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9 to 5ish with theSkimm

Frank & Eileen Founder Audrey McLoghlin on Fostering Resilience in Your Career

9 to 5ish with theSkimm

theSkimm

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Audrey McLoghlin’s peer once compared her to a cockroach that could withstand nuclear warfare. Weird compliment? Maybe. But Audrey says she was touched. She grew up with an alcoholic father and learned early to rely on herself, not a partner, to make ends meet. As a serial entrepreneur in fashion, she’s built her businesses through some of the toughest economic times—think: the Great Recession and COVID-19—proving resilience is her superpower. In this episode of 9 to 5ish, Audrey shares:  Why “stranger danger” seemingly doesn’t exist in Ireland  How she went from engineering to entrepreneurship in her early 20s The biggest thing she learned going through personal bankruptcy Why she thinks entrepreneurs owning 100% of their company isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:28.6

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0:30.8

I was selling my diamond earrings.

0:33.0

I was trying to get a helock on my house.

0:34.8

I'm trying to figure if I need to sell my house and like where would my daughter and I go? Like I didn't know how long I could sustain basically no income

0:43.2

to the company, right? So it was, it was terrifying. I'm Carly Zakin and I'm Danielle Weissberg.

0:50.4

Welcome to nine to five-ish with the skin. We've run into so many questions over the years and had so many moments where we needed advice,

0:59.6

and we got it from women who'd been there.

1:02.9

And that's what we're bringing you at this show.

1:05.0

Each week, we're helping you get what you want out of your career by talking to the smartest

1:09.4

leaders we know.

1:10.5

Because we know your

1:11.8

work life is a lot more than 9 to 5. All right, let's get into it. Hi, everyone. Today, our guest

1:21.1

is Audrey McLaughlin. She is the founder and CEO of the luxury women's wear company, Frank

1:26.9

and Eileen. Audrey started out in engineering,

1:30.1

where she was one of very few women in the workplace, but she had a budding interest in manufacturing.

1:35.7

So she went to L.A. to learn about the industry, and she eventually started her own retail and

1:40.9

wholesale clothing businesses, plural. In 2009, Audrey happened to come across a book

1:46.4

about Italian menswear, and she thought to herself, why doesn't the same quality of clothing

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