 Hey Gems, welcome back to my channel. So I am very excited to finally record this video. I've been working behind the scenes for months and doing a lot of groundwork and I am finally ready to share. You guys already know what this video is about based on the title but I am going to be breaking this up into a two-part video because I realize my viewers do not like long videos based on my view time. I don't know. You guys have probably a very short attention span or maybe I'm just not that interested. So I'm going to break this up into a two-part video with this video basically giving like the backstory as to why I want to start a business and the second video will be actually introducing the name of my business and the product or service I'll be providing and more details pertaining to my actual business. So if you're not interested in this part of it feel free to skip ahead to the second video. I'll be uploading it right after this one so it'll be available as you're watching this now. So yeah let's jump right in why I want to start a business. I realized that the best life just isn't for me. I went to school for accounting. I did my undergrad in accounting. I did accounting in high school. I got certified vocational side of my high school in accounting. However accounting was never a passion of mine to begin with. I was kind of like thrown into it and just convinced myself like this is the way to go. Let me make this very simple straight out of junior high. I was always excited to go to complex for you guys from SYNCRA. You know SYNCRA educational complex. I was always excited to go there because I was like when I go I'm gonna join the cosmetology program on the vocational side which you can join a program on the vocational side by the time you entering into 10 grade. I think for most programs are 11 grade for some. So I was all excited and you know when it was time to register for the next school year I'm in my counselor office and I'm telling her yeah I want to join the cosmetology program and she's like cosmetology no you're too smart for that you don't need to join cosmetology. You need to join something that's going to challenge you or whatever and I'm like what? Since I'm young I'm like I want to be a cosmetologist I want to do here. I've been braiding my own hair from like eight years old and no I'm not exaggerating for real for real. I learned how to braid in my own hair. I've been like it's always been my side hustle braiding people here like their natural hair into nice styles and stuff for money like that was always my side hustle all in junior high high school I used to braid here. It wasn't known to people but friends and family and people that knew me personally outside of school and stuff they knew I braid here and they would ask me to braid their child here or whatever and pay me. So I was like I want to be a cosmetologist I want to do here like what are you talking about? What do you mean I'm too smart for that? She was like your math grades and stuff is excellent like maybe you should do something more pertinent than math. Now I've always been good with numbers but let me just tell you honest growing up I never had the desire to go to college until high school and that desire came from this conversation that I'm telling you guys right now that I had with my counselor when I was registering for my 10th grade classes. She was like listen how about the accounting program? It's more numbers and math and you're good at that so how about you join that and see if you like it? Now that got me to thinking because my mom was doing accounting at the time not that she worked in the field itself long but that's what she went to school for so I was like maybe it's in my blood maybe I should do accounting oh at least try it so and I remember like not feeling completely happy about it but I was happy that she was happy that makes sense that's what happened when you live for other people so I let her sign me up for the accounting program and the following year I took accounting I actually did great in accounting and I got to thinking like damn I'm really good at this I could do this bear in mind this is like the lowest level of accounting this is like financial accounting accounting has different levels so in high school the vocational side we were learning a certain part of accounting and I was really good at that and even my accounting teacher was like let me tutor you outside of school because you could really do great in this field like you're really good like I used to meet up with him on Saturdays so he could show me more advanced stuff and this really became my goal to be an accountant by 11th grade I was like by the age of 26 I'm gonna be a certified public accountant I would be working at a big public firm making X amount of money this is what actually sold me too she was like do you know much money you can make in the accounting field everybody needs an accountant you'll never be without a job blah blah blah blah you can make six figures right out of college you know like she just basically sold this to me and I did my research too and I saw that the accounting field you can make a lot of money however I didn't know how hard it would be until I got to college my first year of college I took financial accounting and it was a piece of cake because it was everything I learned in high school so I aced it however every accounting course got harder and harder and harder and that's saying that I didn't do well in those courses but it took way more effort and it started to feel like work and stress it wasn't on it actually wasn't until me entering my junior year that I started to feel like I can't do accounting for the rest of my life I'm too far into school to change my major because I don't even know what else I would do but I can't see myself doing this for the rest of my life but I kind of felt stuck so I was like I have to make this work so I went hard I finished undergrad I pretty much I never got lower than a b in any of my accounting courses and that was like the hard ones like anyways let me keep it simple long story short straight