What if the confidence to build what’s next doesn’t come before the leap—but because you were willing to take it? Laura sits down with seasoned entrepreneur Marley Majcher, founder of The Party Goddess! and creator of Say Yes to Sheep, for a candid conversation about trusting your own knowing, thinking critically, and staying in motion through every season of business.
Marley shares how decades of entrepreneurship, financial mistakes, reinvention, and resilience shaped the confidence she carries today. Together, she and Laura explore why meaningful growth requires more than following what everyone else is doing—it asks women to discern what truly aligns with their values, goals, and contribution. Marley’s unexpected journey from hospitality and celebrity events to an innovative fire-safety product made from waste wool reveals what becomes possible when curiosity meets resourcefulness and purpose. The conversation also brings profit back into its rightful place: not as the sole measure of success, but as an essential foundation for creating sustainable impact. This episode is an invitation to trust what you know, take the next courageous action, and remember that every challenge can expand your capacity for what comes next.
What You’ll Hear:
- Why confidence is often built through the experience of taking courageous action, navigating uncertainty, and discovering what can no longer be taken away from you.
- The role critical thinking plays in a noisy world—and what changes when entrepreneurs stop automatically following the current and begin trusting their own discernment.
- How business setbacks, financial lessons, and seasons of reinvention can become unexpected training grounds for greater resilience and self-trust.
- What becomes possible when curiosity and observation create space for an entirely new opportunity to emerge, even when it looks nothing like the path that came before it.
- The deeper relationship between profit, purpose, and contribution—and why knowing the true economics of a business matters for women who want their impact to last.
Resources
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Meet the Guest:
Marley Majcher, the mastermind behind The Party Goddess!, is renowned for orchestrating events for elite clientele including Snoop Dogg, Sofia Vergara, Pierce Brosnan, and Vanessa & Nick Lachey. Her insightful book, But Are You Making Any Money?, has made her a sought-after coach in the small business realm, helping entrepreneurs navigate modern business challenges and trends. Beyond her own writing, Majcher has contributed to several influential works on leadership and entrepreneurship and is a regular guest on many of the nation’s top podcasts.
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Meet the Host:
Laura Gisborne, founder of Limitless Women, empowers female entrepreneurs to create businesses that are both profitable and purposeful. With 30+ years of experience, from building multi-million dollar enterprises to guiding small businesses, Laura understands the challenges of scaling beyond solopreneurship. She's a sought-after speaker, business growth strategist, and author of "Stop the Spinning – Move from Surviving to Thriving" and "Limitless Women." Laura's focus is on mindset, authentic leadership, and integrating social impact into business models. The Limitless Women community has raised over $750,000 for charities, reflecting Laura's commitment to "profits with purpose."
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Welcome to the Limitless Women podcast. Our mission is to
Intro:help women business owners like you grow profitable businesses
Intro:and actualize your opportunities to serve and give to yourself
Intro:and others. Here's your host, the founder of Limitless Women,
Intro:Laura Gisborne.
Laura Gisborne:All right, my friends. Welcome back to the
Laura Gisborne:Limitless Women podcast. Today, I'm really excited to introduce
Laura Gisborne:you to a friend of mine that we were trying to figure out our
Laura Gisborne:origin story. We were introduced by a mutual friend many, many
Laura Gisborne:years ago when we were just getting started. And I think
Laura Gisborne:it's before Limitless Women was even Limitless Women. I think it
Laura Gisborne:was when we were in the Powered with Passion, Passion, Purpose,
Laura Gisborne:Profits, really trying to figure out what this calling was that's
Laura Gisborne:grown into this work today. Marley Majcher is, like myself,
Laura Gisborne:a very seasoned entrepreneur. She's been in multiple
Laura Gisborne:businesses, and she has a new invention and creation that I
Laura Gisborne:just am really excited for you to learn about. She's an
Laura Gisborne:innovator, she's very, very funny, and really engaging, and
Laura Gisborne:and and really a terrific girlfriend. So welcome to the
Laura Gisborne:show, Marley. I'm so happy to see you.
Marley Majcher:Thank you. I'm so glad to be here, and I was I
Marley Majcher:was thinking to myself when you say I'm a you know seasoned
Marley Majcher:entrepreneur, et cetera, I was thinking, is the translation to
Marley Majcher:everybody who's listening like a lot of wrinkles or not a lot of
Marley Majcher:wrinkles because of a lot of Botox? So I am in the latter
Marley Majcher:category anyway. You're looking gorgeous. Oh, thank you. Well,
Marley Majcher:I'm so glad to be on here, and I'm so glad to be talking to
Marley Majcher:your audience. This is going to be great.
Laura Gisborne:Thank you so much, darling. So it sounds like
Laura Gisborne:you have your roots in a family business, right? Kind of like
Laura Gisborne:with your dad, and that there's that story, and then there is
Laura Gisborne:The Party Goddess!. I mean, there's all going on in the
Laura Gisborne:world, and in Hollywood, and celebrities, and so, you know, I
Laura Gisborne:would say, as I was sharing with you before we started this this
Laura Gisborne:recording, the women who are listening are, you know, they're
Laura Gisborne:doing they're doing it, right? They're raising families.
