About Alieke.
About Alieke.
If you're new here, welcome! If you already know me, great to see you!
In this post, I wanted to share my journey with you. So you get a feel for who I am and what I've gone through to get where I am today. (Japan, snowboarding 70+ days per season and probably about 100+ per year)
It’s amazing to see how children know exactly what they want. And it’s sad to see the world destroy it.
The ‘need’ to be realistic kills many dreams, and that’s part of why I do what I do.
I believe you can do whatever you want with your life. Everyone has something they care about, something this wish the rest of the world would do or try…
But we aren’t taught to trust that. We are taught one system and that is to go to school and play it safe.
Not me.
Not you.
You’re here reading this, tells me you are someone who is looking for a way out of the ‘should's and ‘supposed to’s…
And I’m glad you’re here.
But before I tell you what you can do to break free, design your own life and create a meaningful freedom-first business to fund that life…
Let me tell you about how I discovered my mission. (:
So meet little Alieke (:
To get to where I am right now, I'll need to go back to when I was a 9 year old girl.
Around this age, I started discovering who I am and I call myself lucky that my mom allowed me to do this. I went to the hairdresser to chop my hair shoulder length and because I had to wait until I was 12 years old to dye my hair, I picked a bright red and blue hair extensions. Then we walked straight into the boys section to buy clothes.
When I was about 12 years old, I heard more and more stories about how kids would tell my mom, who was a elementary school teacher, that they really liked how I looked, but their parents didn't allow them to look like that.
Heartbreaking, but I also felt blessed.
I saw how many of us don't get the chance to actually explore who they are. And I promised myself to keep being me.
Though hard at times, I'm proud I stuck to it.
At some point, I got some nasty comments again and I came home crying. I must've been about 14 years old. I told my mom how hard it was that I just kept getting these comments, even though I knew that a lot of people were jealous, insecure, peerpressured... It gets to you from time to time.
So my mom replied, kinda harshly: "Well then you just wear what they're wearing..."
To which I started crying more, raising my voice: "BUT THAT IS EVEN HARDER BECAUSE THEN I'M BETRAYING MYSELFFFFF"
I realized how both paths are hard.
You either do what others do, to minimize judgement and friction, but never feeling free and authentic...
Or you choose you every day, feeling free and authentic, but with the people judging you...
Around that age, I got my first job and realized I won't work for a boss all my life...
I had a chill high school job. I could come in whenever I wanted and didn't really have to talk to people. But even with that flexibility, I knew I wouldn't work for a boss all my life...
But what do you do?
At the age of 18, I started working seasonal jobs. They got me to the mountains, which was SICK because I'm from a country that has no mountains, lol.
But it took only weeks for me to see how you still miss out on so many good days...
I heard about working online, decided I wanted to do that... some day...
Because what do I want to do?
It took me about 10 years to figure that out. Also, I might not have been ready, it's all good.
And back in 2022, I finally stumbled upon something I liked and started freelancing. Helping millionaire online business owners with their marketing.
3 years in, I saw that that's basically another job, just now you are responsible for everything. I also saw that what my clients were doing, was something I could do, too.
They were teaching something they were passionate about, like painting, business, life design, fitness...
They had a course that they sold online. Their marketing was automated and running 24/7, and people could join and follow their courses at any moment, too.
So if they wanted to take a few weeks off, they could. They weren't trading their time and energy for money. Their value was making them money, and they had the right systems to work for them, 24/7.
That's real freedom.
I always have had this lingering feeling that I want to help people live more authentic and free. To live a life that's theirs, on their terms, fulfilling.
And so that is what I do now.
I help snowboarders create and build a life that is authentic to them, including the freedom-first business to fund it.
And right now, I'm in Japan living my dream: snowboarding on sunny days, film street snowboarding, work in evenings or when the weather sucks. And in summer? I might just fly out to NZ or Australia to get more boarding in. (:
I created the vision: being able to snowboard whenever I want to, live wherever I want to.
I created the income: a freedom-first business that works for me, even when I out boarding, sleeping or traveling.
And with The Free Snowboarders Club, I help you do the same.
You'll create the visions. You'll build the freedom-first business, selling your knowledge packaged into a digital product. And you'll create the life YOU want to live. 🤎
