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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 Nov 24, 2020
Tuesday Nov 24, 2020
Isha Uppalapati, founder of AGirlsFrontier.com, started a nonprofit 2 years as a sophomore in high school to teach disadvantaged girls entrepreneurship skills.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
Sharing the resource you have with others who have less access.
The process she went through to start her nonprofit.
How she got her very first donation.
What she’s learned about managing her time from remote learning.
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Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
Aaron James, CEO of Webonli, shares how to make your website a sales lead machine.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
- Why your website is your #1 employee.
- How to build your business without having to chase after sales.
- How engage potential customers using social media without spending all your time on social media.
- The basics of building a digital sales funnel for your business.
- How to get paid to learn.
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Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
Entrepreneur and digital nomad, Natalie Sisson shares our mission to inspire you to get paid to be you and how you can do it.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
- Practice telling your story.
- Getting paid to be yourself takes effort.
- Why she’s not an advocate of having a backup plan.
- Identify your unfair advantage as the starting point for creating your business.
- How traveling the world helped her build her business.
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Tuesday Nov 03, 2020
Tuesday Nov 03, 2020
Todd Henry, author of The Motivation Code, wants to help you to understand your motivation, so you can unlock your hidden potential.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
- Why you may not understand your motivation as clearly as you might believe.
- What Todd learned about his own motivations.
- How he motivates himself to write, yet doesn’t enjoy the process of writing.
- Sustain your motivation by learning how to activate your core motivations throughout the day.
- If you want to identify your motivation, takes the assessment now at themotivationcode.com
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Tuesday Oct 27, 2020
Tuesday Oct 27, 2020
Black women are transforming work for themselves by starting businesses at a faster rate than any other demographic because the conventional work system never worked for them.
In this special episode, I’m joined by a guest co-host Jillian Hubbard, a diversity, equity and inclusion consultant, who I previously interviewed in episode 247 to guide a round table discussion about black women solopreneurs and how to support their growth.
Our guests are Ericka Young, a personal finance coach and founder of Tailor-Made Budgets.com and Naika Gabriel, a researcher at Johns Hopkins and a holistic doula, who is exploring starting her own business, Labor of Love, to support women through the trauma brought on by childbirth.
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Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
Jinny Oh, a UX designer and founder of WANDR, provides loads of lessons about how to grow your business faster by collaborating with your team and even your clients.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
- Never assume you understand the behaviors of your customers.
- The design for anything begins by first observing.
- Why she hired designers better than herself as she built her team.
- How to grow by letting go, but how it almost sent her business into bankruptcy.
- The pros and cons of never having been conventionally employed.
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Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
Nicki Krawczyk, a copywriting freelance coach and founder of filthyrichwriter.com, shares how to start a freelance copywriter business using her own story as inspiration.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
- Debunking the myth that you can’t earn a living as a writer.
- Why you might want to improve your writing skills to better communicate your story, even if you will never consider yourself a writer.
- How she found her first clients from her existing connections.
- Why you need a system to find and land clients.
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Tuesday Oct 06, 2020
Tuesday Oct 06, 2020
Ryan Clover, a web developer and founder of Maple Creative, shares how to become a freelancer developer. His story provides an actionable template for building any type of freelance business. Show notes https://lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show346
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
- How he taught himself web development and how his activism work inspired him to expand his web skills to build community.
- How designing your website forces you to get super clear on your story.
- Why he wanted to work location independent.
- Why starting a business requires a lot of personal growth.
- How he started to get paid for his work after doing it pro bono for years.
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Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
Iggy Perillo, a leadership coach and the founder of worksportlife.com, shares how to start a mastermind, so get support from your peers as you build your business. Show notes at https://lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show345
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
- The importance of telling the story of your work over and over.
- What it means to be a leadership consultant.
- How she is creating work that works for her.
- The basics of how to start a mastermind group.
- The process she used to price her initial service.
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Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Luke Frye, CPA and Co-founder of Timber Tax, shares how to demystify accounting for solopreneur startups. Show notes at https://lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show344
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
- How he started his own CPA practice.
- What he learned from being an intrapreneur as part of the startup at the bookkeeping software bench.co.
- Why he turned down clients even as he was looking for clients to start his current business.
- The basics of setting up your accounting system to demystify accounting as you get started.
- How to pay your quarterly estimated taxes.
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