Laura Gisborne:They're doing the do. You've been there, done that, as have
Laura Gisborne:I, and it can feel like a slog, and I feel like every time that
Laura Gisborne:I've been blessed to connect with you, whether it is you know
Laura Gisborne:through a text or call or whatever, or we get to be
Laura Gisborne:together in person, you always light up the room with just this
Laura Gisborne:incredible energy. Which I'm pretty you know I mean again
Laura Gisborne:you've been through some through, my love, and so, you
Laura Gisborne:know, I'd love to hear kind of like how your entrepreneurial
Laura Gisborne:journey started and what's led you to the current offer that
Laura Gisborne:you've created, really to help with fire safety, that's really
Laura Gisborne:going to impact the world.
Marley Majcher:Yeah, it is it is about as random as it gets.
Marley Majcher:So, I to keep the story short, I am from Pasadena, California,
Marley Majcher:where I where I currently live, and I got my business degree
Marley Majcher:from Georgetown. But before my junior year in college, I was
Marley Majcher:like at a summer. I didn't know what I was going to do. Nothing
Marley Majcher:was really exciting me, and so I decided I would go to cooking
Marley Majcher:school in France and spend the summer with a tutor, etc., just
Marley Majcher:like whatever, you know. So off I went, and then I came back,
Marley Majcher:and for one of my business classes, I needed to do a speech
Marley Majcher:on what I knew more about than anybody else. Well, at
Marley Majcher:Georgetown, that was absolutely nothing because it was a miracle
Marley Majcher:I had been accepted into the university. So, and my mom was
Marley Majcher:like, Why don't you do it on French cooking? Like, there's no
Marley Majcher:way they these kids know more about cooking than you do. So, I
Marley Majcher:was like, Okay. So, on my way to, because in those days you
Marley Majcher:got your film developed, I went and I ran into my professor when
Marley Majcher:I went to get my film developed from the summer, and and I told
Marley Majcher:her, I was like, Oh my gosh, I love your class, and I'm doing
Marley Majcher:my my speech on, you know, French cooking, and I have a an
Marley Majcher:interview with the chef from 1789. Well, Georgetown is a very
Marley Majcher:small place, and 1789 is a very famous fancy restaurant, which I
Marley Majcher:had never thought of interviewing the chef from 1789,
Marley Majcher:but that came out of my mouth. And anyway, she was like, That's
Marley Majcher:my favorite place. I went home to my roommates and was in tears
Marley Majcher:because I'd lied. I said I need an interview with him. I got
Marley Majcher:one, decided I needed to marry him. I was 19. What? What? And,
Marley Majcher:yeah, that's the reason I'm telling you the story. So, I was
Marley Majcher:19, he was 20 years older than I was, and I was like, I'm just a
Marley Majcher:junior, I've never even had a boyfriend, so how am I going to
Marley Majcher:marry this guy? And I Wow. convinced him to get a job
Marley Majcher:there, worked there the whole year, then plotted the following
Marley Majcher:summer how I was going to ruin his life because I was now his
Marley Majcher:best employee. So, right before senior year, I said, Hey,
Marley Majcher:listen, I'm quitting. I've got to focus on my studies. He asked
Marley Majcher:me out, and we got engaged the month after graduation. So, what
Marley Majcher:do you do? You go into the restaurant business. So, I
Marley Majcher:graduated at 21, we built this restaurant, I, you know, we both
Marley Majcher:went back to Pasadena, my hometown, and I was in the
Marley Majcher:restaurant business. We started a catering company and and took
Marley Majcher:over a venue, and, you know, working 24 hours a day. But he
Marley Majcher:was, obviously, an amazing chef, and I was in charge of the back
Marley Majcher:of the house or front of the house, however you want to call
Marley Majcher:it. And my whole goal was, I'm going to do a million dollars in
Marley Majcher:sales. And as we were talking before, you know, this is before
Marley Majcher:the internet, before the, I mean, we barely had to get a
Marley Majcher:Exactly, or cell phones. And so I did a million dollars in
Marley Majcher:sales. My first year, that was great, at 22, but what I didn't
Marley Majcher:really connect the dots with was that you need to do, you can't
Marley Majcher:do like 1 point, you can't do a million dollars in sales and
Marley Majcher:then spend 1.1, you know? But, I didn't Big fat. So, that was
Marley Majcher:even though I had a business degree, I still had a very
Marley Majcher:difficult time applying those lessons to my own company. And,
Marley Majcher:so then I don't know what your listeners are going to say, but
Marley Majcher:to me when you're married, you're working 24 hours a day,
Marley Majcher:you're having financial trouble, the only answer is to get
Marley Majcher:pregnant, which I did. And, so now we have the new baby in
Marley Majcher:front of the cappuccino machine, and
Laura Gisborne:Right. Oh, my goodness!
