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Paige loves the legislation. She’s been working within the business for over 20 years, however as soon as she made it to the highest—basic counsel—she instantly realized that she made it to the place she needed to be. And now she was free to pursue one thing else. She didn’t hate her job, she simply needed one thing rather less standard.
Sitting in Italy consuming cannoli and sipping a cappuccino…seems like the right strategy to assume up your new enterprise thought, doesn’t it?
Wanting to discover a strategy to spend extra time in Italy, Paige got here up with an thought: begin a lawyer translation enterprise. It’s one thing I’ve by no means considered earlier than, however there’s a necessity within the business for dependable translations of authorized paperwork. What if I resolve to purchase a campground in Iceland and wish the contract translated to Icelandic? Paige at Online Legal Translations can deal with it (from her van or from her house in Italy).
But she didn’t simply leap into enterprise on her personal.
She properly began as a facet hustle, discovering different translation companies and providing to do translations to Spanish and Italian. Then she began reaching out to her community and freelancing on her personal. And then she had an excessive amount of work and never sufficient time to discover (the RV entrepreneur’s dilemma!).
So she obtained recommendation from colleagues who inspired her to begin her personal company. So Online Legal Translations was born with its personal distinctive promoting level—all of her translators are attorneys. Now she might transcend simply Spanish and Italian to dozens of languages. Even Serbian. Albanian. Indonesian. Norwegian.
In this episode, Paige shares her journey beginning and rising her authorized translation enterprise over the previous 4 years. Heath & Paige discuss:
- Why it’s necessary that each one Paige’s contractors are attorneys
- What tasks Paige likes to work on and what tasks she has to show away
- The one instrument Paige must work from wherever
- How to be a minimalist along with your work
- How Paige has realized how one can be versatile, outsource, and discover freedom as an entrepreneur
Being a lawyer is a type of jobs that I didn’t assume traveled effectively, particularly if you want particular certifications and licenses for various states or nations. But Paige discovered a strategy to nonetheless do what she loves and journey the world. I really like her enterprise as a result of it exhibits that with a bit creativity, any enterprise generally is a work-from-anywhere enterprise.