Jalila Frazier

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

I think it's important for people to get real tangible feedback. And that's just an educator piece.

I mean, when you center people, right? So when, think about a student and they're taking a test, they get their test and it's just a grade on the test. Okay, good. That's a great, but they need real feedback so that they can know like what it is to improve. Everyone wants to improve. There's no one that never not wants to improve, right? There might be different levels of how they enact that.

And so as adults, if you're really, you made it to the third round. That's your time. It's not just my time being sent. It's your time. We want to send you too. And this is the first model of what to expect that if you are in our ecosystem, we do hire you, that you are providing that same quality time and service to our staff. As well as the clients.

So don't say you've never been, it's never been modeled. Yeah.

Yeah. A side hustle and turning it into an actual business that's having profit. Managing the stress, you have to love what you do. I don't care what anyone says, right? It will be stressful whether you love it or don't. But the perseverance of it and you deciding whether or not you're going to quit versus you're just going to take a little time to recollect yourself, you'll always keep going.

So how did I manage it? I think for me, I was always very, very clear about systems. So even when I was a district math supervisor, I realized that because the wheel is so large, right? The circumference of your influence has to be reached to every teacher in various schools? How do you optimize? How do you make something a systematic process? How do you teach people to make things systematic?

And so I took that into this company. Building the foundation was extremely important and making sure that I'm legally compliant with things is important as well. So those are my first two things. Legal and systems. But now I think managing is everything to do with how do you replace yourself?

How do I replace myself so someone else can be the leader in that role so that I can work on another part of the business? And so that in and itself is a lot. So making sure you have standard operating procedures, even for the smallest things like them as an educator. Right. There are educators that are very high functioning. they get the information and they know exactly what you want.

And there are educators that need it spelled out for you. And so I learned that very early, that if I don't clearly explain things and have it written down in more than one touch point, then we won't be able to be successful. So I use that even here. We make everything very granular level. We make it step one, step two, step three, and very tasky, but it shows the larger picture.

picture of everything. So I can take a vacation now and I know that a standard operating procedure is happening and they have all the tools that they need.

So I'm very happy and proud to say that as of May of this year, my company became an S Corp. And what that means is now I'm an employee of my business. So that also means that I get a regular paycheck.

LLC. So it's always an LLC, but I was taxed as a pass-through soul. Right, okay. Pass-through kind of piece. So now... With me being NesCorp and me being able to take a regular paycheck means that the business in some capacity is sustainable, right? Right. So, but I had to get there. So I can tell you prior to that, boundaries, I didn't even know what that meant.

I didn't know what boundaries meant. Like, I knew what it meant, but I knew I couldn't even afford it.

Because I had to show up in so many different areas so that I can have this structure. And so... Before, it was very much sleepless nights. I was also balancing another consulting gig. I was writing a, I was an editor for a math textbook that's coming out next year. And so that was my first time doing that. So that provided me with additional income that I needed to support myself because

I wasn't ready to take money from the business, from my business yet. We weren't there yet. So I was literally working 9 to 5, 5 to 9, and whatever time during the weekends. Wasn't seeing my family as often. Wasn't available as often.

returning phone calls two, three days later, just not taking care of myself, making sure that my hair is done every, you know, periodically, like all those things I wasn't able to do because I was sucked into building this business. But I knew that that wasn't where I wanted to be. And so I decided that in January of this year, I implemented something called clarity breaks.

So I listened to podcasts and, you know, things like, how do you, like, I always try to do professional development because, you know, I never took a business class, right? It was always education. So I instituted clarity breaks every quarter and my clarity break is next week. So one week, every quarter, I take a clarity break for a week. Notifications off.

My team knows this is not even a vacation. This is a clarity break where Jalila is taking time to herself to be able to think bigger ideas for the business or to be able to think bigger ideas for herself personally. And they know not to bother me for anything. And that's very helpful. It's something I look forward to. Didn't realize I would look forward to it.

But I'm just counting down these next two days. So there's that. And then finally, now I'm able to spend more time with my my nephews and my mom and so forth before it was nonexistent. But now on my calendar tomorrow, it's ladies night with my mom and my sister. And we're excited because for two years, that wasn't the case.

It wasn't the case.

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