Marley Majcher:Anyway, he and I split. I am now with a
Marley Majcher:1-year-old, etc., start, you know, my parents were like,
Marley Majcher:Well, what, you know, what are you going to do? That's when I
Marley Majcher:was at the probably lowest point in my life, and I started The
Marley Majcher:Party Goddess!, and that was in 2000, and it was like, How What
Marley Majcher:possible name can I come up with that is the antithesis of where
Marley Majcher:I feel right now? Like which is like under the dirt. Awesome.
Marley Majcher:And, I was like, I'm In this going to come up with this name.
Marley Majcher:And and sure enough, the first time I went to an industry
Marley Majcher:event, they laughed when I introduced myself.
Intro:Sure. But,
Marley Majcher:I was like, I will clean your clock one day.
Marley Majcher:And, I did.
Laura Gisborne:You'll you'll you'll see. Yeah. You'll see.
Laura Gisborne:They'll show them.
Marley Majcher:And then, but my so my big thing was I I realized
Marley Majcher:that if I was going to be an event planner in a very
Marley Majcher:saturated market like Los Angeles or New York, I needed to
Marley Majcher:differentiate myself, and so I decided to go after celebrity
Marley Majcher:clients. And, that is what really Wow. put me on the map
Marley Majcher:was our the the celebrity clients, because it was like,
Marley Majcher:Oh, you do celebrity events, so you must know what you're doing.
Marley Majcher:And, you know, we can all talk about how ridiculous that is,
Marley Majcher:but that's how the world works. And, Well, and you know the
Laura Gisborne:implied, the power of implied endorsement?
Laura Gisborne:Yes. 26 years ago. I mean, I think that's the part like
Laura Gisborne:nowadays, like now we have Instagram and now we have
Laura Gisborne:influencers and we have blah, blah, blah, but you were ahead
Laura Gisborne:of your time there. It's one of the things I really love about
Laura Gisborne:you, and I I've just as I'm hearing the story, I'm thinking
Laura Gisborne:about all the all the the synchronicities of you know, I I
Laura Gisborne:don't know if you know that my first three businesses were
Laura Gisborne:restaurants. I married into a family business. My first
Laura Gisborne:husband went to culinary school, was a chef. It's really he's
Marley Majcher:a great
Laura Gisborne:guy, Oh, Father of my biological child
Laura Gisborne:biological father of my children. No longer married. You
Laura Gisborne:know, it just like I'm like, oh, we just need one more thing in
Laura Gisborne:common, my friend. So it's good to have you with us. And so
Laura Gisborne:fast-forward, the the part that I wanted to put a pin in here,
Laura Gisborne:Marley, is to remind people who are listening to this that again
Laura Gisborne:26 years ago, I'm pretty sure there was no Instagram. There
Laura Gisborne:was no such thing as an influencer, but you had, you
Laura Gisborne:know, the wherewithal and the the knowing to really tap into
Laura Gisborne:that as a way to move you from being laughed at as the Party
Laura Gisborne:Goddess to, Hey, she's the one, and how do we get with her?
Marley Majcher:Right. Exactly, because I what I what I, you
Marley Majcher:know, I just I'm always been an observer, right? And I
Marley Majcher:fortunately, I had I grew up in a in a in a nice environment,
Marley Majcher:and I had wealthy friends. And I would kind of step back and I'd
Marley Majcher:be like, My god, it's spring break. You know, you're all
Marley Majcher:sunning in Palm Springs or Palm Desert, and everybody has the
Marley Majcher:magazines out, cause you had paper magazines in those days.
Laura Gisborne:And
Marley Majcher:there it's like, Oh, this celebrity's wearing
Marley Majcher:these jeans. This celebrity. And I'm like, What what do you guys
Marley Majcher:care? You could You could out-pay, you know, you guys have
Marley Majcher:more money than these celebrities nine times over. But
Marley Majcher:that's who they were paying attention to. So I just thought,
Marley Majcher:Well, I can either just keep slogging away, you know, like
Marley Majcher:the what's that that analogy of the the when the tree falls in
Marley Majcher:the forest and nobody hears it, like did it really fall? Or do I
Marley Majcher:just like go play the game? And as soon as I started playing the
Marley Majcher:game, then it was it it it really changed. And so I think
Marley Majcher:for people listening today the answer is is step back for a
Marley Majcher:minute and observe who why are people making the decisions in
Marley Majcher:business that they're making. Like why are they purchasing the
Marley Majcher:products they're purchasing? You know, is it because of an
Marley Majcher:endorsement, a third-party endorsement? We know
Marley Majcher:testimonials and all that stuff work. Or is it because it's an
Marley Majcher:impact? Is it because of the backstory? Is it because of the
Marley Majcher:founder's story? Is it a combination of them? But there
Marley Majcher:are all these little things that that influence why people make
Marley Majcher:decisions. And so, no matter maybe somebody's going to listen
Marley Majcher:to this 10 years from now, figure out what What's the
Marley Majcher:deeper why, and what's what's moving what's really moving the
Marley Majcher:needle. Not what the news tells you is moving the needle, not
Marley Majcher:what the analytics tell you. What do you see is moving the
Marley Majcher:needle?
Laura Gisborne:Well, and I think that that Not only does
Laura Gisborne:that take discernment, but it's also such a noisy world, right?
