{"id":5188,"date":"2018-08-24T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moneyripples.com\/?p=5188"},"modified":"2024-02-06T06:58:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T13:58:35","slug":"create-income-from-home-without-joining-an-mlm-226","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moneyripples.com\/money-ripples-st\/?p=5188","title":{"rendered":"Create Income From Home WITHOUT Joining An MLM &#8211; 226"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it possible to be paid MORE than at your current job?<\/p>\n<p>Could you work from home as a freelancer, giving you the freedom, and income, you always wanted?<\/p>\n<p>Cash Flow Expert, Chris Miles, interviews Lauren Golden &#8211; The Free Mama, how you can work as a contractor or freelancer from home, earning the money you want, while working when you want.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Listen to the podcast here<\/h3>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/percolate.blogtalkradio.com\/offsiteplayer?hostId=709401&amp;episodeId=10948305\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180px\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Create Income From Home WITHOUT Joining An MLM<\/h2>\n<p><strong>This show is about you guys. It\u2019s about allowing you to be able to have a life that you love and we can create that freedom and prosperity now, not tomorrow, not someday but right now. The thing I love about this show is that we\u2019re always about how we get you to get out of that rat race, to live a life that\u2019s not the mediocre life and something beyond what you see. Everybody else is living that true life of freedom. Thank you and welcome for being on the show. Thank you for sharing it and being a part of it. You have been awesome. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I love watching seeing more of you follow us so thank you so much. As a quick reminder, check out our website, <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.MoneyRipples.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>MoneyRipples.com<\/strong><\/a><strong>. Make sure you check out the old blogs I brought years ago that I tend not to write anymore because I love podcasts. There\u2019s always some great additional information on there as well as events and things like that coming up. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In this episode, I\u2019m bringing on a special guest. You already know that when I bring on guests, I don\u2019t bring on posers and people that are a whole fake-it-until-you-make-it type people. I bring on people that create the results in their lives. They do it first and foremost for themselves and then teach others how to do the same. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lauren Golden is somebody that does that as well. How many of you have wondered how I can be able to create more income? How can I work from home and not necessarily do a network marketing company? I have nothing against them but how can I work from home, do something that allows me to have that time freedom, the freedom to be able to do what I want, when I want it and how I want to do it? That\u2019s the thing that Lauren has been amazing with but what she does is she loves how the mamas free themselves. When I talk about mama, I think of my wife, new money mama. She\u2019s helping mamas free themselves from the 9:00 to 5:00 grind. She wants the <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thefreemamamovement.com\/on-demand-freedom-training\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Free Mama Movement<\/strong><\/a><strong>, which also you can find on <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LaurenGoldenFreeMama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Facebook<\/strong><\/a><strong> too.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s to show working moms that they don\u2019t have to choose between family and financial stability. They can have both. As a result, hundreds of families are happier and more fulfilled. Thanks to Lauren and the online programs that she has. Whether you\u2019re a single mom, a military mom or a mom on a two-parent family who doesn\u2019t want to sacrifice your time with your babies. To provide for them, Lauren wants you to have that too. She leads a huge community of many thousands of women. She\u2019s passionate about helping those other moms start successful businesses and be able to create that life. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thefreemamamovement.com\/on-demand-freedom-training\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Lauren<\/strong><\/a><strong>, welcome to our show. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chris, thank you so much for the amazing introduction. I\u2019m so excited to be here chatting with you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us what took you down this path to where you became that freelance type of mom. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I always had that entrepreneurial spirit. I opened my first business when I was eight years old. I illegally sold beer to golfers on the golf course that I grew up on. I didn\u2019t know I was doing anything illegal until my parents found out but by that point, I had raised a couple of hundred dollars in a couple of weeks. My first thing was a raging success. I learned a lot of lessons early on about having to buy your inventory AKA paying back my dad. I opened my first checking account at that time too. I always had the spirit of going out, giving the people what they want and being compensated for it. That resonated with me.