Make Money Doing What You Love, Even in Tough Times Lifestyle Entrepreneur is the result of having lived a non-traditional life. In my twenties, I launched five businesses and sold the last two. I have been in a rock band touring America, and I’ve been flown around the world as a professional dating coach. I have traveled to and lived in over twenty-five countries, learning the local languages while there. I feel very blessed to have friends all over the world, a family that loves me at home, and generally able to live the life that I’ve always dreamed of. But this book isn’t about me. It’s about you! If you take only 10 percent of the information and ideas in this book and put them into practice, it will change your life. I promise. Lifestyle Entrepreneur contains the essence of everything I’ve learned over the last ten years of starting businesses, traveling the world, and exploring the things I’m passionate about. Now I would like to share a blueprint for how you can do all of these things and more. Are you ready?

A proven three-step guide to buying your own business, and adding more profit, free time & meaning to your life, by a #1 international-bestselling author. The Lifestyle Business Owner reveals how ordinary people can buy a small business in their community, earn a six-figure income, and make the business run without them. Aaron Muller, founder of Lifestyle Business Owner Academy, reveals the 3-step formula he utilized to go from a kid who didn’t attend college to the owner of eight companies that run without him. Now it’s your turn to discover the secrets to owning a business that gives you the financial freedom, lifestyle, and contribution you desire. Praise for The Lifestyle Business Owner “Aaron Muller cuts right to the chase on what you need to do to own a profitable business that runs without you.” —Marci Shimoff, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Happy for No Reason and Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul “This practical book is full of proven strategies and techniques you can use immediately to increase your sales and profitability—from the first day.” —Brian Tracy, author of Now, Build a Great Business “A must-read for anyone who wants to be a business owner.” —Gino Wickman, creator of EOS and author of the award-winning, bestselling book, Traction “Aaron Muller opened my eyes to the world of buying and running a business (or two or more) as a way to express your values, have fun, be creative and make enough money to have everything you need…including a time for life’s non-material pleasures.” —Vicki Robin, co-author of Your Money or Your Life

Pamela Slim, a former corporate training manager, left her office job twelve years ago to go solo and has enjoyed every bit of it. In her groundbreaking book, based on her popular blog Escape from Cubicle Nation, Slim explores both the emotional issues of leaving the corporate world and the nuts and bolts of launching a business. Drawing on her own career, as well as stories from her coaching clients and blog readers, Slim will help readers weigh their options, and make a successful escape if they decide to go for it.

"An inspirational and practical guide for anyone who wants to incorporate the dynamic skills of entrepreneurs into their own lives and work. A new generation of "life entrepreneurs" is emerging: people who apply their vision, talents, creativity, and energy not only to their work but to their entire lives, changing the world for themselves and those around them. In this book, successful entrepreneurs Christopher Gergen and Gregg Vanourek draw on numerous interviews with fifty-five leading entrepreneurs worldwide as well as the wisdom of multiple thought leaders to provide vivid examples, moving vignettes, concrete frameworks, and practical strategies for revving up our work and play through entrepreneurial leadership. This book starts by providing strategies for integrating life, work, and purpose and ends by capturing the implications of the current entrepreneurial boom for our workplaces, learning institutions, communities, and families. Christopher Gergen (Washington, D.C.) is a founding partner of New Mountain Ventures, co-founder and chairman of SMARTHINKING, Adjunct Professor and Director of the Entrepreneurial Leadership Initiative at Duke University, and a life-long entrepreneur, Gregg Vanourek (Thornton, CO) is a founding partner of New Mountain Ventures, former CEO of Vanourek Consulting Solutions, and former Senior Vice President of School Development for K12 Inc."

