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Jette Stubbs
What was your dream career when you were growing up?
When I was a child, my dream career was to be a traveling businesswoman with an artistic hobby. I didn’t have many opportunities to travel as a child, growing up on a small island in the Bahamas where tourism was the main industry. I was always fascinated by the tourists I saw and wanted to visit the places they came from. Additionally, I had a passion for drawing and considered hosting art exhibitions and having an art and woodworking studio at home.
Describe the moment you decided to become an entrepreneur.
First, I decided I wanted to become an entrepreneur. At 21, I was an international student with 90 days to build a career or business or leave the country. I knew I wanted to become an entrepreneur. I explored the job descriptions but didn’t find anything I liked. When it comes to entrepreneurship, I’ve faced the challenge of not knowing what to sell, where to start, and how to gain people’s trust in my offerings. I also needed immediate financial stability.
Although I applied to over 100 jobs and received no response, I discovered how to sell myself effectively. This resulted in 7 responses out of 10 applications. I began helping other people learn how to market themselves and land better-paying jobs, usually with salary increases of $20,000 or more.
Then I decided to become an entrepreneur. After 6 years of working and helping others find jobs on the side, my father was diagnosed with dementia and my brother and I moved from country to country to return home and care from him. Then I realize that making money can’t stop when life goes wrong and I need to build a career with more flexibility. This led me to transition into full-time career coaching and then business coaching.
What motivates the work you do?
Customer transformations. I help people restructure the way they work, so they design their work and income around their life goals. Designing your work means planning how you finance your life and how much time and energy you have left to devote to your family and loved ones. Here are three examples:
Brittany — Brittany quit working at a family daycare and built her dream career in publishing, landing 50 clients in her first 18 months. She helps marginalized nonfiction authors go from a simple idea to a compelling book with consistent sales. She moved countries with her partner and got away from stressful relationships.
Mo — After helping Mo get a 39 percent salary increase, he was able to buy a car and pay off a mortgage so he could move his parents from Palestine. His father had been a political prisoner.
Recently, I saw a client go from $70,000 in salary to $210,000 with a bonus – it made a huge difference in her life.
My favorite part is when clients discover career paths they didn’t know existed before.
What is the most exciting thing you are currently working on in your company?
Recently I implemented a 4X ROI or your money back guarantee. My clients get a 4X ROI after working with me or get their money back. I also became certified in Money Trauma, which helps dispel the fears and anxieties we have when approaching earning, using and storing money.
What does entrepreneurship mean to you?
Financial and lifestyle freedom, and being of service to others.
My favorite part is when clients discover career paths they didn’t know existed before.
What brought you to SPI Pro?
I’ve been following Pat for about a decade. When he launched SPI Pro, I had serious doubts and imposter syndrome about joining. I wasn’t sure if I was far enough along in growing my business to be around other entrepreneurs, but I always found Pat’s approach to entrepreneurship grounded, honest and welcoming.
Plus, I had gone through the phase where I tried to make my friends, even the most entrepreneurial ones, be my “best friends in business.” I quickly realized that instead of looking within my community, I needed to expand my community to include entrepreneurs who were actively seeking community.
SPI Pro offered a community around entrepreneurship and business growth. Over the past two years, it has only gotten better by providing access to all Pat’s online courses.
What is the most powerful interaction or learning moment you have had in the community?
The riches are in the niches of the SPI Pro community. My most powerful interactions are certainly within brains! SPI did the heavy lifting in bringing the right people together so I could build a community around growing the company.
When I joined SPI Pro, I tried participating in brainstorms led by other members and I wasn’t really finding what I was looking for. I thought about leaving the community, but then decided to run my own brain. I posted a mastermind request specifically describing the small community I would like to have and the support I would like to have. This mastermind has been running for almost a year and we have all said we are grateful and blown away by the knowledge, value and support provided.
I am surrounded by very diverse skills: lawyers, accountants, entrepreneurs, therapists, nutritionists, doctors. Since joining and running Masterminds, I’ve launched a podcast, 3x my awards, been a podcast guest for an SPI member with over 60,000 downloads per month, and felt supported. Now with access to the SPI Academy, SPI Pro is simply an unbeatable value.
My brain gives me accountability and perspective when I’m feeling anxious or questioning my next steps in growing my business.
What role has SPI Pro had in your company?
It gave me an online community and expanded my knowledge base, network, and tools. My brain gives me accountability and perspective when I’m feeling anxious or questioning my next steps in growing my business.
I started a podcast and used it as part of my lead generation to generate 10,000 sales from it and podcast guests within the first few months.
What do you like most about SPI Pro and what sets SPI communities apart from other entrepreneurial communities?
This looks like global support. If you want community and accountability, create or join a mastermind. If you have specific questions about a topic, forums are a place to get answers from people with diverse skillsets. If you want to learn a skill, access all SPI Academy courses. There are plenty of resources online that teach you one thing, but SPI helps you unlock what feels like a small MBA focused on entrepreneurship with a community.
What would you say to encourage entrepreneurs who are not involved in a community to join one?
You grow faster when you don’t do it alone, and the journey is less lonely. I’ve heard so many people talk about turning to their working spouses, partners, or friends to talk about all of their entrepreneurial goals and obstacles. It’s nice to be able to talk to someone who has experienced this or is going through it, especially when you’re part of an online group of people who are actively looking for a community to discuss these things.
If you had to start a brand new online business from scratch today, what would it be?
Career support. For me, it’s easy to get people to find work that fits who they are, and I’ve done it on 4 continents in over 40 industries. Business coaching takes a little longer to niche down and develop a clientele. I don’t know if that would count as “from scratch”. If not, my second choice is a marketing agency. I love learning about marketing processes and writing sales copy.
If you were to start your current today, what would you do differently?
I would focus on testing and doing things in community, instead of learning in solitude. I would seek community instead of listening to endless courses, podcasts, YouTube. Then, set up sales channels and invest in marketing earlier. I would access therapy sooner to support my change in how I view the value of my work and money so I don’t let imposter syndrome hold me back so much.
My community would be other entrepreneurs seeking community and accountability, courses/course instructors, and healing therapy. This would have been radically different and less costly in the long run than a do-it-yourself approach.
If you were given $1 million today, with no strings attached, what would you do with that money?
I would invest in new businesses and passion projects. I would invest in increments of $100,000 to $250,000 in new business ideas, allowing the rest of the money to stay. I would focus on marketing first and test the ideas. There are a lot of cool projects focused on social impact and social entrepreneurship that I would get involved in.