You're listening to the Creating a Brand podcast. I am your host, Alex San Felipe. In today's episode,

we're going to be talking about derisking the move to self-employment. This is a relevant topic for

entrepreneurs. Many of us desire to move away from a traditional job into self-employment. However,

the risks involved have held us back. In this episode, we're going to talk about how to de-risk making this move or shift to self-employment.

My guest today is the vice president of FreshBooks Matt Baker.

FreshBooks is an all-in-one business, invoicing, and accounting software.

And Matt shares some of Fresh

Books data with us about how to successfully move to self-employment. Throughout this episode,

Matt talks about the barriers or common risk that hold people back from making this switch,

also financial disciplines that we need for de-risking, and some of the practical ways to

de-risk and make that big move to self-employment less scary.

I believe you're going to learn a lot from this episode. So let's not wait any longer. Here is my

conversation with Matt Baker. Matt, welcome to the Creating a Brand podcast. Thanks for having

me, Alex. Looking forward to it. Yeah, I'm really excited about today's conversation because we're

going to be talking about a topic that I believe is very relevant to all of us here at creating a brand.

Many of our listeners have a traditional nine to five job, although many of them can see

themselves moving to self-employment. So I believe this conversation today is going to bring a lot

of clarity as how to maybe de-risk that in our minds and also physically be able to de-risk it as well. Sounds great.

So I recently read an article that you published where you talked about how 24 million

Americans want to quit their jobs and become self-employed.

Can you talk to us about that a little bit before we really get into some of the things

that are holding people back and de-risking it?

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