27 episodes
Still Minimum Wage Podcast Still Minimum Wage
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We're a community of female creative entrepreneurs trying to grow our businesses during a pandemic. In each episode, we tackle a common business struggle and lean on our fellow hosts and guests to coach us through our mental and emotional blocks.
We're on a mission to share the real and the raw of what it really looks like to run and grow a creative business - WITHOUT THE HYPE. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stillminimumwage/support
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27. Still Making Moves with Sam Masinsin, Fifa Tran, Courtney Chow, and Lisa Aihara
It's our season 3 finale!
Sam and Fifa drop back in the podcast to update you on what happened in their entrepreneur journey this year and give a preview of what's coming next in life, and for the Still Minimum Wage Podcast.
Fifa shares where she made the biggest strides in her business: from having shiny object syndrome to making hard choices to protect her business.
Courtney also confesses what the pivot from solopreneur to being business married to Sam has been like and how she got through one of the most anxious years of her life.
But we end on a positive note: Our special guest Lisa stops by for a special announcement too!
Connect with Fifa: @feimodern
Connect with Lisa: @ellettestudio
Connect with Sam: @awesamgram
Connect with Courtney: @nowcallingcourtney
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26. Still Taking Chances with Fifa Tran, Joanne Ly, Sara Vartanian and Courtney Chow
What do you say to taking chances? When we signed up for the entrepreneur life, we also signed up to saying yes to a series of risks, chances, and making decisions.
Daily there are small and big things that we decide in our business. They may scare us when we don't have anyone to talk them through which is why Fifa Tran of Fei Modern, Joanne Ly of Minima Basics and Sara Vartanian wanted to join the Still Minimum Wage podcast to share their risky experiences, how they make decisions, and how to to get over taking a risk that doesn't pay off the way you hope it will.
Fifa also shares how she's grown and changed since episode 2 when she didn't know who her target client was.
It's another classic episode where we share the realness of what happens behind the scenes of being a solopreneur.
Connect with Fifa: @feimodern
Connect with Joanne: @minimabasics
Connect with Sara: @saravartanian
Connect with Courtney: @nowcallingcourtney
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25. Still Making Connections: Supporting Other Woman-Owned Businesses with Courtney Chow, Maryn Masumiya and Jasmine Ortiz
"Community over competition" is a common saying in the entrepreneur space but for the female entrepreneur, community is one important component of sticking with the business and not giving up: because the support through empathy that we can give each other makes us feel less alone.
On this episode, Courtney is joined by Maryn Masumiya and Jasmine Ortiz to share how they've each received support as female creativepreneurs, how they have leaned in to help others out, and why we're not really into the boss babe movement.
Maryn also shares several resources that help out woman-owned and AAPI businesses.
Resources Mentioned:
https://www.co-mrkt.com/
https://www.acepopup.com/
https://www.jointhecosmos.com/
https://goldhouse.org/gold-house-futures/
https://www.comcastrise.com
Connect with Maryn : @kawaiicraftlady
Connect with Jasmine: @jasminemariephoto
Connect with Courtney: @nowcallingcourtney
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24. Still Testing Pricing and Charging Your Worth with Kaysha Weiner, Michelle A. Whyte, Sara Vartanian, Shavavian Allister and Courtney Chow
Let’s talk money money money today. Landing on your pricing can be a huge source of insecurity and stress for you in your business. We put pressure to get it right: charge to little and you end up burnt out and if you charge too much you could price yourself out. The common advice given to solve that is to "charge your worth" - however, we are questioning that advice and talking about our mistakes with charging for our services with our panel that has over 25 years of combined experience.
Sara Vartanian, Kaysha Weiner, Shavavian Allister, Michelle A. Whyte and Courtney Chow each share how they first approached charging for their services, times they regretted giving discounts and how to mentally prepare yourself for getting rejected.
We also have two recommendations at the end of the episode for books to help with your own mindset.
Connect with Kaysha: @kayshaweiner
Connected with Michelle: @themichelleawhyte
Connect with Sara: @saravartanian
Connect with Shavavian: @shavavian.allister
Connect with Courtney: @nowcallingcourtney
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23. Still Just A Human: Keeping the Heart When Launching with Sara Vartanian and Courtney Chow
Not all launches are equal which means that you don't need a 5 figure launch of a service to be successful.
The reality is that launching is a scary part of selling our services and that's why we went to the pro to wrap our mind around how to do it without feeling sleezy or inauthentic. Sara Vartanian is a launch copywriter and shares not only some unique approaches to launching some services but also our we can adjust our mindset about what a successful launch looks like...and the reality is that it can mean whatever you want it to, and you don't have to follow the blueprint of celeb entrepreneurs.
By learning to listen and gauge your energy, you can find the motivation to sell your services with heart.
Sara also shares her launch playbook as our free resource of the week!
Sara's Instagram: @saravartanian
Sara's Website: https://www.saravartanian.com/
Courtney's Instagram: @nowcallingcourtney
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22. Still Getting Organized: Let’s Talk Bullet Journaling with Sam Masinsin, Lisa Aihara and Courtney Chow
When you have a million things going on in your head as you try to run your business, how do you keep track of them so things actually get done?
Getting organized feels like an obvious need for solopreneurs and today we’re talking about one of the ways to do that: which is bullet journaling. Our host Sam nerds out about bullet journaling with Lisa Aihara, the boss-lady at Ellette Studio to talk about the importance of recording your wins and to do it in a way that allows flexibility.
We also talk about how to get started with Courtney, a bullet journal newbie by getting tips, which Lisa shares in her article on bullet journaling here.
Connect with Lisa: @ellettestudio
Connect with Sam: @awesamgram
Connect with Courtney: @nowcallingcourtney
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