OFI 977: Manifest Your Future By Setting Clear Goals | FFA SAE Edition | Paige Haith | Southern Guilford High School FFA
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INTRODUCING PAIGE HAITH!
At what age can you start setting big goals? I think that I have learned from almost 1,000 interviews on this show that there is no minimum or maximum age. I have spoken with business owners who set their goals when they were young children, and I have spoken to business owners who never realized they had it in them until they retired. 
Today’s guest is one of those inspirational entrepreneurs starting at a young age. Paige Haith is a sophomore in high school. She is also the founder and owner of “Pastries By Paige”. She has a line of 10 desserts that she makes, markets, and sells. Paige does all of her marketing on social media with Snap Chat and Instagram being her most widely viewed locations. She is also in the process of starting a second business.
What stands out about this interview with Paige is her goals and her attitude. Starting with her attitude, she has not been in a classroom since March of 2019 when lockdowns first began. During that time she became the chaplain of her FFA chapter, but she has not really been able to do anything with the role. This is frustrating. However, Paige has not looked at this situation as a source of frustration. She has looked at it as a source of opportunity. It has been during this time that she started Pastries By Paige.
Paige also has big goals, and she is already using the SMART system of goal setting. She knows how big she wants to grow her business, that she wants to have two storefronts in two different states, and by when she wants to accomplish this. These are the keys to actually accomplishing these goals. Paige is the kind of person who charges forward with an idea to see if it works. She is already having great success, and it is exciting to see where she will take it.
Follow Paige on Instagram: @pastriesbypaige_
SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Pastries by Paige
HIGH SCHOOL: Southern Guilford High School, Greensboro, NC
MASCOT: The Storm
FFA ADVISOR: Brad Hensley
CONTACT INFORMATION FOR PAIGE HAITH :
Click on the picture below to be taken to the Southern Guilford School website:
Paige’s FFA Advisors’ Email Address: hensleb@gcsnc.com
Southern Guilford High School’s Telephone Number: 336-674-4250
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Supervised Agricultural Experiences (SAE’s)
Donate to FFA – One way that FFA students are able to start small businesses is through an FFA grant of $1,000. In 2014, 141 FFA students received these grants. With your donations, more students can get this head start – pay it forward.
REASONS TO DONATE TO FFA:
- Only 2% of Americans grow and raise most of the food and livestock consumed by the other 98% as well as the rest of the world. FFA is providing the needed education, training, and resources to Americans that will carry that torch forward and ensure that America continues to have inexpensive, quality food.
- Rural Communities will rely on entrepreneurship in the future for population growth and job creation. The FFA is a major catalyst to that entrepreneurial growth.
- Farmers, ranchers, and those working in agriculture give the rest of America incredible amounts of freedom because the search for food is as simple as going to the grocery store:
“The future of American agriculture depends on the involvement and investment in America’s youth, In order to prepare for the population of tomorrow, we need to encourage America’s youth today, and show that careers in agriculture are profitable, rewarding, and vital.”. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Perdue
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