Hey, I'm Tom - the founder of Flexibility Is Freedom - pleased to meet 'cha! 😀
I used to work 9-5 (okay, more like 9-9) as an investment analyst for a major pension plan. As an undergraduate business student, it was literally a dream come true!
So why did I quit my career and become a passive income entrepreneur? 🤔
Well, I had many reasons (5, to be precise) but it boiled down to this: I realized that while my bank account was going up, my "time" account was slowly ticking away. 🕒
It dawned upon me the irony of trading the best years of my life for money, only to end up (attempting) to trade that money back for a taste of youth again (the "midlife" crisis).
That's why I became a passive income entrepreneur - to build brandable businesses and acquire long-term assets that generate passive to semi-passive income. 📈
Welcome back to Flexibility Is Freedom! It feels like not too long ago when I quit my job on a beautiful Friday afternoon in Toronto and spent the summer learning about WordPress, SEO, Affiliate Marketing, etc. Ah, the good days when I had no idea what I was doing knew nothing about the joys of […]
Welcome back to Flexibility Is Freedom! I hope you're all having an awesome summer and getting lots of sun (& vitamin D). This month's featured image is my Mom's vegetable garden, where we're currently harvesting lots and lots of tomatoes (hothouse and cherry tomatoes). Here in my home province of Ontario, we are also celebrating […]
A warm welcome back to Flexibility Is Freedom! This last month closed out a very turbulent and tumultuous H1 for my passive income business (although I suppose you can say that about every business in the world now). Here's a quick summary of H1 business performance in a nutshell: Here's a quick discussion of these […]
Welcome back to Flexibility Is Freedom! Once again, I hope you are staying healthy and staying safe. The days don't seem to get any easier this year for most people around the world. But what I have found is that every day is an opportunity to be grateful for what we do have and for […]
April was very much a bittersweet month. On the one hand, traffic and revenue for TheDermDetective.com grew substantially by 43% and 85% month-over-month to 13,000+ sessions and over $1,100, respectively. Revenue has now exceeded my baseline H1 goal of $1,000 per month. On the other hand, Amazon affiliates got crushed on April 21st by a […]
It's hard to imagine that only a few months ago, the world was completely different. Back in November, I was travelling in Thailand: staying at hostels and mingling with locals at crowded street markets. I even attended an 800+ person SEO conference in Chiang Mai. These kinds of activities seem unimaginable today (and are increasingly […]
In February, the coronavirus (named COVID-19 by WHO) continued to spread around the world, resulting in more deaths and infections, and caused a global stock market meltdown (the worst week for US stock indices since the financial crisis in 2008). Looking back, I'm glad that I cancelled my travel plans in Southeast Asia as this […]
*Pictured above: Spectacular views from my trip to the central city of Chongqing, China! I don't know about you, but it seems like 2020 will be a year for the history books. Already, we've started off with a flurry of global events: Iran shoots down a passenger plane due to "human error", killing 176 people […]
*Note: I apologize for the late post this month as I was in Chongqing and Chengdu in Sichuan, China during the first week of 2020 (currently recovering from all the spicy food!!! 🌶️🌶️🌶️)* Dear Valued Reader, Happy New Year and Happy New Decade! 🎉🎉🎉 I sincerely hope that you had a great holiday, however you […]