out of college my plan did not work out I could not get into a public accounting firm it just doesn't work like that they just don't hire people like that they usually get into those places through internships and I could not get an internship because the school I went to did not have a big enough accounting program for those public firms to come and recruit students like they do at other campuses so I tried to get in on my own by calling and trying to send my resume and then I found out well in order to even get an internship you need 150 credit hours which would put you on track to getting your CPA so I was like shit I graduated with I think like 120 something hours so like so I basically need my master's so out of undergrad I went back home to St. Croix and decided I'm gonna get my master's I did that online though while I was working as an intern in a small accounting firm on the island but they mostly dealt with like tax accounting didn't really do every aspect of accounting so I was working there first of all I hated tax accounting it's some it's something good to know but it's not like I don't like it so I worked there I didn't love the work I knew it was temporary so it was okay with me I worked there while I was going to school well while I was doing school online got my master's less than a year because I basically did it full time I took the maximum amount of classes you could take every semester while working like it was hard anyways so I got my master's and decided I'm gonna move back to the States because St. Croix didn't really have any public accounting firms and I wanted to grow in my field I wanted to get enough experience to say like yeah I'm really good at this so I decided to move back to the States and the job hunt was hard okay very hard even with my master's it was so hard to find a position like I got so many no's disappointing calls like I would go to on an interview and feel like I did great but get a call and because I signed up with this recruiting agency get a call from my career saying well they did like you but they said you didn't have enough experience my experience is college I've been in college for the past five years what experience am I going to really have other than you know the little year internship that I had at the the accounting firm in St. Croix it was actually very depressing anyways long story short I finally landed a job at this company it was not an actual public accounting firm and at that point I didn't even want to work in a public accounting firm anymore because it's gruesome like you're working 60 to 80 hours a week okay and you don't really get a work-life balance and I remember in college one of my professors says um women don't really make it in the accounting field because they just can't take it it's long hours it's very gruesome and if they end up becoming mothers or whatever the case may be they just can't do it they don't grow in the field and get those high-level positions like men and when he said that at the time it made me mad and I just wanted to prove him wrong but there is a lot of truth to that well at least it is for me because I realized that I don't want to work 60 to 80 hours a week for a company and I don't want to sit behind a desk scrolling down spreadsheets and looking at numbers all day like it's just not there is no passion in it for me and I'm not saying that I hate accounting I still find it very interesting I still find the way accounting work interesting the way you balance books the way you work money do with money for your business all of that is very interesting and I learned a lot but it's just not my passion so um once I got this job at this company I was working in their accounting department and you know I felt like I just had to make it work and I felt like okay I'm finally working in my field but why am I not happy so I started to feel like it was a waste like and if I knew what I knew now back then I probably wouldn't have got my masters because I graduated undergrad with no student loan and my masters cost me to get student loan and now I have a student loan to pay back for a degree I one wasn't getting paid for when I got that job like I got hired with a master's degree getting paid what somebody with their associates in accounting probably get paid like it's really bad like it's all pretty depressing okay so and I only actually work with that company for a little over a year because I wasn't happy there I ended up getting when I got pregnant they gave me a hard time they stressed me out to the max and once I had my son I was like I can't go back so that's when I started looking for a work from home position and actually that work from home job found me through one of my recruiters like I kept in contact with she called me I was like I have a friend that's um looking for someone for a work from home position and I'm gonna refer you to her I was like that's great it's not in the actual accounting field I didn't care I'm way happier now I'm not working in accounting exactly but it does deal with numbers and stuff however I know that that's not my forever job either and although I'm happier working from home and having flexibility to do other things like I know this position doesn't give me room to grow or even make money to a point where I feel financially stable for the rest of my life or anything so I'm like what else am I going to do I have to do something else I have to build like I have a child now I have to have something of substance a foundation for him because I can't just be this I can't live my life just working behind a desk um making the same same income for years and not have anything to pass down to him so I started thinking I was actually it was actually this past December I was home for like a month now that I work from home like I could I was able to go home for a month and work from there like it was it's my life is just so much more stress-free okay so while I was home I was just thinking like what can I do to start a business that I'll be happy doing because I could start my own business in the accounting field I could be a