I am a graphic designer and online marketer with 3-4 years of experience.
For a long time, I had no idea what I wanted to do for a living. I studied business in college and then got a job in sales, but I always felt like something was missing. I needed creativity in my life, and I didn’t find that in the corporate world. It wasn’t until I took a graphic design class as an elective that I realized my true passion.
I loved the challenge of creating something from nothing, and I was good at it. Suddenly, I had found my calling. I knew I wanted to be a graphic designer, and I never looked back.
The early days of my career
After college, I started working as a freelance graphic designer. I did a lot of work for small businesses and non-profits, and I loved it. I loved the freedom of being my own boss and the flexibility to take on projects that I was passionate about.
However, I quickly realized that I needed to make a more stable income, so I took a job as a graphic designer at a design agency. I worked there for a few years, and then I moved to a in-house design team at a large corporation.
I learned a lot during my time in the corporate world, but I always missed the freedom of being my own boss. So, in 2020, I took the leap and started my own graphic design studio.
My studio today
Today, my studio offers design, video editing, and content planning services to businesses and entrepreneurs. I love working with my clients to help them achieve their goals and reach their target audiences.
I’m so grateful to have found my passion in life, and I can’t imagine doing anything else. If you’re interested in working with me, or if you’d like to find out more about my services, please get in touch. I’d love to hear from you.
When bad things happen, learn from them and vow to not repeat the behaviors that allowed them to happen. When good things come along, take advantage of them and learn how to stimulate more good things like them to happen. That’s called creating your own luck, which is a far better option than trying to control the uncontrollable.
The greatest thrill in business is to experience success that you manufactured yourself. The joy comes from knowing that I did that, me. Taking pride in one’s craft and working hard for one’s own rewards is the opportunity of a lifetime. Failures and missteps will happen along the way. That’s natural. When they occur, get up, learn from them, and move forward.
We all have different ideas about what happiness is, which is why we shouldn’t all follow the same path. To embrace our unique passions and enjoy our own forms of fulfillment, we must be willing to step off the prescribed path and forge our own. No matter what your goals are, there’s always more than one way to realize them. Find yours.
I started the Smart Passive Income blog as a way to give back to the community of creative and ambitious online entrepreneurs like me. I wanted to help others answer the questions I once faced as well as share the tools and techniques that work for me.
Transparency is a huge part of this blog, as it is with everything I do online. My businesses, strategies, and income are all publicly shared for the world to see.
I created the Smart Income Podcast because I know firsthand how useful podcasts are for learning about business strategies and tactics. So, through my show, I reveal all of my online business and blogging strategies, income sources, and effective marketing tips and tricks so you can get ahead of the curve with your online endeavor.
I’m super thankful that the podcast has, since 2010, earned multiple awards, been featured in The New York Times, and has generated a total of over 60,000,000 downloads!
In 2017, my videographer Caleb Wojcik and I came up with the idea for a brand new tripod for Vloggers. 2 years later, the SwitchPod launched on Kickstarter and raised over $415,000 from over 4,000 backers, and today this growing physical product business is making waves in the video product space.
In 2015, my team and I created a podcast player called The Smart Podcast Player to encourage binge listening and subscriptions on websites. Thousands of customers later, this software company has now become FuseBox.fm, a suite of tools to help podcasters grow their business and connect with their listenership on their websites.
