Jaliyla Fraser is the Founder and CEO of Fraser’s Mathematics Solutions. What started as a STEAM summer camp for students, Fraser’s Mathematics Solutions now provides high-quality mathematics learning for administrators, teachers, and parents to help the students in their lives succeed. Fraser’s Mathematics Solutions also produces school supplies for students to help them reach their full potential. Listen to the Side Hustle to Small Business podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or visit: entm.ag/hiscox
What is the overview of Jalila Frazier's journey?
I actually don't care about that so much. I only care about what I did and said that was wrong and bad. Because obviously I tried my best. And so if you can tell me all the ways that it didn't connect with you and you thought it was a miss, then maybe I can make that better the next time. Right. Glows and grows, I think, is now a part of my vocabulary. I'm going to be using that.
I really love that. let's shift a little bit and talk about owning and managing the business kind of originally as a side hustle. Now it's a full-time gig. How did you manage the stress of dealing with all of that? Cause there's a lot of stress and, and I mean, just that first summer having to work and do half days and run back and forth.
Like how did you manage the stress and how did that work for you?
Yeah. A side hustle and turning it into an actual business that's having profit. Managing the stress, you have to love what you do. I don't care what anyone says, right? It will be stressful whether you love it or don't. But the perseverance of it and you deciding whether or not you're going to quit versus you're just going to take a little time to recollect yourself, you'll always keep going.
So how did I manage it? I think for me, I was always very, very clear about systems. So even when I was a district math supervisor, I realized that because the wheel is so large, right? The circumference of your influence has to be reached to every teacher in various schools? How do you optimize? How do you make something a systematic process? How do you teach people to make things systematic?
And so I took that into this company. Building the foundation was extremely important and making sure that I'm legally compliant with things is important as well. So those are my first two things. Legal and systems. But now I think managing is everything to do with how do you replace yourself?
How do I replace myself so someone else can be the leader in that role so that I can work on another part of the business? And so that in and itself is a lot. So making sure you have standard operating procedures, even for the smallest things like them as an educator. Right. There are educators that are very high functioning. they get the information and they know exactly what you want.
And there are educators that need it spelled out for you. And so I learned that very early, that if I don't clearly explain things and have it written down in more than one touch point, then we won't be able to be successful. So I use that even here. We make everything very granular level. We make it step one, step two, step three, and very tasky, but it shows the larger picture.
picture of everything. So I can take a vacation now and I know that a standard operating procedure is happening and they have all the tools that they need.
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