Bonus #51

Ellen Yin45min

Ellen Yin

00:05

Hey friends welcome back to another bonus episode our final one of the year here on cubicle to CEO, the podcast where we asked successful founders the business questions you can't google. This is our final Wednesday bonus episode of our one year experiment. If you don't know what I'm talking about at the beginning of 2023, my team and I decided to conduct this one year experiment where we upped our frequency of publishing on the show from one time a week, on Mondays to two times a week all year and we have stuck to it every single Wednesday, we have shown up here with a bonus episode for you.

Ellen Yin

00:39

And as we wrap up this year together, I thought it would be the perfect time for me to share my cubicle to CEO story. Because this is something that I haven't really shared in one place, or formally on this podcast since I first published this show back in 2018, our very first episode on the podcast if you go all the way back, or I'll link it below for you in the show notes, it's actually a little embarrassing, I haven't listened to it in so many years until this episode, I wanted to re listen to prepare and remember what I had even shared. But it's like a seven minute version of my story up until you know that point in my entrepreneurship journey. And like I said, our show launched in 2019. And that was my second year in business. So obviously, a lot has changed since then. And over the years. I've shared my journey, different tidbits here and there mostly on other people's podcasts, you know, a lot of people will tend to start a show, similar to how we do with like, tell us about how you got here, right?

Ellen Yin

01:41

We ask a version of that question on our show to all of our guests, we ask, what's your cubicle to CEO story? What was that final catalysts that launched you into entrepreneurship or helped you make that transition from employee to entrepreneur? And we usually like to keep that piece of our guests interviews to, you know, just the first two to three minutes because our show, like I said a moment before is all about answering the questions you can't google. So most of our guests who have a lot of interviews under their belt or media written about them, if you want to know their full backstory, founder story, we encourage you to google them, we encourage you to read or watch or listen elsewhere. But we really want to get into the nitty gritty things. The case studies the behind the business insights that you can't find anywhere else. So that's always the start of our show.

Ellen Yin

02:29

But then I was thinking, I haven't really done that for you all like I haven't really answered that question again in many years. And my producer Sabrina, she does a really great job of keeping her ear to the ground. Inside our DMs. She manages and runs the @cubicletoCEO account on Instagram. And so recently, actually, she had someone asked what's Ellen's cubicle to CEO story, like is there an episode on the podcast where I can listen and kind of get an overview of the context of her business journey? And you know, outside of that one episode we had launched the show with back in 2018. Like I said, it's kind of been scattered everywhere. My answers have been all over the place over the years. So Sabrina suggested that I record this episode so that people have one concrete, short episode, they can kind of listen to get the full recap of my founders journey. So far my founder story over the last six years, I'm sure you know, in another five or so years, I'll probably have to record another one of these to catch you all up. But here's my founder story.

Ellen Yin

03:30

So basically, in the original episode version of this episode number one on the show, I started way back, like in childhood, some of the, I guess, motivations or passions that I had that ultimately, I think influenced my career, even though it was unbeknownst to me at the time, my love for writing and journalism and all of these things. I'm not going to go so far back this time, I'm actually going to start in college because there's a really relevant piece of my life that unless you've listened to a ton of my interviews on other people's podcasts, you probably may not even know this part of my story. And basically, when I first went into college, I went to USC, my freshman year of school and I haven't even I don't think I've told this whole story before but USC was always my dream school. That's the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. And I wanted to go there and study broadcast journalism.

Ellen Yin

04:26

My dream was to work in entertainment news on a TV show or working as a red carpet correspondent at those big events like the Oscars, right and getting to interview celebrities and, and share their stories. And so much of what I do now is is almost like a different manifestation I guess. If that same passion of storytelling of Media Writing, all of these things hosting and someday I do still hope to host my own television show. That's actually my ultimate dream, I think in media but but I digress. That's what I went to school for originally, I actually only was there for one semester of my freshman year because I was a spring admin, which just means that I didn't attend school fall that year. I started in January. So I kind of had an unconventional start to my schooling my university time. And that actually was because and this is the part that I don't think I've talked about that much before.

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