I was continually focused on my grand vision - I was committed to embodying my highest self.

If you’re only nailing a piece of your bigger vision, then you’re not only going to hit a wall with your customers, but you’re going to start becoming more and more detached from your work. You’ll forget why you started it in the first place.

If you dig into your highest vision / self from Day One, then things will align much, much quicker than you’d expect.

It might feel daunting to tap into that big vision, but that’s because you unleash a power inside you when you dare to dream that big. Sometimes our own power can intimidate us. But that’s where mountains move.

And that’s why Vision is the first step of the Goddess Leadership framework (before Value, and then Method.)

Drop me a note if this resonated with you or you’re working on clarifying a grander dream you’d like to communicate to your stakeholders! hello@thefemalefounderslab.com