For this epiosde, we head to an island. Well away from the major city - off the mainland of British Columbia, Canada.

A young man has grown from an unfortunate, bedridden condition in his youth to one of the most creative, one-man businesses around.

He’s done it by embracing the same counter-culture thinking he was captivated by, in his earliest years.

That creative led to him finding his place as a designer, then a freelancer, a podcaster, a course developer, and now, an author - with an established publishing company.

He’s deep into the hundreds and hundreds of thousands in annual revenue and he got there through a unique combination of escaping civilization - while at the same time finding his audience.

This is the story of Paul Jarvis, author of the new book - Company of One.

Paul's built an audience of thousands of readers on his blog, teaches freelancers, writers, product-owners, content creators, and businesses, how to use MailChimp with his online course - Chimp Essentials.

He has also helped over 10,000 paying students with his other course Creative Class, where he teaches them the business side of freelancing.

Listen in as Paul dives deep into his philosophy of transitioning from a freelance-based work lifestyle to a more product base income approach, how to successfully manage, and his strategies to scaling a business without giving up your freedom.

We’re really excited about this episode and hope you enjoy it!

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For our first episode of season 6, we take you into rural America. It was 1998, and a young wireless modem salesperson was looking at ways to automate his follow up with potential customers via email.

So, he learned how to write a script in a programming language called Perl that would make this possible. That script turned into its own set of customers, which led to Tom dropping out of university, which led to founding AWeber...

This is the story of Tom Kulzer, founder and CEO of AWeber.

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Recently from the blog: Successful freelancing starts by finding the right kinds of clients. Here's our list of 64+ freelance jobs sites to get you started.

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After his family immigrated to the U.S. from Vietnam, Chris Do never imagined his artistic interests could eventually propel him into a successful life-long career. Now, years later, he's an Emmy Award-winning designer growing an agency that works with some of the biggest companies in the world. 

 

Now, after years of building his agency, Chris is building something new: *The Futur*. It's an educational platform for designers—and it's taking off. 

We'll be back very soon with season 6 of Freelance to Founder. 

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We're excited to announce our partnership with 'House of Who' to bring you a brand new podcast called ArtistCEO - a podcast by women, about women in business...

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Stuart Draper once worked as a plumber for his brother-in-law. Now he’s the founder of a $4 Million business providing a digital marketing curriculum to university professors and their students. Makes total sense, right? Well, maybe not. But it makes for a great tale. 

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After feeling stuck at her corporate finance job, Brittney Castro broke out on her own to start her own financial planning firm. Now she works tirelessly on growing her personal brand making $500K/year. 

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When Andrew Warner started Mixergy, he had just come away from a $40 Million business sale and was anxious to help aspiring entrepreneurs thrive. Despite starting with zero business plan in mind, today Mixergy is a healthy 7-figure business and in today’s episode, you’ll see how it all unfolded—and continues to unfold—for Andrew and his small team. 

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We have a super founder to introduce to you today. A great story of a military wife. An extremely busy and motivated wife and mother who decided to mix her two passions - education and photography - into a highly successful photography business that she can run and needs to run from anywhere. This is the story of Courtney Slazinik, founder of clickitupanotch.com - from 3rd-grade teacher to six-figure photography blogger.

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On today’s show, we’ve got an Australian software developer, who’s just over 1 year into his biggest endeavour yet. While he’s successfully built and sold one company in the past, he’s right now growing his latest creation - Content Snare. And it’s been an emotional rollercoaster - even beginning with him having to re-think his original business idea. 

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What if you discovered that your best bet for growth, success and even peace of mind was to change gears from building a big company to establishing a strong healthy personal brand? Meet Kaleigh Moore, freelance copywriter and former founder of Lumen Ventures - Now, a prolific content creator, podcaster and business partner to Paul Jarvis and his ‘Creative Class’ program. 

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