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Jessica Larrew on creating financial freedom. http://rachelrofe.com/jessica-larrew-on-creating-financial-freedom
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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 Facebookthat 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.”dthis 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.
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