{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Made it in Thailand","title":"Corporate to Business Owner: What It Really Takes to Make the Jump | Steven McGinnes","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3252,"description":"Event Details & Registration\nhttps://www.scottpressimone.com/freedom-bkk/\nSteven McGinnes lives in Phuket, works from a sailboat, and has built the kind of life that looks effortless on LinkedIn. He's also one of the most honest people I've spoken with about what it actually costs to get there.\nThat gap between the 4pm on the water and the 4am worrying about whether the invoice lands is exactly what this conversation is about. Steven spent his career in the creative agency world before going out on his own. He's watched enough people make the same avoidable mistakes to know which ones to flag early.\nWe covered a lot of ground, but it kept returning to the same core tension: freedom and accountability scale together. The more of one you want, the more of the other you're signing up for. What most people making the jump from corporate underestimate is not the hustle. It's the invisible infrastructure they never had to think about. The vendor setup. The payment terms. The cash flow gap. The fact that 65% of business failures come not from a lack of clients, but from the timing of when money arrives versus when it goes out.\nWe also got into the T-shaped skill set. You don't need to become an expert in finance or new business development or legal setup. You need to be competent enough that none of them kill you. And you need to start building your network before you desperately need it, because the people who wait until they're hungry are already too late.\nABOUT THE GUEST\nSteven McGinnes is a Bangkok and Phuket-based independent operator and keynote speaker with a background in creative agency leadership across Asia. After building a career running client teams and regional creative operations, he went out on his own and has been working from Thailand ever since, with clients across Asia, the US, and beyond. He's co-organizing our upcoming June 26th event on making the jump from corporate to independent.\nhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenmcginnes/\nABOUT THE HOST\nI'm...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/jPOiN9UHuvZzH5LL3Q1X66GgOMsM3xmbfjAUPPJqMiw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82NmY1/ZGI3MzFjNGI3YjJi/MjM1YmU0MmEyOWI2/ZDY5NC5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}