How Female Founder World Built a 29,000+ Founder Community on beehiiv

Overview

Female Founder World is a media brand and community helping women launch and scale consumer businesses. Founded by Jasmine Garnsworthy, it brings together a newsletter, podcast, workshops, and live events into one ecosystem designed around real founder needs and not surface-level inspiration.

What started as private conversations between founders evolved into a public platform serving 29,000+ engaged subscribers, with content rooted in tactical education, financial transparency, and peer connection.

The newsletter is built and scaled on beehiiv.

The Challenge

As Female Founder World grew, Jasmine needed a platform designed for:

• Long-form, editorial content
• Community-first storytelling
• Clean, premium reading experiences

The previous platform was optimized for ecommerce marketing—not media—and introduced unnecessary friction that distracted from content quality and community building.

Why beehiiv

Female Founder World migrated to beehiiv in early 2022 after Jasmine discovered the platform through another newsletter.

Key reasons for switching:

• Clean, modern templates optimized for reading
• Intuitive, drag-and-drop editor
• No excess features or distractions
• Built specifically for content-led brands

“beehiiv is intuitive, simple, and clean. The design already feels finished, so I can focus entirely on the content.”

Community-Led Content Strategy

Female Founder World prioritizes depth over volume.

High-performing formats include:

• Founder Finance Diaries: transparent breakdowns of revenue, costs, and growth decisions
• How-to features: practical playbooks founders can apply immediately
• Curated insights: lessons sourced directly from women building real businesses

Many newsletter stories extend into live discussions, workshops, and in-person events—turning content into lasting community connection.

Results

• 29,000+ highly engaged newsletter subscribers
• Strong crossover between newsletter, podcast, and live events
• A growing online and offline founder network
• Increased trust driven by financial transparency and peer learning

The newsletter has become the connective tissue of the Female Founder World ecosystem.

Favorite beehiiv Feature

Templates

“Templates are clean and fresh, it’s exactly how I want to receive information in my inbox, and how we want to communicate with our community.”

Female Founder World shows what’s possible when content, community, and design work together.

beehiiv helped a founder-led media brand:

• Launch quickly
• Publish long-form editorial content without friction
• Build trust and engagement at scale

If you’re building a content-led brand and want a platform that gets out of the way and lets your community shine. Start your newsletter on beehiiv for free