Out of Office: A Self-Employed Household

It’s official! As of October 1st, we have a fully self-employed household. Kirby has now transitioned to his personal training business full-time and we are entirely reliant on the income from our businesses. HOLY SHIT. It’s exciting and also terrifying!

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a psychopath when it comes to money and I have budgeted to the extreme for the last few months to make sure we could afford to take our businesses to the next level and support ourselves with them. I’ve had my doubts, but we really kicked it into high gear these last few months and I truly believe that we can live off of these businesses.

There are definitely times where it can be tricky to have two entrepreneurial people in a relationship, but for the most part, we really rely on each other in our businesses. Kirby and I feel that we have equal stake in both businesses and we work hard to put effort into both.

Kirby’s help with taking photos, brainstorming blog posts and marketing strategies and taking on renovation projects has been invaluable in growing my business, and I work on marketing for his business as well.

We’re as ready as we’ll ever be to make a fully self-employed household work, and we’re determined AF. Stay tuned for lots of exciting things happening in both of our businesses over the next year.

Speaking of exciting things, a lot happened in September on SammmyHill.com and in my freelance business!

some wins from this month

Pitched and landed FOUR deals with brands that I absolutely love! I’m also proud to say that two of the four are local, one is a BC-based brand and the other is a Canadian-based brand.
Created a campaign for one of my freelance clients that landed them two new clients of their own within two weeks
Started renovating our shared home office – more to come on this
Published 13 blog posts in September. These were my top three blog posts of the month: