You don't need permission to start charging money.

There's this weird belief that you need to be "qualified" first. Like someone's going to check your credentials before they hand you money. That's not how it works. Businesses pay for outcomes, not credentials.

If you can book a qualified meeting for a SaaS company, they don't care if you're 19 or 40. If you can generate pipeline for a consulting firm, they don't care what courses you've taken. They care about one thing: does this work?

The barrier isn't your skill level. It's your willingness to have a conversation where money might be involved. Most people will do anything to avoid that conversation. They'll take another course. Optimize another workflow. Build another side project. Anything but the actual uncomfortable thing.

You already know enough. The gap between where you are and getting paid is smaller than you think. It's just across one conversation you haven't had yet.

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