Summer is in session but we’re not taking off! Throughout the season, we’ll be bringing back listeners’ favorite episodes from past seasons and answering brand new Office Hours questions!

Today’s episode from season 2 (originally released at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic) features Cait Lockwood (formerly Caitlin Pyle), founder of Work-at-Home School and Proofread Anywhere, talking about how she went from being fired from a job to building a seven-figure company she could run from home. Listen to this great conversation about how you can build your own business without leaving the house—even if you’re already retired.

In this episode we’ll talk about:

• Remote work and unemployment during and after the COVID-19 pandemic
• Cait’s journey from being fired to building two businesses
• Discovering the viability of full-time freelance work
• What it takes to be entrepreneurial and create your own company
• Advice for someone looking to change careers or generate additional income
• The three-step system for success as a freelancer
• Identifying the lies we’re programmed to believe that can keep us from reaching our full potential
• Breaking past the self-doubt that can hold you back and replacing them with truths
• Abundance mindset vs scarcity mindset
• Leveling up by identifying existing skills and learning new ones
• The importance of confidence in successfully launching as a freelancer
• Changing the way we see retirement and throwing out conventional idea of retirement
• The reality of fixed income and how you can un-fix it
• Thinking outside—or breaking out of—the box you’re in to make more money and reach financial independence
• Inflation rate and how it affects retirees and seniors more than the rest of us
• The main things seniors spend money on – leisure, health care, education for grandkids, and scratch-off lotto tickets
• The investment of online courses for building new skills
• Millennials, participation trophies, and accepting failure as a lesson
• Vetting online courses and creators and filtering out scams
• Understanding affiliate marketing and how you can use it to make commission income
• Using social media and your existing networks for market research and finding clients

Visit dontretiregraduate.com for a full transcript of this episode.

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