We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Princess With The Real a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Princess With, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Let’s kick things off with a hypothetical question – if it were up to you, what would you change about the school or education system to better prepare students for a more fulfilling life and career?
When it comes to the school system there is so much that needs to change starting with making sure that teachers get paid enough. I say that because that matter as that determines how much that work to teach the children. The next thing I would say is even though technology has advanced I feel kids should still have to show their work and actually but in the effort rather than be able to just get all the answers online.
Don’t get me wrong when I was in school I felt I needed to learn everything and in adult life there is so much I haven’t used but I think it’s good to truly learn cause it could be something that comes in handy later in life. For me we had to turn in our scrap paper when working out a problem so a teacher knew it came from us and we were not allowed to have phones at school without getting it taken for the day. Now days times are different but this change is not good. Now children know they can cheat their way through and now so many are still trying to cheat their way through life.
Princess With, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?
I believe I can do anything I put my mind too and even though I worked corporate jobs most my adulthood I knew I wasn’t happy. I was just doing what I needed to do to get the bills paid. Once I reached the point of waking up with headaches when it was time to clock in I knew it was time to part ways. I quit a job I was at for almost 10 years to start my own create getting paid to be me and it was not easy to start with. I was struggling to pay my bills and to get the recognition I felt I deserved but I didn’t give up. As I stated I believe I can do anything I put my mind to so I started going harder and showing more of my skills not just my personality and I was able to grow from just on-air personality on 2HotRadio to the Operation Manager as well.
What I feel sets me apart from others giving me that opportunity to grow is that I am different. I believe in going above and beyond every day not just when it benefits me and I am always going to look out for the best interest of the business because I understand business and how things go. Not only that I multi-task like nobody business and love to fix problems rather than create them. With all that being said I am a little hard on others when it comes to working with me and I say hard because I expect them to go as hard as me which I am working on because I know everyone ain’t me. I worked hard to get here getting pregnant with my first child at 15 having him at 16 years old but not letting that be an excuse. Not only did I finish high school with high GPA I also got not one but two degrees after not knowing if I could go back to school with having a child. I had to though because I wanted to be a role model for my son and now my daughter as well. They keep me motivated to continue to go after everything I want and I am proud that I can show them what hard work is and not to give up on your dreams no matter what tries to change your path.
My name is Princess but I go by Princess With The Real because all my life I have always kept it real and at times it did get me into trouble but I can only be me. I am proud to say that I have also trademarked my name as I know eventually I will be a household name helping to change the world one person at a time. My goal is to motivate and inspire as many as I can because what I have learned is if you don’t know better you can’t do better and there is a lot of people that don’t know because the people around them want to hold them back.
Can you share one of your favorite marketing or sales stories?
Okay so let me start by saying I am so not a sales person but after leaving a job I got hired through a temp agency to a company where I was working on behalf of Microsoft. When I started I said it was not for me but I was good at making a lot of calls and finding the right contact to speak to. So I said okay since I am not good at sales what can I do and it came to me. I teamed with a guy in the office I knew that knew how to sale so I would find the contact warm them up and send to him. Of course after awhile he moved up in the business because he was the one selling. So I said I have to think of another way and at that point I said let me learn enough to speak to someone not selling them but giving them an understanding so they want to buy. Once I did that I started to grow as far as my paycheck went and started holding all the records in the company (which I still hold) and became the person the company discussed when interviewing and hiring new people. I would say my downfall was I was too good at what I did bringing in millions in months that it was hard for me to grow with the business because they wanted me to stay where I was and keep bringing that money in. After almost 10 years I left because I wanted more and didn’t want to feel like I was being used but I can’t say that I didn’t learn a lot on the job and those skills I did take into my next career.
We’d love to hear the story of how you built up your social media audience?
When it comes to my social media I just be myself because there are so many people out there trying to be someone else. I believe your truth is important and not to be afraid to be me no matter who likes it or not. I post like crazy even though many tell me not to post so much I enjoy life so I don’t listen. I also don’t mind posting bad pictures and say exactly how I feel on social media. I feel doing all of this helped me to grow my followers which I also don’t think about because for me it’s not about how many follow me it’s about the right people seeing who I am and what I do.
When I first started getting recognized on social media I would try to connect with business and do work and they would tell me you have to get your followers up first. That didn’t disappoint me because I told myself that is their loss as I was not going to build my platform for them I am going to let my platform build for me and connect with the business that sees my greatness without a following. Now with my social media I have many businesses following me tapping in to grow together.
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- Website: [email protected]
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