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Hello, today's Thursday, which means we're bringing you

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girls that start up a weekly series where

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we spill the tea on how to create

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a seven figure side hustle because no one

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saves their way to wealth. You're

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joined today by Sim, a seven figure

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business owner and with me is Maya,

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an entrepreneur in the making. I always

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said entrepreneur weirdly just then. Hi,

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Maya. KTP here. How are you?

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You know what? I'm good. I'm

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in New York. I am good, but Maya, I need

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to tell you something. I am staying in a rental

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accommodation in New

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York and I have clogged the toilet

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and oh, I don't know

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what to do about it. You know? Do

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you have, like, you know, if you're

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in an Airbnb, then you have someone

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to contact and then they take

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care of it? The homeowner? Yeah.

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Hey, girl, can you come unclog the toilet?

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Oh, what else are you going to do? Are you

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just going to call a plumber to fix it? I

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don't know a plumber and I don't even have a

1:04

US phone number. Who am I going to call? Exactly.

1:07

You've got to call the owner. So

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you just have to. She came over today because

1:12

she was like, oh, sorry, I like left my

1:14

passport. She's like flying out, I think. And

1:16

I was like, awesome. And I was just like in the living

1:18

room because I wanted to give her space while she was like,

1:20

you know, getting her stuff from the bedroom. It's like a one

1:23

bedroom apartment. What if she

1:25

tried to use the bathroom? Yeah,

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it is the funny thing. When

1:29

you clog a toilet, sometimes it

1:31

might literally just be the toilet

1:33

malfunctioning. I'm not blaming myself. Oh,

1:35

no. That's a given. No, wait.

1:38

No, of course not. Sorry,

1:40

should I have started with that? Because

1:42

I was going to say you

1:45

don't have to be embarrassed. I'm

1:47

not. It just malfunctioned like anything.

1:49

It's a bad toilet. Exactly. Call

1:51

the onus, remember, because you can't

1:53

be holding in your

1:56

pee. For a bad toilet. Yeah, or have

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to pop down to a camera. have to.

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So today's topic is about transitioning

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your skills. Kind of like how

3:21

we're transitioning into the episode now.

3:24

Transitioning your skills and talents from being

3:26

an employee to an entrepreneur. This was

3:28

actually a question that came through from

3:30

one of our listeners who said, what

3:32

skills should you focus on to upskill

3:34

into a better job? For example, being

3:37

a virtual assistant, remote working. If

3:39

I am in my job

3:41

and I want to quit and I want to be my own

3:43

boss and I want to just have

3:45

more freedom, what kind of things should I

3:48

be focusing on? Should I be upskilling? And

3:50

what maybe am I already doing that could

3:52

be helpful? And

3:54

I think it's A really

3:57

cool subject to coordinate. Or

4:00

to talk about else because the

4:02

starting your own business can be

4:05

intimidating and stepping into the the

4:07

unknown of some sort so would

4:09

be good to hear how parents

4:12

skills that you has a new

4:14

job you know someone to be

4:16

working some have fourteen years and

4:19

this so nervous about just starting

4:21

something new. I think it's really

4:23

cool to Klein of Race frame

4:26

that mindset and as he was

4:28

transitioning into something else. Knows

4:30

it it. You can also use.

4:33

You. Know the skills are things that

4:35

you're currently doing and your current my

4:37

hey your current work to. Enter.

4:40

Into this new realm of a

4:42

sudden you business and entrepreneurship. So

4:44

what skills and experience from your

4:47

previous my A from your previous.

4:49

Work. Did you find

4:51

most valuable we knew transitioned into

4:54

being an entrepreneur a business owner

4:56

said my previous jobs when I

4:58

like saying from when I was

5:00

like a teenager included working at

5:02

a petrol station included quit working

5:04

a retail job. I was like

5:06

volunteering at a Punjabi Sunday school

5:08

for a while my mom was

5:10

a teacher's i would just turn

5:12

up and like help teach fallen

5:14

and I became an optometrist which

5:17

is obviously that was like my

5:19

big go s. And the skills

5:21

that I think. I.

5:24

Found really helpful in that I took

5:26

away. And it came

5:28

down to people schools because any

5:30

job that you have unless you

5:32

are like a don't think there's

5:34

like many jobs in the world

5:36

even if you like a software

5:38

engineer that like sits behind a

5:40

computer and is it really like

5:42

talking to Smith is socialism to

5:44

teams and you still dealing with

5:46

people sneeze So living hell to

5:48

intellect, problem solve and as I

5:50

have found that like any job

5:52

I've done. Assessing it's always

5:54

help me with as getting over my

5:57

fear of strangers and. That. Is

5:59

so interest. it, like, in

6:01

starting a new job and being the new

6:03

person? Yeah, like starting the new job, being

6:05

the new person and just learning how to

6:08

adapt. And like, I think we all do

6:10

this, like you start a new job and

6:12

for the first week you kind of vibe

6:14

it out. You're like, who's the cool person

6:16

at this workplace? In my case, it was

6:18

Maya. Obviously. Like when I started, obviously. Like

6:20

who's the person that I can go to

6:23

and be like, I don't really know what

6:25

I'm doing. Can you help me? Who's the

6:27

person that I definitely can't do that to?

6:29

Like you just observe people and engage how

6:31

you are going to, not code

6:34

switch with them, but how are you going to

6:36

mirror their energy and make like vibe check? Like

6:39

vibe check. And so I feel like no

6:41

matter what job you've had,

6:44

if you start your own business and you

6:46

have customers, you're going to vibe check your

6:48

customers quite quickly and go, okay, like this

6:50

customer, this person is super high

6:52

energy. Let me match that verse, like, okay,

6:54

this person. If I

6:56

like came in like guns blazing with

6:58

my extravertedness, they would literally run away.

7:01

So it's just sensing who

7:04

your audience is and who your customers are

7:06

to be able to adapt to

7:08

that as well, to serve their needs really, you

7:10

know, if you care. Yeah, just a little bit.

7:13

And so that's like what tone of voice is.

7:15

So when you start a business, you'll be asked

7:17

like, who is your ICP? What's

7:20

your like ideal customer profile? I've

7:22

not heard that term before. You don't

7:24

work in venture? No, surprisingly not, babe.

7:26

So it's like a jargon way of

7:28

saying like, who is your ideal customer?

7:31

What do they look like? What do

7:33

they do? Like target market. Yeah. Who's your

7:35

target market? And like imagine an actual person. Like

7:37

what is her name? How old is she? What

7:39

kind of car does she drive? What does she

7:41

do on weekends? Cause like, you know, the

7:44

kind of person that maybe is buying a Frank

7:46

green drink bottle is also someone that like wears

7:48

little lemon and goes to brunch and drinks marches.

7:50

And so you'd like building out the kind of

7:52

way that this person wants to be spoken to

7:54

and what their hobbies are. And

7:56

so If you are good at vibe

7:58

checking and picking up what people. Right and

8:00

kind of and faring without

8:02

generalizing or stereotyping than you

8:04

can pick up the tone that

8:07

your branch needs. For.

8:09

The people that you talk to. So it

8:11

was very easy for me to go akin

8:13

to skills and miss For that. It's for

8:15

women. It's from woman aged this to this.

8:18

that's one elon. But and they sing. And

8:20

as smart woman. That like

8:22

god they are so scared because no one

8:24

has sought to them in a way that

8:26

doesn't feel like to meaning when it comes

8:28

to money. sniff they do. How do I

8:30

invest at like twenty million articles with like

8:32

all these words he click on one page

8:34

that leads to another page Click a one

8:37

page and huge Since hall and you get

8:39

overwhelmed and skills and this is gonna be

8:41

like this oldest sister that's like hey girly.

8:44

And. This an index funds look

8:46

at what Baden's i don't day

8:48

trade. I've got your back care

8:51

as that kind of considered like a soft

8:53

skills you know, like quotes. I love soft

8:55

skills. I think so. I think. They.

