Five years ago, I was scrolling through job boards at 2 AM, feeling completely stuck in my career.
I was in a job that looked perfect on paper, but felt deeply wrong in practice.
My inbox was empty except for automated rejection emails.
Fast forward to today, I’m my own boss as a full-time content creator and business owner.
And it all started with LinkedIn.
A platform where you have to do everything yourself, especially at the start.
I was the CEO, content creator, accountant, marketing department, and operations manager all rolled into one.
And for a long time, I wore that exhaustion like a badge of honor.
But as I was eight hours into a Sunday, exhausted, buried in quarterly tax calculations, and still worrying about a video I needed to script and film…
That’s when I realized I was in complete survival mode. I needed to start outsourcing to take things off my plate.
My virtual assistant helped me keep projects, deadlines, and clients from living entirely in my head.
My video editor helped me bring even my wildest video ideas to life in post-production.
But perhaps the biggest help of all that solved the tasks I dreaded the most was Gusto.
Gusto recently launched a payroll platform specifically for creators, freelancers and contractors like me.
Payroll, tax filings, and S-corp compliance, all automated. What used to take 4+ hours a week now takes me minutes.
Those hours went back into doing what I love to do everyday (and makes me money!): creating content.
If you're running a one-person business and spending too much time on payroll, taxes, and compliance, make sure to check out Gusto Solo.
They’ve got a huge promotion running specifically for creators. You can click here to learn more about it!
-Megan