Meet Jet Bunditwong

We were lucky to catch up with Jet Bunditwong recently and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Jet, thanks for sharing your insights with our community today. Part of your success, no doubt, is due to your work ethic and so we’d love if you could open up about where you got your work ethic from?

I definitely get my work ethic from my mother. She was a single mother who raised my sister and me in New York City in a time when New York City was not anywhere near what it is today. I saw how hard she had to work to keep food on the table and her kids happy, while making some tough choices. When times become turbulent in my life, I always think of those times and how I need to keep at it, even when I don’t want to. It’s easier to stay in that mindset than to lay back and kickstart all over again from my experience. I also believe that working hard creates opportunities and so far, I’ve been correct on that theory.

Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?

Outside of working with businesses in different capacities, I am developing and growing my Youtube and audio podcast, “The Personal Side of Business.” It started as a passion project that has turned into an entity of it’s own. I have always been fascinated with people’s stories, what drives them and what has been their biggest challenges in life. This podcast has allowed me to share those stories with an audience and feel a sense of creativity in the business world at the same time. What started as an experiment in a podcast studio, has grown into trying to develop ways to connect people, entertain and educate.
I think there are going to be some really cool ideas that come to life in the next 6 months. I have made a commitment to myself and my podcast that I will push myself into uncomfortable areas and allow mistakes to happen and learn from them so this podcast will become a better version of itself over time. “The Personal Side of Business” will have a more interview style component to the channel, an entertainment component and also an educational component for entrepreneurs and even people who just want to connect to real stories.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

This is a great question because I have thought about this plenty of times and why I’ve been able to create this journey for myself. One, I’ve built a strong network of entrepreneurs in San Diego, which has allowed me to lean on them to be my guests. Two, I have some basic media skills from my time in college, which gave me some confidence in putting this all together. Three, being a business advisor and working with businesses for almost 10 years now, gives me the ability to discuss business topics with guests on my podcast.
I’m truly thankful all of these skills and knowledge came together at a creative desire point in my life because it’s not just about the tool belt to do this, but a feeling of confidence somewhere in you to move forward with an idea.
My advice to someone who is early in their journey, funny to even say that because I still very early in my journey as well, is to find mentorship from anyone willing to share knowledge and also to dive in. Just get a mic and start recording. As this happens, you are going to research missing parts of your puzzle. I was reading anything I could get my eyes on about podcasting. I was watching hours and hours of YouTube to gather what was recommended and what was not. I played with so many softwares and learned what worked for me and what didn’t. I waited a while to finally pull the trigger and I wish I would have just started years ago and figure it out as I go.

If you knew you only had a decade of life left, how would you spend that decade?

I’ve thought a lot about this as I’ve gotten older and in my last years I would be closer to people and water. When I’m referring to people, I want to be around family and friends, laughing, telling stories and making memories. I heard someone say one time, “You spend the first half of your life trying to weed out people and the second half of your life trying to hold onto them.” Those last ten years would be about absorbing people in every way.
The other part is being near oceans and lakes, that’s what keeps me centered. I’ve been fortunate enough for most of my life to live near bodies of water and the one time I didn’t, I was miserable. I want to be by on the beach, the lake, etc. It would be really cool to have the friends and family hanging on the beach with me in that last decade.

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