You’ve reached the end of your college career, and you want to pursue your entrepreneurial or corporate career dreams. But should you pursue your passion or pursue your paycheck? Or, do you have to choose?

Many college graduates are considering forgoing traditional 9-to-5 jobs and striking out on their own. But if you do decide to go this route, there are pros and cons to consider. To help with those comparisons, explore both sides of the debate.

The Still Minimum Wage roundtable guests Lisa Aihara and Wendy Leung join host Courtney Chow to talk about the realities of what entrepreneurship actually is like and share what their journeys have been to entrepreneurship after graduating and doing some career exploration even after they started their careers and give their advice to the class of 2022.

More about Lisa Aihara on Instagram: @ellettestudio 

More about Wendy Leung on Instagram: @wendyleung.co

More about Courtney Chow on Instagram: @nowcallingcourtney

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We take a beat to gather around the Still Minimum Wage studio to process and share our thoughts on the struggles, realities, and opportunities of being a woman of color entrepreneur in America. 

Collectively we are still figuring out what our opinions are and when to voice our opinions, along with supporting each other during a tragic week in the U.S. But we come together to share our stories as WOC and to share ideas for how we can use our brands and platforms to not just be businesswomen but to be an influence for good as we hold space for each other in processing our feelings. 

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There are ebbs, flows, and seasons in small business, and hearing "no" or feeling like things aren't working out can set us back  If you ever feel like you're doing it all wrong anytime you hear "No" from a client, this episode will help you. As an entrepreneur of 20 years, Michelle A. Whyte (event planner of Ambiance Events and Chief Etiquette Officer) joins the Still Minimum Wage crew to give us some perspective on what is enough in terms of success and winning instead of absorbing pressure from the world. 

We talk about how to redefine what we perceive as rejection, to get comfortable with being patient, and review data to help understand what going on before we make big emotional decisions and the fact that you have permission to change your mind about who you are serving and what we're doing. 

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Becoming your own boss doesn't happen overnight. While we entrepreneurs dream of freedom, we don't realize how much our corporate schedule and life have shaped our perspective of working hard, titles, and managing our time to name just a few ways. 

Learning to be the queen bee and not just a little worker bee to run your own business might sound like a dream but it does take some time and mindset shifts. That's why we're going to be talking about transitioning to a CEO with Fifa Tran, and Jaime Bartol, leadership coach for women. 

We talk about how Moana was a leader that we admire, why we feel like we're wasting time even though we're not, how we view the leadership titles that we assign ourselves. 

Connect with Jaime Bartol: @jaimebartol

Connect with Fifa Tran of Fei Modern: @feimodern

Connect with Courtney Chow of Swiftly Media: @swiftlymedia

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Let's talk about making boss moves: by working ON your business and not just in your business. Ashley Kang from AHK Business Management joins us on this expert episode to give us permission to take care of ourselves with CEO days in our businesses in the Season 3 premiere of Still Minimum Wage. We're back this season and keeping it real with resources and conversations about mindset so that we can set ourselves up to succeed in the long haul. 

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Get the show notes & transcript on our website: Episode 13 of Still Minimum Wage

Connect with Ashley Kang I AHK Business Management Website

Ashley's Instagram: @ahkbusinessmanagement

Free Resource: The Time Audit Worksheet

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Whether you call it a Mastermind or accountability, success as a solopreneur can be easier when you have a community of like-minded people to talk shop with. 

Michelle Kop of Level 28 Media joins this episode to talk about how she went looking for that community and how she came to join our Boba Boss Mastermind. She shares what she's gotten out of our meetings, the types of masterminds she's tried before, what it's been like getting to know us, and what she found when she was looking to help her business. 

We also share what the most valuable things are that we get out of connecting with fellow female entrepreneurs. 

Get to know Michelle and access her free resource: How to 10x Your Phone Call Leads Using Google Ads on her website: https://level28media.com/

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Coaching is the path to scaling your business....or so we thought. 

Join us as we share the ups and downs of our attempt at launching a group coaching program called Tiny Audience Big Impact (a.k.a. TABI) which was intended to help service providers get a grasp of how to make strategic content for Instagram. 

Spoiler alert: We ended up canceling the program and this episode explains why and what we learned about being a coach and why it's not the right thing for us as a business. 

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If you've heard that digital products are the key to a scalable business but aren't sure where to start, this episode is for you!

The queen of digital products, Molly Ho, drops tons of knowledge and insight about the reality of starting to sell digital products, why you still need to work on sales mindset, how much of your success will depend on marketing, and why she values time over money. 

As creative entrepreneurs who love to make things, we were inspired by all the on-air coaching that Molly did and now know what pitfalls to avoid as we explore adding to our offering suite. 

You can listen to more of Molly on her podcast, Keep Getting Better, and get connected to her on Instagram at @mollyhostudio. 

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How would you spend your next $2K in your small business? In this mini-episode, we, your small biz besties, share how we would use that money and what we would want out of that investment. We talk about coaching programs we have bought into and people we have hired (including each other!) Listen in for inspiration on how to spend your marketing budget, if you're a fellow entrepreneur. 

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In this episode, we are joined by Hillary Jeanne, brand photographer and business coach to talk about a common struggle among entrepreneurs: imposter syndrome. 

She shares how she overcame imposter syndrome when she first became a photographer and how that equipped her to not only face it as a new coach but gives practical tips for those of us who question our ability, as creative entrepreneurs, to deliver on our own businesses.

Hillary also provides a free resource to photographers at the end of the episode.  

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Website: https://hillaryjeanne.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hillary_jeanne/

Get a link to her free resource on her website

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