Reader,

This isn't the easiest email to send.

Entrepreneurship has been especially challenging this year ... for me, and for so most of my clients and biz buddies. Business is slower, money is tighter, and the emotional weight of the world is heavier.

I'm about to get really vulnerable. If that's not your thing, probably best to delete now.

My coaching business has been scarily quiet in 2025. I haven’t signed a new 1:1 client this year, and I’m about $1,000 short on a tax bill I need to pay now (well, technically I needed to pay it on April 15th, but the next best time is today).

Personally, things are also tough. A roof replacement, flooding basement, dying 10 and 19-year-old cars, a very sick parent, perimenopause, and (gesticulates wildly) the world on fire.

My husband is working summer school to help keep us afloat. That means I’m solo parenting during summer break, while desperately trying to Make Business Great Again™️ (🤣).

I'm so afraid this sounds like a "woe is me" email, but I'm not sharing for pity.

I’m sharing because I want to model what it looks like to be human and to ask for what you need.

Even so, I couldn't write this. I asked ChatGPT to "write an email asking for financial help that doesn't feel too embarrassing or pathetic," and then I rewrote the entire thing a few times to make it feel less awful (it still feels awful).

But here I am, imperfectly and nervously, but clearly, asking for help.

If my coaching, writing, or podcast has ever resonated with you, here are a few ways you can support me during this tough time:

💬 Book a 1:1 session

​→ 50 minutes for $100​
I'm offering 10 deeply discounted sessions in hopes of quickly resolving my pressing tax issue. Come with a messy business problem, a leadership wobble, or a big life question, and we'll do our best to work through it and devise a plan to move forward.

🧰 Buy something small

• Join the Feminist Podcast Collective because every indie podcaster deserves a values-aligned community ($5-30/mo.)
• ​Become a patron of the Feminist Podcast Collective to help provide discounted memberships to those with financial need ($5-100/mo.)
• Grab the Anti-Bro Notion Planner for Podcasters to get your show super organized ($9)
• Upgrade to a paid subscription to the Feminist Founders newsletter ($10/mo.)
• ​The Feminist Founders Guide to Building Your Dream Life is a super helpful workbook for entrepreneurs ($14)
• ​Ask for What You Want & Get It is my mini course, which inspired and informed this ask ($47)

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💵 Make a bigger investment

• ​Smart Steps to Zero Debt Paydown Program is a collaboration with the amazing CPA Meg K. Wheeler ($147)
• Sponsor the Feminist Podcast Collective ($200/year) and get front-page placement on our website as well as recognition at our upcoming UnSummit in September.
• If you're a coach who cares about social justice, find community inside the Messy Liberation Coaches Circle ($300-600/year), which I co-run with the incredible Taina Brown.

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☕️ Simply support the work

You can send me money in kind via Venmo (@Becky-Edwards-73) or via Paypal (becky@beckymollenkamp.com). This is the hardest one to put on the list because capitalist conditioning says I need to "earn" every penny (ie, transactional exchange), but I am learning to believe some folks want to help just because they can (or because I've already "earned" it via my free labor).

If you're in a resourced season and able to support me, thank you. If you're in a hard season too, I see you and I’m with you. Either way, thank you for being here. I'm deeply grateful to you all.

And don't worry, I’ll keep showing up and doing the work I'm passionate about. As I always say, I'm pretty much unemployable so I have to make this work 🤣.

And now I just need to muster the courage to actually hit 'send' on this email...

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