The Work from Home Podcast

Sami Reed is a digital nomad who can work from anywhere in the world as a digital marketer and educator. Since 2018, after switching from her 9-5 job as an educator in Wales, she has been able to travel to Europe, Southeast Asia, and Australia while working. She is currently working from Thailand.

Sami shares how she fell in love with the travel lifestyle during vacations from her former 9-5 job and decided to change her working dynamics through a remote job. She talks about her budding days creating her digital marketing business as a nomad. When things began to pick up for Sami as a digital marketer and people around her became interested in the remote work nomad lifestyle, she shares how she pulled out her teaching skills to impact and inspire others to do the same.

She lists good skills that are needed to work remotely. She also shares some digital Nomads hotspots worldwide, from Bali to Rome to Mexico. She adds that people get inspired to start new projects when they are around other people doing extraordinary things.

About Sami

Sami Reed Cleaver is a digital nomad life and business coach. She went from working a full-time 9-5 job to working remotely and living a freedom-based digital nomad lifestyle by overcoming huge limiting beliefs and successfully growing a freelance digital marketing business, currently based in Thailand. She now coaches others to do the same. 

Links

Instagram - instagram.com/samireedcleaver/

Website - coachwithsami.com

Copywriting is an integral aspect of content marketing, but being a pro in one doesn’t necessarily mean that you automatically have the other one figured out. In this episode, our host, Tolu, discusses what makes copywriting different from content marketing and how you can make the most of both marketing tools.

He goes down to the basics by explaining what both mean while giving live examples of different copywriting scripts, the different clients each attracts, and the effect this will have on building your brand in the long term. He also talks about the types of copywriting and the most effective type in his professional opinion. He shares tips for effective copywriting for websites and social media and how to craft copywriting headlines.

He shares some insight on how to select a copywriter for your business, the effect of combining copywriting and content marketing in building your brand, and how he combines years of experience in copywriting and content marketing to seamlessly deliver outstanding results for the brands he works with.

How do you face your fears and accelerate your career? Raj, a tech career strategist who has been in the tech space for over 16 years, joins us today with loaded and practical answers.

Raj knows what it’s like to thrash your fears and live the life of your dreams. He grew up extremely shy and felt there was nothing special about him until a trigger event made him flip life as he knew it. Since then, he has written a book that placed 5th thrice on Amazon, spoken in over 100 conferences, and had 2 TEDx talks and over 10 keynotes.

In today’s episode, he discusses how he was able to build a six-figure business and how to create strategies to defeat your fears and advance your life.

He also discusses his no-fluff book, which consists of effective strategies for identifying ideal career options, LinkedIn optimization, resumes, interviews, salary negotiations, success in your career, and setting yourself apart from the competition.

With a desire for success comes a high likelihood of getting burned out. Raj shares personal tips for preventing burnout and the strategies that helped him bring the book to life amid numerous unfavorable circumstances.

About Raj

Raj Subrameyer is a tech career strategist focusing on helping people to land their dream job and become successful leaders. He is passionate about guiding professionals to maximize their opportunities and discover their zone of genius.

He has given multiple TEDx talks and is a sought-after speaker at various conferences and has been featured in numerous TV news segments, podcasts and publications, including CBS, FOX, NPR, NBC, Entrepreneur, CEOWorld Magazine, Authority Magazine, Career Addict, Thrive Global, Addicted2Success and The Good Men Project. 

His areas of expertise include career advancement, leadership, motivation, productivity and entrepreneurship. In his spare time, he loves traveling and enjoying craft beer. You can find more info about how he serves people through his website - www.rajsubra.com

Links

Skyrocket Your Career Book - Website - https://www.skyrocketyourcareerbook.com/

Personal Website: https://www.rajsubra.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajsubra/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/epsilon11

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/raj.subrameyer.9

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ChaiLatteConsulting

Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/raj.subrameyer/

The idea of drop servicing sparks much interest in the minds of entrepreneurs, especially as it’s said to be an area that does not require any skill for entry. But is that really the case? What does it entail? Today, Tolu sheds light on this business, and while he’s at it, he busts some myths along the way.

He discusses what drop servicing means, the benefits of this business model, what to do before you get started and how to hone in on a niche to yield great results for your clients. He clears the air about the negativity this business might stir up and shows how all parties benefit.

He also talks about the skills you need to thrive in this area, with an emphasis on branding, management, and communication. He provides tips on how to go about applying these skills to the success of your business.

Today, Matthew Turner joins us for an in-depth discussion on professional writing and his journey towards becoming an author and writer for mega clients.