<\/p>\n<p>After I graduated from college and got the traditional 9:00 to 5:00, I bounced around through different things. I balance my passion and marketing, which is something I did not study when I was in school. I realized I was not only good at it but I was constantly learning more. I wanted to know more about social media, marketing strategy and all these things. It occurred to me around the time that I had my son, who was my second child, that I could make money doing something very similar to what I was doing my 9:00 to 5:00 doing it for myself. I was always familiar with the concept of freelancing in different jobs that I had. We always had some contract workers that we worked with in my companies.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t a concept that was new to me. The fact that I could do it, be successful at it and have it replace my full-time income and benefits was where the leap of faith came in. That entrepreneurial spirit kicked back in like, \u201cI can do this for myself. I don\u2019t have to be behind another company. I don\u2019t have to have a boss. I can take these skills I\u2019ve learned over the years, apply them and help people like the beer on the golf course.\u201d What\u2019s hot? Somebody needs a beer. There are business owners out there who don\u2019t understand marketing or they don\u2019t want to do it for themselves. That\u2019s how I got started. My maternal pole was strong. My desire to stay home started with my kids. It all happened pretty quickly from there.<\/p>\n<span class='bctt-click-to-tweet'><span class='bctt-ctt-text'><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmoneyripples.com%2Fmoney-ripples-st%2F%3Fp%3D5188&#038;text=You%20have%20to%20learn%20some%20things%20in%20life%20the%20hard%20way.%20Roll%20up%20your%20sleeves%20and%20dive%20in.&#038;related\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You have to learn some things in life the hard way. Roll up your sleeves and dive in. <\/a><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmoneyripples.com%2Fmoney-ripples-st%2F%3Fp%3D5188&#038;text=You%20have%20to%20learn%20some%20things%20in%20life%20the%20hard%20way.%20Roll%20up%20your%20sleeves%20and%20dive%20in.&#038;related\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"bctt-ctt-btn\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Share on X<\/a><\/span>\n<p><strong>That\u2019s incredible and a scary thing to do. I\u2019ve had clients that had a great couple of companies who worked for. Very big companies with great benefits up in Seattle. He finally said, \u201cI\u2019m making the leap. I\u2019m going to become an independent contractor and work from home.\u201d He ended up contracting with them. It was scary for him to do because that\u2019s a big leap to make. How are you able to do that? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a terrifying leap. I\u2019ll be honest with you. I\u2019ve always been business savvy. I will say until you do it. You got to learn some stuff in life the hard way. You got to roll up your sleeves and dive in. For me, I\u2019m a planner. I like to play it safe. It is not intuitive for me to be a risk taker, which is a misconception about me and potentially some other entrepreneurs that it\u2019s easy for us. It\u2019s easy for you to take that risk. It was not easy for me. I gave myself a year plan because a year doesn\u2019t sound very scary. It doesn\u2019t sound that far like, \u201cA year from now, I\u2019ll do that\u201d A year feels safe but it also gives you that light at the end of the tunnel like, \u201cI\u2019m making changes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That was the space I was living in. I was starting to freelance while I was still at my 9:00 to 5:00. A light switched off there and I made the jump without getting my feet wet and dabbling first. It was a personal thing that happened in my life. My husband and I unexpectedly found out we were pregnant with our third child and then soon after had a miscarriage. It was something unrelated to business.<\/p>\n<p>At that moment, I don\u2019t want to get all spiritual. Whatever you believe in the universe, God, whatever it is, I heard a voice saying, \u201cWhat\u2019s your plan now? What are you going to do now?\u201d For me, it gave me that hard time in my life some purpose because what I took from it was that leap of faith. I walked in and quit my job one week later after I had my miscarriage. I was all-in on living the life I wanted to live. I was done with the excuses and planning. I was like, \u201cI\u2019m going to start doing it.\u201d It\u2019s probably not the answer you expected but that was how I got started.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I\u2019ve been there. I\u2019ve made those leaps where you feel God says, \u201cTake this direction.\u201d It doesn\u2019t make logical sense. People think you\u2019re crazy but you do it. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I get it. As humans, we crave security. What 9:00 to 5:00 provides for a lot of people is that security. I\u2019m working with so many women and teaching them how to walk in my footsteps and create this business for themselves from home where they can have control over how much money they make. I\u2019m on the other side of it so I\u2019ve done it and had the experience, it\u2019s empowering but I remember those feelings of overwhelm and navigating the unknown. It\u2019s something a conversation I have with a lot of people who are considering making this leap. They say they want all these things. They want to have more control and flexibility.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5192\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5192\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5192\" src=\"https:\/\/media.moneyripples.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/10064824\/Graphics-Caption-1-MORI-226-Create-Income-From-Home-WITHOUT-Joining-an-MLM.jpg\" alt=\"MORI 226 | Freelance Job\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5192\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freelance Job: Entrepreneurs are not afraid of success. They just do what they think, and that comes from their mindset.