What does it mean to persist — to hold on with the weight of the world on one’s shoulders?
Kennesaw State alumna Bianca Mayti can spill the secrets. In 2013, she transferred to KSU to study communications.
Throughout her college career, everything that could go wrong, did. From an unplanned pregnancy to the onset of depression and anxiety, Mayti questioned if she would ever finish college.
“Reality set in,” Mayti said. “I started to have anxiety about repaying my student loans, daycare costs and just anticipating the extra expenses that came along with being a mother.”
KSU offered a few programs Mayti was interested in, but she was only qualified for one after previously dropping nearly an entire course load. As a result, she changed her major to sociology.
By the time Mayti was nine months pregnant, the pressure was on her to earn more money, anticipating student loan debt and caring for a child. A friend helped her realize the talent she had for resume writing.
“Around this time, a friend asked me if I could help with her resume,” Mayti said. “I had always been the go-to person for resumes because I always had good luck getting jobs. I made her resume and she ended up getting a job making over $50,000 with an associate degree.”
A friend suggested that Mayti use her resume-building skills to her benefit, something she never considered she could make money from.
In her free time, she began advertising her new business on Instagram @more4lessresumes.
She credits KSU’s resources in helping her with the creation of her business.
Mayti later increased prices for her resumes and was able to start a college savings fund for her daughter. During the time she was working towards her goals, she graduated and was working her way through learning more about recruiting.
After taking online classes at KSU, Mayti realized how accessible online education was. She then applied for graduate school at Troy University for her master’s degree in human resource management.
Things were finally looking up for Mayti. She was working, earning another degree and caring for her daughter.
Suddenly, things went sour. Mayti’s daughter was developing differently than other kids. As a result, she thought she was working too much and decided to decrease her work to part-time. Mayti backed off the resume business to spend more time with her daughter.
“I started researching developmental disorders, and I stumbled across autism,” Mayti said. “I immediately got her involved in services … a lot of the autism-related services were not covered by insurance. I drained her entire savings paying for expensive therapies. I sunk into a deep depression.”
Being able to share her story of struggle and success saved Mayti’s life. She created her Instagram account, “Bink Badd,” which is her rapper alias, and she gained followers quickly after sharing the story of her life.
“I portrayed the life that I had wished I had until I could no longer live up to that image because of what was going on in my real life,” Mayti said. “I started to open up about my anxiety, depression and my daughter’s autism. Surprisingly, I started getting more support than ever before on my music and my story.”
Mayti’s most played song on Soundcloud is “I Might Drip,” where she boasts of the riches she has earned. Women’s empowerment is an important theme in Mayti’s music.
She uses her influence as a rapper, mom and autism and mental health advocate to reach others and help them. Her prices for resumes are kept low to remain affordable.
Despite wanting to give up multiple times, Mayti held on.
“I could not see the success that laid ahead of me, and so I thought it was not there. While I learned a lot academically from college, I learned a valuable life lesson,” Mayti said.
To see more about Mayti’s business, check out @more4lessresumes on Instagram. To listen to Mayti’s music, visit her page on Soundcloud.
