The remote work economy is a diverse and ever‐expanding place with abounding opportunity, money, and interpersonal freedom. It's a place where you can be your own boss, open as many streams of income as you desire, and do it all from anywhere in the world. No senior manager is watching, waiting to scold you for forgetting punctuation in an email with a client. It seems almost too good to be true; it's like a futuristic workplace utopia.

From my experience over the past decade immersing myself in online marketplaces after quitting my job with no plan or money saved, I have found that the world of remote work is indeed some kind of a utopia, where you can trade hard work and commitment for unlimited freedom. It's a place where working smarter, not harder, is praised; where technology, automation, and virtual assistants can remove the traditionally long working hours while you unplug for the afternoon on some remote digital nomad island in Southeast Asia.

But not even I could fathom that kind of utopia after years of college and two different office jobs that groomed employees for a life of servitude. I slid right into the belief that I had to suffer in the name of responsibility as an adult, as if suffering was a normal exchange everyone had to engage in if they wanted to own a house, a car, and pay off their debt.

Boy, was I wrong, and the remote work economy spared no time in showing me that these beliefs were rooted in an old‐school approach to work that was born out of the Industrial Revolution. This new kind of online, interdependent economy only wants one thing from you: accountability. It wants you to show up, with a laptop and WiFi, as you open your accounts to check in on your teams, clients, and software that does your work in the background. If you can manage to do that—and only that—you're going to be in luck. Suffering is not part of this process, and it's certainly not expected of you if you want to be successful with a few side hustles you only put 30 minutes into managing each day.

This book is not about getting rich quick or hacking hidden systems. It's about laying the foundation in the remote work economy that will help you achieve financial independence in a fraction of the time your corporate employer promised.

We will first look at the remote work economy as a whole and how to navigate it as a beginner, followed by breaking down the ins and outs of freelancing and how to leverage your own agency, which you manage from anywhere in the world. We'll go over the different places you can freelance and how to set yourself apart from the competition.

Next, we'll explore the systems you need to put in place, the discipline and mindset development that's required to be successful, and secret side hustle hacks that can help you scale to six figures during your first year in business. Lastly, we'll talk about money momentum, using your success to build a personal brand that branches off into more revenue streams, and we'll go over a final checklist that will set you up to build your own seven‐figure online empire.

The concepts in this book are not hard to understand—I promise. Although the idea of remote work and all the hundreds of side hustles available to you today can seem overwhelming, this book is intended to make simple the very basics of making money reliably through the remote work economy. I will detail every single decision I made to go from unemployed to sitting at the helm of a seven‐figure freelance writing and social media personality business today, so that you can replicate my remote work blueprint.

Enjoy the adventure as we set out together to help you reclaim your personal freedom.