254: Freelance to Freedom: From $30k a Year to $30k in a Day

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

Entrepreneurship, How To, Education, Business

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

“You have a skill, but you’re not using it correctly." That the tough love advice Vincent Pugliese's father gave him. Vincent was working what he thought was his dream job as a photojournalist. He'd just won the most prestigious award in his industry (International Sports Photographer of the Year), and he and his wife Elizabeth had a baby on the way. Yet the newspaper job didn't pay well. With the impending arrival of their son, Vincent took a hard look at his financial picture: he was in his mid-30s, 6-figures in debt, and earning $15 an hour. Not great. Something had to change, and something did. Four years later, the family was debt free and self-employed, thanks to the success of their freelance photography side hustle. I met Vincent at Podcast Movement and invited him on the show to share his inspiring and relate-able story. With a growing trend toward freelance workers, his transition is one many people will need to make over the next few years. With his newfound time freedom, Vincent has kept busy with a number of new projects including his upcoming book Freelance to Freedom, and an online course teaching parents how to take better sports pictures of their kids. (Even though Vincent had no "audience" of his own to sell to, the course did over $30k on launch day, giving us the hook for this episode.) Tune in to hear how he and his wife got it done and how you can apply the same strategies to the skills on your own resume. Full Show Notes and PDF Highlight Reel: Freelance to Freedom: From $30k a Year to $30k in a Day

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0:00.0	Side Hustle Show 254, freelance to Freedom, from 30 grand a year to 30K in a day.
0:07.0	What's up, what's up, Nick Loper here, welcome to the Side Hustle Show because your dream job is out there.
0:14.8	You've just got to create it. Hat tip to Jared Martin for sharing that one and it's
0:19.2	appropriate because this is an episode about creating your dream job.
0:22.8	My guest today thought he had it, at least on the work front,
0:26.0	but it just didn't come with a dream job salary.
0:28.7	This is Vincent Puglesi from Vincent Puglesi.
0:31.9	com.
0:33.0	It was what I was considering my dream job.
0:35.0	Ten years earlier I had started in photography.
0:38.0	I had landed a great newspaper job. I was in Evansville, Indiana.
0:40.0	My wife and I both. And it was a beautiful situation. I was, I got to travel to shoot the NFL. I used to cover the Rams and the
0:47.1	the Colts and the Titans. I shot the Super Bowl with them and all big, big events. But we wanted to start a family and we were both making, you know, $15 an hour and working crazy hours as newspaper and journalists do.
1:01.0	So you don't really think about it too much. You just kind of survive.
1:04.8	You just kind of survive. So here's Vincent, early to mid 30s, baby on the way, six figures in debt, most of which is a mortgage, and earning $15 an hour.
1:14.7	But this is where the story gets crazy because fast forward four years, he's debt free,
1:19.2	he's still taking pictures for a living, but he's doing it as a freelancer,
1:22.0	making more money and working fewer hours.
1:24.2	That's freed up all sorts of time to work on other projects like business coaching.
1:28.0	He's got a new book called freelance to freedom.
1:30.1	You can find it at freelance to freedom book.com and even an online training course that did 30 grand on launch day
1:36.2	which gave us the hook from 30 grand a year to 30K in a day
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