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>They want freedom. They don\u2019t want a boss anymore. They want more financial stability but they\u2019re not willing to leap. They\u2019re not willing to sacrifice the cozy, cushy paycheck from the employer. It\u2019s something where you\u2019ve got to get grounded in why you\u2019re doing it. Money is great. I\u2019m a business owner. I am in business to make money, be able to provide for my family and do fun things but there\u2019s got to be more to it. You hear a lot of people talking about their why like, \u201cWhy are you doing it?\u201d For me, it was as simple as I wanted to be able to walk my kids to school when they started kindergarten. I didn\u2019t want them to be in childcare every day.<\/p>\n<p>I still utilize childcare. My kids go to preschool but it\u2019s a short program. I get to choose when I have help with my kids, when I focus on my business and when it\u2019s family time. I don\u2019t work on Fridays. It\u2019s a non-negotiable in my life. I\u2019m home with my family on Fridays. All of these decisions are super empowering but you\u2019ve got to be willing to get a lot uncomfortable to get to that point where you have those choices in your life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you feel are the biggest challenges people run into? Is it purely the mindset of being willing to make those changes and commit to them or do you think there\u2019s something more to it than that? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mindset is one of the most important things in business and life. I don\u2019t think I knew that until this phase of my business. I left my job and was freelancing. I did that very successfully for a few years. That\u2019s when I felt this calling to share it and help other people. People were asking me what I was doing anyway. I\u2019m like, \u201cThis can be a win-win.\u201d I\u2019m the kind of person that is always looking for win-win scenarios. I don\u2019t think that for one person to be successful someone else has to be pushed down. We can all rise together. I\u2019m like, \u201cThis is a great scene where I\u2019m going to have to work hard to create a program. Once it exists, it exists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Getting into the realm of passive income and all of that stuff, I can grow my business that way and also serve more people. I can help more people tap into this thing that I\u2019ve tapped into and do it successfully for themselves. As I have gone through this journey, this evolution of my business of launching the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefreemamamovement.com\/on-demand-freedom-training\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Free Mama Movement<\/a>, more than ever, I understand the importance of mindset and pushing through fear. Another misconception about entrepreneurs or people who have found success is that they don\u2019t have fear. They\u2019re not afraid of failure or success. They\u2019re not afraid to jump on and do a Facebook Live, start a podcast or whatever it is.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t think that\u2019s true. The difference between the people who become successful, start a podcast, do Facebook Lives and start these movements behind themselves is that they do it anyway. That comes from mindset. I have fear. I get nervous about doing things all the time in my business and my life still. It\u2019s like riding a bike. The more you practice, it\u2019s not necessarily the fear that goes away.<\/p>\n<span class='bctt-click-to-tweet'><span class='bctt-ctt-text'><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmoneyripples.com%2Fmoney-ripples-st%2F%3Fp%3D5188&#038;text=You%20must%20be%20willing%20to%20get%20a%20bit%20comfortable%20to%20get%20to%20the%20point%20where%20you%20can%20make%20your%20own%20choices.&#038;related\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You must be willing to get a bit comfortable to get to the point where you can make your own choices. <\/a><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmoneyripples.com%2Fmoney-ripples-st%2F%3Fp%3D5188&#038;text=You%20must%20be%20willing%20to%20get%20a%20bit%20comfortable%20to%20get%20to%20the%20point%20where%20you%20can%20make%20your%20own%20choices.&#038;related\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"bctt-ctt-btn\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Share on X<\/a><\/span>\n<p>Its lifespan shortens. Instead of it becoming debilitating and you\u2019re not moving forward, it gets honed in and you\u2019re like, \u201cThere it is. Let\u2019s call it excitement instead of fear. Let\u2019s get going.\u201d You keep moving and repurpose it differently. Mindset is critical. The other thing that I noticed is business is the greatest personal development course you could ever take. I have true change as a person through the evolution, growth and success frankly of my business because it puts you in these uncomfortable positions. It shows you what you\u2019re made up of.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What would you say the difference between someone who\u2019s doing freelancing compared to someone who\u2019s starting a brand new business?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A lot of the people who come to me are like, \u201cHow do I find a job working from home?\u201d I\u2019m like, \u201cI don\u2019t teach you how to find a job working from home. I teach you how to become a business owner.\u201d To me, being a freelancer is you\u2019re offering a service to people. You\u2019re a service-based business owner. You are not an employee who goes on job interviews.