Jalila Frazier

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Habits and Hustle · Episode 400: Bonus: When defeat becomes a blessing in disguise · 22 Nov 2024 podcast

That rent helped me teach the course and so forth. So I would just come in at the back end, make sure everything is good. So I was strategically using my days. And let me tell you something. That was probably the best summer because I was in front of students and we were doing like we were going trips to New York. We would visit the MoMath.

We did a lot of STEM illumination labs is what we call them. They learned about STEM. They learned about mathematics. We had 24 competitions. We did a lot of arts infused pieces too. Like they learned about glass blowing and it was very much successful and backed by the community.

I'm just so grateful that I had so many people in my corner, just, you know, cheering for me asking about, Hey, can I get my child enrolled? And it was, it was, it was amazing. And from there I was like, Oh,

No, that didn't tip me over. As I was preparing the next year for the summer program, and it was going well, but I realized that there was a lot of work to this. that I knew wouldn't be sustainable. Like I didn't see it repeating itself in other communities. I didn't see how, you know, because there's a lot of legwork with it. So I still did the summer program, but I was like turning my wheels.

How do I impact more students and make it sustainable and make sure that there are ways to get to more without extending that amount of effort? So that was what I was trying to figure out. And then I said, you know what? Let me start like I love professional development. So let me start thinking about it. So that was 20. So 2018 was the first summer program. 2019 was the second.

And then as I'm planning for like next year, COVID hit. And COVID, you know, unfortunately, we lost so many different people, my uncle included, rest in peace. But it did allow me the opportunity to really sit back and design the company the way I saw fit. So we designed Frasier's Mathematic Solutions to be a top tier professional development company.

And the STEAM services were a math culture add-on. So we could still do STEAM programs and STEM programs, but we would do it infused into school climates.

So the company was launched in 20, well, I incorporated it in 2017. Right. But mainly for the summer programs, right? For the summer program, yep. So that was 2018. But launching that department or that service of professional development, we had our first district-wide contract in January 2021. Okay. Okay. So 2021 was our first contract. Shout out to Essex County Votek Schools.

Shout out to Carmen Morales. She was the principal at the time. And shout out to Janabo because they saw something in us and they wanted us to support them and their teachers. So, yeah.

My riskiversary is what I call it, was June 4th, 2021. June 4th, 2021, I resigned from my cushy six-figure job and said, it is time for me to take a chance on myself.

No, that's not actually what happened. I was planning on being able to support still work and do the contracts because I have professional development providers that support me. They're called math illuminators. But at my current job, you know, full transparency, there were a lot of things that was happening that I felt like I wasn't valued in my role.

And so it was important for me to write my own story. And writing my own story meant, hey, if this isn't serving you anymore, if you don't feel valued, then go somewhere where you do. So I resigned. from that role and things just started getting a lot better with the business.

Everything. Everything. I mean, I'm used to having my bills on auto pay because I know I was getting paid on the 15th and the 30th. Now I'm sitting here trying to figure out how do I move funds around? How do I invest in myself? How do I make sure that I keep... My, you know, certain things and everything made me nervous. What also made me nervous was, hey, do these people really trust me?

Do these clients trust what I'm saying? Am I going to provide quality service if I'm not the one that's given it? Because I know if I'm given the professional development. Oh, I know how to do that. But am I imparting enough knowledge and trust in my team so that I don't have to be there? And then when they provide the service, they feel like it's an extension of myself.

So there was... There were two people that were internal staff, so they were employees. And then there were about three professional development illuminators that would do the workshops.

So we made sure that we did like quality. So beforehand we do model lessons. So every new illuminator has to do a model lesson with my manager of curriculum and training. And then they had practice time. Then we came back, we did dress rehearsals so that now they can show us what they did. We get feedback, lows and grows. We have forums to provide the feedback. We record and things like that.

And then when they go to deliver the workshop, depending on if we feel like they're ready, they may be the lead illuminator. And I might just be there as an observer and providing feedback and so forth. Or, you know, my manager of curriculum and training will be there to provide that feedback.

So there's a lot of touch points in there because we wanted to make sure that, you know, the client gets get what they what they asked for.

Glows and grows.

We give them glows, things that they did well, and we give them grows, things that we would want them to work on. And we implement that throughout a lot of different systems, like even in interviews. I did an interview today for a third round interview for a new role in marketing. I gave them glows and grows whether or not we're going to, you know, invite them to the role or not.

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