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Hello and welcome to Sadisle School. This is your host, Chris Gilevo. So glad you're

out there. Thanks for turning in today. Today's episode, coming out at the beginning of the

week, is part of our first $1,000 series. First $1,000, as you might guess, it's about

how someone made their first $1,000. How in fact did they get started? What was their

origin point? How did they go from idea to income? I always think there's something we can

learn from these experiences, especially when we hear a couple different ideas or we hear

something that went wrong along the way. We have a whole series about that called Failure

Friday. But just looking at the process of what's the idea, why does someone have a frustration

or a problem that they're trying to solve and then what is the solution to that? Either

in business terms, the product or service that they are offering to the world, or at least

their customer base, let's say, and then also what problem are they trying to solve for

themselves? Today we're going to hear from Lola in Virginia. Lola had a particular problem

in that she is working as an independent designer and that's going mostly well, but she's

also a little bit frustrated. She wants to find a way to get off the hamster wheel of

client chasing, constantly chasing the new client, having to explain the same things over

and over. And now she's in the process of doing that, getting off the freelance train

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