In this special Collab Week episode of Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur, six founders come together to answer one deeply personal question:

What's one thing you faked… until you made it?

You'll hear from Sheri Roder of Get UnStuck HQ, Bill McCumber of Rowan Elder, Wendy Votroubek of Integrity Legal Nurse Consulting, Sara Reece of Workmind, Patricia Ballivian of Altura Strategies, and Jane Alexander of Emma Advisor. Each of them talks about a moment when they had to show up before they felt ready.

For any wantrepreneur or entrepreneur wondering whether they really belong in the room, this episode will help. You'll hear how six founders moved from feeling like impostors to feeling like themselves, and why the "faking" part was never really pretending.

✨ What You'll Take Away

In this episode, you'll learn:

Why acting with confidence before you feel confident is how real confidence gets built
How to choose the kind of leader you want to be without turning into someone else
Why nearly everyone in the room feels the same impostor syndrome you do
How asking for help and investing in yourself can close skill gaps faster than faking it
Why being publicly visible is part of the job when you lead a company
How to stop borrowing someone else's version of leadership and own the one you've earned
What changes once you have real customers and can say your title with conviction

🎙️ Meet the Collab Week Contributors

Sheri Roder — Get UnStuck HQ

Sheri Roder is the founder of Get UnStuck HQ, a career and leadership coaching and advising practice for accomplished professionals at an inflection point. She spent more than 40 years in corporate life, including leading a department in London for the first time. Then she stepped away to build a practice around the work she loved most: helping people make decisions they've been circling for months, see options they couldn't see before, and trust their own judgment again. Today she helps clients turn messy, complicated situations into something they can act on.

Connect with Sheri: https://www.getunstuckhq.com/

William "Bill" McCumber — Rowan Elder

Bill McCumber is the founder of two ed-tech companies, Rowan Elder Productions and Applied Erudition. Rowan Elder is an async faculty development program that teaches professors to build studio-quality online lectures that feel more like YouTube than a stale slideshow. Applied Erudition is a platform that measures real capability rather than seat time.

Connect with Bill:

https://www.rowanelder.com/home

https://appliederudition.com/

Wendy Votroubek — Integrity Legal Nurse Consulting

Wendy Votroubek, RN, BSN, MPH, LNC, founded Integrity Legal Nurse Consulting in 2010. She leads a team of more than 20 legal nurses who translate complex medical data into legal strategy for civil and criminal defense attorneys nationwide. She is in the fifth decade of her nursing career and has written three nursing textbooks, including The Path to Legal Nurse Consulting. She taught at the University of Portland School of Nursing from 2011 to 2021 and now speaks on personal injury, medical malpractice, and criminal defense matters.

Connect with Wendy: https://legalnursepdx.com/

Sara Reece — Workmind

Sara Reece is the CEO and Co-Founder of Workmind, which helps growing organizations use practical, operations-first automation to remove friction and grow without adding headcount at the same pace. Over the last seven years she has implemented automation for nonprofits, small businesses, franchise systems, and Fortune 500 enterprises. Before that, her career ran through journalism, TV broadcasting, environmental research, and tech. She is the author of The Practical Path to Operational Automation and speaks regularly on automation, AI, and sustainable growth.

Connect with Sara:

https://workmind.cloud/

https://www.saralreece.com/

Patricia Ballivian — Altura Strategies

Patricia Ballivian is the founder of Altura Strategies, where she helps founders bring clarity and structure to the messy realities of scaling. She is originally from Bolivia and built her career across luxury retail and startups, working where strategy, people, systems, and customer experience meet. She has always been the person searching for the real source of friction, and that instinct became the foundation of Altura's systems-forward, people-centered approach to turning growing pains into sustainable growth.

Connect with Patricia: https://www.alturastrategies.net/

Jane Alexander — Emma Advisor

Jane Alexander is the founder and CEO of Emma Advisor, an AI platform that helps families get from high school to college with more clarity, strategy, and confidence. Her own path was unconventional: she was homeschooled in rural Idaho, went the community college route, and later did graduate work at Harvard. She then spent more than a decade advising leaders at over 200 colleges and universities. Emma Advisor grew from her belief that opportunity shouldn't depend on social capital or expensive consultants.

Connect with Jane: https://emmaadvisor.ai/

1589: WHAT should we fake until we make it!? (COLLAB EPISODE!)

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1589: WHAT should we fake until we make it!? (COLLAB EPISODE!)