Alexandra Fasulo - Freelance Your Way to Freedom: How to Free Yourself from the Corporate World and Build the Life of Your Dreams

ALEXANDRA FASULO

Copyright 2023 by Alexandra Fasulo. All rights reserved.

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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Names: Fasulo, Alexandra, author.

Title: Freelance your way to freedom : how to make 7 figures online, free your mind, and work from anywhere in the world / Alexandra Fasulo.

Description: Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2023] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2022029593 (print) | LCCN 2022029594 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119893233 (hardback) | ISBN 9781119893257 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119893240 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: New business enterprises. | Businesswomen. | Entrepreneurship. | Gig economy.

Classification: LCC HD62.5 .F368 2023 (print) | LCC HD62.5 (ebook) | DDC 658.1/1dc23/eng/20220801

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022029593

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022029594

Cover Design: Paul McCarthy

To my momager, who has played both mom and dad to my sister and methanks for teaching me to rub some dirt on it, get back up, and go out there and crush my dreams.

I'm currently sitting at the highest caf in the Chamonix ski resort, facing Mont Blanc, the secondtallest mountain in Europe, and drinking hot wine as I write this.

My workload these days is around five hours a week, totally remote.

My computer, camera, sometimes WiFi, and power are literally the only things I require for my work.

I'm 33, a multimillionaire, an entrepreneur running multiple businesses, and an investor in real estate (11 dwellings at present count), precious metals, crypto, fine art, businesses, and more. Technically, I could be completely retired as my passive income from just my properties is enough to cover all my expenses, which is 100 percent hands off. Retirement is not something I seek, however.

Obviously, this isn't a position that I landed into straight away. I had to start at the bottom of the entrepreneurial ladder.

And it started with a simple idea: I will learn to work remotely. There is no plan B.

I knew my life was going to be filled with endless adventures and travel, and I knew a job would get in the way of that. And I wasn't about to allow some silly need for a paycheck get in the way, just so that I could feed myself.

And I meant that. I wasn't going to have a plan B. That was never an optionno matter how long it took, no matter if I had to eat baked beans for years, no matter if I had to sleep on friends couches without a place to call my own. All my energy was directed at this goal.

I started working in bars, juggling four waitress/bartender jobs at once while I was studying marketing (one of the most important skills that helped me get to where I am).

Bar jobs covered my living expenses while at the same time freeing up my brain space so I could return home after work and study the necessary skills I needed to make an online business work.

When I tell people that I worked 16hour days in my twenties, people often laugh, don't believe it, or romanticize the idea that perhaps I was making little YouTube videos or reading up about how social media works.

Well, those were components of it, but so was cleaning up drunk people's vomit in the bar bathroom at midnight.

The entrepreneur's journey is never pretty. It certainly tests you and makes you truly realize that there is no job beneath you if it's helping you on the journey of becoming eventually free.

And yes, I understand that some will need to work three jobs just to support their household, as there is no spare time or money to try to focus on growing a side business for them.

That is a chapter in the life of that person, who isn't in the incredible position you are in right now, just trying to understand remote work by holding this book.

And that's why we need to pursue our dreams, for us and for them.

For the people who right now cannot make this lifestyle a dream of theirs, perhaps eventually your remote work will be so successful that you'll be able to give back and help to free others from the burden of just having to exist day to day, with no potential of future planning.

That's something I have the opportunity to do these days, thanks to my work that blossomed beyond my wildest dreams.

But then, there's also the crew that will shun any mention of the drastic personal responsibility like the responsibility this book will demand that you have in order to make the entrepreneurial lifestyle work for you, because it's an uncomfortable truth for many, in a far too comfortable world.