440: Abbi Perets: Finding Financial Freedom Through Freelance Writing

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Education, Management, How To, Business, Self-improvement

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Abbi Perets wants moms to know they don’t have to choose between kids and career. She’s the coach and mentor moms turn to when they want to break into freelance writing and earn great money from home, on their own terms. Abbi combines nearly 20 years of experience freelancing for some of the world’s biggest companies with firsthand knowledge of having five kids of her own — including one with special needs. She understands the unique challenges moms face every day and has created programs specifically tailored to meet those challenges and empower moms all over the world to have it all. Listen in to hear Abbi share: Why she moved from Pennsylvania to Israel to join the Israeli army at age 18 What prompted her to start freelance writing and how it saved her when her son had cancer How moms can get started in freelance writing What kinds of experience/expertise you need (and don’t need) to get started as a freelance writer The importance niching down and specializing in specific content areas as a writer How to believe in yourself and your ability when you’re doing something new Why she has no qualms about running her business and selling her services during COVID-19 Links mentioned: Connect with Abbi: Successful Freelance Mom Get Abbi’s free course: How to Be a Freelance Writer Instagram: Abbi Perets FB Group: Writing Mom Conference FB Page: Successful Freelance Mom Thank you to our sponsor: Built Bar: Built Bar is offering my listeners 20% off your first purchase! Go to Builtbar.com and enter promo code SHAMELESS at checkout to receive 20% off your first order! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Shameless Mom Academy episode 440 with Abby Parrots.
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1:18.1	All right. Let's dive into today's episode.
1:26.2	Abby Parrots wants moms to know they don't have to choose between kids and career. Abby is the mom of five kids, ages 10 to 20. She's also a coach and a mentor to moms who turn to her when they want to break into freelance writing and earn great money from home on their own terms. Abby combines nearly 20 years of experience freelancing
1:45.9	for some of the world's biggest companies with her firsthand knowledge of having five kids on her own,
1:50.9	including one with special needs. She understands the unique challenges moms face every day
1:56.0	and has created programs specifically tailored to meet those challenges and empower moms all over
2:00.6	the world to have
2:01.7	it all. I was so excited to have this conversation with Abby because Abby is our first guest
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