CYLS 025: How To Turn Your Childhood Dream Into A Career With Wings With Anshia Crooms CEO of Briclyn Entertainment

Summary: In this episode of the CYLS, Anshia details her journey of turning her love for music into a sustainable business as a booking agent. She gives us her secrets to success in internships, finding the right team members & using your GPS to WIN.  www.briclynent.com/    20 tips Tips from Anshia   Don’t wait to get an internship start as early as high school internships lead her to where she is today Go into school/college/business with a plan “It’s never too early” It took her 6 years to be a full time entrepreneur, she worked at temp agencies and in retail at lord and taylor in the shoe department for 3 years.  She had 3 internships The key to sacrificing and not loosing sight of her goal and vision while working another job was GPS - God’s positioning system She recommends reading “The Energy Bus" by John Gordon She slept on cousins couch for 7 months working everyday to chase her dreams and bring her company to fruition Surround yourself with positive people and those who are movers and shakers,  Going to church helped her stay motivated To work with her agency an artist needs to have A) A Plan B) A purpose C) Their own machine going = A following She took her unemployment checks and reinvested them into her company Understand the power of internships, Her former intern who is now an employee started working for free from paris and is now on monthly retainer and commission.  (It took him over 4 months to work with her) Taking advice from her husband who is a proven businessman has taken her business to the next level  (He is her Silent Partner) When she went to places that she wanted to work that were in her line of work she would ask them if they needed help and what could she do to assist. She would also name drop to make herself relevant but it started with her work ethic and making herself present. The fortune is in the follow up Achieve balance - make time for the things that you love Listen to experts Have a vision write your plan down, invest in yourself, learn how to market yourself