Laura Gisborne:So the whole idea of social media is so noisy, and there's
Laura Gisborne:still what I would call earned media, right? There's still
Laura Gisborne:authentic channels that have millions and millions of
Laura Gisborne:viewers, and there's a credibility and an authenticity
Laura Gisborne:there, right? So being able to tie into the story and be able
Laura Gisborne:to get the attention of news channels that are doing business
Laura Gisborne:a little differently than where everybody else You know, there's
Laura Gisborne:there's another thing, too, and say this often in investing,
Laura Gisborne:too, is like when you see everybody going there, you want
Laura Gisborne:to go the other direction, right? I mean, this really's
Laura Gisborne:been our been our way in real estate for many, many years.
Laura Gisborne:Yeah.
Marley Majcher:I think I think that one of the key points,
Marley Majcher:whether it's this conversation or any conversation, is to be a
Marley Majcher:critical thinker and to stand on your own two feet and say, Wait
Marley Majcher:a minute! And by the way, maybe maybe, you know, this brand is
Marley Majcher:the best brand and everybody's heading to it. Okay, but like
Marley Majcher:stand and actually evaluate that and be like, Is that the case?
Marley Majcher:Because we these days it is getting easier and easier to be
Marley Majcher:swayed, and the environment is getting noisier and noisier, and
Marley Majcher:and so many times now we're kind of caught going, Wait, how'd I
Marley Majcher:get here? And it was just because the current you know,
Marley Majcher:took us that direction. So I think that critical thinking
Marley Majcher:component is, hey, does this really align with my values and
Marley Majcher:my goals, and you know, as much as you possibly can, the brands
Marley Majcher:and and companies you do business with.
Laura Gisborne:Well, and I think there's another thing that
Laura Gisborne:I'm hearing from you that I think is really important to
Laura Gisborne:bring forward for women, and that is the confidence to trust
Laura Gisborne:your own knowing and your own guidance, right? Versus what are
Laura Gisborne:you what's playing the comparison game, right? Or this
Laura Gisborne:person's doing this or this looks like that or she's got
Laura Gisborne:40,000 things here, you know, and like you don't really know
Laura Gisborne:what's going on behind the scenes with people. None of us
Laura Gisborne:do. And that goes back to what you said about, you know, can
Laura Gisborne:you make a million dollars, but did you spend a million and one
Laura Gisborne:to make it? Which Todd and I joke about that for many years.
Laura Gisborne:Like the IRS must think we're really bad at business. He said
Laura Gisborne:Right. But there's But there's learning your numbers, right?
Laura Gisborne:Like learning your margins, and that's a whole nother
Laura Gisborne:conversation. And when you know, and when you pay attention, it's
Laura Gisborne:the beginning of those like inklings of confidence, right?
Laura Gisborne:So, you have tremendous You just have such a great presence. What
Laura Gisborne:Were you raised in an environment where you were like
Laura Gisborne:nurtured to be so confident? I mean, I was raised to be seen
Laura Gisborne:and not heard, so it was a very different for me to get in front
Laura Gisborne:of a camera. I'm very curious about how, you know, were you
Laura Gisborne:born this way, darling? Is it nature Well,
Marley Majcher:okay. It's It's that's an interesting question
Marley Majcher:because I was I would say my mom raised me to, you know, you have
Marley Majcher:good manners, and you, you know, get educated, and you have
Marley Majcher:children, and you have a nice family, et cetera, et cetera.
Marley Majcher:And my dad was, you know, kind of or is kind of more of a, you
Marley Majcher:know, chauvinist. But then to have a loud loud mouth of a
Marley Majcher:daughter like me, he kind of started getting his clock
Marley Majcher:cleaned because I was like, you know, my mom is like, Well, of
Marley Majcher:course, you're going to go off and get married. And I I
Marley Majcher:remember being like 6 years old saying to myself like, How am I
Marley Majcher:not going to work? Like all I've ever wanted to do was work, and
Marley Majcher:I remember just thinking really being troubled by that, right?
Marley Majcher:And then my dad But But then on the other side, my dad would
Marley Majcher:say, Well, go off and try that. Well, why What's the Try it.
Marley Majcher:Read the book. We had a thing when we were when we were kids,
Marley Majcher:my dad would say like, you know, the the book fair or whatever
Marley Majcher:would come to school, and my dad would say, You guys can buy any
Marley Majcher:book you want as long as you'll read it. And so, I was the kid
Marley Majcher:at the book fair got millions and millions. Everybody
Laura Gisborne:was like, What are you doing? not read enough.
Laura Gisborne:Yeah.
Marley Majcher:I could because he said, Listen, as long as
Marley Majcher:you're interested, go do it. Same thing with real estate.
Marley Majcher:It's like he'd say, We need a new medical office in this
Marley Majcher:place. Go find. And I was like, Well, I don't How am I going to
Marley Majcher:find it? He's like, Do it like we used to do. You knock on the
Marley Majcher:door, and you say, Do you know anybody who's going to sell
Marley Majcher:their property? And
Intro:so, it
Marley Majcher:was very much that whole trying kind of thing.
