Business for Beginners

Is this business right for you? Listen as Steve shares his story. Steve is a professional podcast editor. He talks about how someone can learn the skills they need to be a podcast editor in this growing space. He gives tips on how a podcaster can grow their show on April Fools Day, he talks about best practices for podcasters creating their show - before they hand it off to an editor, and he gives tips to the newbie podcasters to help them with some beginner mistakes.

In today's episode, I interview Orlena Kerek, a medical doctor from the UK who moved to Spain and decided she wanted to focus on health coaching after some difficulty getting her license to follow her.

JC considers himself to be a typical guy, who woke up one day a little differently. He has a passion for health and fitness and he LOVED teaching others how to transform their own physiques. What started off as helping a few friends and coworkers get into shape inside a Whatsapp group, quickly turned into a much larger world wide audience, after people started seeing results. When he couldn't keep up with the demand of folks asking for his guidance, he enlisted the help of others to become coaches on his new S.Q.U.A.T.S. platform, now known as FITTR. Four years later, after investing around $1000 into his business, FITTR is now earning around $15 million/year. In this episode of Second Act Business Academy we talk about the journey, how FITTR took off in a big way (550,000 Facebook members), and how he gave it all away for free (and still does to this day).

Have you ever noticed that most business podcasts share the rewards of owning an online business but never talk about what goes on behind the scenes? You don't hear about the struggles every day business owners face. In today's episode, I reached out to some of my online business friends and clients and asked them to share some of their pain points and how they overcome them while building their business.

Matt is a videographer, skilled in his trade, and he shares his tips and suggestions for getting started with shooting and editing videos in your online business.

Shelly was a world traveler and landed in Russia where she was teaching English as a second language. When the Russian economy crashed and she didn't have a way to convert her currency, she bought a Mac and started building her business.

Erica is an operations consultant who focuses on process improvement with small businesses. She followed the dream of attending college then finding her career but she learned she needed to venture out on her own. Listen to her share her journey as well as her favorite tools of the trade.

Pam knew she wanted to be an English teacher since the second grade. She followed her dreams as they led her from teacher to sales woman that eventually led to writing and publishing.

Stephanie Cunningham and her husband took a bike tour around the world in 2000. Her husband fell in love with Australia once they reached there for the summer Olympics so they decided to move there permanently. She needed some work to do so she found a way to proceed with an online business. Listen to how she overcame obstacles and found the path that was best for her.

Beth W Smith worked many extra hours in a very stressful job for many years. When it was time to rethink her life and live more, she choose to focus on professional organizing. Learn how she made the transition and what has helped her pave the way fast.

Beth shares the courses she studied and the apps she used to help her become adapted to an online business quickly.