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Phillipa:
Hi guys! And welcome to an amazing episode where you get to meet some of our community within The Freedom Era today. I have with me a beautiful couple Dan and Danielle, the cutest couple ever, as you can see. I’m just gonna go through and ask them a few questions so that you can get to know them a little bit better. Know what people are like within our community and see if there’s any resonance there for you as well, so that you can make the decision or the choice to get started within The Freedom Era with us.
So hey Dan/Danielle, how are you going? And I would love for you to start, with just a little bit of an introduction about you both, about your life and just whatever you want to say just to kick start us.

Daniel:
Awesome! Thank you so much Phillipa for even asking us to come on and share. We’re just so grateful
to be part of this amazing community and you had to be asked to share a little bit about why we’re so excited and very blessed to obviously be here. So my name is Daniel Bissaker and this is my beautiful fiancee Danielle Saunders and we’ve been a part of the incredible community now for about 18 months and I come from fly-in fly-out work. I’ve also got a landscaping design business and we both live up here on the beautiful Sunshine Coast. And we’ve got two amazing daughters Ellie and Ebony and Danielle’s got two beautiful sons Jake and Ollie. And we absolutely love living here on the Sunshine Coast. It’s a fantastic place to be able to bring the kids up. So yeah, we’re absolutely loving being part of this online community. What we’ve learned has just been absolutely incredible and the journey’s been amazing so we’re loving the ride.

Danielle:
Hi there everybody! So I’m Danielle Saunders and I’m actually from Tasmania and then I moved to Melbourne and I worked in the corporate area for a good like 12- 13 years. And eventually got over leaving home in the dark and getting home in the dark. It was great money, you know. I was enjoying what I was doing but I just did what I was doing and then I started to really look for something else and I actually then had a family. I had my two beautiful little boys and really wanted a sea change so I made the decision to move to the Sunshine Coast and I had a total career change as well and became a personal trainer and it was amazing. So I love the flexibility that I had with my freedom with my PT business however it definitely wasn’t the same amount of money that I was earning in the corporate world back in Melbourne. So I have been, I was looking for something on the side for so long. And then I came across the online space and that’s what it all changed for me.

Phillipa:
Amazing, amazing and so what has changed since and now being part of The Freedom Era?

Daniel:
So for me a lot has changed now even who I have become, you know. It’s an amazing platform, it’s incredible training and learnings in there. So to me it’s an amazing platform but it’s also wrapped up as a personal development course. So not always just a trainee, you know. Kind of trading time for money to now we have an amazing online business with an amazing team that has been able to give us back some time freedom to be able to spend with the family. It’s set us free financially as well as been huge to Danielle and I have been able to spend a lot more time together as a couple. We love spending our quality time together and also spending some quality time with the kids as well and we get to take them to school everyday. We get to take them on some amazing holidays and we’re just really enjoying having the flexibility and time freedom.

Danielle:
For me not feeling burnt out anymore. I was just feeling so tired from getting up early like 4:30 a.m. starts to do PT boot camp sessions and then doing it through the day and then at night time as well and not being around the family as much as I could and it was just really getting to me and I constantly felt tired to now to be able to wake up after my body has finished resting and to totally enjoy my day how I want to spend how we want to spend it it’s so much better.

Phillipa:
Yeah and so that goes into my next question then so what does a typical day look like for you now that you have an online business?

Danielle:
We don’t really have a set schedule like I’d love to say that we get up and we meditate for 15 minutes then we journal or like some days we don’t some days we get up and we get children to school we definitely do exercise in the morning, Dan may go for a surf or I might go for a run I love my resistance training things like that definitely ways get exercise in that day. Definitely cacao I love cacao and I really do try and find at least 15
minutes of my day to try and to journal or just a sit and just to and just to tap into me but it may not be first thing in the morning it may be through the day when I have that time to myself when the house is quiet but every day is different I don’t think we have a set routine and we just really go with the flow.

