Why Calling Myself a CEO Matters.

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For years, I just considered myself a writer. I was a VA, a copywriter, or even “that one with web skills.”

But at the heart of it all, I was a writer.

I was the person you hired to make the stuff.

When I went on my own and started my own business, I had to make a bunch of different decisions.

I couldn’t just make things and leave at the end of the day. I had to market myself now. I had to write more, for me now. I had to make this thing, and then keep it alive for years to come so I could keep making other things.

Plus, now I made my own schedule. Hooray! But now I had to take my own needs seriously. If I failed, no one would be there to take that blame.

It was a new and terrifying undertaking. But it was thrilling.

No more would it just be me-me-me managing everything. No longer would it be like when I was “just” a freelance writer. Not that that’s a “just” kind of job. But now, I was writing in a way that went beyond me writing things for an editor and turning them in. Now, I was writing for companies. I wasn’t just a person—I was an entity.

It wasn’t enough for me to just be me, the copywriter.

So I gave myself a title: CEO.