109. Working a Job to Finance a Dream Business | Althea Wiles

While in college, Althea Wiles discovered that working around flowers was her dream job. Not simply as a florist helping build someone else’s business. She wanted her own floral business. But Althea was (is!) practical. She knew she needed the runway to build her experience and her business from the ground up.

Show Notes

Highlights of Episode 109:

• Althea’s practical approach to following her passion
• How she arranged her schedule with her then-manager to allow her time to build her floral business
• What steps she took to build her client-base from the ground up while she still had her full-time job
• How Althea prepared for the day when she would go ‘all in’ on her business
• It’s not all arranging flowers! What it really means to run a seasonal business
• Sacrifices and challenges, but it’s all worth it!

For the transcript and links, visit https://secondbreaks.com/podcast

What is Second Breaks?

Conversations about midlife, life and career transitions, and all the fabulous ways we can get better as we get older. Hosted by Lou Blaser.

About The Host: Lou Blaser is a former corporate ladder climber turned writer and podcaster. She writes the weekly publication "We're All Getting Older" and is the author of Break Free: The Courage to Reinvent Yourself and Your Career.