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Meet the Member: James Cowan of Puls Technologies
search for my job. Then there are lots of people around who I have built relationships and friendships with, who I can go talk to about stocks or cryptocurrency, or whatever business they are doing. For example, we are meeting with one of the attorneys here in a few weeks to work on our wills, we want to update our wills. We are not just doing business here but making friends too and they are just great people.
There are variety of interesting and thriving businesses at The 5th Floor ran by enterprising entrepreneurs. Our Community Manager, Jacqueline Seaton, spoke with one of them, James Cowan of Puls Technologies, about what it is like to work at The 5Th Floor Co-working space. As one of our Hot Desk Members, he’s also a member you can always count on for a laugh, great conversation or a helping hand.
Jacqueline: Awesome, thank you so much! And have you been to any of our events, or plan to? James: Yes, I have been to a couple of events, like the evening events that my fellow member, Don’t Trade Alone did, and that was a really an eye-opening event for me. I have e also been to some of the social events and there are a few others coming up I definitely want to get involved in as well.
Jacqueline: Great, hope to see you at our Casino Night! …And lastly James, what is it like for you, working at the Hot Desk in the co-working area? James: I work for a pretty high growth start-up out of California, but it is just me here in Orlando, until our team grows. I know it is going to grow eventually and we will need to look at office space for me and a few other people. Right now, we want to keep our costs down and still enable me to do my job. So, the Hot Desk is Jacqueline: Hi James, please tell me a little bit about yourself, the elevator really a perfect fit for me to be a part of the community, to be able to pitch about your company and what you do? get my work done, and then hopefully be able to get a larger office James: My name is James Cowan and my family and I have lived at The 5Th Floor when we are ready! here in the Avalon Park area since 2017- we recently purchased a home here. I work for a start up out of Silicon Valley called Puls Jacqueline: Thank you so much for talking to me James and for the positive Technologies. We do on-demand home repairs and home warranty words about The 5Th Floor! We love having you as a member and look style products for homeowners. I’m the VP of Business Develop- forward to seeing you next time at the hot desk! ment, so I make a lot of phone calls and convince companies to work with us and offer our products. It’s a great job and… it’s a Hot desks are very hot in August at $165 per month. This special very hard job to do at home with 5 kids though! gives you $100 off the monthly Hot Desk fee when you sign up by August 31, 2021. Jacqueline: Is that one of the reasons you chose to work at The 5Th Floor? Are there any other reasons you chose this space to work in? Even Hotter in August at The 5TH Floor will be our upcoming CasiJames: I have a lot of reasons why The 5th Floor worked for me. I no Night on August 27th, 5-10 pm. Each month we host a monthly mentioned we have 5 children, it’s very hard to do video confer- “Meet the Member” themed networking event. Casino Night will ence calls at home because of that. So, I had the opportunity to get introduce you to our therapy focused members while also offering an office where I could very affordably escape to every day and a night of fun, food, drinks, music, cigars, casino games and prizes. do my work and not have to bring my work home with me. That Tickets can be pre-purchased for $15 online here. A portion of the makes it possible for me to be totally present when I am home, so proceeds will be donated to UCP Central Florida and ProjecThinkthis was a great fit for me. On top of that, we are active in the Ava- Forward. lon community and go to Avalon Church, where I am one of the elders. We love to eat at the downtown restaurants…many of our Look out for our “Cocktails and Conversation” Ladies Night netfriends, actually most of our friends live in Avalon so, it is a very working event coming in September! central location for me to be able to live, work and play. For more information on The 5th Floor or any of our upcoming Jacqueline: That’s wonderful James, and how have you enjoyed the 5th events, please visit us onFloor experience so far on a personal level? line or connect with us at James: I would say it is professional, but very friendly at the same 407-730-3493 or info@the5thtime. So, I can actually get work done, do conference calls and floororlando.com! phone calls. When I am not on a call I can concentrate and do re-
Back to WORK!
While it is Back to School for for the kids, it is back to WORK for small businesses owned by women with school age children. It has been a difficult year having to work with the kids at home and now that they are headed back, will it get easier? We hope so! Owning a business doesn’t every quite get easy, however with the world slightly returning back to normal, women entrepreneurs will be able to better prioritize their focus within their businesses. Everything takes balance and having the time to work intentionally on and in your business is essential to its success! If you are a WOMANtrepreneur, start prioritizing your work schedule before school starts. Make sure it is intentional and
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