Ep. 82 |Learn How Hillsborough County is Helping New Businesses | Carol Miner – Director of Hillsborough FSBDC and Manager of Entrepreneurial Services

Carol Miner talks to us about a 4-month program that helps individuals who are thinking about starting a business but don’t know where to begin. Listen to this episode for more details!

Carol Miner started her career in lending, after years of working up north she decide it was time for warmer weather and she moved to Florida. After starting her very own consulting firm she found a connection with the SBDC in Hillsborough County. Eventually, she became the Director of the Hillsborough County FSBDC and Manager of Entrepreneurial Services. Today on Small Biz Florida she is talking to us about a program she developed called Self-Employment Workshop Program (S.E.W.P). This program is designed for entrepreneurs who want to start a business but do not exactly have the resources or the knowledge to start. It is quite an intensive course and most people have a hard time sticking with it but Carol tells us how they build discipline in these entrepreneurs through this program.

– Learn more about Hillsborough FSBDC and SEWP: https://clients.floridasbdc.org/workshop.aspx?ekey=630410097
– Connect w/ Carol: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolaminor/

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– Connect w/ Dr. Herbert Ricardo: https://www.linkedin.com/in/herbert-ricardo-ph-d-91b1ba225/

– To learn more about the FEDC Conference, visit their website here

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