About

Since I am beginning my entrepreneurial journey, I am writing a series of posts on what I’ve learned, my experiences, my challenges, and what tools that I’ve used to overcome the hurdles/obstacles involved in the business.

I am starting, building, and running an entrepreneurial venture, Aidan Mack Productions. It consists of three divisions, an entertainment, coaching, and video production and studio facility services.

Right now, Aidan Mack Productions is actively focusing on two divisions, which are an entertainment and coaching.  The TV talk show, “The Aidan Mack Show” is a thirty minute talk variety show that has many features such as monologue, interviews with guests, chitchat, spotlight on everyday people’s heartfelt, funny, or inspiring stories and talents, contests, and much more. The Aidan Mack Show will expand to one hour and five days a week show as fans, viewers, and sponsors grow.

Aidan Mack Coaching is an online coaching that provides all support, all encouragements, all motivations, and all inspirations to the individuals to fulfill their dreams, their goals, and their visions. Aidan Mack Coaching will walk with clients through the process of achieving specific personal or professional results.

After the TV talk show and coaching have been firmly established, Aidan Mack Productions will move on to the third division, video production and studio facility services. We will provide a variety of video production services and studio rentals in a building owned by Aidan Mack Productions.

As a result of these accomplishments, Aidan Mack Productions will donate to, sponsor and invest in three communities, which are the Deaf community, Children of parents with mental illnesses and alcoholism community, and animal community.

The launch dates of the official websites of the Aidan Mack Show, Aidan Mack Coaching, and Aidan Mack Productions will be announced.

On my graduation in 2009, the economy had crashed, leaving no job opportunities for people who just graduated. It went from hopeful to disaster, and however it did not stop me from reaching my goal. Out of a bad economy, I never thought that I would fall in love with the business world again. The last time I was an entrepreneur was when I was five years old until I turned 11. However, my love has flourished since my recent experience as an entrepreneur. As a filmmaker, I always thought I would be on the purely creative side of the business, but as soon as I graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a BFA in filmmaking, I rediscovered that I was also interested in the business side of things.  My creative and business minds have merged together and here I am – an executive businesswoman and creator in the film/video industry.

As a Deaf entrepreneur, I face three ongoing challenges every day. I am always persistent to overcome these challenges and to not let them stop me from getting what I need to get done or accomplished.  Here are the challenges:

1. In our society, Deaf people are viewed as a group that is not capable of doing anything intelligently and creatively because of their deafness. I will share some business issues that are based on ignorance that may cause me to slow down or confront an obstacle that is preventing me from reaching my goal. How do we support business people and clients who are Hearing get past our deafness and focus on our talents and our services? How do we overcome these hurdles and attain our goals without hurting our opportunities? We will discuss them to find solutions so that way we can be productive entrepreneurs where we can focus on the business itself and our talents instead of focusing on our ears.

2. With the medical and education establishments’ deadly obsession in curing Deaf children’s deafness, many Deaf children’s education and ability of fluency in English writing was being prevented. Countless doctors, speech therapists, audiologists, and teachers, all with low expectations, invested (and wasted) their time in fixing Deaf children’s speech and hearing. This time could have been used to teach Deaf children to read and write English in the printed form [being visual]. Deaf children were barred access to a very important visual language, American Sign Language, that should have started when Deaf babies were born. The sooner ASL is exposed to Deaf babies, the easier Deaf children will develop fluency in English.

As a Deaf entrepreneur with English as my second language, it is expected to see some errors in my grammar if I do not have someone to proofread or to edit my work. I experience pressure when I have written to professionals through email, letters, proposals, or memos and editing services are not available. My management of the situation, along with the tools I use, prevents my English writing skills from becoming a barrier as I serve as the executive producer, host, and owner of the company, Aidan Mack Productions.

3. Communication in two different languages may create some barriers. The majority of hearing people are monolingual, while Deaf people are bilingual in writing and reading in English and using American Sign Language to communicate. Many hearing people would rather use spoken language and feel it is an effective and quick way to communicate. They become impatient when it comes to writing. And many of hearing people are illiterate, which may cause them to feel uncomfortable writing. It is impossible to write back and forth if the meeting has more than three people. The cost of an interpreting service can eat business funds quickly. If you work in the hearing community, whose responsibility to pay for interpreting service, it can be difficult for Deaf entrepreneurs without interpreters or with unqualified interpreters. Hearing people have a the upper hand in the business world; how can Deaf entrepreneurs overcome communication barriers with hearing business people without hurting their businesses or their reputation?

Now you know my business background and the challenges I face as a Deaf Entrepreneur. I welcome you to walk with me on my entrepreneurial journey to experience, to learn, to advise, to move, and to understand.

Sometimes I will write and sometimes I will use video, utilizing both languages, English and American Sign Language (ASL). Whenever I sign on video, I will either add subtitles or provide a transcript. Deaf and hearing readers/viewers are always welcome.

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