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141: Be a Free Range Human—Busting Business Myths with Marianne Cantwell

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I’ve been a big fan of Marianne’s writing, Be a Free Range Human, since my earliest days as a solopreneur; and in fact, she crossed my radar when my blog was just a budding baby side-hustle, but we hadn’t connected in real-time until this conversation.

A longtime advocate for going your own way in life and work, Marianne shares where many solopreneurs go wrong: leaving a suffocating, one-size-fits-all corporate environment just to feel equally penned in by a box of their own making with shoulds from the self-employment space.

In this episode, you’ll learn how to identify your Free Range Style, and why it is a big blind spot for many entrepreneurs. In fact, it’s one of the biggest detriments to the health and success of your business to go against your Free Range Style, even though many best practices would have you inadvertently doing just that!

Check out full show notes from this episode with links to resources mentioned at PivotMethod.com/141.

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More About Marianne Cantwell

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Marianne Cantwell is an expert on creating a free range career and a successful work-life that fits who you really are (and the life you want). The founder of Free Range Humans, and a leading TEDx speaker, thousands have done her courses on finding your 'thing' (and making it work for you). Her thinking has featured everywhere from Business Week and CBS MoneyWatch, to The Guardian, Daily Mail and Entrepreneur magazine. 

A corporate escapee herself, she now lives and works in several countries (often between London and sunny California), and carries her business in a little laptop.

Topics We Cover

  • Marianne’s journey since the first edition of her book in 2013

  • 3 Free-Range Styles: Attractor, Connector, and Trusted Person

  • How to overcome information overload

  • How to stand out from the crowd and get paid what you deserve

  • Why moving on does not equal failure

  • Why doing what you love is not negotiable

  • “STOP.  Do not pass the library door. Do not collect 200 websites. Online research is addictive. It gives you the illusion of moving forward, but in reality keeps in mired in analysis paralysis. There is always something more to learn.”

  •  Why you don’t need an original idea - Choose something that brings you alive, and how you can inhabit your difference.

  • The $100 test 

  • Marianne’s team setup 

  • The four Es of selling without selling your soul: Enthusiasm, Engagement, Equanimity, and Ethics

  •  What to do when you get stuck 

  •  You are creating a life, not a business

Resources Mentioned

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