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Making It Work: Dropping Out of School To Be a Full-Time Youtuber And Starting an Agency as an 18-Year-Old with Jade Darmawangsa

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With over 750k fans and followers, Jade Darmawangsa is a video creator, social media agency founder, and surfer. She’s had an unconventional career, and today Jade shares what she’s learned in the process.


We talk about:

  • Knowing that she wanted to drop out of school
  • How Jade told her parents she wanted to be a full-time creator
  • Managing freelancers or employees as a business owner
  • Learning to let go of perfectionism
  • The versions and shifts of X8 Media
  • The importance of storytelling in content creation
  • Integrating your “real job” job into content
  • Getting out of a slump
  • How she started surfing!


    • ✨ Connect:

    • Jade on YouTube: youtube.com/c/jadedarmawangsa
    • Jade’s website: jadedarmawangsa.com
    • Jade on Instagram: instagram.com/jadedarmawangsa
    • Finessed Podcast: finessedpod.com
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