The Language of Success with Theresa Slater

Theresa Slater is the President of Empire Interpreting Service, which she founded in 2003. She built her company into a respected, award-winning organization with more than 300 interpreters and an array of customer-centric services. A speaker, author and advisor to new entrepreneurs, Slater’s love for business drives her on her path. Slater’s new book, The Language of Success: An Interpreter’s Entrepreneurial Journey (Business Expert Press, Aug. 30, 2024), is both autobiography and a how-to (or how not-to) guide for entrepreneurs.

Learn more at www.empireinterpreting.com. 

It’s Time for Women Entrepreneurs to Know They’re Worthy 

This segment is about how one woman’s journey from destitute teen to triumphant business leader is instructive for would-be women entrepreneurs.

The Big Idea: Statistics on failure rates for women-owned businesses would give would-be women entrepreneurs pause. Some 20 percent of startups fail in the first year, and nearly 50 percent by their fifth year. Further, women must battle feelings that they don’t “measure up” and that they’re not worthy of becoming business leaders.

The So-What: Theresa Slater’s personal journey from starting at below bottom to being a successful business leader is unorthodox, but instructive. It began when she left home at age 15 with just a ninth-grade education and only babysitting jobs for work experience. Her desperation in just being able to survive day-to-day greatly shaped her life and how she eventually came to run her own business. She came to realize that women tend to worry too much about what others think and lose opportunities “sitting in the corner worried about whether we’re worthy.”

Key Messages: Reflecting on the ways that grit, drive, and purpose got her through hardships and led her to become a successful business leader, Slater addresses:

• How to overcome imposter syndrome and self-doubt

• How to bootstrap your business and attract clients

• Why businesswomen must learn to stop apologizing

• How to move through the stages of doing everything yourself, to pulling away and becoming the strategic thinker

• Why entrepreneurs must commit to self-care

• How the drive for self-improvement never ends 

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