About

hello, I’m jasraj 

at school, i was always the “academic” one. 

i didn’t think being creative was even an option for me. 

after dropping out of university, i landed in banking recruitment. i was young, naive and introverted… i felt like a fish out of water in that environment. 

being outside of my comfort zone was one of the best things for me — after struggling at first, i ended up getting pretty good at recruitment. 

in my fourth year, i ended up making around £1/4 million (250,000) and burned out… I decided to go back to school. 

i got my masters in applied positive psychology and started my first business. having been a tennis coach and academic tutor for students since the the age of 15, i decided to work on an ‘alternative to college’, after looking at other models emerging in the world of education at the time. this first business was called thriva, and it didn’t last very long, but i did run a pilot for a small group of students that looked like [THIS])

after finishing the masters, i worked for a startup and on my own projects… whilst continuing to work as a tutor part-time. when covid happened, my tutoring went online, and i realised i could make the most of the situation by working *and* travelling whilst i worked on my creative projects. 

since leaving that recruitment job in 2015 (i was employee-of-the-year when i walked away from it), i started writing on the internet with the dream of becoming a world-famous internet blogger who could support myself through my words *and* be around to look after my future wife and kids. 

this is what i wrote in the introduction of the first book i published… 

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This new life involved me being able to bring my whole self to what I was doing, and it didn't involve answering to anyone. It certainly didn't involve an hour-plus commute each way, travelling on busy trains, leaving the house too early and getting home too late for my liking.

Being in my mid-twenties at the time, I remember thinking: “I really don’t want to be doing this in a few years’ time when I (hopefully) have a wife and children.”

— extract from The Indie Author 

 

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since i started creating on the internet, here’s what’s happened: 

— i wrote blog posts on LinkedIn and Medium 

— i started my first ‘proper blog’ under my own domain on Wordpress (it was called A Happier Introvert) 

— i ran a digital summit with my friend Lauren Sapala called ‘the INF summit’… more than 2,000 people came along, and that became my email list + the foundation for my creative business (until then, my blog was a hobby)

— i later ran a second summit with Lauren, getting to interview more amazing people including some of my creator heroes like {CORBETT BARR}, {CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON} AND {JOANNA PENN}

— i travelled to and worked from portugal, spain and america 

— i made my first dollars online, when i launched a paid community thru substack 

— i made my first 1,000 dollars when i launched my first group programme 

— more group programmes, working with writers, and selling my books got me to my first $10,000 

— i kept going and made it to around $25,000… through ups-n-downs, trial-n-error, mental health challenges, and consistently being told by folks around me to ‘go and get a proper job’ 

— after taking some time out to heal from stress and burnout, i’m getting my creative business going again in SUBSCRIBE HERE to follow my journey, continuing to create myself and help others create + build fulfilling, remote businesses around their craft

i hope you’ll join our community. hopefully, we can build something special together <3