The Fail-Safe Solopreneur: 6 Essential Practices to Manage Your Well-Being Working for Yourself (Paperback or Softback)

Working for yourself comes with many upsides - and downsides. The Fail-Safe Solopreneur is your survival guide for managing the downsides.

Running a business can be stressful, lonely and brutal on your mental health. And surviving alone - apart from a tribe - runs against our evolutionary heritage. Whether you’re a freelancer, creator or solopreneur, working independently requires a new set of skills to safeguard your well-being, so you can do your best work and fully enjoy your freedom.

After running a solo business virtually for 10 years, Darren C. Joe shares 6 field-tested practices to handle the inevitable failure, anxiety, instability and loneliness of solopreneurship. Each chapter centers around one key practice critical to survive and thrive being your own boss.

The Fail-Safe Solopreneur distills 10-years of hard-earned lessons into a practical, actionable framework that will help you weather the emotional rollercoaster of self-employment and design a work-life that thrills and fulfills you.

"A practical guide with concrete suggestions on how to make the entrepreneurial life less taxing and hopefully filled with more moments that matter."
- Howard Lo, Founder & Co-Owner of Empire Eats Group

"Darren has pulled out the 'gold nuggets' from his experience and has explained each essential practice in a way that is approachable, doable and relatable. A truly informative and inspirational read."
- Erin Conley, Marriage & Family Therapist.

"A guide to anyone wishing to navigate through life today with the proper toolkit for being a part of the shared economy, and more importantly, managing oneself."
- Bruce VonCannon, Former CEO & Author of A Guidebook for Today’s Asian Investor

Darren C. Joe is an entrepreneur, writer and host. After working as a business analyst in the shipping and publishing industries and then as an MBA Admissions Director, he started Touch MBA in 2012, which has helped thousands of applicants get into the world's top MBA programs. Darren hosts the ASE Podcast, which explores how self-employed creators, freelancers, and entrepreneurs are building their careers and managing their well-being. Darren graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor's in Public Policy and International Affairs. He currently resides in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.Subscribe to Darren's podcast and writing at upstartist.tv/subscribe.