September for Audrey McLoghlin is all about resetting into fall style and leaning into her fellow female founder community.
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OUR CHAT WITH audrey
Audrey McLoghlin is the Founder of Frank & Eileen and President of the Frank & Eileen Foundation, her 501c(3) nonprofit dedicated to unlocking access to exceptional entrepreneurship education for young people. Audrey built a beloved brand without a single outside investor and then turned her hardest lessons into a mission to create exponentially more women entrepreneurs. A self-described uniform dresser who wishes it were fall year-round, Audrey sat down with us for a cuppa to talk Corduroy season, resilience as a competitive advantage for women, and the importance of building a network early.
AUDREY: The Foundation was what I call a silver lining. It originated from the worst year in my entrepreneurial journey—2020. But it was also the year we created the Frank & Eileen Giving Pledge. That experience prompted some deep focus work on the impact I want to make. If we all just did that one thing, the compounding effect would be unbelievable. So, I chose my one thing that I think could completely change the world for the next generation of girls and women—scaling the number of women entrepreneurs. The Foundation is my vehicle for driving and achieving that mission.
F&E:What would the future look like if we had exponentially more women entrepreneurs?
AUDREY: If fifty percent of companies were owned by women, it would completely and fundamentally change the products available in the marketplace. It would change what leadership teams look like. Women founders are more likely to hire more women. You hire your network, so we need to build networks. And obviously, there'd be more wealth creation for women at all different levels. Maybe the old American dream was like a white picket fence and two-and-a-half kids or whatever, but my version of the American dream is financial freedom and independence for women. Choose to do whatever you want with that — but having those choices fundamentally creates a different life for you.
AUDREY: The Foundation was what I call a silver lining. It originated from the worst year in my entrepreneurial journey—2020. But it was also the year we created the Frank & Eileen Giving Pledge. That experience prompted some deep focus work on the impact I want to make. If we all just did that one thing, the compounding effect would be unbelievable. So, I chose my one thing that I think could completely change the world for the next generation of girls and women—scaling the number of women entrepreneurs. The Foundation is my vehicle for driving and achieving that mission.
F&E:What would the future look like if we had exponentially more women entrepreneurs?
AUDREY: If fifty percent of companies were owned by women, it would completely and fundamentally change the products available in the marketplace. It would change what leadership teams look like. Women founders are more likely to hire more women. You hire your network, so we need to build networks. And obviously, there'd be more wealth creation for women at all different levels. Maybe the old American dream was like a white picket fence and two-and-a-half kids or whatever, but my version of the American dream is financial freedom and independence for women. Choose to do whatever you want with that — but having those choices fundamentally creates a different life for you.
AUDREY: Consistent. I very much always want to feel like me. In order to simplify my life instead of constantly having to find new things, I just buy many of the thing that I determine works for that season. For as long as I can remember, my base uniform is Famous Denim on top and California Vintage Denim on bottom. Then I layer on Cotswolds sweaters or cardigans or our brand-new Cotswolds Coatigan I am absolutely obsessed with.
F&E: How would you hope women embrace Frank & Eileen pieces in their September wardrobes?
AUDREY: September is always the perfect time to reset. You just finished summer, and you've been wearing dresses and linen and white and sandals, and now it’s time to start putting together your fall wardrobe. For me, it's key pieces: you need an incredible flannel button-up. You need one key outerwear piece like a quilted Eileen. You need a Corduroy in a beautiful fall color that'll become a neutral.
F&E: What personal attributes do you have that you think have really helped you not only survive and succeed but also thrive?
AUDREY: My number one entrepreneurial quality is resilience. Women are inherently incredibly resilient, and I think that makes us really good entrepreneurs in the long term.
AUDREY: Consistent. I very much always want to feel like me. In order to simplify my life instead of constantly having to find new things, I just buy many of the thing that I determine works for that season. For as long as I can remember, my base uniform is Famous Denim on top and California Vintage Denim on bottom. Then I layer on Cotswolds sweaters or cardigans or our brand-new Cotswolds Coatigan I am absolutely obsessed with.
F&E: How would you hope women embrace Frank & Eileen pieces in their September wardrobes?
AUDREY: September is always the perfect time to reset. You just finished summer, and you've been wearing dresses and linen and white and sandals, and now it’s time to start putting together your fall wardrobe. For me, it's key pieces: you need an incredible flannel button-up. You need one key outerwear piece like a quilted Eileen. You need a Corduroy in a beautiful fall color that'll become a neutral.
F&E: What personal attributes do you have that you think have really helped you not only survive and succeed but also thrive?
AUDREY: My number one entrepreneurial quality is resilience. Women are inherently incredibly resilient, and I think that makes us really good entrepreneurs in the long term.
AUDREY: I'm not a social person, and I wasn't when I was young. I didn't go to parties. I don't get energy from large social situations. But I wish that I'd been able to explain to myself how important building a support system of both people my age and at several stages later—that I could ultimately build this community that over years and years would compound. I didn't build any of those relationships until later, and I don't think I got comfortable leaning into it until I was about forty years old.
If I can only give one piece of advice to a young entrepreneur, it would really be to have her understand that it's hard by design. And if it were easy, everyone would do it. Just because it's hard for you does not mean you're not cut out for it. It means you're actually doing the work. Part of the entrepreneurship journey is failure. If you don't fail, you're probably not pushing yourself hard enough or you just got lucky in a macro moment. I think you learn exponentially more from your failures than your successes.
AUDREY: I'm not a social person, and I wasn't when I was young. I didn't go to parties. I don't get energy from large social situations. But I wish that I'd been able to explain to myself how important building a support system of both people my age and at several stages later—that I could ultimately build this community that over years and years would compound. I didn't build any of those relationships until later, and I don't think I got comfortable leaning into it until I was about forty years old.
If I can only give one piece of advice to a young entrepreneur, it would really be to have her understand that it's hard by design. And if it were easy, everyone would do it. Just because it's hard for you does not mean you're not cut out for it. It means you're actually doing the work. Part of the entrepreneurship journey is failure. If you don't fail, you're probably not pushing yourself hard enough or you just got lucky in a macro moment. I think you learn exponentially more from your failures than your successes.
F&E: What is something to genuinely look forward to on this entrepreneurial path?
AUDREY: There's something really gratifying about being able to say that you figured out how to build something from nothing. Nobody can take that away from you. At some point in my entrepreneurial journey, I woke up and thought, this is who I am. There's no turning back now. I might fail. I might start over, but I'll always be an entrepreneur.
F&E: What is something you believed early on in your entrepreneurship journey that turned out to be wrong?
AUDREY: When I was a young entrepreneur, I had no idea about macro issues. I had no idea how little control I had really about what's going on in the world. Not understanding that even if you're doing everything right, an acute macro change—whether it's COVID or whether it's a great recession or whether it would be tariffs or war—can completely change economics, demand, or logistics. Learning to mature as an entrepreneur is learning to expect the unexpected.
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