Daniel:
So kind of for me I’ve been a surfer my whole life and I could only really go surfing if I got up super early before work or go after work but now I kind scaled my business back so much that I only have to work two days a week and then I kind of get my timing around now what the surfs doing what the tides doing or the winds doing so then you know when the surfs right then I can go for a surf with the boy. I can come home and Danielle and I have a nice lunch date together we’ll jump on the computer and do a little bit of stuff with our team and we’ll do some trainings in The Freedom Era platform because we’ve got the time we didn’t want to be locked in to working in a schedule with set hours for so long, we didn’t want to do that so now we’ve got the flexibility to just rest for a bit to relax and breathe and just enjoy our time together.

Danielle:
And when Dan says he works, he did scale his landscape and design business right back but it might be like two or three hours a day or two hours, you know. And these beautiful luxury home up here Noosa that he gets to maintain and look after it’s so beautiful so it’s so nice to see.

Phillipa:
And was it a shock for you to go from your structured day in a job to like basically having no structure doing whatever you want? Was it a shock to your system or did you really flow into that nicely?

Danielle:
It does take discipline working in the online space, being me I’m quite easily distracted especially working online if I’m checking my emails “ooh 20% off hang on”, jump over there and working in social media and I can see an amazing post from a friend and I’ll throw lots of love bombs on, and so you do have to be very disciplined so I guess we have got a structure around that you know things we may need to switch off every now and then for a couple of hours so we can do our work that we need to get through the day but I guess that takes time and it’s just learning how you move into that.

Daniel:
Yeah and for me I was able to transition slowly so I didn’t have to jump straight out of my business straight into the online space and learn it all in one go. Over the last 18 months it’s just been a slow learning curve that as I was scaling back my trade business and started to increase the earnings online then it gave us the time and the flexibility to put more effort and time into the online area and that’s obviously where we want – I wasn’t getting any younger I couldn’t do the manual work forever and I didn’t want to do it forever and I wanted to have that we can go and travel and take the laptop or the phone and work from anywhere just get some wifi and away we go. So over the last 18 months we’ve just been able to go scale it back, learn how this thing works and enjoy the journey.

Danielle:
And I’ve been able to wrap up my PT business for good which is great so I said no more early morning startsunless I choose to get up and so I’m loving that.

Phillipa:
So good. Awesome! So at the Freedom Era we focus on seven steps to creating a thriving business online and tell us what you feel these seven steps are crucial as a business owner no matter what it is that you’re selling?

Daniel:
Yeah hundred percent and this was something, you know my old landscape design business I ran for 18 years, so I really understood all the different elements that it takes to run a successful business and so when we came to The Freedom Era platform and we looked at the seven different pillars that you had to introduce into your business and lifestyle it was like oh wow there’s a step-by-step learning guide how to have that day and structure that we’re able to implement into our online business and have that high ticket high converting offe, the automation and the skill set and all the other stuff that comes with it it was really good that it was laid out in a way for someone like myself to understand and be able to implement, but also for the newest person to be able to come on as well and learn how to do this as a true business that that works and you can scale it as well.

Danielle:
And every pillar is so important like having an irresistible offer that people need want and love, it’s a high ticket offer as well coming from a network marketing background where we had a low ticket item and earning $20 to $50 commission and then to come across to something like this where the commission’s are much higher and also to have the automation is fantastic rather than doing the coffee shop meetings and the presentations and having to explain everything having to train your team having to tell them to do this do that, to have a system that can tap into and they don’t need to know everything to get started and having the DBS service that can answer any questions for anyone that you would like to show you this to, so the duplication is so much easier for everyone to use.

Phillipa:
Yeah amazing and so with you guys having that experience having a low ticket offer with network marketing versus now having a high ticket offer, what are some of the differences you’ve found for yourselves and how you conduct your business and also with the energy that you put in as well like is it any different, is it harder doing one or the other like what is your guys experience on this?

