PDMA Carolinas: The Life I Want

When:  Tue, Oct 13, 2026 from 12:00 to 13:00 (ET)
Associated with  Carolinas

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Description

The Life I Want is a research project to define the “specific least” a freelancer needs to know and do to decide the potential of their idea.

I am researching the 10 most commonly assumed ingredients of a successful business with the intention of finding the recipe that reveals exactly what we need to know and do.

At this point in the project, I will have explored all 10 ingredients once and will be sharing what I’ve learned.

Learning Objectives

  • What makes Freelancing unique?
  • What is the concept of the “Specific Least”?
  • How do we define a business idea?

About the Speaker

Steve GatterSteve Gatter, Director of Product Experience at Furman University's Center for Innovative Leadership

Currently

  • • Designer of the Freelance-Snapshot – a freelance business design tool that defines the 10 essential elements of a business that allows the freelancer to make the money they want in the time they decide to work.
  • • Semi-employed – on a mission for freelancing to be known as an income-secure career choice.
  • • A volunteer mentor to entrepreneurs with a non-profit in Rock Hill, SC
  • • Part of a business mastermind – Street Smart Sales Forum since 2010

Formerly

  • • A business coach to startups and freelancers – coaching them to design their ideal practice.
  • • Mortgage lending with Countrywide Home Loans, a fortune 500 company before its sale to BOA.
  • • Consumer loans with my family’s business Public Finance that become a Savings and Loan and then the world’s smallest FDIC insured Savings Bank
  • • Wake Forest University – Winston-Salem, NC
  • • Schuylkill Valley H.S. – Leesport, Pa.