Work-At-Home Heroes

Anung Vilay progressed with little leaps and bounds. Vilay was talked into taking an aerial class by a friend and fell in love. This lead her to create a fun, quirky apparel line to fit her body type, something she wanted but couldn't find in the market.

Vilay notes trusting her instincts and when something hits her, going full force toward it.

She now runs a podcast, creates loud leggings, and entertains many side hustles to maintain her WAH life style.

For more information, visit the show notes at https://CaitlinPyle.co/anungvilay

Katie Colella cut her teeth at a young age in ecommerce. She notes that if she didn't know how to do something, she would learn along the way spending hours teaching herself and honing new skills.

Flash forward to now, Colella freelances as a VA and business mentor helping female entrepreneurs improve their online presence. She's driven, ambitious, plans, hits goals, and tracks everything.

Colella celebrates her wins, works hard to show up consistently, and all with five children by her side! Listen to her inspiring story here!

For more information, visit the show notes at http://CaitlinPyle.co/katiecolella

Ravi Toor serves others as a systems strategist and mindset coach, but it wasn't always this way. Before her WAHS life, Toor felt like she was stuck in a cycle that drained her creative being. She notes that "every type of dream and ambition I had would slowly die because I was stuck in the rat race, fulfilling someone else's dreams."

After some deep self reflection, Toor listed all of her strengths and skills, drafted a proposal, took her boss out for drinks, and in a moment of intense fear, handed him a proposal to become her first freelance client. Find out what his response was in this episode.

For more information, visit the show notes at http://CaitlinPyle.co/ravitoor

Barbra Harper worked a job with a billing company that was super-high stress. In addition to her physical health issues, Harper was being treated for depression, anxiety, and severe panic attacks.

After one hospital stay during her last year at the billing company, Harper was told that her supervisor asked if a company laptop could be taken to Harper so she could work while in the hospital, on pain meds, and IV antibiotics!

Her job was inflexible and affecting her health so much so that she finally left.

For more information, visit the show notes at http://CaitlinPyle.co/barbraharper

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This is a special WAHH veteran episode from Trish Springsteen who has been working at home for 10 years. Springsteen is a multi-international award-winning speaker, mentor, international bestselling author, and radio host specializing in speaker training.

Springsteen helps businesses gain leverage with speaking and communication. She believes that when you believe, act, and share, you become empowered to build your own foundation for success.

In this episode, Springsteen talks about stepping out of our comfort zones and pushing ourselves to grow in confidence and self belief. If you think you're too old to work at home, think again!

For more information, visit the show notes at http://CaitlinPyle.co/trishspringsteen

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Alys Sink previously worked as a proposal analyst before losing that position in the 2013 government shutdown.

Fed up with the recession job market, she started her own online consultancy business that same year.

Sink cites poverty as being a great teacher, saying she learned a lot about how to be adaptable and comfortable with difficult situations and people.

She is now the owner and director of an online English language tutoring service and editing agency that serves a wide demographic of professionals from all across the world. Find out more about her story in this episode.

For more information, visit the show notes at http://CaitlinPyle.co/alyssink

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Lisa Eldridge is a homeschooling mom of four who has been teaching her children from home for the past eleven years. Eldridge got her WAH start as a medical transcriptionist, a regular job where she had to show up for set hours everyday even though she got to work from the comfort of her own home.

Eldridge learned on-the-job and has been working as a general transcriptionist for the past seven years. Hear the full story here.

For more information, visit the show notes at http://CaitlinPyle.co/lisaeldridge

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Bridgette Klein has been working from home for the past three years as the marketing guru for Willory, a 100% remote HR & payroll staffing and consulting firm.

She now gets to work from whichever room in her house the sun is shining and is afforded the opportunity to be more involved in her young daughter's life while still pursuing a career she's passionate about.

For more information, visit the show notes at http://CaitlinPyle.co/BridgetteKlein

Lisa Évoluer was at the young of 18 when she got her start in the makeup industry working for big brands such as MAC, Dior, Mercedes, and Glamour.

Simultaneously, she began her journey with what would become her first online business in photo retouching specifically catered for the fashion industry.

She used the skills she had to build something sustainable that would work for her in a new country and new market.

Flash forward to present day, Évoluer has taken all of the obstacles life threw her and now works as a life coach and co-owns a course platform for other coaches exclusively for the German market.

For more information, visit the show notes at http://CaitlinPyle.co/Lisaevoluer

After stumbling into her niche over a beer with her dad, Blayne Bristol took an opportunity presented to her by the horns and helped his firm with social media for one commercial real estate client.

From this one-off job, she identified a gap in the market that was hugely lucrative in her country, built a business catering to a specific niche, and basically the rest is history!

For more information, visit the show notes at https://caitlinpyle.co/BlayneBristol