Unemployed & Afraid
A business podcast for the brave self-employed.Growing your own business can be one of the most gratifying, wonderful, life-changing experiences around. It’s also scary as hell. This is a weekly podcast for the ones who have made the brave decision to employ themselves anyway.We're for the full gamut of business experience - from Solopreneurs, Side-hustlers, Micro-business, Small Business, Medium business, Independent, VC backed, Bootstrapped and more - here for the real stories and priceless in...
Episodes (208)
“When you want to make a living out of something you do it's scary to give every...
Unemployed & Afraid
“It's okay to start something little, it doesn't have to be this big thing to be...
Unemployed & Afraid
“You never feel like it’s enough, so relax and enjoy the ride.” Social Stories:...
Unemployed & Afraid
“We had to either completely stop because we couldn't keep up, or we needed to t...
Unemployed & Afraid
“Invest, re-invest, and get real about what you need,” Social Stories: Financing...
Unemployed & Afraid
“What am I gonna regret at the end of my life? I'm not gonna regret starting my...
Unemployed & Afraid
"Ask everyone and get really excited about rejection," Social Stories: Making th...
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“If we don't do it now, then we won't do it at all,” Co-owners of The Proposal G...
Unemployed & Afraid
“A lot of times, what you want in life means that you have to take a step back f...
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“It's f*ing terrifying, but I do it, and it's always beautiful,” Director of Mav...
Unemployed & Afraid
“I literally had days in my business where I was like, I'm done,” Alice Varney,...
Unemployed & Afraid
“Business breaks you so much that you almost need to have no shame,” CEO of The...
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“Sometimes people bet the farm on doing their own thing, and the reality is, it'...
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“Just by starting, you create more information than you could have ever logicall...
Unemployed & Afraid
“The bee doesn't know what its purpose is… it’s just staying in motion and follo...
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“If I had my time again, I would've invested a lot more into my business, I woul...
Unemployed & Afraid
“Let's be the moms that our kids can be proud of and show them the way, take cha...
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“If I put the same energy (of) applying for jobs I don't want, into my own busin...
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“You don't realize how much you need to talk to people who run a business until...
Unemployed & Afraid
“Let not my little goals, prevent a magnificence that I don't even have comprehe...
Unemployed & Afraid
“I feel like I could have quit at least five times by now, but there's a voice i...
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“It's not going to come overnight and it's not gonna come with 10,000 followers....
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“It's just this constant cycle of stepping out of the comfort zone and feeling r...
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“My biggest fear is not committing and making this happen, and playing it too sa...
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“You don't have to have the perfect thing. If you're interested in something, yo...
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“To put something out there you're basically opening yourself up and saying, tak...
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“I've never had a plan. But I do think pulling at that curiosity thread is what'...
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“You just have to go through that process of letting it go and knowing that ther...
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“I always felt paralyzed by the anxiety of making the wrong decision,” Jeweler a...
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“Everyone's afraid when they start, and no one knows what they're doing,” Bianca...
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“You really do just have to start wherever you are, with whatever you’ve got,” A...
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“People don’t care, don’t react to the short-term, and find like-minded souls,”...
Unemployed & Afraid
“Just start doing what interests you without any intention of where that might l...
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“What we are doing is too vulnerable, too scary to not have someone on your side...
Unemployed & Afraid
“You never know who is watching… you just have to be yourself,” Influential Arti...
Unemployed & Afraid
“It's okay, you can start incrementally,” Founder of Wobble Yoga and Director of...
Unemployed & Afraid
“Sometimes what your soul guides you to do, doesn't always make sense to your mi...
Unemployed & Afraid
“Sometimes it felt a little hard to say the truth {in business partnership}, lik...
Unemployed & Afraid
“We didn't spend any money on marketing or advertising because we didn't have an...
Unemployed & Afraid
“I really wanted to start heading towards making change, but I didn't know how,”...
Unemployed & Afraid
“The fear of remaining where I was, was greater than the fear of taking that ris...
Unemployed & Afraid
"It's constant learning, constant trying, constant frustration, But it's balance...
Unemployed & Afraid
“You have to clean out the Garage before you can get something new,” Career Sabb...
Unemployed & Afraid
“Drawing on the experience that you have, you'll surprise yourself, how well you...
Unemployed & Afraid
“If we’re curious, and we're willing to learn and we're resilient - you can achi...
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"When we can look at the pursuit of something new, and what we achieve in that p...
Unemployed & Afraid
“When you are starting out and stepping away from that corporate sector and you...
Unemployed & Afraid
“I definitely had a lot of imposter syndrome early on, even in my Instagram bio,...
Unemployed & Afraid
“I did absolutely everything and just sat on it for ages and I was like, when's...
Unemployed & Afraid
“I just cannot describe the feeling of finally deciding to go out on your own an...
Unemployed & Afraid