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Welcome everyone. This is the semester system podcast. And I’m your host, Nino Prodan. And this is the first episode and I’d like to introduce myself, tell you a little bit about me. And also talk about a little bit about who this is for. So for me, for the better part of the last 25 years, I worked a nine to five job and it wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t really good. And for most of the time, it seemed like I was just numb. Most of my life was just a gray space. Between vacations and other big events, otherwise my life was just ending one day at a time. I sat at a desk did work that really didn’t mean much to me. At the end of the day, I didn’t go home thinking I changed the world with what I did today. And then I spent so much time getting to and from work. It was almost like a second job just to get there. And on top of it all, I was getting paid. Okay. But what was really happening is I was making somebody else rich. It’s a really give myself some money on the side. I would do side hustles I actually started small businesses, but it was really just me working. I was too afraid to actually do something bigger where I was an actual business owner, where it wasn’t just me working. But then in my nine to five job I struck gold Finally got the opportunity start working remotely. And at first, it wasn’t really that big of a deal, I would just work and then I would have time to do what I wanted during the day because I would work at night a lot. But then I started to notice something, I started to notice that I could actually hire somebody to do the most monotonous and tedious part of my job. So I outsourced about 90% of my job. And this gave me the time first to play a lot of tennis. But after that, I realized that this wasn’t going to last forever. And I started my own coaching practice my own business, a business that I want to grow, to be a business owner, not just solopreneur still trading my time for money. Well, my nine to five contract finally came to a close and I thought, now that I’m coaching, I have the freedom to work. Where I want, I don’t need to be in the United States. So I’m going to start traveling the world. And at first I thought this is a great idea. This is a awesome opportunity, I finally get to live my dreams, my dreams of traveling the world that I’ve had for over 20 years since I did a backpacking trip to Europe. But then reality hit, I was still trading my time for money. And not only that, when I traded my time for money had to be arranged with somebody else, because at the moment, I was still trading my coaching service on a one to one basis with other people. And at first it worked. We were in South America, the time zones lined up the internet’s might be spotty, but that didn’t pose as much of a problem as the timezone thing. But then we traveled to Europe. And I’ll tell you, I’m not going to serve somebody very well on a coaching call at four o’clock in the morning. I’m not going to be able to provide the Best service for people, the thing that I expect out of myself to serve people at my highest at my best. So I needed something, another way to free myself from that time exchange for money. And that’s when I started to really understand how to incorporate marketing into my business, how to set up systems to really free myself to find true freedom. And that’s what I started this podcast to do was to share that with you. Because you’re somebody that’s working a nine to five and wants to free themselves wants to free themselves, of somebody telling them what to do have somebody having control of your life. You want the freedom to do what you want. You want to have the time that is yours in your hands to be able to spend time with Who you want when you want to have the money to do what you want, and also the freedom to do it where you want.