Скачать или смотреть 7-years a Freelancer // November 2025 // London

📈 Notes to My 19-Year-Old Self: 7 Years of Freelancing
Presenter: Davor Egyed   / davor-egyed  

🚀 Key Takeaways: "Business brutally exposes every single one of your weaknesses. Growth is painful, but not reaching your potential is more painful. Choose your pain."

📝 Summary
Davor walks through the chronological "chapters" of his career, beginning with a wholesome movie-streaming site for his siblings during COVID and scaling into 10,000-euro months by age 22. He shares the intense pressure of delivering a 20-page high-fidelity Webflow build for a Middle Eastern client in just 5 days—a project that served as his professional breakthrough.

However, the core of the presentation is "The Hardships of 2025." Davor speaks candidly about being "virtually broke" despite launching his career's biggest project, as family health crises coincided with massive payment delays. He details his pivot away from a singular reliance on Middle Eastern clients toward a diversified pipeline in the UK, US, and Germany, emphasizing that entrepreneurship is a spiritual test of responsibility and freedom.

🕒 What you’ll learn:
The Financial Leap: Why Davor paid 7,000 euros for coaching when he only had 4,000 in the bank—and why that commitment was the key to his success.

The "Breakthrough" Project: How to handle high-stakes development for billion-dollar companies under impossible deadlines.

Diversifying Your Pipeline: Lessons learned from relying on a single region (UAE) and how to rebuild a global client base.

Continuous Growth: The importance of unlearning "standard" habits to adopt new frameworks like component-based builds and atomic CSS.

The Philosophy of Work: Davor’s personal intersection of faith, science, and entrepreneurship as a path to true freedom.

📂 Timestamps:
0:08 – QR Code access for NDA project showcases.

2:00 – Intro: Business as the ultimate mirror of character.

7:30 – 2020: The first 90-euro shop and the shift from WordPress to Webflow.

11:34 – 2022: The "All In" moment and the 7k coaching gamble.

13:35 – The 5-Day Sprint: Delivering 20 pages for 10k.

18:38 – 2023/24: Digital Nomading in Croatia and the fruits of labor.

22:44 – 2025: The Hardest Year—hospital stays, payment delays, and being broke at the top.

26:44 – The Next 100 Days: Catching up on modern Webflow standards (Components & Frameworks).

29:24 – 4 Lessons for 19-Year-Olds: Help without expectation and join communities.

31:02 – Outro: A personal testimony on faith, purpose, and the discovery of love as a motivator.

Davor Egyed is a freelance Webflow developer based in Germany. He specializes in high-end development for international enterprises and is a vocal advocate for the personal growth and discipline found within the freelance lifestyle.

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