A podcast to help young entrepreneurs go from side hustle to full time business. Your host Ashley Alexsius Dsouza, a full time UX designer and strategist with guide you through this journey. Being a early stage startup himself, Ashley start his startup during his second year of engineering. This podcast will answer all your startup as well as career related queries. Stay tuned.
Hey Everyone, welcome to episode 9 of pixelated thoughts. This week episode is part two to an earlier episode named Should i drop out and pursue my dreams. This episode we will talk about what steps you could take if you already dropped out and didn’t expect to fail. And much more. Stay tuned
This week's question is an anonymous one, I dropped out of college to pursue my freelance career but it's been a year and I've been starving to get clients. It makes me wonder if the decision I took was the worst decision. What should I do?
This is your host Ashley Dsouza, thanks for tuning in this week's episode, if you liked it, share it on your social media and help this podcast grow. If you have any questions you want me to answer in a podcast shoot me an email on ashalexsius@gmail.com and follow me on instagram (@ashalexsius (//instagram.com/ashalexsius)). I'll see you in the next one.
7 Sept 2020
Episode 08 : Grow faster with collaborations
Hey Everyone, welcome to episode 8 of pixelated thoughts. This week we are going to talk about how one can collaborate in order to grow. Not jut their followers but their reach. Collaboration is the cheapest way to get real fans and generate more leads to your service or product. And much more so stick around
This week's question comes from Tushar, he asks “ I have a decent number of followers and growth has been steady as well. Do you feel I should accept collaboration requests from smaller accounts?”
So, these are my 5 tips for you to organize a successful collaboration. I hope you find this podcast helpful. Share this podcast with your friends who are looking towards collaborations.
This is your host Ashley Dsouza, thanks for tuning in this week's episode, if you liked it, share it on your social media and help this podcast grow. If you have any questions you want me to answer in a podcast shoot me an email on ashalexsius@gmail.com and follow me on instagram. I'll see you in the next one.
30 Aug 2020
Episode 07 : How can you get your first client?
Hey Everyone, welcome to episode 7 of pixelated thoughts. It has been an amazing week, actually a couple of weeks. Hope everyone else had an amazing week too. This week we are going to get back to the podcast and answer more awesome questions. In this episode we are going to speak about how to get your first client. So stay tuned
I hope you find these tips helpful and you put them to use. Share this podcast with your friends who are looking towards being freelancers.
This is your host Ashley Dsouza, thanks for tuning in this week's episode, if you liked it, share it on your social media and help this podcast grow. If you have any questions you want me to answer in a podcast shoot me an email on ashalexsius@gmail.com and follow me on instagram. I'll see you in the next one.
10 Aug 2020
Episode 06 : Let's demystify Personal Branding
This week's questions comes from Lloyd, he asks “What’s a personal brand, does it mean one has to be an influencer?”. A question I’ve been wanting to answer for a long time. What is personal brand and why it is over rated,
Personal brand is nothing but how people pursue you or how you want people to pursue you and your offering. In other words, a personal brand is a point of view about yourself, you want the world to see. Infact when you build a personal brand you are perceived as an expert or a pro at a certain combination of skills and experience.
One of the best examples of personal brands I could point out is Gary Vaynerchuk. The hustle guy, who speaks about entrepreneurship out loud
I hope you find these tips useful and you put them to use. Share this podcast with your friends who are looking towards building a personal brand.
This is your host Ashley Dsouza, thanks for tuning in this week's episode, if you liked it, share it on your social media and help this podcast grow. If you have any questions you want me to answer in a podcast shoot me an email on ashalexsius@gmail.com and follow me on instagram. I'll see you in the next one.
26 Jul 2020
Episode 05 : Crushing your next job interview
This episode is going to be an effort to ease off the pressure off the students applying for jobs or have interviews scheduled. Interviews can be daunting but I’d like to share a few insights to make the interview a bit less daunting. If you follow well, you might actually stand a chance to nudge the interview in your favor.
This week's questions comes from Margaery, she asks “How do I prepare myself to win an interview.P.s.: Not college placements.”
Over the course of 3 years running my startup I’ve come across 100+ CVs and trust me they are terrible. But, since I’ve been through the same system myself, I don’t blame the students for such terrible CVs.
When I interviewed for my first only internship in 2016, I had a terrible CV but the founder took a chance on me and hired me on board as a junior web designer that started my journey to become who I am today.
Listen for my 7 insights.
This is your host Ashley Dsouza, thanks for tuning in this week's episode, if you liked it, share it on your social media and help this podcast grow. If you have any questions you want me to answer in a podcast shoot me an email on ashalexsius@gmail.com and follow me on instagram @ashalexsius. I'll see you in the next one.
