Dielle Charon: Five Things I Learned As A Twenty-Something Founder

An Interview With Ben Ari

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As a part of our series called “My Life as a TwentySomething Founder”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Dielle Charon.

Dielle Charon, MSW, is a certified life coach and 7 figure sales expert for WOC Coaches. She is the host of the Black, Banked, and Booked Out Podcast and runs two sales programs: Five Figure Freedom and Six Figure Liberation.

Thank you so much for joining us in this interview series! What is your “backstory”?

I started out as a social worker for Duke university. I had finished grad school, taken out student loans, and received the offer for this job that was a salary that would barely pay my student loans. I felt defeated to say the least.

I had a friend send me a podcast about being an online coach and I started to dive into what this meant. I then decided in 2018 to start a side hustle as a coach. I’d finish my 9–5 and come home and Coach my clients. In 2021, I finally became full time and in 2022 I hit seven figures in my business. It has been an incredible ride!

Can you share the funniest or most interesting story that happened to you since you started your company? What lessons or takeaways did you take out of that story?

I had a big launch that we had been planning for. It was our year we were trying to hit 7 figures, so every launch counted. Then, I got really sick. I was bedridden, lost my voice, and was completely exhausted. There wasn’t a thing I could do to help with the launch.

So we rose to the occasion. My team was able to have others run the webinar, some worked to project manage the gaps, and my creative director worked to get social content together in a way I didn’t have to show up. I was bedridden but had one of the most successful launches I have had. This experience taught me so much about being a leader and having good…