BTS: My Transition from Corporate to Entrepreneur

Big decision I made moving forward...

Hey y’all,

It feels like it’s been a while—but it’s only been a week. I’ve made some decisions recently that will seriously impact my direction moving forward.

Unfortunately… you weren’t the first to know. My chat community heard it first (if you want the tea, it’s there 👀).

But something I can share here is this: we’re moving to a new posting schedule.

Sundays and Wednesdays are our new days.

• Sundays → BTS and personal experience

• Wednesdays → Leveling up: making money (yes, I spelled it like that on purpose), entrepreneurship, building, and transition content

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My Transition from Corporate to Entrepreneur

I talk a lot about my life while I was in corporate—but I haven’t really talked about the in-between: the messy, uncertain space between corporate and entrepreneurship.

I know a lot of people in this community are either transitioning now or thinking about it for the future. Either way… with fewer jobs and more layoffs coming, I believe more people will try entrepreneurship—whether they want to or not.

It was first a side hustle.

I was never passionate about my job, but I loved mentioning my title or my company. It gave me my identity and respect—let’s keep it real—but to be honest, it never fulfilled me. I felt depleted every day after giving 110% a day—okay, maybe 80%—but it was like, who the fuck am I doing this for?

Truly, it was for me. It was for the money to help support my kid, but it was the part of me I didn’t connect with. It was just a routine. So I remember longing to feel something, anything. That’s when I started social media. If you’re an OG follower, you know I started on YouTube first, had a few viral videos, took a break after my breakup, and then came back on TikTok in 2020. I was on live EVERY DAY, but I was never burnt out. And I believe you will never feel burnout if you are in your purpose or doing what you’re passionate about.

My brand on TikTok grew relatively quickly as I was one of one at the time—the only Techfluencer doing what I was doing at the time. Granted, when I was on live, I loved it—felt passionate about futurism, space, and arguing about Elon. IFYKYK. But I fell into this loop of creating career content because it was something I felt like was a gap. I could fulfill it, but I was not passionate about it. So after I said all I could say—cracked all the jokes—I felt that creeping burnout again.

Fast forward to 2022, I started making real money from brand partnerships—so much that I started questioning quitting both corporate and never quitting career content. But God told me what I needed to do.

I want to talk about that specific moment in life I felt God gave me directions (goosebumps), but it’s worth its own post.

Well, I quit.

It was such a nerve-wracking feeling because although I was financially stable, I was used to the routine and the consistency of a paycheck. Eventually, if I don’t produce, I won’t get paid—that’s the way the world works. So I got to producing. Producing something that burned me out even more. In a bittersweet thought—I made my annual salary in like a few months. That’s when I knew: big risk, bigger reward.

Fast forward to today, I am three years into full-time entrepreneurship, and no—the consistency never comes. Yes—you always have to be on the grind, and you DO work more hours than you would in corporate, but I wouldn’t trade my freedom to go back to jail unless God directed me otherwise. I don’t see it in the foreseeable future, but you never know.

A company could offer me a deal that gives me my autonomy and consistency, but for right now, that’s not the case.

See you on Wednesday,

Resa