Sanjay Parikh

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

Welcome to the Side Hustle to Small Business podcast powered by Hiscox. I'm your host, Sanjay Parikh. Throughout my career, I've had side hustles, some of which have turned into real businesses. But first and foremost, I'm a serial technology entrepreneur. In the Creator Space, we hear plenty of advice on how to hustle harder and why you can sleep when you're dead.

On this show, we ask new questions in hopes of getting new answers. Questions like, how can small businesses work smarter? How do you achieve balance between work and family? How can we redefine success in our businesses so that we don't burn out after year three? Every week, I sit down with business founders at various stages of their side hustle to small business journey.

These entrepreneurs are pushing the envelope while keeping their values. Keep listening for conversation, context and camaraderie. Today, we're speaking with Jalila Frazier, the founder and CEO of Frazier's Mathematics Solutions, an organization that provides comprehensive training of mathematics teaching and learning for administrators, teachers, and parents.

Jalila has worked with children and young adults of all ages and recently created the Dope Math product line of various school supplies. Jalila, welcome to the show.

So I'm excited to have you on because honestly, math is like one of those subjects that people don't actually talk about that often. They always talk about it in a scary way. And I feel like we're not going to talk about it in a scary way today. But let's first start out with you telling us a little bit about you and what got you to where you are right now.

Yeah. So it was really kind of a blessing in disguise that you were overwhelmed and did poorly in those math classes and kind of gave you that fire. And I think we see that a lot of times with entrepreneurs is that there's this event that happens that gives them a fire of like, I need to solve this because I don't want anybody else to go through what I did. Yep.

Was was starting your your mathematics solutions company. Was that the first time you've done anything entrepreneurial or did you do something when you were younger or a kid hustling, selling stuff, doing anything like that?

Yeah. Was this anything in the family? Did you have parents, siblings, anybody else that was an entrepreneur?

Yeah. So, okay. So you graduate from college, you start teaching, you go through that process. You think that you're going to be a teacher always, you're going to be an administrator. Like what was your initial thought process of what your path was going to be?

So so what was it that made you think along this path of like, yeah, I don't want to be the superintendent and I want to do my own thing. What was it that caused that that jump?

Just on your own outside of the school? Outside of the school. Okay.

okay let's do this i i i want to sign up for the summer camp because i want to go on a trip and learn glassblowing so it was amazing it was dope you might need to do this for adults too now i think um okay so so you did the summer camp it was obviously a success yeah was that the first like hey wait a minute i should go and do this full time was that the thing that that tipped you over so i

Yeah. So the pandemic really kind of gave you the time to sit back and think and design. So when did you actually launch the company?

So when did you exit your full time job then to do this full time?

So you signed the contract in January of that year. You waited a few months to be like, hey, let's make sure they don't cancel a contract. And then you quit and went full in.

Yeah. Yeah. Cause you were able to focus all your time then at that point. So I'm sure things that, that flywheel got faster. So, okay. So you started the business, you did the things, then you got the big contract and then you resigned and went all in. In this process, was there something that made you nervous about what you were doing?

Yeah. Yeah. How many people did you, at that point, how many people did you have that were working with you?

So what did you do to make sure? So you've got all the materials. You know the process of how you're going to teach these things. How were you making sure that they were doing it the same way that you were doing it?

Yeah. You said a phrase in there and I want to dig into it and make sure I understand what it means. You said lows and grows. Explain that to me.

Glows and grows.

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