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The Chronic Entrepreneur
How to set up and run your own business
alongside a chronic condition
By Lisa Porto
Finally, A Business Guide Written BY Someone With Chronic Illness FOR People With Chronic Illness
Stop letting your condition dictate your business dreams.
Start building a business that works around YOUR life, not against it.
Have you ever considered working for yourself?
Having a chronic illness can make being employed tricky…
Commutes to and from work can be stressful and exhausting (that’s without the actual ‘work’ in between)
Little or no flexibility in working hours can made it difficult on those ‘bad’ days
Time off sick or to attend medical appointments can sometimes be difficult for employers to understand
Employers and colleagues lack of understanding or incorrect assumptions of your chronic condition can make day to day working difficult
How does this sound?
You get to choose WHEN you work, so it fully fits around your life and needs
You can choose WHO you work with, ensuring that you work with like-minded individuals
You have full flexibility to take time off for any appointments that you need to attend
You build a business that works for YOU and enables you to live a happier life
Why The Chronic Entrepreneur?
The Chronic Entrepreneur – How to set up and run your own business alongside a chronic illness, will show you how running and setting up your own business is possible, even when you are chronically ill.
Lisa shares her own experiences with you, as well as covering the things you must have in place to run a successful business.
Lisa covers:
The importance of your ‘why’
Who is suited to running their own business, and why it’s not for everyone
Working from home careers to consider
Essential elements all businesses should have in place
Self-care
Mindset
Managing your time and energy
Marketing
Systems and automation
Managing expectations – yours and theirs
and much more…
If You’re Tired Of…
Business advice that assumes you have endless energy
Feeling like you have to choose between your health and your dreams
Watching others succeed while you struggle with basic business tasks
Wondering if entrepreneurship is even possible with your condition
Feeling isolated and misunderstood in the business world
Then this book is for you.
Meet The Author: Lisa Porto
Lisa understands your challenges because she’s lived them.
In 2018, she was diagnosed with a chronic health condition that changed everything. Life was already challenging enough when, on New Year’s Eve that same year, she had a snowboarding accident in France that broke her wrist and left her needing surgery and a metal plate.
As she sat in those French mountains during her three-month recovery, facing the reality that traditional employment just wasn’t going to work with her condition, something clicked.
Instead of seeing this as the end of her career dreams, she saw it as the beginning of something completely different, and used the time gifted to her to take a chance on the opportunity that had presented itself.
That’s when Empowered Online was born – not in a boardroom or from a grand business plan, but from pure necessity and the determination to create a life that worked for her, not against her.
Today, Lisa runs a thriving business that supports her life with chronic illness, as well as helping entrepreneurs with conditions like ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia, POTS, and Long Covid build businesses that actually work for them.
