38. Don’t Just Focus on the Money with Karen Swyszcz, Founder of Kaibigan Connection

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38. Don’t Just Focus on the Money, host William Glass sits down with Karen Swyszcz, a best selling author, entrepreneur, and teacher. Karen talks about how she didn’t grow up with the entrepreneurial bug and her career has been more of a rock-climbing wall than a clear path.

Karen Swyszcz is the co-founder ofKaibigan Connection– an organization that is dedicated to connecting Filipinx entrepreneurs and professionals.

In 2019 she co-authored the Best-Selling Book in the Women’s Health category on Amazon –Fitness To Freedomand launched a business and technology podcast –The Bacon Bits ‘n’ Bytes Podcast.Definitely check out the podcast and you’ll hear a familiar voice in an upcoming episode as I had the pleasure of being a guest on The Bacon Bits ’n’ Bytes podcast. Karen co-authored a book calledLighting The North, that looks at feminism and diversity in Canada set to publish Fall 2020.

Karen Swyszcz graduated from the University of Waterloo with a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry. She startedMakinthebaconas a hobby blog back in 2012, as a way to escape her monotonous day job. Over the years, it has evolved into a platform, initially providing content on personal finance, to now entrepreneurs.

Makinthebacon
Twitter:@makinthebacon1
LinkedIn: @makinthebacon1
IG:@makinthebacon1

Kaibigan Connection (for-profit social enterprise)
IG:@kaibiganconnection

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