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    Lost Between Freelancer and Business Owner

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    4 nov 2025
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    Exploring the challenging liminal space between freelancing and true business ownership, where you can feel drained and directionless despite external success. Discover why this identity transition is normal and how to navigate it.

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    “

    Identity construction happens through experience and interaction. You develop that business owner identity by engaging with the world as a business owner, not by sitting in a room reflecting on who you want to become.

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    Pregunta de entrada

    The State of liminality between beeing a Freelancer and now Becoming a business owner. Feeling lost and low energy, even if everything Looks amazing

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    Working Identity
    Constructing an entrepreneurial life: liminality and emotion
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    https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/entreg/v31y2019i7-8p567-582.html
    Liminal entrepreneuring: the creative practices of nascent necessity entrepreneurs
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    https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/85141/
    10 Mental Health and Wellbeing Challenges Entrepreneurs Face
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    Puntos clave

    1

    Welcome & Opening

    0:00
    0:21
    0:43
    2

    The Liminal Space of Entrepreneurial Identity

    0:53
    1:12
    1:16
    1:34
    1:42
    3

    The Identity Crisis Nobody Warns You About

    2:01
    2:14
    2:35
    1:16
    3:01
    3:06
    4

    The Emotional Toll of Transition

    3:20
    1:42
    3:52
    4:10
    4:30
    5

    Creative Practices in Liminal Entrepreneuring

    4:40
    4:57
    5:00
    5:16
    1:16
    5:36
    1:42
    6

    Navigating the Energy Drain

    6:01
    6:11
    6:25
    6:37
    6:53
    7:00
    7:16
    7

    Reframing Success and Progress

    7:29
    7:40
    7:41
    7:59
    1:16
    8:22
    6:37
    8

    Closing Reflection

    8:54
    1:42
    9:23
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