8:57

Are superior because I did not

8:59

at all things that you were

9:02

gonna say like as essentially five

9:04

ci game and my understanding you

9:06

community your customer what you want

9:08

to walk if you are selling

9:10

and the markets bet that was

9:12

very much more a business term

9:14

and like on knowing how to

9:17

budget or envoys or how to

9:19

do my taxes or things like

9:21

that oh i see like is

9:23

that he thought I was gonna

9:25

be like a skill at transferable.

9:27

The site your business is knowing

9:29

the business finance which is actually

9:32

really insightful and I think as

9:34

really good at kind of calming

9:36

people's nerves. A has news. And

9:39

that because it's like. Like.

9:41

You seeds, you can kind of

9:43

learn. The. Skill Set Specifically the

9:45

job mates. When you start a new

9:48

job like, you have your skills and

9:50

your experience, but you've never done that.

9:52

Exact job before so you're still

9:55

gonna has to learn those things.

9:57

Select the technical stuff. so at

9:59

ah people. Those. Who

10:01

would have thought the second skill that I

10:03

found really helpful when I was a barista

10:05

at the petrol station in our at my

10:07

dad would how kind he would like drive

10:09

me there at like five am drop me

10:12

off which meant he had to wake up

10:14

early and I would do the coffee's New

10:16

Zealand culture am for those that I like

10:18

way why as a coffee shop have like

10:21

someone making coffees like in the Us that

10:23

she says like little machines the press a

10:25

button and then you'd still like coffee creamer

10:27

and you walk out. Ah right the ones

10:29

that we have in. The and

10:32

C P like a car saw yeah

10:34

next to the what to purify yeah

10:36

the like buttoned coffee is so nice.

10:38

Friendly New Zealand where a little bit

10:41

what we call coffee snobs and so

10:43

even you a petrol station will have

10:45

a trained barrister to make your coffee.

10:47

I'm up there grinding the been like

10:49

six sure that you drive away. With.

10:52

Great coffee and so one of the

10:54

skills that I learned was that people

10:56

absolutely loved it. There was some regulars

10:58

and I would sought to pick up

11:00

that they would order the same thing

11:02

every single time and this to the

11:04

staff member like one lady wanting a

11:06

trim soy flat white. Translates.

11:09

Let winds came in every morning to have

11:11

a trim so flat whites I would almost

11:13

have to be stupid to have not picked

11:15

up eventually that that's just what she's going

11:18

order like Sarah. Is. Getting a

11:20

trim? Soi lek. Why this Monday to

11:22

Friday? Rain. Sign hail different with

11:24

it doesn't matter like so common causes same

11:26

she's coming in to spelling up says to

11:29

sometimes as the when in fact is is

11:31

getting the drinks and eventually I would start

11:33

to just make had a drink if I

11:35

saw her drive him to the pits. Recession

11:38

is a by the time she arrives it

11:40

would just be ready for her. Ah

11:42

and I built on his you trim

11:44

so flat white and see. Who.

