#145 - How to Become Self Employed
Love, Happiness and Success with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby
Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby
4.6 • 849 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Have you been daydreaming about quitting your day job and becoming self-employed? Lots of people share the fantasy of starting a business or doing their own thing, but many hit a wall when they think about how to actualize their goal of supporting themselves without a job.
If you want to get the real-deal on what it takes to become successfully self-employed, you're in for a treat. I asked an experienced freelancer, NY-based journalist Michael Stahl, how he cut the cord and started doing what he loved for a living — and found success in following his passion.
He shares his advice for how to make the transition from employee to "free" (as well as how to deal with the ensuing anxiety) on this episode of the Love, Happiness and Success Podcast. Listen to his inspiring story and get insight on how to generate a plan, manage the anxiety, and cultivate the grit that will sustain you as you make your own way.
Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby
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| 0:00.0 | This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, and you're listening to the Love, Happiness, and Success Podcast. |
| 0:13.3 | Keep your head from going under and your eyes to the clouds. |
| 0:23.6 | There's no better time to learn to swim but now. |
| 0:34.6 | That's a band called Stubborn Sun. |
| 0:38.1 | They sound like stubborn sons, don't they? |
| 0:40.5 | And this song is called Keep Your Head Above Water. |
| 0:44.4 | A tiny bit melodramatic, I know, and I thought it was very appropriate for our subject today. |
| 0:51.9 | Because today we are talking about how to do something really hard |
| 0:58.0 | that often while you're doing it feels like you are at risk of drowning or something, |
| 1:04.0 | which is being self-employed, quitting your day job, doing your own thing. |
| 1:11.5 | Cutting the cord to be a freelancer or starting a business. |
| 1:17.2 | And it's tough, not impossible, but it's not easy to do. |
| 1:22.6 | And it's wonderful as someone who has done it and is still very much in the process of doing it. |
| 1:31.6 | I wouldn't change a thing. |
| 1:33.6 | Yes, it feels like being chased by wolves and like you're about to drown half the time. |
| 1:38.6 | And also, for a certain personality type, there's just no other way to live. |
| 1:43.5 | And so I wanted to talk about this because |
| 1:46.1 | we are having so many people showing up at growing self these days really wanting to not just |
| 1:54.4 | overhaul their career. I mean, they show up for career counseling or career coaching, but it's not |
| 1:59.3 | about necessarily getting a job. It's about |
| 2:01.7 | how do I discover my passion? How do I live my dream? And the dream of many people, maybe even |
| 2:09.8 | yours, is how to become self-employed and do their own thing. And so there is a lot to this. In addition to, you know, crafting a plan and putting |
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