Bob Schlegel grew up on a struggling family farm, and like his entrepreneurial father, he took charge of his destiny by starting his own businesses—often more than one at a time. He and his wife Myrna partnered together in their early endeavors and raised a family of entrepreneurs. Their diverse startups included a chain of fifteen superior nursing and retirement centers, as well as the nation’s leading manufacturer of paving stones and landscaping materials. Though they faced substantial challenges and even near-bankruptcy, they persevered and built highly profitable enterprises with the help of “angels”—both earthly and heavenly. Bob shares his experiences—his failures as well as his successes—with the goal of inspiring others to start their own businesses.

Learn How To Build A Successful Business That Gives You The Freedom And Lifestyle You Dream OfIf you dream of running your own business and having the freedom to do what you want, when you want, with whom you want, regardless of the cost, then you may just be destined to become a lifestyle entrepreneur.What is a lifestyle entrepreneur, you ask?A lifestyle entrepreneur is a business owner who prioritizes lifestyle benefits over profits. With freedom and fulfillment as their ultimate goal, they organize their work and business activities around their lifestyle goals. By leveraging the power of the internet, lifestyle entrepreneurs create and manage businesses that can be fully or semi-automated. They build businesses that make it possible for them to spend their time doing what they love to do, from wherever they want to do it. Top 5 Strategies For Making Money Doing What You Love From Anywhere In The WorldThe first section of this book provides a detailed overview of 5 specific strategies that you can use to make money doing something that you are passionate about. The only requirement to implement these strategies is a laptop and an internet connection, enabling you to implement them from virtually anywhere in the world. Here's a quick look at the 5 strategies outlined in this book:1. Starting A Blog2. Hosting A Podcast3. Selling Information Products4. Offering Services As A Freelancer5. Helping Others As A Coach Or ConsultantEach of the 5 strategies listed above will be examined in detail. You will learn the benefits of each strategy, proven ways to use them to make money online, and a step-by-step game plan to start implementing them immediately. On their own, each of these strategies can be quite lucrative, but they also complement each other very well. In fact, many of the lifestyle entrepreneurs featured in this book have used several of these strategies simultaneously to build their online business.Discover The Business Principles That Enable All Lifestyle Entrepreneurs To SucceedThe second section of this book outlines 7 specific principles that enable all lifestyle entrepreneurs to succeed, regardless of the strategies they use. These principles are equally as important as the strategies (if not more important!), because if you learn a strategy but you don't learn the underlying principles that enable someone to succeed, you are probably going to fail. Featuring 12 Case Studies Of Successful Lifestyle EntrepreneursEvery strategy outlined in the book is backed up by a real life example of a successful entrepreneur who has used one or more of the strategies to build their business, including:John Lee Dumas, host of the top ranked podcast Entrepreneur On FireJesse Krieger, Founder of Lifestyle Entrepreneurs Academy and Author of Lifestyle EntrepreneurPejman Ghadimi, Founder of SecretEntourage.comStefan Pylarinos, Founder of ProjectLifeMastery.comErlend Bakke, Founder of Mr. Outsource and Author of Never Work Again...and many others!Take The First Step Towards Building Your Business And Becoming A Lifestyle Entrepreneur

Discover the Three Elements of the Entrepreneurial Mindset—the key to twenty-first century sustainable success: “A must read.” —David Bach, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Automatic Millionaire The Entrepreneur’s Solution introduces the Business Mastery Blueprint and the concept of sustainable success—the new model for thriving in the twenty-first century, which replaces the old standard “model of mediocrity.” New-millennium companies are blazing a very different path to an achievable and sustainable future. But what is the mindset behind the methodology? In these pages, potential and beginning entrepreneurs can learn exactly what it takes to live a rich life on every level. The Nine Entrepreneurial Essentials that make up the Three Elements of the Entrepreneurial Mindset—from the moment they are put into practice—become a game changer in growing a business and a meaningful life. “A thought-provoking new way to think about business.” —Daniel Amen, MD, author of Change Your Brain, Change Your Life Includes a foreword by Brendon Burchard, New York Times–bestselling author of High Performance Habits