Ep. 84: Ready to Quit Your Job to Launch a Business?
Brown Ambition
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4.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2017
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Throughout her entire career in the banking industry, Marsha Barnes was always a diligent saver. But she never understood what she was saving for until two years ago. It was then that she decided to launch The Finance Bar, a startup mobile — yes, as in wheels — personal finance hub meant to empower people to take control of their finances. The journey wasn't always easy — Marsha sunk over $35,000 of her own savings into the business and didn't make money right away. When she finally quit her job in December 2016 to focus on the business, she took a huge gamble — on herself.
"What if you just wake up one day and there's something different that you want to do in life? How do you pivot?
For me, one day I woke up and I said 'I want to leave my job to do something that I really love to wake up and do.' And that is why I was saving money all along. I just didn’t realize it."
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, hey, hey guys, I know you were expecting a different hey, hey, hey, our beloved Tiffany |
| 0:22.9 | fell ill today. |
| 0:24.9 | I think she's doing better, but I want to let you guys know that the show is going on and I am |
| 0:31.6 | here. I have a remarkable guest, someone that I've admired for the past couple of years. The one, |
| 0:37.9 | the only Miss Marsha Barnes, the founder of the Finance Bar, which is a fabulous mobile personal |
| 0:45.6 | finance suite, which we're going to get to in a minute based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Marsha, |
| 0:51.2 | thanks so much for coming on Brown Ambition. Thank you for having me, Mandy. I'm glad to be here. |
| 0:55.8 | You guys, so two years ago, let me just tell you the background, the origin story of how I met |
| 1:00.0 | Miss Marsha. So two years ago, I was at Finconn and Charlotte, and all of us, you know, the people, |
| 1:08.1 | the brown personal finance folks, we have a little secret group. We may or may not have a secret |
| 1:14.6 | group, and we kind of all gather together at these financial conferences. Come on, strengthen numbers. |
| 1:21.2 | We got together. Everyone's like, you guys, you know that finance, the school bus is down there. |
| 1:26.8 | Marsha's with her finance bar, school bus is down there. She's like going to show off the bus |
| 1:31.6 | and giving tours. And I was like, say, what to who a school bus? And it's just like for children, |
| 1:38.2 | what and no, let me tell you, it was the most amazing, beautiful school bus. I didn't even know |
| 1:44.4 | school buses could be that nice. That Marsha had outfitted and turned into the finance bar, |
| 1:50.5 | which Marsha, you probably do a way better job than I do telling people what exactly the finance |
| 1:56.6 | bar is and why a school bus? Yeah. So the part, the finance bar is, I like to call it a mobile |
| 2:04.2 | finance sweep on wheels. I use that word sweep because I feel like my bus is extremely sad. |
| 2:11.4 | I like to brag on it because I think that my designer did an amazing job with it. But in short, |
| 2:19.0 | the finance bar is really centered around meeting people where they are on their finance |
| 2:25.2 | journey. So I decided to take a bus and have it outfitted to be a mobile finance bus machine |
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