He talks about what it means to niche down as a writer, why it helps, and how to make it work for you. He also discusses the role of adaptability, your voice, and your personality in being a successful writer and gravitating towards the right clients for you.

He also shares how he turned his passion into a successful full-time business and lets us in on how he balances being a father with his work for clients and still publishes his own books - a balance owed to what he calls being anti-hustle.

Being successful means being able to say no when necessary and more often. "It's difficult to say no unless you know what [a great] yes looks like," Matthew says. He shares how this takes time, learning curves, and discovering yourself but will eventually lead to knowing the right clients for you so that you don't end up overwhelmed.

Finally, he gives us exclusive details on the books to expect from him in the future and how nature influences his writing and style.

Links:

For entrepreneurs, failure is inevitable, no matter how little. Many have given up after encountering one or more setbacks. But what if there’s more to failure than the usual feelings of guilt, shame, and dread that we’ve ascribed to them? To Tolu, failure isn’t a bad thing, it’s a great thing, and today, he shares ways to help you look at failure differently and embrace it.

In today’s episode, he talks about how failure serves as indicators or tools for you to know whether and how to review your processes to achieve the aims you’ve set out to achieve, and re-strategize as necessary, among others. He also shares his trusted methods for optimizing failure to succeed in your business. These methods include acknowledging them as a tool and nothing more, failing forward, and using and connecting with other people’s experiences to propel yourself into the vision you have for yourself.

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Alise Saunders, the owner of the travel blog Tales from an Untamed Soul, joins us today. She shares her journey from corporate life to entrepreneurship and key lessons she has learned along the way.

She speaks about the reality of working in the corporate world, which did not meet the glamorous expectations she had from watching her favorite tv shows. Although she worked her way up and started making a 6 figure salary, she soon realized that getting to the top still left her feeling as miserable as ever. Her dissatisfaction led her to quit her job and embrace an entrepreneurial lifestyle working from the road.

In today’s episode, she discusses the culture and trauma that gives rise to the typical manic corporate world lifestyle. She also delves into her liberating journey into entrepreneurship. She talks about the work and healing she had to put in to create a thriving business that suited her lifestyle. Today, she is living in the fantasies of her childhood. In this enlightening episode, she shares three particularly key lessons she wished she had known earlier that would have made her childhood dreams come true quicker.

Connect with her using any of the following links:

https://talesfromanuntamedsoul.com/

https://www.facebook.com/talesfromanuntamedsoul

https://www.instagram.com/talesfromanuntamedsoul/

Perhaps, what we need is a machine to increase time? Between work, responsibilities, and other surprises that life throws at us, many of us barely manage to keep our heads above the sea of nonstop deadlines. The art of balancing competing deadlines and meeting them is a skill that is crucial to the success of a work-from-home professional. By meeting deadlines, we get satisfaction, fulfillment, and more referrals.

We most likely know this, but the question is, how do we do it? Today, Tolu discusses effective deadline management and how we can shrink 12 hours of work into 6 hours if need be. He discusses the components needed to ensure that deadlines are always met. He also generously provides case studies as he walks us through what an effective system should look like. Additionally, he shares the tactics he uses to deliver services on time and the tricks he has mastered to expand time’s capacity if we can say so.

Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash

If we could wish for sudden bursts of energy to power us through our tasks on long hard days, we probably would. Unfortunately, we can’t, so for many of us, the next best thing might very well be energy drinks. Both those with a 9 to 5 and work-from-home professionals sometimes use energy drinks to stay alert and get their work done. This is particularly so for entrepreneurs who have to wear many hats at once.

But are there any downsides to the easy fix that energy drinks provide? Today, our host, Tolu, discusses the effects of these drinks. Using his personal experiences, he weighs in on the conversations surrounding the topic. He also talks about alternatives that he is keen to try and invites you to participate in this ongoing discussion.

Most offices offer little privacy. And working from home doesn’t usually offer the Camaraderie environment that office spaces do to mitigate loneliness. Mo Hamzian acquaints us with the ability of coffee shops to provide these benefits.

He shares ideas for adjustments that we can make in our spaces to make us more productive: planning, based on the nature of the work that we’re doing; picture an environment that fosters creativity for deep thinking creatives. He talks about loneliness associated with working from home, which is not the case in coffee shops.

Mo also discusses how some workspaces have begun to create more conducive environments with better temperature, lighting, fresh air, privacy, and other parameters to boost productivity. Inspired by the coffee shop idea, Mo talks about his start-up company that is currently building coffee work cafes in various cities in the USA but is open to expanding to the rest of the world.

Links to connect with Vel/Mo Hamzian

myvel.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohamzian/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/workatvel/

https://www.facebook.com/workatvel

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