freelance bookkeeper get more into taxes like I can start my own business with my degree in the accounting field but I would not be happy because it's just not my passion so I was like what else can I do what else can I do stay tuned for my next video to let you guys know what I came up with however I just wanted to tell that little backstory because if I had stick to my guts and maybe really join that cosmetology program I would be doing something that I'm more passionate about out of develop my craft way more in terms of doing here I was straight away from it when my counselor decided that I should do the accounting program so I kind of like forgot here all together and only focused on my own here I was still always interested in here which is why I started this YouTube channel and even all back in high school like I was like I need to start a YouTube like I used to watch tons of YouTube videos back in high school all in 2009 and so I was like I want to start a YouTube channel this is the one YouTube I think was just like really starting to pop and I used to watch tons of people on YouTube doing here the tutorials and product reviews and I was like I need to do this but I was always scared to do it and I've come to the point in my life where I am not letting fear stop me from doing anything because if I had to start the YouTube channel back in 2009 when I wanted to I've been popping now like I've been like college for what I'm kidding no probably probably not kidding because like I said growing up I never had the desire to go to college my thing was always I'm gonna go to cosmetology school like college was never in my plan until 10 grade literally and people always looked at me as oh I'm such a good student I get good grades like of course I'm going to college but that was never like I literally didn't want to go to college up until then and the only reason I made sure I always did good in the school is because of that my my parents always told me they kind of forced to send me away to college and I knew that I didn't want to I wanted to go away for college so I in my mind I thought that I had to get the best grades possible in order to get a good scholarship to go away for college and which is what end up happening which is why I didn't have to pay for my undergrad however that is why I did so great in school and I was actually solid my class and it was that wasn't even a goal of mine like I wasn't trying to be solid tutorial I was actually shocked when I got the news that I was solid tutorial like that wasn't and some people thought I didn't even deserve it because I didn't take AP classes throughout my entire high school I took I think I took only two AP classes but my point is right you cannot let fear stop you from doing what you really want to do I am not letting fear stop me from doing anything I want to do anymore which is why you know it's a risk but I'm starting my own business I'm putting myself out there because 10 years from now I don't want to be in that position where I'm saying if I did this back then I would have been so far by now you know like I'm doing now like I'm saying now the whole YouTube thing if I had started back in 2009 I would have been popping now but I let fear stop me I was and if anybody knows me growing up I was really shy and timid and like to myself unless you was really close to me in my circle I was you you wouldn't know that I'm pretty much outspoken and like you know comfortable and free and whatever like I was really shy around people I didn't know around people that I thought were better than me or more popular than me and stuff like that but I I can't live my life like that anymore and anyways I said I didn't want this video to be long but from the looks of it it might be however that is why I am starting my own business because fear is no longer going to hold me back and I want to put my all into something and nourish it and make it grow and have something to look back on have something to pass down to my child to my future children I have to build an empire and I have to start now if I keep saying oh I have time I'm so young my life is just gonna pass me by and I'm gonna have nothing and if you think about it like at some point we have to start the the process of generational wealth and that starts by doing our own being our own boss like starting things and building our own empire and I'm not seeing that there's anything wrong with working at nine to five or you know going to college because I'm not anti any of those things I'm just saying that you have to do what you love if you love your job and you're clocking in nine to five it doesn't matter that you're clocking in because you you love your job and you're completely happy but if you don't love your job if you do not love what you're doing then it's time to sit back and reevaluate your life and try to figure out like what it is that you can be doing that would generate you an income and you'll be happy because I'm not gonna lie starting a business is not easy it's a lot of work it's very expensive however you have to start somewhere which is why I'm happy that I have this work from home position that I can you know still have an income while I'm starting my own thing because it's going to take time before I'm generating enough money to say okay I can completely 100% work for myself however you know it's a process and you just have to be willing to go through that process so check out my next video where I'm going to be introducing my business name and what I'll be providing and I'm so excited I've really been working hard on this no lie like really hard really really hard and it's all me so it's something that I'm very proud of so um don't forget to like comment and subscribe be subscribed and check out this next video which I am trying I'm going to try to upload together so it should be up right now if it isn't I swear it will be up the following day you know I cannot predict my life and I don't know how long it's going to take me to edit and post because yeah I'm also a mom so um thank you for watching and you guys will see me in my next video