Marley Majcher:But there's a big but here is what what I don't think we get
Marley Majcher:prepared for is with all that trying, you we need to be
Marley Majcher:forewarned that there is going to be a lot of failing and a lot
Marley Majcher:of failing, especially when you're so confident that you
Marley Majcher:often don't have a net underneath you, you break some
Marley Majcher:bones, you know, and not all of them go back in in the places
Marley Majcher:they're supposed to go. And so, I think that's why today I am
Marley Majcher:confident is because I've been at the bottom of the barrel.
Marley Majcher:I've been at the bottom of many barrels. I've been in the
Marley Majcher:barrels buried under the earth and the river, you know, and I
Marley Majcher:know I can still find my way out Houdini style somehow. So I
Marley Majcher:think that's where you know, that's where confidence comes
Marley Majcher:from when you genuinely know in your gut. You're like, Fine. you
Marley Majcher:know, Throw me the hurricane, but you know, see me in 30 days.
Marley Majcher:I'll be out of it.
Laura Gisborne:Well, and I think Let me see if I can get
Laura Gisborne:this right, because you just asked me about eWomen and like
Laura Gisborne:Kim and Sandra Yancey, who are the co-founders of eWomen, have
Laura Gisborne:been great friends, really good mentors of mine, just role
Laura Gisborne:models, amazing people. But Sandra says, Courage is a Hold
Laura Gisborne:on, I got it backwards. Confidence is a consequence of
Laura Gisborne:courage. It takes me a minute to get that in my brain, but when I
Laura Gisborne:get it, I can see it, and I can see that like the confidence
Laura Gisborne:happens as a result of you having the courage to take the
Laura Gisborne:actions, then you get there, right? And And I think that
Laura Gisborne:that's the piece It's It's one thing as I'm recording this with
Laura Gisborne:you, and I'm turning 60 tomorrow, and I had nine
Laura Gisborne:companies, and all these exits, and been married and divorced
Laura Gisborne:and remarried, and I'm still standing. You know, it's like
Laura Gisborne:It's easy to go back and say, Oh yeah, I can do these things cuz
Laura Gisborne:I've done them. But when you're young and you're doing it, it's
Laura Gisborne:not easy. Oh no,
Marley Majcher:well by the way, it's not I'm going to push back.
Marley Majcher:It's not even easy right at this at this minute. You know what I
Marley Majcher:mean? I mean, Yeah, cuz you're you're in a
Laura Gisborne:new business. it's
Marley Majcher:I'm in a new business, I'm You know, you got
Marley Majcher:all kinds of new things and and Yeah. Let's face it, the the
Marley Majcher:more you level up, the more complicated your problems
Marley Majcher:become, the more You know, all because you're ready for it, and
Marley Majcher:that's what tests you. But if you're If you are somebody like
Marley Majcher:me who's all I've ever wanted to do is work and all I've ever
Marley Majcher:wanted to do is be an entrepreneur, then you're going
Marley Majcher:to keep getting tested. And so I think an important message, no
Marley Majcher:matter how old the person is listening to this, right? Old,
Marley Majcher:young, whatever, is just to to let me firmly underscore it
Marley Majcher:might look great from the outside, it is not easy, right?
Marley Majcher:And there are a lot of tears shed, and there are a lot of, Oh
Marley Majcher:my gosh, can I actually do this? And And to your point about
Marley Majcher:Right. courage, sometimes you don't even actually have the
Marley Majcher:courage. You just are like, Okay, I'm going to just put one
Marley Majcher:foot in front of the other. I don't want to, but I've got
Marley Majcher:What's the you know What's the alternative? And then, you know,
Marley Majcher:you come out on the other side with with what people can't take
Marley Majcher:away from you. And that's, of course, what's in your brain,
Laura Gisborne:right, because you can never lose with the
Laura Gisborne:education, right? I mean, that's something that you get to keep.
Laura Gisborne:Whole nother whole nother conversation. But I would say
Laura Gisborne:what I heard you say that's important, that I want to
Laura Gisborne:reiterate for us too, is that at Limitless Women, one of our
Laura Gisborne:company's core values is that action changes everything. It's
Laura Gisborne:not about intention. It's not about our prayer and our
Laura Gisborne:meditation. We really, again, where a lot of people are really
Laura Gisborne:like spiritually connected and feeling this calling -- I love
Marley Majcher:that. I'm very spiritually connected. And
Marley Majcher:-- You
Laura Gisborne:got you got to meet God. You got to get in
Laura Gisborne:action with that's when the energy moves, right? If energy
Laura Gisborne:can't be created or destroyed, it's only moved, choose. Choose
Laura Gisborne:to take an action, and then there will be what's on the
Laura Gisborne:other side. But the but the version of you -- is something
Laura Gisborne:else that you said that I think is so powerful, and you've been
Laura Gisborne:so successful in so many ways in your life, and I appreciate your
Laura Gisborne:humility in sharing this -- the version of you that is having a
Laura Gisborne:new calling, or a new identity, or a new opportunity, a new
Laura Gisborne:level is still can be scary, because you're in the unknown
Laura Gisborne:zone.
