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About Alieke.

April 27, 20268 min read

How I went from seasonal jobs to creating full freedom by making money online.

You see more and more people who work online, seem like they are always on a holiday and somehow aren't broke all the time...

It seems like a dream, one that isn't for most people.

But that's simply not true. It's never been this easy to start an online business and to make money by just being yourself. I started making money online back in 2022, and I can tell you that there is a whole world of making money online out there, that you don't know about if you've been working regular jobs all your life.

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) Then I'll share with you my process in simple steps, steps you can follow as well if you want to start making money online.


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All smiles in New Zealand!

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 (:

Ready to travel the world at a young age haha.

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...

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Find me enjoying every sunny day 😍

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?

So 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. I was happy to just live in cool places knowing that one day it would all figure itself out. (:

Exploring making money online

In 2019 I started trying things I could do to make money online. Thing learning how I could become a translator or web developer, but they weren't it.

And in 2022, I finally stumbled upon something I liked and started freelancing. Helping (millionaire) online business owners with their marketing. It was nice to gain some experience and dive deep into the world of online business...

But 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. And I want real freedom!

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Enjoying the amazing Absolut Park, Austria

The system that is giving me real freedom

So this is how it works:

You pick something you love, you're passionate about, and you can help people with. You turn that into an online offer that doesn't require you to physically be there. Think of a course/membership or another digital product.

Then you build a marketing system that is mostly automated and boom, you can start selling your knowledge on auto pilot. All you gotta do is just improve the marketing and reply to customer questions.

I know this sounds like the simplest thing, to the extend that is sounds fake. But it's the same idea as having a physical product that gets shipped out without you having to pack it up and send it. It IS that simple.

(though not necessarily easy. It takes work and figuring out what works and what doesn't, that something I can help you with inside The Free Snowboarders Club)

The process you can follow to get started as well

Most people don’t start because they try to build the whole thing at once.

Overthinking that they need a solid business plan, a website, a name for the business, business cards, a photo shoot for socials, networking events, 5 marketing channels and so much more...

But it is MUCH MUCH simpler than that!

This is the simple process I used to start mine, steal it if you want:

  • Get clear on what lifestyle you want

  • Find something you can help people with (everyone has something)

  • Get mega clear on who you help

  • Break down how you’re going to help them

  • Reach out to people and start helping them

  • Help 1–5 people to get some quick cash and to improve your offer

  • Turn it into a digital product people can go through without your time

  • Set up a simple automated system that sells it for you

  • Enjoy the freedom(:

That’s it.

Now you can go and follow this process on your own...

Orrrrrrrr....

We can do it together! ⤵️

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After boarding reading in Hakuba, Japan

Let's build your freedom together (:

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. 🤎

Click here to get started (with a free trial) on your own freedom journey inside The Free Snowboarders Club

Alieke.

Alieke.

Alieke is a snowboarder from The Netherlands. After 10 years of working seasonal jobs and dreaming about full freedom, she started her online business adventure. After 3 years, cracked the code to having full freedom and spending most her time in Japan.

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