How did I get to where I am today?
People ask me this all the time. And honestly? It wasn't by picking a destination on a map and saying, "This is where I want to go."
Sure, I had visions. Feelings. Notions of where I wanted to go. But it was never clearly articulated or defined. There were different steps. A lot of lessons. A lot of years in between.
From 2014 to 2016, I said yes to everything. Opportunity was flowing. I was juggling multiple gigs—teaching, blogging, ghostwriting—whatever came my way. In 2016, I stepped away from everything else and focused on blogging and ghostwriting because they were the most profitable things in my life. I focused on the goose that laid the golden egg. That took me all the way up to 2024.
Then 2024 happened. Everything fell apart. No contracts coming in. Sponsorship deals weren't working out. Freelancing gigs weren't coming together. And the few gigs that were coming together? They weren't paying me enough.
But you know what? I think it was a good thing. All the noise got out of the way. No noise in my inbox. No noise on social media. No noise on my phone. It all disappeared. It all dried up. It was gone.
And that's how I noticed a message in my inbox one day from LinkedIn. Someone was looking for a writer who had reviewed media—video games, TV shows, things like that. I'd had some experience doing that. That turned out to be the contract I now have in big tech.
The contract has paid pretty well. And one of the things I started doing was saving 10% of my income every single time a paycheck came in. That's one of the reasons I'm able to operate in greater solvency now. And when that part of my life was restored? Other contracts and other opportunities started showing up for me again.
Here's the thing: I don't have backup plans. I have multiple Plan A plans. There's no Plan B. My Plan A includes my big tech contract, IndieCareerFormula.com, and a referral marketing business. Those are the three or four things that continue to create not just financial stability in my life, but an opportunity to thrive.
In this post (and video), I share the full story of how I got here—and what I'm building now. https://davidandrewwiebe.com/from-financial-chaos-to-solvent-how-i-stopped-bleeding-money/
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