Hey financial freedom enthusiasts! I’m excited to share an inspiring conversation with you today. If you’ve ever dreamed of escaping the 9-to-5 grind and forging your own path, you’re going to love this. Meet Agatha Catchrain—full-time travel content creator and entrepreneur. After spending over a decade in corporate marketing, she took the leap to pursue the life she truly wanted. So, grab a cup of coffee and join us as we explore her incredible journey and insights!
Interviewer: Hi Agatha, it’s a pleasure to have you here and feature yourself in this space. Thank you! I want the audience to get to know you a bit more…
If you had to introduce yourself to those who don’t know you, what would you say in 1 minute? Who is Agatha Catchrain, where are you from, what do you do for a living?
Agatha: I’d say I’m an adventurer and entrepreneur. After spending 10+ years working in corporate marketing, with every passing year what I wanted the most was to have freedom – financial freedom and to do what I want with my time, to be my own boss and to enjoy what I do. So I created a system for myself that allowed to do it, without hassling too hard, by using the opportunities given by social media and digital world.
Interviewer: That’s really interesting, and an example many people might want to follow, so How did your entrepreneur journey begin? How long did it take you to make it a sustainable way of living?
Agatha: Honestly, I didn’t have a plan when I started. I went on this work trip to Mexico and got so fed up with having terrible bosses and wasting my life away, than I quit my job right there without a plan. I had some savings but not much. The only thing I knew was that I wanted to travel the world and figure it out on the way. I started off by trying out different ways how to make money online. This situation rewired my brain from the binary view of making money, where you have a stable job, so you have to find and keep a job to have money – to a different mindset, where I would be looking at making money, and how much money I needed to make in order to sustain my needs. I utilized my digital skills and learned more skills, to take a couple of marketing clients. Then my social media started growing as I was sharing my journey, which gave me a bigger opportunity to scale my activities – by doing social media collabs, affiliate marketing and selling my own products.
In regards to how long it takes to make a living, I would say a few months, depending on a person’s resolve. For people who are “doing something” and think it’s easy, it might never happen. But if you have a clear goal in mind and you go straight for it, then it can happen pretty quick.
“I’m an adventurer and entrepreneur. After spending 10+ years working in corporate marketing, with every passing year what I wanted the most was to have freedom.”
Interviewer: Awesome! Yeah, and with your +10 years working on Marketing that helped you a lot because I sometimes see that what keeps people hold them back at the time to start their own business is, how to be financially prepared? or depending on what business they want to start, it might need some investment. So in that path, what advice would you give to someone just starting their own business/entrepreneur journey?
Agatha: From what I hear a lot of marketers struggle because they can’t manage to take their employee hats off and use their entrepreneur hats. This whole process requires a lot of unlearning, in order to start your own business. It can also be humbling, especially for people with marketing experience, to see how much of your knowledge can be thrown outside of the window when starting your own business. But overall, it was useful. Any digital skills are super useful in this case.
From what I have seen, success in business doesn’t really come down to the knowledge and skills you have, but to the mindset. And not just the go-getter attitude kind of mindset, but a few other things. Like focusing on creating an MVP (minimum viable product) instead of over engineering, and having a sales funnel centric mindset. Trying to grasp all the knowledge you are lacking won’t make the business succeed – but having a specific plan with a specific target audience, with a specific solution to a problem, and working every day consistently gets you there. You don’t need to be the smartest person in the room to make it, well, usually “the smartest people” overthink it. You just have to get things done every day, learn it as a habit, do a retrospective at least monthly and there you have it.
Interviewer: Yes, totally agree. What you say about the change of mindset from employee to entrepreneur is interesting, and one of the things that I see in businessmen or entrepreneurs is, as you say, you don’t have to be the smartest, but you do have to do things without giving up, that’s what makes them different.
Now if you could go back, what would you change about your business journey, is there something that you think you could have done differently or easier or maybe better?
Agatha: I would have focused more on the target audience right away. It’s like when you clearly specify the audience, the problem, the solution – things start going in place. And I wouldn’t try to solve something for everyone, or cover too many audiences at the same time, in order to have a wider audience.
“Success in business doesn’t really come down to the knowledge and skills you have, but to the mindset. You don’t need to be the smartest person in the room to make it. You just have to get things done every day.”
Interviewer: That’s a good point! Thanks for sharing!
So now let’s bear a bit about authors, books or mentors that inspired you to change your life, I mean, those people that helped you be where you are now, that taught you the foundation of self development and financial freedom?
Agatha: If I’m honest, I don’t like reading much of those books, but I would say that Robert Kiyosaki probably played the biggest role, it was the “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” book that stirred me in the rich direction, giving me a hint how wrong my mindset about money was. Everything else was thousands of YouTube and TikTok videos, each on specific, actionable tips.
Interviewer: Yeah, Robert Kiyosaki have been a great inspiration and mind-opener for many people, including myself. 👩💻
Any YouTuber or influencer on Tik Tok that you can highlight in this same path?
Agatha: There are quite a few of them. I don’t really follow influencers to learn from their lessons, but rather from the way they do things. And one of my favorites might be Aggie – she teaches women about biohacking, and the way how she seamlessly integrates her products in her content is just awesome.
Interviewer: Great! 🙂
Let’s dig now on Agatha’s plans/projects down the line…Do you have any relevant projects that you’d like to share with the audience here? A first upcoming maybe, something to share?
Agatha: There are two new projects that I’m working on.
First, I’m working on launching a new course soon, one that will teach women how to create and sell their own products online, to finally start making passive income. My first course on how to get paid to travel has been doing well, but big part of my audience has been asking to share my tips on making passive income.
Second, I’m doing my childhood/teenage dream – I’m writing my novel now, it’s a dystopian romance novel that through the drama shows the insights on how to make your business succeed. I’ve always loved learning new things through drama, so I want to help others learn from it, too. But more than anything, doing this is a symbol for my new reality – when you finally reach financial freedom, you can do whatever you want. And what I want is to write my novel while chilling on a hammock. Down the line I’ll share my experiences in how to self-publish a book, helping fellow female writers to do the same.
Interviewer: That’s amazing, a lot of stuff, sounds really good, the new course, anxious to see it into reality! And congrats for your Novel, I’m sure it will work great!
Agatha: Thank you, I hope I get to publish it somewhat soon 🙂
Interviewer: Well Agahta, it’s a real pleasure, thank you for your time. I hope you enjoyed it like me and that people find all this information you’ve just shared very useful.
Agatha: It was very nice chatting with you, Rocio, and I hope this will be helpful for your readers as well.
Interviewer: Thank you Agatha, see you soon! 🙂
If you want to follow Agatha and learn more about her work and courses, visit her site here. And Bon voyage 😎