11:47

Loves the Us that makes you feel

11:49

be so. It made her feel so

11:51

special and it was not. hard

11:53

like i said i would have to

11:56

be so bad at people skills about

11:58

like for maybe two day she

12:00

wants an espresso

12:03

and with full milk. That's just

12:05

you not paying attention if that's what you

12:07

thought. And so that was a skill that

12:09

I like always remembered and I couldn't quite

12:11

put it into words but eventually

12:13

I realized like if you can pick

12:15

up and like treat

12:18

people in little ways that makes them

12:20

feel special and make them feel like

12:22

the service is something that

12:24

is catered to them and just make her feel like

12:26

she is the only person in the world. She doesn't

12:28

know that I'm memorizing everyone's like she's

12:30

not taking the coffee and being like, well

12:33

I bet you're gonna make the next guy's

12:35

one for him too before he arrives. She's

12:37

like, wow, I'm special, I

12:39

have extra service, I have a relationship

12:41

with this person in this business and

12:43

I'm gonna come back because she's now my coffee

12:46

girl. And so

12:48

that's attention to detail. Attention

12:50

to detail as understanding your

12:53

audience, your target market. And so little

12:56

things that we do, even at Girls

12:58

at Invest is whenever I reply to

13:00

DMs, I will always try to use

13:03

their name and instead

13:05

of being like, oh, thanks so much for the

13:07

kind message, it's like, thanks so much, Maya, for

13:09

the kind message. And sometimes I'll like click on

13:11

their profile if I have time, I guess it's

13:13

a little bit harder now, but I would click

13:15

on their profile and be like, by the way,

13:17

I just wanted to say like, not

13:20

to stalk, but like I love that dress that

13:23

you had in your latest photo. Or like, I

13:25

love your bio. Or like, oh my god, you're

13:27

a doctor, like that's insane. That's like, such

13:30

a cool thing, like thank you for being part

13:32

of the community. And so you're not just replying

13:34

to like the one thing that they've said where

13:36

they've like asked a question, you're always going a

13:39

little bit above and beyond. And

13:41

to build a connection

13:43

with people. Yeah, and

13:45

to this day, there are people that like, if

13:48

they haven't DM'd for a while and then they

13:50

DM, I'm like, where have you been? How are

13:52

you guys? Like, what's been happening?

13:54

I have a good visual memory, not a

13:57

good like, I don't remember things, but I

13:59

remember things. So if someone's profile picture

14:01

is the same profile picture of the last four

14:03

years, I'll be like, you've been following us for

14:05

four years because I've seen your photo pop up.

14:08

How are we? Yeah, that's

14:11

really cool. And I'm going to

14:13

go out on a limb and say that these

14:16

are skills that you can literally learn

14:18

in any

14:20

kind of job. Like they're not

14:22

specific to anything. Well, actually,

14:25

sorry, they're specific to

14:27

people, but most

14:30

jobs and things like

14:32

that, you are going to interact with another

14:34

person. The third thing that has really helped

14:36

me, I think you and I are very

14:38

similar on this. When

14:41

I had one of my jobs, when I

14:43

was like a retail assistant at an optometry

14:45

clinic, this was before I was an optometrist,

14:48

I had like a really bad boss. Like

14:50

she would yell at us, she's made me

14:52

cry at work. And then she fired me.

14:54

It was just like not fun. She was

14:56

also extremely racist, like not at me, but

14:58

like patience, indigenous patience, which is, you know,

15:01

not the vibe. Yeah, no, that's

15:04

terrible. Yeah, she made a lot of people cry, customers

15:06

cry, but she had one

15:09

good trait about her and she would

15:11

always yell at us to take initiative.

15:14

She'd be like, if you have time to

15:16

lean, you have time to clean. Oh,

15:21

stop it. And call

15:23

me old fashioned, but

15:26

it was like useful because I learned that

15:28

if I do have a spare

15:30

second, what's the initiative I can take? Like,

15:32

okay, like the contact

15:34

lens cases need cleaning. Let me do

15:37

that. I need to

15:39

like jump up and maybe just

15:41

reorganize the shelf or like these frames,

15:44

like this area looks kind of dirty.

15:46

It's just not working. And what

15:49

you end up teaching yourself as a muscle, especially

15:51

as a business owner, is you

15:53

end up saying, hey, I have

15:56

a spare hour between my

15:58

next meeting. what

16:00

is something that I can do and take

16:02

initiative in to just make my business

16:04

a little bit clean? Like what's the

16:06

equivalent of just dusting the

16:08

shelves where the glass is set? And

16:11

so what kind of do you have

16:13

an example for that in

16:16

GTI, like for something that you

16:18

do now? So it'll be a little thing like

16:20

I'll look at the GTI Instagram bio and be

16:22

like, you know what, I

16:24

think we could like make this a

16:26

little bit more easier. Like it might

16:29

say world's largest investing and personal

16:32

finance podcast. And

16:34

I'll go, if someone doesn't know us, are they

16:37

going to read that and feel like that

16:39

really sums us up? Maybe let's make

16:41

it more simpler and say world's number

16:43

one investing education platform. And

16:46

like just little things that are small tweaks

16:48

that, you know, what difference does it

16:50

make if there's a little bit of dust on the shelf?

