Alex Fasulo signed up for Fiverr.com in 2015 hoping to earn an extra $50 a month. She listed a single gig offering to write press releases for just $5. Her plan was to secure a high rating and an excellent reputation on the site. When she quit her high stress PR job after just a month, she turned to her Fiverr dashboard, offered a few more services and woke up to a new business. 

Fast forward five years and Alex has earned over a million dollars on the platform. She shares everything she's learned through an ebook, courses and hundreds of sub-one minute videos on TikTok.

This episode is packed with inspiration, candor and no-nonsense advice about how to launch a lucrative business as a freelancer. Alex is a force in the best way and I think you'll love her personality as much as I do.

In spite of having actual professional writing skills, Alex initially and strategically set her prices low as a freelancer to generate a flood of 5 star reviews and encourages all new creators and other service providers on the platform to do the same. Every aspect of her journey was self-taught and hard-earned.

• copy writing
• long form writing
• multiple industry-specific content
• basic SEO and keyword research
• client on-boarding
• marketing
• time management
• delegating
• branding
• styling
• photography
• hiring/vetting/training writers to scale her business
• systems

As a one woman operation for a majority of her business, Brin has become an expert in nearly all elements of running a top Etsy shop through trial and error, persistence and hard work. From technical to aesthetic to SEO, she shares it all through her coaching and with her audience on various platforms.

• "tags and titles"
• social media marketing
• design
• product sourcing
• video
• B2C

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Stephen Warley describes himself as "happily unemployable" after nearly 20 years of working for himself when the dotcom bubble and the 2008 recession disrupted his career and the broadcast industry forever. 

Stephen has recognized and distilled a discreet set of unchangeable human characteristics that are rarely emphasized in traditional settings.  Stephen helps clients build new businesses and prepare for the future of work by focusing on the life skills that matter.

In this episode, we discuss the three most important life skills and how they work together to future-proof any business. Stephen identifies the four learning curves that happen simultaneously when learning how to work for yourself.

Learn how Stephen's 30 day accelerator program can help you transition from traditional employment to self-employment, launch your business idea or help you get traction if your new business is struggling.

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Stephen makes a convincing case that there are three critical skills that have helped humans adapt to an ever-changing landscape of work throughout history. 

There has never been a more important time to identify and develop these skills.

• self awareness
• curiosity
• connection

• Visit Stephen's website, Life Skills That Matter, for tools, information and to learn more about Stephen's 30 day accelerator.
• Discover the first 5 action steps toward self-employment here: https://lifeskillsthatmatter.com/get-started-now/
• I highly recommend Stephen's podcast also called "Life Skills That Matter".
• Find out when Stephen's new book, "The Only Work Left" is published.
• Connect with Stephen on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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