Jessica Larrew on creating financial freedom

Jessica is a 28-year-old wife, mother, and

entrepreneur. She’s been making a fulltime income

working online for the last six years after being laid

off from her fulltime job in 2008. Within one month

after being laid off, she was able to earn the

amount of money online that she used to make at

her fulltime job. Three years after she was laid off,

her husband left his job to work from home with

her.

She’s most proud that she’s been able to enjoy her

family in a way that she never saw in many people’s

examples in her real life.

Her family and her

husband’s family just

struggled financially and

with a lot of things as we

were growing up. They

didn’t know how things

were going to be for them

when they got married and

what their finances would

look like.

The biggest turning point for her was when she was laid off and she

just didn’t expect it.

After being super devastated for a little while, it took

her about a week to recover, she just said, “You know

what? I’m just going to do my own thing and it doesn’t

matter what things are supposed to look like. I’m just

going to do it.”

She thought, “Okay, I’m going to take any skills that

I’ve ever used before and I’m going to become an

entrepreneur. I’m not going to put myself in that

position again,” because it doesn’t matter how secure

you feel that a job is, it’s not. It doesn’t matter, and so

now she has that things can change at any moment so

you just have to be in charge of it and you have to take

everything by the reigns and just be in control of what

you can.

She started looking online

trying to find people who

were entrepreneurs and

had made online income

work for them. So, she

really started to try and

surround herself with

people who were going to

bring her up and help her

to get to where she wanted

to be and realized that the

people around her weren’t

going to understand

because it was like all the

time they were like, “Have

you gotten a real job yet?”

It was really on Facebook that she met so many great

people. At that point in her life, she was selling on

Ebay, so she was looking at groups of people who

were selling on Ebay. There’s one girl, her name is

Beth and we’re business partners now in one area

and we met online. She would consider her one of

her best friends, but they’ve never actually met in

person.

A lot of people don’t realize the transition that we’ve

made from selling on Ebay to selling on Amazon to

having our own consulting business and things like

that.

She put as many systems in place as she could to make time to go to the beach..

She has virtual assistants. She has people who look

for products for her that she can sell. They’ll be

sourcing for her and then she just pull the trigger on

what she’s going to buy to sell. She has a lot of stuff

on the website that generates income as well.

Since she sells on Amazon. Even something as small

as they only make $8.00 profit on it, when they make

a thousand of those, then they make $8,000.

Things she does on a regular basis to just keep

having this awesome life that you have…

She’s always just looking for new ways that she

can improve on what she’s already doing or ways

that she can make it easier. Having virtual

assistants was a big one. If she’s spending too

much time trying to figure something out or if

something’s taking too long for her to do herself,

then that was a big one. Also, just to really spend

time with people who build you up and who you

can learn from, even if that’s just reading websites

of positive people. She thinks that really impacts

you.

She hired 5 virtual assistants within a year. They are

working for fulltime and others do specialty things

for her, just things that were hard for her to do. She

hired these people from referrals and had a trial and

error on Odesk, trying different people and just

seeing how they work together.

For Jessica, the beginning is where all the hard work

comes. People have to realize that it’s not super fun,

and it’s not sexy when you’re staying up super late.

When she first started really heavy in the Amazon

side, she was pregnant, and then her son was a

newborn while she was really building it.

That wasn’t a fun time. She’s staying up when her

baby’s sleeping trying to make an income because

she had to replace the income that she lost, but they

still needed it to pay bills. It’s not like just because

she had a kid, all of a sudden she could quit. It was a

lot of really, really hard work to get to where she’s at

now. She thinks it’s really important to see that it

doesn’t matter where they are today, but just to

know that it took a lot of effort to get there.

She’s been struggling with lately is finding that

balance with having a public life. She’s been really

struggling with now is trying to differentiate herself

and to not get hurt.

She’s just kind of had a period where she got tired of

dealing with people who try to make you feel worse to

make to make themselves feel better. That happens

so much on the Internet. She keeps saying, “public

figure,” but that’s not how she sees it; She just can’t

think of another word for it. She’s been dealing with a

lot of people who are trying to bring me down to their

level and so she’s kind of at the point where she’s

backing off a little bit to just really focus on herself

and her family, so whenever she comes back full

force, those things aren’t going to bother her.

She thinks that the more that you make yourself open

and vulnerable, the more people take advantage of

that. So, she’s kind of at that point now where she’s

been really, really vulnerable and now it’s like people

are really taking advantage of it. So, she’s going to

refocus and figure out where she is in this and not lose

herself. She can’t let other people affect that. That’s

kind of where she’s at right now is trying to make that

whole side of the business not affect her personal

being because then nothing is what it is.

According to Jessica, for people who are scared to

make a change in their own life, just get over that fear

in any way that you can, whether it’s just reaching out

to people who have been there or talking with a close

friend or a spouse and just really set those goals into

place. She thinks if you have the opportunity to make

these changes before something forces you to then

you have the upper hand the whole time.

You get to plan better. Things aren’t thrown at you. So,

if you have that opportunity to make what you want

happen and to put those things into place for yourself,

then your outcome is just going to be so much faster

and so much easier because you controlled everything

that got you to that point instead of somebody else

doing it. Then you say, “I’m going to be reactive an“I

don’t want to be in that position, so I’m going to do

this instead.”d this is going to be what I do with that.”

Instead, you get to say,

To anyone now who are struggling and feeling trapped

by their circumstances, Jessica advised when people

actually feel that place where they know that things

aren’t right and they feel like they can’t do anything

else and are going to be stuck here forever, that’s the

time where you really, really have to dig out of it and

make it something for yourself.

You can learn more about Jessica at

www.jessicalarrew.com

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