390: Day Job Freedom: Get Unstuck, Fill the Creative Void, and Overlap Your Way to Entrepreneurial Growth with Sean McCabe

Sean McCabe writes over a million words a year. He is the author of Overlap: The ultimate guide to turning your side passion into a successful business. He's helped tens of thousands of students with his courses on copywriting, client work, pricing, and marketing. On a daily basis, he runs seanwes: a learning community for entrepreneurs looking to do fulfilling work.

Sean believes in generating income from the trifecta: client work, products, and training. He's also a huge fan of the 3 P's of accountability: public accountability, partner accountability, and personal accountability. Tune in to hear about his writing secrets, how to commit, and how to quit your 9-5 day job, step by step.

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Quotes:                                                                                                                                   

“Motivation isn't fuel for beginning; it's a result of taking action. When you show up and commit to showing up every day, you'll find that motivation comes after you show up.” – Sean McCabe

“The best way to get someone's attention is to repeat back what they just told you. They tell you something, and you say, ‘So what I'm hearing you say is this,’ and you feed it right back to them.” – Sean McCabe

“There's not really a wrong step. Any arrow you pick is forward progress.” – Sean McCabe

Takeaways:

07:35 Use the "trifecta" approach to business growth: start with client work, then move to products, and finally teach what you've learned.

17:07 Create accountability through public declarations, partner check-ins, and personal commitment to consistently take action.

19:21 Communicate your unique value by curating and simplifying what you share, making it easy for others to understand and remember your core offering.

24:42 Focus on one passion at a time, developing it fully before expanding to other interests, like carefully stoking one fire pit instead of spreading yourself thin.

31:40 Build your business gradually by using your day job as a financial foundation, allowing you to experiment and grow without immediate financial pressure.

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Filed in: Archive 2: 2017 • Interview • Podcast • Writing

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