Taking off with TEFL: Niche success in teaching English, with Russ Pearce
06/24/22 • 43 min
Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) is an attractive route to freelancing - and an easy option for anyone who was lucky enough to be born a native speaker of the global tongue for business and communications.
But making a decent hourly rate is challenging, with a proliferation of platforms and marketplaces, and varied levels of qualification and experience required.
Today we talk to a solopreneur who has not only made a career success of specialised English teaching, he has created a great lifestyle as well, and travelled the world. Combining unique niche industry knowledge with a commitment to professional development, Russ Pearce is proof that TEFL can truly take you places, in every sense.
What could you do, to leverage native linguistic advantage, alongside personal career experience and subject matter expertise? The sky's the limit (especially if, like Russ, you're an aviation specialist.). He even has time to write a great travel blog too - www.anythingbutpaella.com - as he explores the lesser known parts of his chosen home in Spain.
The Future Is Freelance podcast is brought to you by https://xolo.io - and right now you can try our flagship Xolo Leap product for *free* for 3 months! https://www.xolo.io/zz-en/leap
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Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) is an attractive route to freelancing - and an easy option for anyone who was lucky enough to be born a native speaker of the global tongue for business and communications.
But making a decent hourly rate is challenging, with a proliferation of platforms and marketplaces, and varied levels of qualification and experience required.
Today we talk to a solopreneur who has not only made a career success of specialised English teaching, he has created a great lifestyle as well, and travelled the world. Combining unique niche industry knowledge with a commitment to professional development, Russ Pearce is proof that TEFL can truly take you places, in every sense.
What could you do, to leverage native linguistic advantage, alongside personal career experience and subject matter expertise? The sky's the limit (especially if, like Russ, you're an aviation specialist.). He even has time to write a great travel blog too - www.anythingbutpaella.com - as he explores the lesser known parts of his chosen home in Spain.
The Future Is Freelance podcast is brought to you by https://xolo.io - and right now you can try our flagship Xolo Leap product for *free* for 3 months! https://www.xolo.io/zz-en/leap
🌟 REMOTE WORK EUROPE CONNECTED IS OPEN 🌟
(It's now even easier to get involved and kickstart your remote work career success)
And you can find all our latest training and resources in our online store.
Finally, make sure you're subscribed to receive our free newsletter, packed with information, updates, and REAL remote job opportunities every week 😎
Here's to your own remote future 🤩
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Securing solopreneurs in the new normality, with Lona Alia
Lona Alia is not a freelancer right now... She's presently the head of revenue at SafetyWing, who specialise in underwriting the insurance needs of the new remote and mobile global population.
So it's unsurprising that her journey to this point was entrepreneurial, and further that she lives and embodies that spirit and lifestyle, even while running a large international team.
Of course, a deep understanding of the needs of solo operators is essential, in order to create products which serve them well. And as a Y Combinator graduate, Lona loves combining the startup intensity and drive, with the personally liberated lifestyle of digital nomad living, travelling around Europe with her young daughter.
She is also living proof that you don't have to sacrifice the solopreneur mindset, OR your preferred lifestyle, just because you scale up successfully in response to global need. Lona's insight and vision into entrepreneurialism and the future of work and life is informed and inspiring, and we also touch on the truly borderless Plumia project - which aims to create a brand new online country (though that is going to need a whole other episode to explore fully!)
Meanwhile, keep up with Lona online:
URL: www.safetywing.com
IG: https://www.instagram.com/nomadcities/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/safetywing/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/safetywing/
And don't forget that the Future Is Freelance is brought to you by https://xolo.io - and right now you can try our flagship Xolo Leap product for *free* for 3 months! https://www.xolo.io/zz-en/leap
🌟 REMOTE WORK EUROPE CONNECTED IS OPEN 🌟
(It's now even easier to get involved and kickstart your remote work career success)
And you can find all our latest training and resources in our online store.
Finally, make sure you're subscribed to receive our free newsletter, packed with information, updates, and REAL remote job opportunities every week 😎
Here's to your own remote future 🤩
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Success on Upwork: Freelance platform strategies, with Kelley Kemple
Many freelancers are drawn to platform like Upwork to find success at the start of their solopreneur journeys, but many fail to crack the code: ending up disillusioned with a race to the bottom on costs, or finding it impossible to successfully pitch for gigs - never mind reaching the point of having the right work (at the right price) come to find them directly.
Today’s guest, graphic designer Kelley Kemple, has worked out viable strategies for making Upwork work - and today she generously shares them with listeners, to help you succeed too, whatever your hustle. By shifting mindset to recognise the potential of Upwork as a market full of people who are ready to hire, she approaches things differently to many suppliers. And her actionable tips will be invaluable for anyone striving to do what she has done (and will be equally applicable on other similar platforms too,)
Kelley also shares her story of transitioning from working in a corporate job, turning her side hustle into her main job, and the role Upwork played in her being able to do that. She now runs her own business, Hidden Path Creative, a company specialised in brand identity, packaging and web design.
Find Kelley and her company here:
https://www.hiddenpathcreative.com/
https://www.pinterest.com/hiddenpathcreative/
https://www.facebook.com/HiddenPathCreative
https://www.instagram.com/hiddenpathcreative/
The Future Is Freelance podcast is brought to you by https://xolo.io - and right now, you can try our flagship Xolo Leap product for *free* for 3 months! https://www.xolo.io/zz-en/leap
🌟 REMOTE WORK EUROPE CONNECTED IS OPEN 🌟
(It's now even easier to get involved and kickstart your remote work career success)
And you can find all our latest training and resources in our online store.
Finally, make sure you're subscribed to receive our free newsletter, packed with information, updates, and REAL remote job opportunities every week 😎
Here's to your own remote future 🤩
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