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Julia Pimsleur is an author, scaling coach, speaker and entrepreneur. She is the founder and CEO of Million Dollar Women, an organization dedicated to helping one million women entrepreneurs reach $1MM in annual revenue, author of the best-selling book Million Dollar Women: The Essential Guide for Female Entrepreneurs Who Want to Go Big, Go Big Now, and the founder of Million Dollar Women Network. She is also the founder and CEO of the Little Pim language education system, as well as a former documentary filmmaker.[1] She is the daughter of Paul Pimsleur, who was a scholar of applied linguistics.
Julia Pimsleur | |
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| Education | B.A., M.F.A. |
| Occupation(s) | Author, scaling coach and entrepreneur |
| Known for | Author of the best-selling book Million Dollar Women: The Essential Guide for Female Entrepreneurs Who Want to Go Big and the founder of Million Dollar Women |
Biography
editPimsleur is the founder and CEO of Million Dollar Women, an organization dedicated to helping one million women entrepreneurs reach $1MM in annual revenue. “I’ve always been interested in moving the needle on something for women and realized this was it… I want to help close the economic gender gap by helping more women scale up their businesses.”[2] Pimsleur founded this out of her shock that just 2% of women entrepreneurs ever reach $1MM in revenue. She is a two time founder and exited her company, Little Pim, foreign language learning for young children (sold to Mango Languages). Pimsleur is the daughter of Paul Pimsleur, the creator of the Pimsleur Language Aptitude Battery and the Pimsleur Method, and author Beverly Pimsleur. Julia Pimsleur is the author of the bestselling Million Dollar Women: The Essential Guide for Female Entrepreneurs Who Want to Go Big (Simon & Schuster) and Go Big Now: Eight Essential Mindset Practices to Overcome Any Obstacle and Reach Your Goals and the founder of the Million Dollar Women, founded to help one million women entrepreneurs get to $1M in revenues. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University,[3] Master of Fine Arts degree from the French National Film School in Paris, and attended Harvard Business School’s Executive Education Program. Prior to founding Little Pim, Pimsleur was the co-founder and CEO of a film production company which produced independent documentaries sold to HBO, Cinemax Reellife and PBS. She produced several films in association with the Arts Engine film organization and was featured on This American Life.[4][5] Her films Nuyorican Dream and Innocent Until Proven Guilty were shown on Cinemax Reellife and HBO and at festivals around the world including the Sundance Film Festival.[6][7] Pimsleur's film Boola Boola... Yale Goes Coed was awarded the Sudler Award for the Arts at Yale University.[8]
Before starting her own company, Pimsleur was a fundraiser for human rights organizations, including Echoing Green, CPJ and Witness. She served on several nonprofit boards, including the Advisory Board of Global Language Project, a nonprofit organization which brings free foreign language instruction to children in disadvantaged public schools, and as Accelerator Chair of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization.
She is the host of the Million Dollar Mind podcast and Go Big Now Live on LinkedIn.
Pimsleur speaks French, Italian, some Spanish and lives in New York City with her two sons.[9]
Career
editPimsleur is the Founder of Million Dollar Women, the leading education and networking platform for women business owners, and Little Pim,[10][11] a system for introducing young children to a second language using a proprietary method called the "Entertainment Immersion Method."
Pimsleur coaches women business owners on entrepreneurship and sales through her online programs, including Million Dollar Women Accelerator and Sales CURE. Pimsleur has written over 100 blogs on scaling up, available on the Million Dollar Women site and on Forbes.com.[12]
References
edit- ^ "Julia Pimsleur - IMDb". Internet Movie Database. IMDb. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
- ^ Bedgood, Scott (2020-07-24). "How Julia Pimsleur Is Paying Her Success Forward". SUCCESS. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
- ^ "Yale Bulletin and Calendar". Yale.edu. Archived from the original on 20 January 2015. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
- ^ "Brother Born Again". Internet Movie Database. IMDb. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
- ^ "Episode 166: Nobody's Family is Going to Change". ThisAmericanLife.org. This American Life. 11 August 2000. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
- ^ "'Dream' Shows Strength of Family's Love". Los Angeles Times. 16 October 2000. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
- ^ Goodale, Gloria. "HBO's role evolves with 'Innocent'". Christian Science Monitor. The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
- ^ "Campus Life: Yale; 20 Years Later, 'Coeds' Recall Breaking a Barrier". The New York Times. 29 April 1990. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
- ^ "Weddings/Celebrations; Julia Pimsleur, Darren Levine". New York Times. 22 June 2003. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
- ^ "Language Learning for Kids". LittlePim.com. Little Pim. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
- ^ "Julia Pimsleur: The Language Leader". CEO Mojo. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
- ^ Pimsleur, Julia. "Julia Pimsleur - Forbes". Forbes. Retrieved 14 January 2015.