16:52

What difference does it make if there's an extra word in

16:55

the bio? But I think as a

16:57

business owner, that skill of like, if you

16:59

have time to lean, you have time to

17:01

clean transfers into, okay, the

17:04

podcast is really fun. And

17:06

we're calling it girls that invest.

17:10

And it's really cool. But do

17:13

we need to like redo the

17:16

intro to the podcast? Is it outdated?

17:18

Is it old? Does it really reflect

17:20

us? Or like, do we need to

17:22

maybe figure out a better way to

17:24

give investing news to people if they're

17:27

not really engaging with certain kind of

17:29

posts? Like maybe let's try reels or

17:31

let's try stories or let's try videos.

17:33

Like there's just, you're

17:35

always looking in those

17:37

little spare moments to just tidy things

17:40

up. And so

17:42

seeing how you can innovate and

17:44

improve on something. Literally, time

17:47

to lean, time to clean. Time to. That

17:50

is such a like a famous line

17:52

for just in I've heard that in

17:54

so many different working environments. And I

17:56

mean, it's right, especially in your business.

17:58

And I can see how maybe

18:00

you might get complacent and things

18:02

like that. But I'm a

18:05

huge, huge advocate for taking initiative. I

18:09

love people who take initiative. And

18:11

it is so, so powerful in so many

18:13

aspects in your life and

18:15

outside of business as well, you know,

18:17

building relationships and things like that. Do

18:19

you have any more transferable

18:21

skills that you've used? I think those are

18:24

the main three. But if you're listening to

18:26

this, I think you're probably picking up on

18:28

a theme here, which is the

18:31

skills that are transferable to be

18:33

an entrepreneur aren't like, oh,

18:35

financial projections. They're not like, yeah, I

18:37

was really good at just, you know,

18:40

figuring out the big ideas in

18:42

my job as a eye doctor.

18:44

Therefore, I became a media company owner. Like

18:46

it doesn't work like that. It's really all

18:49

the amazing soft skills and like, just

18:52

like, I don't know, work ethic skills that you

18:54

pick up. Did

18:56

you have difficulty transitioning from

18:58

an employee mindset to an

19:01

entrepreneurial mindset? No,

19:03

I think I was always a

19:05

bad employee. I'm not going

19:07

to, not to agree too much.

19:10

Not that you are a bad worker,

19:12

but I think, well, knowing the person

19:14

that you are, you've kind of always

19:17

had an entrepreneur mindset. Yeah.

19:21

Like, I would say that the

19:23

mindset shift was always, I always believed like, if I'm

19:25

going to put in a lot of time and a

19:27

lot of effort to be really good

19:29

at something, I want to be the best in my job,

19:31

not against other people. I

19:33

don't want to be the best optometrist in

19:35

the workplace, but I want to be the

19:37

absolute best eye doctor that I could possibly

19:39

be. Or I want to be the best

19:42

like optical assistant that I could ever be

19:44

in myself. And there's

19:46

such a limit

19:48

to that. Like short of

19:51

saving people's sight, which is very

19:53

important. Yes, it's

19:56

very important. And I had

19:58

a few like case studies and they got like. Like

20:00

my work, like published in

20:02

a journal because I figured out like something really

20:04

rare. Like I did all the cool

20:06

things that made me feel like, okay, I'm actually really good at

20:09

my job. But after a

20:11

while, like how good can

20:13

you really get? And so I really

20:15

struggled with that limit,

20:17

that like lid on my

20:19

performance. Glass ceiling. Yeah, the glass

20:22

ceiling. Financially, of course, because

20:24

you can only earn a certain income, but

20:26

also just like how good can I

20:29

get? Because with a business, the

20:31

sky is the limit of how good

20:33

can you get? How much can you

20:35

grow? How many people can you make

20:37

happy? How many customers lives can you

20:39

change? Like that just is such a

20:41

bigger goal. And I think I

20:43

struggled with the idea of knowing that that

20:46

ceiling was there. Hmm, okay.

