Chinatown

She was like, you know where to go.

She sent me to this place in Chinatown in Toronto.

And this guy, it's like this cute little old man who takes your passport photos, but like brings you over to the computer and lets you pick which one is your favorite.

And like, you can take a couple different shots if you want to for options.

Never.

But yeah, I would

travel to Chinatown, Toronto.

OK, for that opportunity.

Today we're talking with Faye Pang from FreshBooks, who has spent over a decade studying what makes solopreneurs tick, about why five hours a month on invoicing can triple your odds of cash flow trouble, where AI is actually saving solopreneurs time, and where it's just making more work, and why we're entering the era of the solopreneur.

Plus, we discover Faye and I share the exact same dream job, and it involves eating our way through Chinatown.

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Yeah.

I think about this a lot and daydream about it a lot.

But, uh, maybe just for some context, I'm, I'm based here in, in Toronto, Canada, and I, I live in Chinatown here in Toronto.

And the Toronto Chinatown just has an amazing collection of restaurants and small businesses, small shops that are family run for, you know, have been family run for decades, and new up-and-coming restaurants.

What is happening in Brampton? Yeah.

What about Chinatown

where nobody speaks

English? I live in Chinatown, technically.

I speak English.

How do

that kid will only ever be able to work at the restaurant.

That's why there's a couple