Marley Majcher:Oh, I I I think, you know, you even hear people
Marley Majcher:that that go on TV all the time, and like getting nervous in
Marley Majcher:front of the camera is not something I I have, but but I
Marley Majcher:know very seasoned people who do, right? And I think that's
Marley Majcher:just part of that just means you're still in the game. What I
Marley Majcher:do still have, though, is, you know, you take on you take on as
Marley Majcher:an entrepreneur you you take on huge risk, right? I mean, you
Marley Majcher:can lose everything. There That's a genuine thing, and you
Marley Majcher:you just even if you thrive in that, even if you have a high
Marley Majcher:risk tolerance like I do, that doesn't mean that that you're
Marley Majcher:not still scared. Maybe not when you start the project cuz you
Marley Majcher:might not know enough to be scared. But then when you're in
Marley Majcher:it, you're like, Oh my lord in heaven, what
Laura Gisborne:Exactly. You didn't know what you didn't
Laura Gisborne:know. the fuck was I? Well, yeah. And I feel like I I for
Laura Gisborne:some reason I feel like I'm on a need-to-know basis with God. I
Laura Gisborne:feel like things get revealed to me as I'm ready. So my job is to
Laura Gisborne:work on my capacity and to remember to try to stay present
Laura Gisborne:every day, which is, again, not easy because I'm I'm highly
Laura Gisborne:creative like you, and I get distracted, and life is lifing,
Laura Gisborne:and kids are kidding, and, you know, things are happening,
Laura Gisborne:right? So tell me about what happened, if you don't mind me
Laura Gisborne:pulling you forward in this way around. It's just great to share
Laura Gisborne:the, you know, the hospitality background. I can't wait to sit
Laura Gisborne:down and visit with you more about that. What happened with
Laura Gisborne:this fire season? Like tell me about what's happening. So, so
Laura Gisborne:random.
Marley Majcher:I mean, it is it is and it isn't. So, my mom
Marley Majcher:passed away 5 years ago, and my mom what I my mom and I traveled
Marley Majcher:the world together. That was another thing when my parents
Marley Majcher:they were like, Travel, travel, travel, read, read, read, right?
Marley Majcher:Because then you really learn. And so, after my mom passed
Marley Majcher:away, she had been sick with cancer, and I just was like lost
Marley Majcher:and needed to take a a break. So, I randomly I also am like a
Marley Majcher:big visualizer and I tear magazines to this day out, and
Marley Majcher:one of them that I had torn out was this article I mean, this
Marley Majcher:was probably probably now it's been almost 20 years. And it was
Marley Majcher:an article on these sheep from the Faroe Islands. Okay, now if
Marley Majcher:you don't know where the Faroe Islands are, you're not alone.
Marley Majcher:Nobody does. They're in between Scotland and Iceland, basically,
Marley Majcher:like some owned by Denmark. It's not the right way to say it, but
Intro:Right, right, right.
Marley Majcher:And I go to the I was just sad, and I go to the
Marley Majcher:Faroe Islands cuz I wanted to see these sheep. It was on a
Marley Majcher:bucket list. They're supposedly the oldest sheep in the world.
Marley Majcher:I'm like, Okay. So I go, Not a lot to do there anyway, and I'm
Marley Majcher:wandering around, and I'm spending all this time, and then
Marley Majcher:I'm in the sheep shearing factory, whatever it's called.
Marley Majcher:But you know, my business brain turns on, and I'm like, this is
Marley Majcher:an awful lot of wool. There's gotta be something going on
Marley Majcher:here, yeah. Right, for a place that doesn't has a population of
Marley Majcher:like 48,000 people. I'm like, what the hell? What are you guys
Marley Majcher:going to do with this wool? Well, anyway, they were like,
Marley Majcher:oh, well, we have this German investor who might reinvest, and
Marley Majcher:I'm just like, you mean your your whole like GDP, obviously
Marley Majcher:I'm exaggerating, is on this one German guy who might make
Marley Majcher:handbags out of this because Faroese wool is nasty. And net
Marley Majcher:net, I find out they burn it or it goes in the landfill because
Marley Majcher:farmers make money from the lambs having the babies or the
Marley Majcher:meat. And but you got to shear the sheep. And I was like, but
Marley Majcher:what are you talking about? Like you can't just throw it away.