20:49

I mean, that's actually no surprise knowing the

20:51

person that you are. Okay. No,

20:54

but I was

20:56

curious to see if there were any mindset

20:58

challenges because I think that can

21:01

be a big thing for people, you know, transitioning

21:04

from following orders

21:06

to being the person who

21:08

makes all the decisions and all of that kind of

21:10

stuff. So I just have one more part-time

21:13

for you, Sim. I just have one more question. What

21:15

advice would you give to others who

21:18

are considering making the transition from employee

21:20

to entrepreneur in terms of

21:22

identifying and leveraging their skills? Do you

21:24

know what? I wanted to

21:26

use you as an example of

21:29

someone who like has

21:31

so many great skills that you probably,

21:33

I don't know if, maybe you

21:35

have, but I don't know if you've ever

21:37

really considered them as being like, oh, these

21:39

are skills that would help me in my

21:42

business. But Maya is extremely, extremely, extremely scrappy.

21:45

And you will figure stuff out. Things

21:48

are figure-outable. Everything

21:50

is figure-outable. I am so resourceful.

21:53

And so like in our jobs, like I

21:56

Remember you came to work one day and you were

21:58

like, I don't really know how to do it. The

22:00

thing and I'm google again it's not really

22:02

helping and I was like oh well I

22:04

still have my bro or my optometry school

22:07

notes with me and we did a paper

22:09

on like sitting frames and like spitting people

22:11

and I could just give you like my

22:13

booklet new like okay and you took it

22:15

and then you lancet because at work they

22:18

went his. See

22:21

you in any way that like take

22:23

cases from university and just like a

22:25

cigarette how to do yourself Yet while

22:27

I x they and I looked around

22:29

and the office it and sound like

22:32

another like a ring binder as thou

22:34

and I held onto those like long

22:36

after I had least as well because

22:38

I'm like this a suits put of

22:40

a sudden excluded super thing like knowledge.

22:43

just know that is key stat. So

22:45

useful because when you saw your business

22:47

when you finally got around to you

22:49

that's pretty. Good at being consistent. The

22:51

sweetest them they're proud of you Think

22:53

here I'm back. By be less I

22:55

am officially back lobbying with my a

22:57

guy's seek it out. His posting again

22:59

says posting. Again, so.

23:02

When you know, continue growing your social

23:04

media account and he decides, oh my

23:06

goodness, how on earth to I like

23:08

film That cool transition? You just gonna

23:11

figure it out. he didn't google it.

23:13

You're not gonna sit and wait for

23:15

someone to come and help you. Know.

23:18

And things you some. That's a really

23:20

good reminder because. Even

23:22

I look at specifically tic toc

23:25

and even how people eat it.

23:27

The things he saw him times

23:29

that I his google would. Help

23:31

people are getting the rails and

23:34

the tech folks like what's trending

23:36

and things like this because I

23:38

don't know like I was. I'm

23:40

not a Dmz as doesn't like

23:42

com system's admit so economy and

23:44

met him but I will cigarette

23:47

out because I'm. When. It

23:49

Sink or swim. I'm always going

23:51

to swim because I received a

23:53

specific. A specific. oh

23:55

my god that is so insanely

23:58

truth i have one little advice

24:00

for everyone listening, I want you to go

24:02

home and rather than saying, oh well I

24:04

can't be a business owner because I'm not

24:06

money minded or I don't think of business

24:09

ideas, I'm not the kind of gal to

24:11

like chuck on a power suit and like

24:14

gaslight, gatekeep girl boss my way into success like

24:16

that's not me. Write everything that you know you're

24:18

good at and if you don't know what they

24:20

are, ask your work colleagues what are my skills?

