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Feel like work is broken? Fix it by creating work that works for you! Serial solopreneur & business coach Stephen Warley interviews people who got unstuck & figured out how to work for themselves, so they could design work around their ideal lifestyle instead of fitting life in around their work. He teaches practical life skills like self-awareness, curiosity, energy management & building community to help you design your own unique business model in alignment with your values, needs & abilities. Gain your work freedom as a freelancer, consultant, coach or solopreneur. It’s possible! Get started at LifeSkillsThatMatter.com/getstarted
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Tuesday Feb 02, 2021
Tuesday Feb 02, 2021
Roobens Fils, travel blogger and author of “Traveling While Black” wants to inspire you to turn setbacks into opportunities and he’s had his fair share of them!
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
* How the pandemic forced him to finally get his book out into the world.
* If you get laid off, Roobens shares what you need to do to be prepared.
* Landing clients as he traveled the world.
* How to balance work with sightseeing.
* How long it took Roobens to earn the same amount of money as his last job.
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Tuesday Jan 26, 2021
Tuesday Jan 26, 2021
Karwanna D, CEO of She’s Got Goals.com, wants to teach you how to make six figures landing government contracts, helping you become profitable faster than you might have imagined!
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
* How to seek government contracts if you sell professional services.
* Why she tried several different types of business before she found one that made her millions.
* How to find government contracts earmarked specifically for women and minority-owned businesses.
* What she learned from her own experience about how to accelerate the growth of a new business.
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Tuesday Jan 19, 2021
Tuesday Jan 19, 2021
Sandra Booker, owner of AnyOldTask.ca, a virtual assistant agency, wants to teach you how to become to a virtual assistant (VA) to gain your work freedom right now!
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
* How she turned her administrative skill set into a business.
* Find business ideas by focusing on skills you’re really good and most other people don’t enjoy doing.
* The first couple of steps Sandra took to become a VA.
* If you decided to become a VA, don’t undervalue your skills.
* How she gets more clients from her best clients.
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Tuesday Jan 12, 2021
Tuesday Jan 12, 2021
Laura Roeder, founder of MeetEdgar and Paerbell, wants to inspire you to create time freedom by designing your work around your ideal lifestyle.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
- How such discovered her desire to do work that gave her time freedom.
- Why she prefers lots of clients who pay her small amounts of money.
- How she turned her social media spreadsheets into the software that became MeetEdgar.
- Overcoming her self-imposed limitations.
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Tuesday Jan 05, 2021
Tuesday Jan 05, 2021
Jatali Bellanton, founder of BrilliantMindsUnite.com is a financial literacy advocate that wants to inspire you to teach yourself and your kids how to achieve financial freedom.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
How she started making money from home once she left her job.
Why it’s so important to talk to your spouse about your entrepreneurial desires.
How she secured her financial independence through real estate.
Why you need to prove yourself all over again when you start working for yourself.
Core financial lessons she believes kids need to learn.
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Tuesday Dec 29, 2020
Tuesday Dec 29, 2020
Evan La Ruffa, creative entrepreneur and founder of IPaintMyMind.org, shares how to embrace change in times of great chaos like we are living through.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
How the pandemic created new opportunities for his nonprofit.
Be willing to test anything you are unsure about.
Why he doesn’t want to commit to just one service.
Why gets his team to think of projects like campaigns instead.
How he prioritizes his limited resources.
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Tuesday Dec 22, 2020
Tuesday Dec 22, 2020
Khalilah Elliott, founder and chief disruptor at Gafford Communications, a multicultural strategic communications firm, wants to inspire you to repackage your skills to do work that matters.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
If you’ve been recently laid off, Khalilah has some advice for you.
Why freelancing was her entry point into entrepreneurship.
The process she went through to recover emotionally from the loss of her job.
Why her story is a warning for all of our careers.
Within two years, she is making more money than her previous job.
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Tuesday Dec 15, 2020
Tuesday Dec 15, 2020
Jessica Malone, a decluttering coach and founder of NachoAverageFro.com wants to inspire you to declutter to live your desired life.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
Why decluttering was the one method that finally got her unstuck.
Why she tackled her closest first to start decluttering.
Anxiety about her job drove her to make a change in her life.
Why convenience is preventing you from living your desired life
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Tuesday Dec 08, 2020
Tuesday Dec 08, 2020
In this special panel discussion episode, work futurists Karen Eber, Charles Araujo and George Muir discuss how work changed in 2020 as we’ve known it and how to adapt to that change going forward.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
Why George believes we should no longer be discussing how to approach the future of work, but the future of life itself.
Karen believes companies need to be thinking about who to create engaged cultures no matter where their employees are located.
Charles says if you want to work on your terms, now has never been a better time to do that.
Karen predicts younger generations will view commuting to work in the same way we now viewing smoking on airplanes.
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Tuesday Dec 01, 2020
Tuesday Dec 01, 2020
Jeremy Enns, CEO of Counter Weight Creative, shares the process he went through to niche down his business to its current focus today.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
Why you need to shun the nonbelievers from your business life. How he fell into his current niche of health and wellness.
What the Niche Tribe Model is all about.
How niching down increases your referrals.
How you can focus on niche mindsets and not just industries.
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