Marley Majcher:Fast forward, I do some research. I pack all this
Marley Majcher:Faroese wool into my suitcase, making my own version of a Space
Marley Majcher:Bag with the housekeepers of the hotel. Bring it all home. Talk
Marley Majcher:to my cousins who are PhDs and masters in chemistry, and I say,
Marley Majcher:listen, what else can you do with wool? Turns out, it's
Marley Majcher:naturally fire retardant, ironically. And we develop, and
Marley Majcher:now we've three patent applications later, have created
Marley Majcher:a product that is the first 100% biodegradable, made out of waste
Marley Majcher:wool with, I'll call it, three magic powders woven into it, so
Marley Majcher:that basically the consumer now has or will, very soon, have a
Marley Majcher:product they can put on their roof to prevent the spread of
Marley Majcher:wildfire. So it can be deployed from the roof. They can put it
Marley Majcher:in like for kitchen fires, because right now there's this
Marley Majcher:horrendous, sorry, fiberglass like blanket that you can put on
Marley Majcher:the stove which if you don't get all the oxygen out doesn't work,
Marley Majcher:and then you've got this fiberglass that's going to go in
Marley Majcher:the landfill and is horrible. Ours is you take the total bio
Marley Majcher:the size of a yoga mat, throw it over your grease fire. Guess
Marley Majcher:what? Puts it out. You're done. You take it, put it in the
Marley Majcher:garden, and it's like Miracle-Gro for your soil. And
Marley Majcher:then we've developed this product that will do will, you
Marley Majcher:know, put out EV battery fires and all this other stuff. So
Marley Majcher:that is that company is called sayyestosheep.com, and it is all
Marley Majcher:about using the waste wool from around the world. Because now we
Marley Majcher:know that the average farmer has two to three years worth of
Marley Majcher:waste wool just piling up in their barns. So we are going to
Marley Majcher:save the farmers and our lovely Southern California houses, and
Marley Majcher:everywhere else that's got that's got fire.
Laura Gisborne:Yeah. This year, I mean this year France, Spain.
Laura Gisborne:It's not I I I'm sure I'm missing, you know, I was saw
Laura Gisborne:someone yesterday Monterey where we used to live in California.
Laura Gisborne:It's just it's not, you know, for all the people who said
Laura Gisborne:global warming isn't real, you know, well we are. And it's time
Laura Gisborne:to really think, again, creatively around solutions, and
Laura Gisborne:what can we each individually do, and part of that is how we
Laura Gisborne:spend how we how we spend our money, right? Like it's one of
Laura Gisborne:the things I learned working with Lynne Twist and Pachamama
Laura Gisborne:Alliance, is like we can choose, as consumers, to make
Laura Gisborne:investments in products and services that are aligned with
Laura Gisborne:our values, right? And so this whole idea that it's not only an
Laura Gisborne:opportunity to stop a fire, but then also then the product
Laura Gisborne:doesn't cause waste, that it's biodegradable. It is literally
Laura Gisborne:full circle
Marley Majcher:because you have to shear the sheep, right? And
Marley Majcher:then we take this waste wool, and instead of like, because
Marley Majcher:everybody thinks of wool in terms of they want to make fiber
Marley Majcher:like clothing or, well we don't need we don't need those warm
Marley Majcher:sweaters to go skiing anymore, right? So the the demand is just
Marley Majcher:not there. So, we taking this literally waste and then we all
Marley Majcher:know also there's a problem with the soil, you know, and like my
Marley Majcher:hillsides out there in California, or here in
Marley Majcher:California, that's it's it's nasty, but this product can
Marley Majcher:improve the soil, then that improves, then you can grow and
Marley Majcher:then you know the heat it helps the heat sinks and all these
Marley Majcher:other things. And it is, but talk about a random full circle,
Marley Majcher:like how the heck am I working with sheep from But it and in
Marley Majcher:some ways it has but you know, from right? But you know, since
Marley Majcher:I started my career in kitchens, it's kind of ironic now that
Marley Majcher:it's like, well, I always wanted to do a product, but I just have
Marley Majcher:never had a product that I was like, What am I going to do,
Marley Majcher:like, you know, pink cutlery or something? But this way now,
Marley Majcher:They really aligned. I actually can put out the fires that I
Marley Majcher:start, you know? Oh.
Laura Gisborne:Yeah. So good. So, so good. I love that for
Laura Gisborne:you. And I love that for us. And, you know, again, we're in
Laura Gisborne:the early stages right now, but you're past ideation. You're in
Laura Gisborne:product. You've got proof of concept. You guys are moving on.
Laura Gisborne:You're doing your raise. You're doing the pieces to get it out
Laura Gisborne:in the world. So, please keep us posted and let us know how we
Laura Gisborne:can share the message and how we can buy it. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Laura Gisborne:Yeah, right. Yes. Yeah, well, one one thing people
Marley Majcher:can do, too, is we we decided kind of Speaking
Marley Majcher:of marketing directions is, you know, there's the GEICO gecko
Marley Majcher:and there's the Aflac duck and all this stuff, and so there is
Marley Majcher:no real fire prevention marketed to women, certainly not to kids,
Marley Majcher:you know, maybe Smokey Bear. So, we came up with Sparkle the
Marley Majcher:Sheep. Sparkle the Sheep is on Amazon. She's got her her first
Marley Majcher:novella, and it's Sparkle and the Bougie Flock. And And,
Marley Majcher:anyway, at the end of the day, Yeah. It's can look for it. And
Marley Majcher:we're going to just raise awareness so kids are like, Hey,
Marley Majcher:listen, Mom, what do we do? How do we? Because you know nobody
Marley Majcher:knows how to use a fire extinguisher in their kitchen,
Marley Majcher:you know? This product is something that that a
Marley Majcher:four-year-old could could put a fire out and really save lives.
Laura Gisborne:Yeah. That's true. So good. So good. Yeah, so
Laura Gisborne:awesome. I love this. I'm excited to see where this goes.