24:23

Like vague skills, don't be like oh you're really

24:25

good at like a specific little

24:27

thing, like in general what are my

24:29

big idea skills that I have, my

24:31

soft skills, chuck them into chat GPT

24:34

and be like my name is Simran

24:36

and I am good at being resourceful,

24:38

I'm good at talking to new people

24:40

and I'm good at making unhappy customers

24:42

happy again and then

24:44

say how would these skills be

24:47

useful in me running my own

24:49

business and watch chat GPT tell

24:52

you exactly how the skills that you

24:54

have are actually extremely transferable. You'll be

24:56

so surprised, it's going to be like

24:58

oh well you don't realise it but

25:01

a lot of customers are going to

25:03

have issues with your product especially at

25:05

the start because it's your first time

25:07

but because you are so good at

25:09

problem solving and talking to people and

25:11

hearing them out and then just fixing

25:13

it, they're going to become lifelong customers

25:15

as opposed to the other kind of

25:17

person that gets really angry when people

25:19

give bad feedback and just block them.

25:23

And I think that's such a, what's

25:26

it saying, like breath of fresh air to

25:28

hear because the three things that you listed,

25:31

I did not think that that's what you

25:33

would say either. Like I wouldn't think

25:36

that it was vibe checking for

25:38

being an entrepreneur and

25:41

creating your own business but it's

25:44

like just reflecting on not

25:47

getting hung up on the technical things

25:50

which is what I initially

25:52

thought were the priority.

25:55

And like you just imagine what

25:57

a successful business owner looks like and

25:59

you imagine these skill sets that you

26:02

just think people have, there are so

26:04

many things I am bad at that

26:06

would make a traditional business

26:08

owner really good. I am not

26:10

an organized person. I am not

26:12

an operations person. It took me so long to

26:14

standardize the way my business runs. People would be

26:17

like, how do you come up with content? And

26:19

I'd be like, I literally just go, beep, beep,

26:21

beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, in my head, and

26:23

then an idea comes. I'm actually

26:25

trying to teach that to someone that works in your

26:27

company and being like, so

26:30

how do we make content? And I'm like, it's beep, beep, beep,

26:32

beep, beep, beep, beep, and

26:34

then it just comes. You just look out the window for

26:36

10 seconds and then you make a reel. That

26:39

doesn't work like that. And so I had to

26:41

learn how to extract it from my head and

26:43

go, okay, these are our content pillars. People like

26:45

to listen to us about this, this, and this.

26:47

And so I'm

26:49

bad at organization. I'm bad at

26:51

giving systems. For a while, I

26:53

was bad at managing people and

26:55

I've had to read books about

26:57

how to manage that. There's so

27:00

many things that I was bad at, but imagine

27:02

if I was like, well, I don't

27:04

know how to do systems, so I guess I'll just never

27:06

start a company. So

27:08

don't let that hold you back. You can

27:11

learn. If you've got time to lean, you've

27:13

got time to lean and clean and learn

27:15

and just do all of it. God, that

27:17

woman has, that old boss has really

27:19

just done a number on me.

27:21

But I wanted to say the

27:24

three skills that I had learned

27:26

from my previous employment that had

27:28

nothing to do with starting a

27:30

business were not things that you

27:32

can just

27:35

figure out on your own if

27:37

you live in a vacuum. They

27:39

come from having jobs and having

27:41

experiences. And so everything that you

27:43

have done in your life, whether

27:45

it's volunteer work, whether it's

27:47

being in university, whether it's your

27:49

started jobs, wherever you are at,

27:52

everything has been useful for you

27:55

to transfer into the dream company

27:57

that you want to start, this

28:00

idea and I think it's just so exciting

28:02

that once you reframe it, it's

28:04

like, yeah, everything was meant

28:06

to happen. Everything that I did is

28:08

leading me to where I am today

28:11

to create such change. Yeah. It's

28:13

all about lessons, baby. It's all

28:16

about lessons. If you enjoyed this episode,

28:19

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28:26

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28:30

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28:32

to grow their businesses because we just think the world's

28:35

a better place when we all have money. All

28:37

right. I'll see you next week, Maya. Take

28:40

it easy. Bye. Bye.

28:44

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