Julia Pimsleur is an author, scaling coach and entrepreneur. She is the 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 o
Million Dollar Women Network
She is also the founder and CEO of the Little Pim language education system, as well as a former documentary

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. She is the daughter of

Paul Pimsleur Paul Pimsleur (October 17, 1927 – June 22, 1976) was a French-American linguist and scholar in the field of applied linguistics. He developed the Pimsleur language learning system, which, along with his many publications, had a significant e ...

, who was a scholar of

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Biography

Pimsleur is the daughter of

, the creator of the

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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 social venture to help more women entrepreneurs get to $1M in revenues. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from

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, Master of Fine Arts degree from the French National Film School in Paris, and attended

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’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

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Reellife and

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. She produced several films in association with the

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film organization and was featured on ''

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''. 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. Pimsleur's film ''Boola Boola... Yale Goes Coed'' was awarded the Sudler Award for the Arts at

. Before starting her own company, Pimsleur was a fundraiser for human rights organizations, including

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, 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 CEO Check-In on IG TV. Pimsleur speaks

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, some

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and lives in

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with her two sons.

Career

Pimsleur is the Founder of Little Pim, 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, Million Dollar Women Masterclass, and Sales CURE (www.scale-cure.com). Pimsleur has written over 100 blogs on scaling up, available on her site at www.juliapimsleur.com and on Forbes.com.

References

External links

Little Pim

Million Dollar Women

Julia Pimsleur's Web site
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