30FG Business Podcast for Designers
30FG Business Podcast for Designers
Shah Turner
30FG EP27: How I replaced my day job with a location independent business I can work on from anywhere
55 minutes Posted Apr 9, 2014 at 9:18 am.
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I'm just about to leave my job for the second time so this is a solo episode in which I'm going to share with you a few chapters from my own story. First I want to tell you about my last business, which was a Landscape Architecture Practice I attempted to set up in Penang Malaysia. I don't have the time to explain all the details but you'll get a good idea of how it started and how it failed. I talk about all the poor decisions I made while I was there and how I ended up losing $30,000 in my first year. After that terrible fall, I knew I had to get back on my feet again and that it wouldn't be easy. Although I have taken a job for a while I think deep down I've always known that building my own business was the only way I would ever really be able to dig myself out the hole I was in. That took a lot of hard work so I’m also going to share with you exactly what my training regime was that helped me recover and reinvent myself. In this episode I also share what I’ve done to apply all the new knowledge and skills I now have from that recovery period in order to replace my current day job and my income with a new business framework. This new framework is presenting new opportunities for business and additional streams of income every single day.  Most importantly my new business allows me to work from anywhere, which has been a career dream of mine for over a decade.