Build A Booming Brand alum, Megan Baker, is on the show today! She is my best friend and just now jumping into creative entrepreneurship and her freelance career. Megan talks about her transition from her former job to becoming an entrepreneur and the steps she took. She also talks about her branding work with Pinegateroad. Topics we cover:— Life before freelance— Making the leap from a full-time job to entrepreneurship— Navigating the workforce and questioning “is this normal work stuff/issues or not?"— How Megan got started— Finding tips on Facebook Groups— How Megan decided to become a virtual assistant— Megan’s experience with Build a Booming Brand— The importance of branding and finding a brand’s core values— A couple of trade secrets from the Build a Booming Brand Course— The beauty, fun, and nerdiness of strategic branding— Figuring out your core values and how you want to build it out into your business— How Megan built out her brand using the course and then how Pinegateroad took that information to build an awesome website— Using values generated from the Build a Booming Brand course and easily finding designs that fit your brand— Tips for other people starting out— Dealing with rejection and learning from itThe importance of separating yourself from your product and not linking your business to your self-worth— The importance of building a support network—Bullet Journals and not letting perfectionism ruin them and using the mantra “Better Done Than Perfect” with bullet journaling
