Episode 3 of the Building My Freedom Business.

Today's guest: Ray Blakney
In this interview we talk about two of his businesses: LiveLingua.com and PodcastHawk.com.

Resources mentioned in this podcast:

https://www.livelingua.com
PodcastHawk.com (affiliate link)
SPI PRO (Pat Flynn's Community for entrepreneurs) - affiliate link

Summary:

01:35 - Ray shares his background story of how he started in life and how he ended up
                 starting a language business with his wife.

'If they would write a book about your life, would anybody want to read it'

05:15 - Ray talks about how he used the $5000 he got from the peace corps to start a brick and mortar business (teaching Spanish) in 2008.
08:35 - Ray shares the story how and when they switched to online teaching.

'I launched my most successful businesses during a pandemic'

11:35 - Erik asks Ray, who between him and his wife, is the entrepreneur?
12:35 - Erik asks Ray about his partnership between him and his wife.
15:35 - Ray talks about where they were in their business when they started to add
                 additional languages.
16:25 - Erik asks Ray how he dealt with all the challenges around adding new languages.
19:55 - Ray briefly started to talk about his new business ' Podcast Hawk '.
20:45 - Erik asks Ray to describe the size of his business.
22:15 - Ray talks about his bigger why for building his businesses.

'I love launching businesses'

23:15 - Ray explains his passion for wanting to start a social enterprise to help people from the developing world to start an online business.
25:25 - Ray talks about how it has been beneficial being a member of the SPI PRO (Smart
                Passive Income) community.
28:05 - Ray talk about his new business Podcast Hawk.

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