First $1,000: “I sold my day job skills to a client after-hours…”
In this week’s First title: "First $1,000: “I sold my day job skills to a client after-hours…”",000 segment, we hear from Joel Runyon (!), longtime friend and founder of ImpossibleHQ.com. Joel has started numerous businesses in the past decade, but he got his start by taking on a freelance contract using the same skills he’d learned for his day job.
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What It's About
This adventure runner took his first freelancing steps, then never looked back.
Notes from Chris
Episode 1892
Today’s episode is part of a new feature we’re doing in 2022 called ‘Your First $1,000.’ As you might surmise from the title, this is all about how someone made their first $1,000. How did they get to that point? Not their first $100,000—that’s cool, but it would probably be a long story. One thing I’ve learned is that once you begin to earn real money, the steps required to go to the next level—whether it’s $1,000 to $2,000, or even to $5,000 or $10,000 are often easier than that first real paycheck. With that in mind, today’s feature comes from Joel Runyon in Austin, Texas. We’ve featured him a number of times, including a case study and a Failure Friday episode. Joel is a longtime friend and founder of ImpossibleHQ.com. He’s started numerous businesses in the past decade, but he got his start by taking on a freelance contract using the same skills he’d learned for his day job. Even though I’ve known Joel since at least 2010, I don’t think I’d ever really heard this story before. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Listen to today's episode to learn more...MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
- Thanks to Joel for telling us about his first $1,000. He’s made many more since then. I hope you found it encouraging. Check out his websites at ImpossibleHQ.com or JoelRunyon.com or pretty much every social network under one of those names.
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