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Affiliate Marketing for Beginners from Corbett Barr

As I talked about yesterday, my friend Corbett Barr’s new course Affiliate Marketing for Beginners is now available! I use this site to bring stories of people living their everyday lives outside of the realm of the typical office drone 9-5 worker. I bring the stories of exceptional lifestyles being lived by everyday people. Most [...]

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Making a Living While Living Unconventional Lives

My friend Tammy Strobel over at  Rowdy Kittens was featured in a New York Times article over the weekend for simplifying her life and getting rid of most of her stuff. Tammy simplified her life down to less than 100 possessions, sold her cars and the rest of the unnecessary stuff, and found she was much happier. I shared [...]

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Way Below Status Quo: Nomadic Entrepreneurs Road Trip

Entrepreneurs are now more able to do work from the road with today’s technologies than in any other time in history. The internet and mobile devices allow people to submit their work and run businesses from pretty much anywhere. While some people live on the road full time, it also makes for some fun extended [...]

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How I Freed Myself from the Office to Become Location Independent

photo credit: DDFic My journey to Location Independence began out of frustration. Frustration with how wasteful the business world ran, and how poorly most old-school businesses leveraged technology. There may have been a girl involved too. I’ll get to that later. Several jobs and self-employed businesses made up my work history. They always followed the [...]

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4 Ways to Watch Lemonade Movie – Sequel Update!

We’ve written about the inspiring film “Lemonade” here, when Erik began seeking stories to add to the Lemonade book. The film has been viewed now by thousands of people with overwhelming support for the project. If you have not yet seen this film, you can watch it and help with the film (and future projects) [...]

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Career Outsourcing: Replaced by the Lowest Bidder

photo credit: Richo.Fan It was August 20, 2009. Kristi Coyne was told she would be out of a job as of September 30. Her department of 130 employees would be let go: the county was farming out their mental health services to a private company. It’s a common story these days, but not one that [...]

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Crush It! Work Your Face Off with Gary Vaynerchuk

Gary Vaynerchuk is the founder of the popular and long-running video blog at Wine Library TV, also known as the Thunder Show. He began to parlay his success with the show into speaking on the subject of business in today’s world, and now has a NY Times Best-selling book out called “Crush It!: Why NOW Is [...]

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Lemonade Movie Cut Your Story? Be in the Book!

If you haven’t yet heard of the film Lemonade, you really should watch the short trailer below. Erik Proulx was laid off from his job in the advertising world back in October of last year. He was not alone. Determined to do something to try to help himself and others who shared this new-found extreme [...]

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