Personality & Design Systems

One advantage I had was my business education. I studied marketing, organizational leadership, and entrepreneurship. I didn't go straight into those fields, but I did take sales jobs. Sales is everything because any transaction is a sales situation. I had training in inside and outside sales for various products, from hotel rooms to real estate, copier machines, energy contracts, and university development. I understood basic economics and applied that knowledge to my brand and my work with organizations. I also studied leadership, managing money, and entrepreneurship. The money you spend on education is an investment in yourself. You are investing in the most important asset you have. Not investing in yourself is a mistake, in my opinion. I started doing this early, even in 2009 while I was still in the corporate world. I took classes, including one at the Bodhi Spiritual Center called The Artist's Way. It changed my life because it reconnected me with my artist side. Even while I was still working in a cubicle, I was building the DJ Taz Rashid identity on the side without fully realizing it.