TAE 14: But Marie, I LOVE My Job, So Does This Apply To Me...

What's up everyone? This is Marie Larsen and you're listening to the audio entrepreneur. I spent the last year and half doing podcasts and content creation for some of the fastest growing entrepreneurs today. Their strategies and tests have been life changing once I took action, so I decided to take my audio industry to the next level by building a seven figure company that teaches people how to create, strategize, and repurpose their content like a throw.

The question so new people are wondering is how is she going to do it? This podcast is here to give you the answers. Join me as I explained marketing strategies to grow my online business. My name is Marie Larsen and welcome to the audio on.

Marie Larsen: Yo, what's up everyone? This is Marie Larsen. I'm so excited because today I have a friend of mine who I met through the digital marketing connections world. I guess you can say that it was through a friend from a friend, from a friend that I found this guy and he's been crushing and the reason that I wanted to bring on this specific person was because he has a relatable story that the majority of you are able to relate to. Right.

And so I wanted to jump on and have him kind of relate his story as to um, I kind of, I guess more than anything, I hope you guys understand that you guys really can be starting this now and it's not something that, especially with podcasting, a lot of people think that you need all this extra time on the side in order to do it and that's not the case.

So anyway, this is Ryan Helms. I really wanted to have them jump on. Ryan, it's such a pleasure to have you on here. I can't wait to get started with you.

Ryan Helms: What's up Marie? I'm stoked to be on here. Like you said, average guy here literally just battled traffic on the way home from work to come down here and hop on this podcast. But I couldn't be more excited. Thanks for having me on.

Marie Larsen: Absolutely. Absolutely. I saw, I, I love that. Before we jumped on here, Ryan was kind of going through and explaining the story to me a little bit and I'll have him go through, but honestly the thing that I really, really loved about Ryan's story is that he went through and explained to me that he, he has a nine to five job, right?

And that he's trying to do a side hustle in order to create the dream that he wants to. And I kind of wanted to go through that process, Ryan, as far as, what mindset you had in order to create a, a new world for yourself by living in the current one that you're in and what experience that's like. So if you could tell us a little bit about your, you know, what you can about your job and why you decided to start a side hustle, that would be awesome.

Ryan Helms: Yeah. So I work in a huge chemical company I manage are around 12 to 14 people and depending on the day and it, it can get super stressful. And for awhile there I was putting in 14 to 16 hour days every single day, Monday through Friday, working on the weekends a lot and this was probably in 2016 after about two years of working that I haven't always worked in that, you know, hectic, but you know, who was about two years where it was that kind of life and it started to catch up with me.

I wasn't at the point of burnout but I could like that was on the horizon, like I saw it coming and I was like alright. So I was literally. Yeah, exactly. I was sitting on the couch which is about six feet behind me on a Friday night. I'll never forget it. And I was somehow I got started looking at plane tickets and I came across the plane ticket to Nairobi, Kenya for like 750 bucks.

Ryan Helms: And I was like, you know, I never really looked at plane tickets. I didn't know if that was a good deal, but it seemed like an amazing deal to me and that was round trip from Atlanta to, to Kenya. So I bought it, like, didn't know what the Hell I was going to do, had had no idea about anything. So I sat on it for about three months, decided I asked your plan something.

So I went over Thanksgiving here in the...I right. So end of November of 2016. I just took a solo adventure to a Kenya and Tanzania and you know, it sounds kind of Cliche, like, oh, I found myself when I was on this trip, but truly it was, it was a life changing experience for me and you know, not only because, you know, I got to go on a safari and go to Zanzibar and be on one of the most beautiful beaches in the world.

Ryan Helms: But, you know, I met people there that had, you know,