<\/p>\n<p>You should be standing firm in what it is you offer, whether you\u2019re a virtual assistant, a graphic designer, an IT specialist or some type of consultant. Essentially, you were working with people on a contract basis to help them with a problem. On the smaller levels, maybe that problem is truly time. I shouldn\u2019t discredit time because that\u2019s my greatest asset. For virtual assistance, a lot of people who come into my world, whether they\u2019re looking to hire a virtual assistant or become a virtual assistant is they don\u2019t know what to charge, what they\u2019re worth and what to offer. Are they good enough?<\/p>\n<p>All of these different things are floating through their head. What I want them to understand is even if the only thing on day one that you are capable of offering is answering someone\u2019s customer service emails. I have that mom going, \u201cIs that enough? Do I have to go off and spend $1 million learning how to be an expert in whatever?\u201d I\u2019m like, \u201cYes, that\u2019s enough.\u201d That is extremely valuable to an entrepreneur whose time is limited and who cannot manage that. That is something they\u2019re willing to pay for it.<\/p>\n<p>To me, the beauty of freelancing is you have the role of offering a service. You\u2019re in the business of helping people. You offer a service that helps somebody, whether you\u2019re saving them time, helping them with something that maybe they don\u2019t know how to do or something that they don\u2019t want to have to go figure out how to do themselves. You\u2019re better at it. It\u2019s something I love. I know a lot of service-based business owners who don\u2019t refer to themselves as a freelancer and that\u2019s okay too. The term freelancer implies that you\u2019re doing it on your own. That\u2019s cool too. I have a lot of people who will ask me to look at their website and it says, \u201cWe do this. We did this.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5193\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5193\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5193\" src=\"https:\/\/media.moneyripples.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/10064826\/Graphics-Caption-2-MORI-226-Create-Income-From-Home-WITHOUT-Joining-an-MLM.jpg\" alt=\"MORI 226 | Freelance Job\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freelance Job: Being a freelancer is about offering a service to people. You\u2019re not an employee who goes on job interviews. You should stand firm in what you are offering.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I asked them why they chose that pronoun. They said that it makes them look more legitimate as a business. I disagree with that, Chris. I look at that and I\u2019m like, \u201cYou should own your expertise. You should own the fact that you are the person who\u2019s going to go in and create a relationship with this business owner and become a valuable team member to them. You\u2019re the one doing the work. You should get the credit for it.\u201d To me, that\u2019s what freelancing is all about.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is something I\u2019ve said on the show a few times about the mindset around who you are and how you contribute. Even if you have a job, the truth is you are the business of you. You are a business. You might come out with a steady paycheck. You might think you don\u2019t have a business but the truth is you\u2019re hired or fired based on your performance in that \u201cbusiness of you.\u201d Being a freelancer or an entrepreneur, either way, in a sense, you\u2019re still being hired. You still have people you work for. You do it in a very different way with different terms. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Personal branding is something that I teach in my programs. It\u2019s something I talk a lot about in my community online. It is essential regardless of what you are doing. I would even argue it\u2019s essential in how you carry yourself, even if you\u2019re unemployed. If you\u2019re a stay-at-home, the way that you present yourself to other people is essential. I couldn\u2019t agree more with you on that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The question that everybody has is, \u201cWhat do I have to offer?\u201d You addressed it like, \u201cYou could do something as simple as answering emails.\u201d It could be the job role you\u2019re already doing with the employer working 9:00 to 5:00 in the office but you\u2019re doing it from home. The next thing people are going to ask is, \u201cHow do I find the market? How do I find people to hire me? Do I go to corporations, individuals or small business owners? Where do I go?\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of opportunities out there, no question about it. This is something that I teach in my program. I have two entire weeks where I talk to my students about how to get clients, where to find clients and the clients that they\u2019re going to want to work with. Some of us are fortunate and hit it out of the park on the first client. Others of us, not so much.<\/p>\n<p>It either takes some time to find the right fit. I do say that I teach freelancing in a, maybe not an unusual way but a specific way. There are resources out there like Google and YouTube. Through Google, you\u2019re going to find in particular matching websites like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upwork.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Upwork<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elancer.ps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elancer<\/a> and all of these things. Those are available to anybody to do market research and get started.