19 Jul 2020
Episode 04 : How to survive Instagram as an amateur baker
Hey Everyone, welcome to episode 4 of pixelated thoughts. This episode is going to be a tasty and my baker friends are gonna love it for sure. We will discuss 5 tips any amateur home baker could apply to his/her existing instagram account to gain more hungry clients and be happier baking.
This week's question comes from Royan, and he asks “I’m an amateur baker baking personalized cakes. What would be your suggestion to survive the rise of home bakers amid lockdown.” So, here are 3 things you could do to stay relevant and not dry to death without clients.
Let’s do something different. I want you to send this to your baker friends and tell them at the end of the podcast to DM me. I will give a personal shoutout to every home baker account that DMs me and probably give you some suggestions. This will be fun.
This is your host Ashley D'souza, thanks for tuning in this week's episode, if you liked it, share it on your social media and help this podcast grow. If you have any questions you want me to answer in a podcast shoot me an email on ashalexsius@gmail.com and follow me on instagram. I'll see you in the next one.
11 Jul 2020
Episode 03 : Leveraging internships, shaping your future
Hey Everyone, welcome to episode 3 of pixelated thoughts podcast. This week we are gonna talk about how to get the best out of your internships and choosing the right industry to intern in. What can you expect from these pre job internship period and much more stay tuned.
An internship is a period of work experience before getting placed as a full time employee. Or a program used to train you in a particular skill or technique while working on a live client project. Internships can be paid or non paid and could last for a minimum of a month and max go upto 6 months.
This is your host Ashley Dsouza, thanks for tuning in this week's episode, if you liked it, share it on your social media, send it to a budding student entrepreneur. If you have any questions you want me to answer in a podcast shoot me an email on ashalexsius@gmail.com | instagram @ashalexsius
4 Jul 2020
Episode 02 : Should I drop out and pursue my dreams?
This week's question comes from Joviet, and he asks “Should i drop out of college and pursue my dreams or struggle in college till I lose interest in my dream”. It is a pretty straight forward question. But the answer isn’t.
Let’s start by asking you, how much do you believe yourself that you will make the dream work. Is it something that you came up overnight? Will the dream last three years? Do you believe that this product idea or the service startup itself, even though it's still an idea?
Let’s set some ground rules, before you quit your college and pursue your dream :
Validating your idea (Did i validate my idea, does it exist, how different are you)
Cost of making it real (How much of my pocket money will it cost me, do you possess the money needed, do you have arrangements)
Should sustain for 3 years minimum (Do i have a 3 year plan charted down?)
If all three ground rules are checked out, go ahead and quit your college. If not let’s get to work.
Once alt these three ground rules are set, you hit the benchmark to a sustainable business venture. Use your 3-4 years of your college polishing your idea and checking out all these three ground rules, so that as you graduate you have a full proof plan on how to go ahead and take your startup full time.
I started my startup when I was in my second year of engineering. I validated my service ideas in October 2016, invested a basic amount and registered my startup in December 2016. In three years time my goal was to design and develop products for foreign country clients. And i'm proud to say this, I’ve managed to meet my 3 year goal that i set in 2016. I did all this without quitting college. If i can pull off a successful startup business despite being in college and get called out for class attendance being below 50%. I still got through and I know you will too.
This is your host Ashley Ashley D'souza, thanks for tuning in this week's episode, if you liked it, share it on your social media, send it to a budding student entrepreneur. If you have any questions you want me to answer in a podcast shoot me an email on ashalexsius@gmail.com
28 Jun 2020
Episode 01 : Growing an Art page the right way
In this episode of Pixelated Thoughts Podcast we will discuss about how one can take their art page to the next level. Sharing tips to grow it organically and keeping it relevant despite having such a strong competition. You don't have to compete but support each other and grow together. But most importantly loving what you do.
Want me to answer your question in a podcast? Shoot me an email on ashalexsius@gmail.com or DM me on Instagram @ashalexsius. (https://www.instagram.com/ashalexsius/)
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24 Jun 2020
Episode 0 - Podcast Announcement
Hey everyone, welcome to Pixalated thoughts, a podcast hosted by me Ashley Dsouza, I’m a UX designer who turned his college side hustle into a full time business and i want you to do the same by sharing my personal insights and techniques on how to convert your side hustle into a business opportunity. Stick Around!
With “Pixelated Thoughts” I wanted to help fellow ideators and entrepreneurs or even aspiring business owners to get a better understanding of what it takes to actually run a side hustle. In this podcast I will answer questions I've got regarding side hustling over the years from my workshop students and individuals, hoping that these questions are relatable and help you with a quick solution.
Thank you so much for listening and i will catch you in episode one.
Send in your Inquiries and questions on ashalexsius@gmail.com | Follow me on Instagram : @ashalexsius
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