Laura Gisborne:And like I said, we really want to make sure we share the
Laura Gisborne:message, so please keep us posted. What's happening with
Laura Gisborne:The Party Goddess! these days?
Marley Majcher:So, The Party Goddess!, you know, it's it's
Marley Majcher:kind of cool to have something that literally, again, completes
Marley Majcher:the circle. So, it's I'm still doing events. We are selective
Marley Majcher:about the events that we do because, So, you know, as a
Marley Majcher:serial entrepreneur, you know, we've got a lot going on. But
Marley Majcher:now what we've done is we've always had our Party Goddess!
Marley Majcher:icon, you know, the girl with the wand and the whole thing.
Marley Majcher:And Right. now we're sort of letting Sparkle the Sheep be her
Marley Majcher:ambassador, and we are Yeah. So, I
Laura Gisborne:love it. There's a little partnership they're
Laura Gisborne:like walking together. Oh, my gosh, this is
Marley Majcher:awesome! Exactly. So, The Party Goddess!
Marley Majcher:has got Sparkle, and you know, Sparkle just kind of now
Marley Majcher:welcomes you at the door of all of our brands because we've got
Marley Majcher:The Profit Goddess! to help Awesome. I like it. Yeah. you
Marley Majcher:know, business owners make more money and actually have
Marley Majcher:something to show for it. So, yeah, we're doing events. We're
Marley Majcher:just doing less of them and, you know, bigger, cool ones that
Marley Majcher:that are fun to do.
Laura Gisborne:Well, and you just brought this up and I was
Laura Gisborne:like, I'm sorry, I was like, okay we're going to have like a
Laura Gisborne:20-minute call, but just something I can do that with
Laura Gisborne:you. I just have so many things I want to ask you and I want to
Laura Gisborne:keep you here all day and I know you have to go and I do, too.
Laura Gisborne:But I just I really want to what you just said around the profit
Laura Gisborne:is something else that I know is a superpower of yours that more
Laura Gisborne:women need help with. So, will you let us know a little bit
Laura Gisborne:about that to take us home and then let us know how we can stay
Laura Gisborne:in touch with you, Marley, because I know that you, like
Laura Gisborne:us, you're really again you love to give and you're
Marley Majcher:Yes.
Laura Gisborne:giving, giving, giving all the time with
Laura Gisborne:resources Yes. to help women with this journey to have it not
Laura Gisborne:be so hard and to be able, you know, our whole world is around
Laura Gisborne:profits for purpose, but we've got to have the profits, so tell
Laura Gisborne:us how.
Marley Majcher:Yes, well, you got to have the profits or
Marley Majcher:you're going to be divorced, you're going to have all kinds
Marley Majcher:of other things. So yeah, so what I did was I wrote a
Marley Majcher:business book to solve my own problems called But Are You
Marley Majcher:Making Any Money? And that was after a question my dad would
Marley Majcher:always ask me like, Oh this is great, this event. This is
Marley Majcher:great, you know, all this noise, but but are you making any
Marley Majcher:money? Right. Are you making any money? And so that's a giveaway
Marley Majcher:that I want to give to your audience is that and you'll put
Marley Majcher:the Awesome. Great. you'll put the info, but it's a free copy
Marley Majcher:of the book. I've written now contributed to many more books,
Marley Majcher:but this one really focuses on not just cost of goods sold,
Marley Majcher:which we all need to know about, but to me, the differential
Marley Majcher:advantage in this book and this process is a, it's written by
Marley Majcher:somebody with ADHD who, you know, doesn't really want to
Marley Majcher:focus on numbers, but we all have to. But it takes into
Marley Majcher:consideration the time that the entrepreneur puts, the time to
Marley Majcher:get a new client, the time it takes to service the client,
Marley Majcher:which doesn't fit into nice and tidily into into a cost of goods
Marley Majcher:sold category. So whether you have a a service business or a a
Marley Majcher:business, you know, a product-based business, this is
Marley Majcher:the place to start. And and trust me, I have learned my
Marley Majcher:lessons about how to do business the wrong way, and this will be
Marley Majcher:your first step in the right direction. It's an easy read,
Marley Majcher:Awesome. and you guys get it for free, so
Laura Gisborne:take it Thank you. I'm so excited. I'm so
Laura Gisborne:excited to read it. I will hopefully read it before I see
Laura Gisborne:you again. I'm just really excited to see We'll get the
Laura Gisborne:link and get it out to everyone and let them know again where
Laura Gisborne:they can stay in touch with you. And we look forward to seeing
Laura Gisborne:Sparkle and all the glory Yes. and Oh, glorious, yes. coming
Laura Gisborne:there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Glorious
Marley Majcher:she is.
Laura Gisborne:Yeah, well, thank you again for making time
Laura Gisborne:today. I really appreciate you, and I'm looking forward to
Laura Gisborne:seeing you again and getting a hug in person soon.
Marley Majcher:Love it. Can't wait. Thanks for having me,
Marley Majcher:Laura.
Laura Gisborne:My pleasure, darling.

