I founded a remote recruitment agency from scratch and led an exceptional team of 80 professionals. We became the top supplier in our sector across the UK, specializing in the 5-star hotel industry. After eight years of successful operations, the impact of COVID-19 forced me to make the difficult decision to close the business.

However, I then shifted gears and authored two books, subsequently launching a series of digital courses, my flagship course is called Remote Hiring Made Easy Academy. You know the saying, “Every cloud has a silver lining”? That’s pretty much my mantra. I’ve always had a passion for teaching and helping small businesses overcome challenges. Going fully remote with no time zone restrictions become my ultimate goal.

My recruitment business offered a load of flexibility and I started it to be fully remote. The problem was that I was remote, but my clients weren’t, and the whole “anchored to one location” thing doesn’t sit well with me.

Now, I’ve got a business that’s way more in sync with who I am at my core and what I preach—freedom and adventure, all the way! Don’t get me wrong, my previous business gave me the freedom to globe-trot, live in different corners of the world, and still run a killer agency in the UK, I have been fully remote sonce 2014 and I will always be grateful for that business. But it had its limits due to the time zone thing. Plus, let’s be real, running a temp agency is intense and the stress of being responsible for so many people is really not a fun.

Before Covid, I had over 80 contractors and a support team of 10. It was a lot! So, fast-forward to now, and it’s like the stars aligned. I’m not saying my digital course business has been a cakewalk—it’s actually one of the toughest things I’ve tackled, writing two books was a walk in the park compared. But it’s scalable in a way my old business could never be. I’m reaching people worldwide and don’t need a ton of moving parts or people to make it work.

Bottom line? I live by the idea that everything will fall into place. You just got to have the patience to understand why things shake out the way they do. If I didn’t have the knowledge of starting and scaling my previous remote run recruitment company, I wouldn’t have the knowledge to teach what I teach in my courses to help other remote small business owners with these really important foundations of their business. Hiring, onboardng and operational set up is everything you want to move away from being a one-man show, which in my opinion is being the employee in your business rather than the CEO.