How To!: Follow Your Small Business Dream
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🗓️ 19 September 2023
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Summary
Sarah is a part-time pet groomer who dreams of opening up her own business. Having worked long hours for low wages, she can't help thinking that she could earn more money and control her schedule if she starts her own pet salon. The only problem? Sarah has no idea where to start. On this episode of How To!, Carvell Wallace brings in Mae Chan to guide Sarah. Mae is a business alignment coach who helps entrepreneurs figure out their dreams and scale their businesses. Her questions for Sarah will help anyone considering a leap into self-employment think more about what they really want—and how to achieve it with minimal risk.
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| 0:00.0 | The fear that I have is that there's just going to be more and more stuff that I'm going |
| 0:06.2 | to have to figure out. |
| 0:07.2 | I don't know how businesses operate, really. |
| 0:10.4 | I don't know how different taxes offer businesses. |
| 0:12.7 | What if I mess something up and then I'm like, get a go to prison for tax fraud, you know? |
| 0:16.5 | That's it. |
| 0:22.3 | Welcome to How To. |
| 0:23.3 | I'm Carvo Wallace. |
| 0:25.0 | Did you know that there are approximately 33 million small businesses in the United |
| 0:29.3 | States, which means at some point, millions of people looked at their jobs and contemplated |
| 0:34.9 | taking a different path, just like this week's listener, Sarah. |
| 0:42.2 | Currently I'm working at a company that I'm not going to name, that is a mobile dog and |
| 0:48.0 | programming business and it works on like a 30% commission. |
| 0:53.6 | I just always think to myself, I could be making so much money because I'm the only one |
| 0:57.3 | who's really doing any of the work. |
| 0:59.0 | So I want to start my own business, but I don't even know where you would start with that |
| 1:02.8 | kind of thing. |
| 1:03.8 | So let's go back a little bit. |
| 1:05.5 | How did you even get into pet grooming in the first place? |
| 1:08.4 | What drew you to it? |
| 1:09.6 | I love dogs. |
| 1:10.6 | I have my own dog. |
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