She Drove Her Company Into the Red — Then Sold It Five Years Later with Mindy Gibbins-Klein

Founder Unfiltered - What Founders Think But Never Say · Apr 2, 2026 · 38m · transcript

After three corporate layoffs, Mindy Gibbins-Klein decided she was done playing by someone else's rules. She went out on her own — no business plan, just determination — and built a career that now spans 15 books, two TEDx talks, and coaching over 50,000 leaders across 18 countries.

Bradley Jacobs sits down with Mindy to dig into the real stuff: what it actually took to buy out her co-founder, run a publishing company into the red, and then — through radical ownership and a few honest conversations — turn it back around. She talks about selling the company five years later and freeing up 35…