<\/p>\n<span class='bctt-click-to-tweet'><span class='bctt-ctt-text'><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmoneyripples.com%2Fmoney-ripples-st%2F%3Fp%3D5188&#038;text=Business%20is%20the%20greatest%20personal%20development%20course%20you%20could%20ever%20take.%20It%20puts%20you%20in%20uncomfortable%20positions%20and%20shows%20you%20what%20you%E2%80%99re%20made%20up%20of.&#038;related\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Business is the greatest personal development course you could ever take. It puts you in uncomfortable positions and shows you what you\u2019re made up of. <\/a><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmoneyripples.com%2Fmoney-ripples-st%2F%3Fp%3D5188&#038;text=Business%20is%20the%20greatest%20personal%20development%20course%20you%20could%20ever%20take.%20It%20puts%20you%20in%20uncomfortable%20positions%20and%20shows%20you%20what%20you%E2%80%99re%20made%20up%20of.&#038;related\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"bctt-ctt-btn\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Share on X<\/a><\/span>\n<p>They\u2019re not how I teach the moms in my program how to go about freelancing. The reason is especially as a parent, every moment, you\u2019re deciding whether or not your attention is going to your family or income. I value time more than anything. The reason I don\u2019t care for sites is that you are not being compensated for the time you were spending marketing yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Those sites can be very competitive and they drive prices down. They\u2019re also international. You are competing with an international market where you can hire cheap labor overseas. That\u2019s the reality. Those probably wouldn\u2019t be your ideal clients anyway. You don\u2019t want to work with somebody who\u2019s not willing to pay you what you are worth, what your services and help are worth.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t recommend doing that. I recommend good old-fashioned relationships like networking. It can be done online. It is not as complicated as you would think but it is all about your brand. One of the things that I run into a lot with the women that I coach is that they\u2019re starting this freelancing business they\u2019ve figured out or honed in, at least on the services they\u2019d like to offer and then it comes time to find clients. They\u2019re ready to go and they don\u2019t want to tell anybody what they\u2019re doing. They\u2019re afraid. It\u2019s the mindset and fear. If I tell people, it makes it real that I could fail but it also makes it real that I might get a client and I\u2019ve never done this before.<\/p>\n<p>I get it. It\u2019s scary to do things for the first time but I also tell them, \u201cI can teach you a whole lot in twelve weeks.\u201d My program is extremely robust but you\u2019re going to learn more with that 1st client, whether it\u2019s a 1-time project or a 12-month retainer, then I could teach you in 12 weeks because the reality is we all learn best by doing. You can\u2019t watch someone else do something and learn how to do it. You have to dive in at some point.<\/p>\n<p>I prefer approaching freelancing. I\u2019m not a natural risk-taker. I like stability and stability comes from building relationships with people. It comes from becoming an invaluable member of somebody\u2019s virtual team. You can freelance with local businesses as well. My business is 100% online and it is something that I recommend to the people that I work with as well. That\u2019s because of the world we live in. You never know when you\u2019re going to move. My family relocated a few years ago. To say that it was unexpected is an understatement.<\/p>\n<p>We were in our forever home. We lived surrounded by my friends, family and the town I grew up in. We were not going anywhere until we were and we found ourselves thousands of miles away from everything we ever knew, including my entire clientele. I essentially started my business over a few years ago. At that moment, I decided that location freedom was incredibly important to me. It is possible to build an entire virtual freelancing business without meeting anybody in real life.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5194\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5194\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5194\" src=\"https:\/\/media.moneyripples.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/10064828\/Graphics-Caption-3-MORI-226-Create-Income-From-Home-WITHOUT-Joining-an-MLM.jpg\" alt=\"MORI 226 | Freelance Job\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5194\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freelance Job: The beauty of freelancing is in offering a service that helps people. You help save their time or guide them in doing something they don\u2019t know how to do themselves.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Technology is our friend. We\u2019re recording this episode using Zoom. That is some software that I use to meet with people and get to know them. It\u2019s a video and you can do video chat. If you are in it for the long haul and don\u2019t want to constantly be spending your valuable time making pitches constantly and marketing yourself, look for those long-term clients whom you can become an asset for. That\u2019s my best advice for freelancing. Look for those relationships. It\u2019s all about relationships.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here\u2019s a real question I\u2019m sure people are wondering too. Is this legit? Can people make as much, if not more, than what they\u2019re doing working their 9:00 to 5:00? What are some examples that people have done that? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I could rattle off some names for sure. Mia, Jordan and Michelle, this interests you. I encourage you to join our Facebook community. It is a Facebook group. The name of it is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LaurenGoldenFreeMama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Free Mama Movement<\/a>. You can search the #FreeMamaWins. I am all about people celebrating the things that they\u2019re good at and their victories. You could say it\u2019s ego or bragging but it\u2019s important that we celebrate the things we\u2019re good at. Women, in particular, have a hard time doing that. We brag in the Free Mama Community. You can go check it out. Everybody is across the board by doing that. Here\u2019s the thing that I want people to know.<\/p>\n<p>The reason that you can make more is you can leverage your time. I also teach people how to work off of a retainer rather than an hourly price. If you have an hourly price, here are your choices. Raise your hourly price, work more hours. That\u2019s how you make more money. Is that a bad thing? No. Are there going to be opportunities that are only hourly-based? Sure.<\/p>\n<p>Not everything is going to be able to convert. Not every client is going to be willing to have a retainer. Here\u2019s the thing with retainers as well. You have to know how to leverage your time. If you\u2019re somebody who slacks off, gets distracted or procrastinates, a retainer is going to end up hurting you because you are probably going to spend more time getting all of your work done than you normally would if you were being compensated for the actual time you were spending on the project. There\u2019s a lot of strategy behind how to be effective with that.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things I want people to know who are maybe still working a full-time job and thinking about starting their business, whether it\u2019s freelancing or something beyond that, is your employer is spending a lot of money on you that you might not even be aware of. They\u2019re paying payroll taxes. It is going to cost them money to replace you when you leave. Something else that I teach moms how to do is turn their current employer into their first high-paying clients. It\u2019s not applicable 100% of the time. I have had moms successfully do that in my program.<\/p>\n<span class='bctt-click-to-tweet'><span class='bctt-ctt-text'><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmoneyripples.com%2Fmoney-ripples-st%2F%3Fp%3D5188&#038;text=We%20all%20learn%20best%20by%20doing.%20You%20can%E2%80%99t%20just%20watch%20someone%20else%20do%20something%20and%20learn%20how%20to%20do%20it.&#038;related\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">We all learn best by doing. You can\u2019t just watch someone else do something and learn how to do it. <\/a><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmoneyripples.com%2Fmoney-ripples-st%2F%3Fp%3D5188&#038;text=We%20all%20learn%20best%20by%20doing.%20You%20can%E2%80%99t%20just%20watch%20someone%20else%20do%20something%20and%20learn%20how%20to%20do%20it.&#038;related\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"bctt-ctt-btn\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Share on X<\/a><\/span>\n<p>It\u2019s amazing because the negotiation behind that is smooth because they do end up saving money when you do not work for them as a full-time employee. It\u2019s not transferable to everybody. I understand that. For me, it was something that I didn\u2019t. It\u2019s something other people have been able to do as well. As a contractor, you\u2019re able to charge more than, let\u2019s say, you\u2019re on salary at your job. You divide that out and figure out what your hourly rate is. They\u2019re not paying for your benefits anymore.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re not paying for your 401(k). On the flip side, these are things that you then have to figure out as a business owner and it is figure out-able so don\u2019t get me wrong there but you\u2019re then able to increase your hourly rate. Businesses are willing to pay that because they don\u2019t have all of those other fees that they assume as an employer. There are some technical components there that when people understand, it starts to make sense of how you can leverage the same work for more money.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I have firsthand experience with this. It was years ago when I was hired by a coaching company to teach people how to trade stocks and options. I was thrilled because I thought it was cool. They\u2019re paying me $20 per session, which was about a 40-minute session. I was like, \u201cThis is pretty good. I can make $60 every 2 hours.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I was doing that. Partway through my training, as I was getting learned the ropes of how the company worked and everything, they switched it on us. They said, \u201cYou\u2019re not going to be working out of a cubicle anymore with our phones. We\u2019re going to have you work from home as independent contractors.\u201d They raised my pay from $20 a session to $35 a session, almost double, which I was thinking, \u201cWhat the heck? You\u2019re paying me more to stay home and call from my cell phone?\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You save tons of costs, not just payroll stuff but the space that people have to use. They freed up more space to get more salespeople and then generate more sales and revenue. It works. That\u2019s a brilliant idea of going to your company as your first client. I love that. We\u2019re going to run out of time here and you\u2019ve got different things you offer. You also have a matchmaking service too, don\u2019t you? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I do. One of the greatest things that makes me different is the services that I offer because I didn\u2019t invent freelancing. I wish but I did not. I teach moms how to do it in a certain way and how to be successful. We\u2019re still managing their family. I\u2019m in an interesting position because I am still freelance. I have clients. I am also on the other side of the table, where I consider myself an entrepreneur. I have hired people from within my program and my former students who work for me. I have four people on my team. I brought another one so I am in this unique position where I straddle both worlds.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5195\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5195\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5195\" src=\"https:\/\/media.moneyripples.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/10064829\/Graphics-Caption-4-MORI-226-Create-Income-From-Home-WITHOUT-Joining-an-MLM.jpg\" alt=\"MORI 226 | Freelance Job\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freelance Job: If you are someone who slacks off or easily get distracted, a retainer will end up hurting you. You will spend more time getting your work done than you normally would.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I understand what it is like to be the person providing a service to a business owner and what it is like to be a busy entrepreneur who needs help leveraging time and skills and managing all of the things of growing and scaling a business. With that, I also have connections in both spaces. I have a large network of people on both sides of the aisle.<\/p>\n<p>I have these women that I have trained who are well-prepared in software and the services that they offer. I stand behind them and the things that I\u2019ve taught them. I have a huge group of entrepreneurs, whether I\u2019ve been in masterminds with them, done podcasts with them, whatever it is, who they are in the same position as me, where they are growing and scaling their business. It\u2019s time for them to expand their team.<\/p>\n<p>I launched the <a href=\"http:\/\/thefreemamamatchmaker.com\/directory-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Free Mama Matchmaker<\/a> to do that. It is a program where entrepreneurs can contact me for a small fee because I am not in Upwork. I am not trying to drive down prices and make things super competitive. I am in the market of curating relationships that grow business. That\u2019s what I do. That does require a small investment upfront because what I\u2019m going to do is prepare the entrepreneur, not exactly what it is they need.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, we get so busy as business owners. We know we need help but we don\u2019t know what that looks like. That\u2019s something that I can assist them with through an initial conversation. They then get matched with graduates of my program who can assist them with the various things they are looking to outsource in their business.<\/p>\n<p>It has been super fun. I\u2019m looking at a thank you note that I got from a business owner when I got back in town, who sent me a little Starbucks gift card and said, \u201cThank you for connecting me with the name of the mom Bea.\u201d It has been fun. It\u2019s amazing because I\u2019m constantly looking for those win-win wins. How does everybody win? These entrepreneurs genuinely need help and I have a group of very qualified women who are looking to help people. It\u2019s been a fun extension of my business.<\/p>\n<p><strong>That\u2019s a tremendous resource. Thank you so much. There\u2019s the Free Mama Movement group on Facebook. How else can somebody follow you or learn more about what you teach with freelancing? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can find me on most social media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/laurengoldenfreemama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@LaurenGoldenFreeMama<\/a>. If you are interested in learning about my program or even starting to freelance from home and build out your business, I offer free training to get started and you can check that out at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreemamamovement.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TheFreeMamaMovement.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lauren, it has been tremendous. Thank you so much for being on the show. It\u2019s been very valuable. I love finding different ways for cashflow and this one\u2019s a big one. This is an answer to a lot of people in the show. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thank you so much. I\u2019ve enjoyed sharing. I look forward to connecting with some of your audience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Everyone, thank you so much for joining us. I hope you make it a great and prosperous time. We\u2019ll talk to you soon. <\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Important Links<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thefreemamamovement.com\/on-demand-freedom-training\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Free Mama Movement<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LaurenGoldenFreeMama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Free Mama Movement<\/a> &#8211; Facebook<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upwork.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Upwork<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elancer.ps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elancer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefreemamamatchmaker.com\/directory-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Free Mama Matchmaker<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/laurengoldenfreemama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@LaurenGoldenFreeMama<\/a> &#8211; Instagram<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it possible to be paid MORE than at your current job? 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