This is an interview with Julie Barlow, Self-employed journalist, translator, best-selling author. Her lasts book is:
Going Solo: Everything You Need to Start Your Business and Succeed as Your Own Boss.
In this conversation we spoke about:
- How Julie got started as a solopreneur 30 years ago.
- How do you become a solopreneur when society and your own family is against the idea.
- When you are young, it’s a great time to take risk and going solo, but if you are older, it’s not too late.
- Anywhere between 10% to 15% of the population is self employed.
- She feels sad for people who wanted to be solopreneurs but opted for security.
- How the decision to write the book Going Solo came about.
- The history of being self-employed.
- What comes first: The desire to become an entrepreneur and then the idea, or an idea and then the realization that the best way to implement it is by going solo?
- How to test an idea.
- My business as a photographer is horrible business, but I had a bit of a runway. How do people can hold on to their ideas in a hypercompetitive market.
- The advantages of being a solopreneur: freedom, etc…
- Being self employed does require certain kind of self discipline.
- How to deal with the loneliness of being self employed.
