Today we’d like to introduce you to Angela Knight.
Hi Angela, so excited to have you on the platform. So before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today?
This is my story of breaking rules along with generation curses to be a serial entrepreneur. Being an Asian woman has been one of the biggest struggles of my journey to success. I’ve always been pressured to please the first generations idea of happiness and success and with that, I’ve always been conflicted with myself. I knew want I wanted, I just never knew how to communicate how to make both my family and myself happy. So at 14, I packed my bags and left home without explaining why I knew I was made for more than a labor worker. At the time, I complained and cried about the struggles I faced when I decided to challenge time but I wouldn’t change anything now because I was going to learn these lessons sooner or later and I’m glad I suffered, loss, and accepted the outcomes. The biggest flaw most cultured families suffer is brainwashing their kids to be intense labor workers because it pays well at the moment instead of making sure the kids were happy. Happiness is the key to my success; you have to love what you do or you’ll be dragging your feet wonder when the day is over. First generation could never relate or understand, but I’ve found that sometimes breaking rules and fixing the damage with success is 10xxx more revelating than following the rules in agony. Any time I’ve ever doubted myself there was someone admiring what I was doing, with time I’ve chose to break the cycle of this way I grew up. Although I had many years of being lost in character, struggling in survival mode has always opened doors for me to pick up a handful of skills. I grew up doing nails and hated it, but when I started to embrace it and looked at it as a trade that could nest my hobbies at the time, my life instantly became better. I didn’t get to go to college and I was bummed at the moment but most of my youth was collecting knowledge from tangible experiences instead of scenario and equations from a book. It’s just a situation where I can say college is NOT for everyone, especially if you have a trade that your good and passionate about. I skipped the debt and the useless degree.
With that, I’ve personally feel like I’ve been ahead and I didn’t even realize it until recently at the age of 27, I had a moment of darkness thinking why I didn’t feel fulfilled. I realized when did nails as a young teen, I did it to please my family, when I started painting and drawing in my late teens I did it to fit in with the crowd, when I started sewing clothes I did it to pay rent for my first apartment, it wasn’t until the day I hit rock bottom with a lifestyle I couldn’t keep up with it hit me I couldn’t live this paycheck to paycheck lifestyle. So with great guidance, I was given a job where I could work in a peaceful environment and I could dream again as if I was a kid. That’s when I started creating products.; I love seeing an idea come to life, it’s equivalent to having a kid for me. I’m the laziest entrepreneur, and everything I’ve ever created from the EZ Chopstix, Pynk Salt, Ocean Nails, and the PYNK Poddy was to make that in my lifestyle easier. Whether it successfully launched or not I’m thankful to have another skill of being an entrepreneur on my resume. I’m still learning on how to draw the line of happiness because it’s important to remember where you came from and where you are now. But I’m excited to use the knowledge and the patience I’ve gathered over the years to continue being the one who changed it for myself and my family. I’m a serial entrepreneur. I did not and will not let the journey affect me instead I would hope to say I paved a new generation for anything to happen as along as your happy and healthy.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
It has been beyond a struggle finding people who supports your journey, it keeps you believing in yourself. I struggled with wondering if I was just wasting time, but I realized that people were more shocked that I kept going when they would of given up. With that reaction, I kept going so far that I found others who went through the same journey. People all around us go through the same experiences and I didn’t realize the different environments kept shifting for me the more I progressively grew; and I loved it.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
I do many things, I have a nail salon called Ocean Nails where I still manage and do nails part-time, I’m an nft artist for a project called Animoji NFT, I’m the COO of a product called PYNK Salt where it sparked me to start a podcast called PYNK Poddy where I will interview other entrepreneurs and people who have broken generation curses with assertive speaking.
Can you share something surprising about yourself?
Without sounding like a narcissist people who meet me think I’m good at everything or I’m a workaholic but the truth is I think Im lazy, I do just good enough to get graded a B. The passion comes from tackling something I haven’t done before. When my bills can be auto drafted without me having a heart attack, I’ll slow down. I don’t believe in perfection and I don’t want to kill myself trying to make everything 100% the way someone who specializes in that one task would do it. I hate wasted potential so I’m on a mission to exhaust my youth with working for success so I can enjoy my 30s-40s traveling and watching my hard work pay off. I like knowing I did something new and that’s all that matters for me.
Contact Info:
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: pynkpoddy.com
- Instagram: angelaknight_
