You can be running a successful business and still feel exposed. Revenue is coming in, clients are smart, demand is real, and yet, cash flow feels tighter than it should, decisions feel heavier than expected, and the business itself feels fragile.
In this conversation, Eleanor is joined by Julia Taylor, CEO and founder of GeekPack, a company that operates at the intersection of entrepreneurship and institutions. This episode names a reality many women business owners experience but rarely have language for: sometimes the problem isn’t how well you’re working, it’s where your business is getting its stability from.
Tune in this week as Eleanor and Julia take a strategic look at what business stability really requires and why it so often gets misunderstood in women-led companies. Julia shares how she built a revenue architecture that separates value creation from stability by partnering with large organizations, securing grants, and designing systems that can actually carry growth. Together, they explore why so many women are taught to absorb risk personally, and what changes when stability is designed structurally instead.
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Meet Julia Taylor:
Julia Taylor is the founder of GeekPack, a digital education company focused on helping women and underrepresented founders build real financial stability through in-demand skills. A self-taught coder and former intelligence officer, Julia built GeekPack from the ground up, starting in an RV and growing it into a company that has supported more than 10,000 people to start and grow businesses of their own. Her work sits at the intersection of entrepreneurship and institutions, using partnerships, grants, and large-scale collaborations to expand access to opportunity. With a long-term mission to equip one million people with digital skills by 2030, Julia’s leadership reflects a commitment to structural impact, sustainable growth, and building systems that actually carry the people inside them.
Today on Woman Owned:
Why a business can feel fragile even when it’s objectively successful.
The difference between value creation and business stability, and why they don’t need to come from the same place.
How partnering with institutions can reduce pressure and increase strategic freedom.
The hidden cost of concentrating risk on the founder instead of the system.
How structural decisions shape confidence, creativity, and long-term growth.
Why stability often creates more innovation, not less.
What women-led businesses can gain by widening their view of what’s possible.
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- Julia Taylor: LinkedIn