Jeffrey Shaw: Crafting your best self-employed life

Transitioning to a self-employed life isn’t easy, especially if you’ve been in a corporate role for years. Most of us want to get back more control over our lives. So rather than the Great Resignation, it’s a positive choice towards a new lifestyle. But the reality is that it’s hard to pull off. You have to make many more choices, develop a business, a brand and then there’s all of the supporting machinery you’ve been used to having on a plate (for all of its bureaucracy).

How do you craft a great self-employed life? Jeffrey Shaw should know, having spent his life self-employed since the age of 14. He now coaches small businesses.

In this podcast find out how to:

• Design the personal ecosystems you need to support a growing business.
• Enrol your customers — rather than marketing to them.
• Marry woo-woo with the wallet.
• Look after your mental health.
• Make difficult choices.

More about Jeffrey

Jeffrey Shaw is a speaker and small business coach who helps self-employed and small business owners gain control of their business in what seems like otherwise uncontrollable circumstances.

Drawing on his experience as a renowned portrait photographer, Jeffrey shows business owners how to see business through a different lens and strategies to compose the often-chaotic pieces of life and business into sustainable success.

Jeffrey’s TEDx Lincoln Square talk is featured on TED.com, he’s the host of the top-rated podcast, The Self-Employed Life, author of The Self-Employed Life and LINGO, an in-demand keynote speaker at conferences, events and universities, a LinkedIn Learning instructor and contributing writer to Entrepreneur magazine.

• More on Jeffrey’s background, values and services.
• Self-employed assessment.
• Self-Employed Business Institute.