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Travel Blogger Karen Akpan Shares How She Journeyed From Debt to Economic Freedom

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Karen Akpan, known as @themomtrotter across social media, started her blog in 2017 to document and share budget travel hacks for people. With books, blogs and YouTube (or as Akpan calls it, “YouTube University”), she began educating herself on financial literacy and how to budget. A few months later, they were on the road living in it.

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Time Is Your Most Valuable Resource—Don’t Waste It

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Learning how to budget your attention is an essential skill in the Attention Economy. Every time you catch yourself mindlessly scrolling through your Facebook News Feed, remind yourself that you are the product and your attention is being sold. Remember that Facebook makes money on all of the ads you see.

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Travel Blogger Karen Akpan Shares How She Journeyed From Debt to Economic Freedom

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Karen Akpan, known as @themomtrotter across social media, started her blog in 2017 to document and share budget travel hacks for people. With books, blogs and YouTube (or as Akpan calls it, “YouTube University”), she began educating herself on financial literacy and how to budget. A few months later, they were on the road living in it.

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Ep 235: Jodi Reed on How Drag Racing Makes Her a Better Assistant

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CONNECT WITH JODI Jodi on LinkedIn Jodi on Facebook Book recommendation -> Living Loving and Learning by Leo F. In this episode of The Leader Assistant Podcast with Jeremy Burrows, Jodi talks about her experience as a drag racer and how it has helped her step outside of her comfort zone as an executive assistant.

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Ep 240: Joe Rare on Email Management and Working with a Virtual Assistant Team

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CONNECT WITH JOE Joe on LinkedIn Joe on Instagram Joe on Facebook joerare.com level9virtual.com ABOUT JOE Joe Rare is an “underground” serial entrepreneur, investor, outsourcing expert, father and husband. There were failed businesses in the early days, but he took the failures and learned to create wins.

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Brand Storytelling Guide: 7 Ways to Make Your Brand Pop

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Nearly everyone has a grievance regarding a home improvement contractor going over time and over budget. The Stories feature on Facebook or Instagram can help. You even have advocates you can learn from telling your story for you. As an example, consider timeliness. A brand story should be personal and authentic.

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Ep 221: Jennifer Chamberlin on Working From Home and Seeing Yourself as More Than Just an Assistant

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LEADERSHIP QUOTE If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. She grew up in England but was always passionate about Europe and learning foreign languages. When she began her first full-time job in Disneyland Paris in 1999, she knew it was the beginning of a new life in France.

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