In this 45-minute episode you’ll discover:

• How to zero-in on your key motivations when the road gets tough
• Ways to translate your social ideals into a financially viable profession
• How to recognize supportive opportunities in family, school, and beyond during your transition to work life
• The key indicator if you’re on the right track, planting the right seeds for future success
• Key advice on dealing with financial curveballs and career pitfalls along the way— leveraging your limitations
• How to be receptive to the problems of others as your inspiration for creating a business product or service
• Ways to create access to potential clients (and win them over!) when you’re just getting started
• Creative ideas to reach free business training resources and professional development opportunities that are in your local area
• The New Business Plan Model for the Startup Entrepreneur: variables for realistically assessing the big picture of your current financial, professional, and personal life situation

Xeres Villanueva focuses on helping small businesses, social enterprises and grassroots non-profits that are community minded. She is involved in 2 to 3 small discussion gathering groups in California that are about intersecting Christian Faith and Social Justice. She is involved with an organization called Tuesday Night Project that runs one of the longest running Asian American mic spaces in the country, that focuses on community building and giving people a chance to share their story, talent and voice.

Xeres recently accepted offers to be a blog contributor for a site that explores Christian Faith, liberation theology and anarchism and volunteers as a writer and editorial staff foran online magazine called The Resist Daily. In addition, Xeres serves as a board member for a start-up grassroots non-profit that will offer financial receivership to community projects.

Additional Links:

• Check out Xeres’s writing here.