Daniel:
Yeah, well totally totally different so we came from a low ticket network marketing business where man we were burnt out I was working during the day and then we’re trying to do coffee shop meetings presentation late night events, training’s, and now you earn a $20.00 commission and you have to do 500 sales per month to make any money and it was like man I was already burnt out and this is crazy so when we came across to you know high ticket and you know the commission’s were like oh my god this is like this is what it’s because it takes the same amount of effort that it does to sell a low ticket than a high ticket. So we just you know we learned how to do it and absolutely change the game where you only need you know five sales in the month and then you know there can be team sales it might not even be personal sales so definitely going to higher ticket was the game changer for us as well it obviously made us treat it like a real business as well and having the mentorship there to show us the guidelines it’s step by step how to take this and scale it as well was was huge for us.

Danielle:
And to be able to tap into the trainings, so you’re not having to train your new starters. So they can tap into the amazing training on The Freedom Era platform and it’s literally laid out step by step – Week 1, Week 2, Week 3. If you don’t get through Week 1 in a week then that’s totally OK, we’d rather you implement it and take your time to really work through it properly. But it is just laid out so good for you, the training in The Freedom Era platform is literally worth hundreds and thousands of dollars, it is such good value for money. It’s so good to pass on to people.

Phillipa:
Yeah awesome and what is your vision? So your personal vision? Life vision? Business vision whatever you want to talk about here?

Daniel:
Yes vision is a huge thing as something that I want to leave this business as a legacy for my children and that’s what this business can do you can have a legacy income that you can pass on to your children’s children and that was huge for me. So Danielle and I our vision is we just don’t want to have you know a great and a phenomenal business we want to have a phenomenal relationship we want to have a phenomenal team the international team that we’ve got growing at the moment, but we also want to have a great relationship with our kids. We want to go on great holidays and that’s what, when I said about this Freedom Era platform it’s an educational platform but it’s really a personal development course and that’s what we’ve got so much out of this, our relationship is better because of The Freedom Era platform. The way that we communicate with our kids, the way we communicate with our team, the way we treat this business online and to be able to upscale who we are but also the business as well is, that’s my legacy. We’re all about fun we’re also also about freedom in our family as well so…

Danielle:
Living your best life possible

Daniel:
Yeah, becoming the best version of yourself and that’s really what this platform’s been about.

Phillipa:
Yeah amazing and so you’re both active within your business and that’s amazing so what advice would you give to other couples who are sitting here watching this and thinking oh maybe we can do this like what advice would you give to them?

Danielle:
There’s so much power in a couple and it’s so good to do together it is so good to do. Because we’re both for their own strengths and weaknesses so we can come in on each other’s part and help each other out in little areas, and it’s fun to do. I actually really enjoy doing this with Dan because we can go and we can talk about it over dinner or whatever, we’re 100% all in on this together ah it just 10x as your results 10x everything.

Daniel:
Yeah I love doing it with Danielle but we also have team member bet you know they’re doing it by themselves but they’ve also got the support of the team as well so that’s what’s really cool you can leverage it off of you know other
people’s results other people may be at one step ahead and they’re there to share with where they they are in the journey so you know if anybody is kind of looking from the outside looking in, if I can do this, Dan the tradee guy that was working 80 hours a week and was able to scale my business way back and have the time with my beautiful fiancee and surfing every day now I know so many other people can do this as well. So if you’re sitting on the fence and you’ve looked at some information and you’re thinking you know should I check out the next bit or you know just go and do it you only get one life you must make the rest of your life the best your life and this truly has now changed the game for Danielle and I.

Danielle:
The community is everything we’ve made some of our bestest friends in this community it really is incredible to be all online and to make these connections through the virtual space it has been an absolute game changer for us so we’re forever grateful for this community and the people we have met along the way.

Phillipa:
Amazing thank you guys so much for jumping in and having a chat with me
tonight yeah and exactly as Dan and Danielle have both said if you’ve been checking this out if you’ve been on the fence for a little bit just jump over come on over we are all super normal but super awesome people that are here to support right we’re here to support everyone that gets started in The Freedom Era to really create life on on their terms whatever that is for them so thank you guys for coming out.

Danielle:
Thanks.

Dan:
My pleasure.

Danielle:
Bye