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Kiri’s Journey
I was sitting in the car crying on the phone to my husband. I had just left my 12-week ultrasound appointment for my second pregnancy.
My first had ended in a miscarriage.
I was hopeful about this one. I had reached 12 weeks!
But even I could tell during the ultrasound that something wasn’t right. The baby was not shaped like those cute photos you see in announcement photos.
What followed next were weeks of appointments and tests that required me to go into Boston for a significant amount of time. And also… weeks of making lies and excuses to my boss.
It turned into an awkward rigamarole with my employer. What new excuse could I think of for why I was taking off random three or four hour chunks during the day, for multiple days, every week?
I hated every minute of it and swore then that I would soon figure out a way to never report to an employer again.
Maybe you’ve been there: having so many doctor’s appointments that it’s awkward to talk about. Or maybe your phone was on silent (oops!) and you missed 5 calls from your boss who needs something ASAP. Or perhaps you’re just sick of staring out the window on a 75-degree day and feeling like you’re missing out on life.
I’ve been there (all of those situations, actually). More importantly, I was done and I’d had enough.
I began researching how to take my skills and create a business online. I knew it was possible, but I didn’t know the steps that would get me there. What I found were random webpages, articles from outlets like Fast Company and Entrepreneur, all with three bullet points that made it seem so easy—so what was I missing?
It took me five months of haphazard research and marketing to finally get my first client. From there, it took another nine months to quit my job and go solo based on the money I was making.
In short, it was way harder than it had to be. What I had needed was a distilled, easy-to-follow course that taught me:
How to take the skillsets I have and transfer them online into a business,
How to price my services to charge higher fees,
How to brand myself to get clients that could pay said fees,
How to market myself effectively to land clients, and
How to close that deal.
But that course didn’t exist. There are a few out there now, but what’s still missing is detailed advice on how to get paid an equivalent of what you were making in your corporate life, and still have time to do what you want to do.
After having my own contractor business for nine years, helping numerous friends, and friends of friends, and friends of friends of friends, I decided it was finally time to package it all into one course so that no one else has to go through what I did.
It shouldn’t take over a year from start to end to create a business and schedule that works for you.
There is a happy ending to the pregnancy story.. Two months after quitting my job, I got pregnant again—and this time it lasted. I now have two children, a wonderful husband, an energetic dog, and a thriving business.
You can have it too.
Fun facts about Kiri
Olives are her favorite nibble food.
She has a tattoo of Star Wars, her wedding band is custom with Star Wars symbols and she has a podcast about it too. Sometimes she cosplays at conventions in her Old Republic Jedi Knight costume (Rebel Legion approved).
Red wine is her usual go-to alcoholic beverage of choice, but sometimes you can’t beat a beer on a hot summer day. Or a little shot of Chambord at the end of a meal. Or whiskey by a fire. Or a shot of Angel’s Envy on a Monday.
Tea, tea, tea. Never coffee.
She also loves Lord of the Rings and tried very hard to learn the Elvish language of Sindarin at age 15.
She’s a voracious reader and is always reading either a business book, historical fiction or fantasy novel. You can find her in the stacks of her local library a few times a month.
Her happy place? Walking on the beach or cozied up next to a roaring fire reading a book in her home in Massachusetts.
Puzzles are her thing—they relax her and she listens to podcasts at the same time.