#117 - Maker Business Side-Hustle with Sami Jo Jensen

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🗓️ 28 March 2017

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Sami Jensen, natural skincare maker at Florapothecarie, joins us to talk about growing a profitable product-based business while working a 9-to-5. We're talking about the importance of paying yourself from your business (even if you have another source of income), pricing your products, sourcing materials, and some of the challenges of putting yourself out there as a maker.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Being Boss.
0:04.0	A podcast for Creative Entrepreneurs.
0:06.0	I'm Emily Thompson.
0:08.0	And I'm Kathleen Shannon.
0:10.0	I am Sammy Joe Jensen and I'm being boss.
0:14.0	All right you guys,
0:19.0	today we are talking to Sammy Joe Jensen of Flora Pathicary,
0:23.7	and as always you can find all the tools, books,
0:26.2	and links we reference on the show notes
0:28.0	at www. Being Boss, dot Club.
0:35.0	All right, you guys, the nature of work is changing. One in three Americans is self-employed but I feel as if the world was not built for the self-employed.
0:41.0	There are so many institutions that currently support the
0:43.7	workforce and they're not keeping up with the pace of change needed to serve us
0:48.4	creative entrepreneurs. So these are things that have been holding people back from working for themselves or the things that really intimidate us from doing our best work.
0:58.0	Institutions like banks, retirement savings, employment insurance, accounting services, they need to adapt or be replaced.
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1:20.0	They've offered new solutions and are constantly updating their features and tools and resources for freelancers and small business owners in this rapidly changing market.
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