ABOUT FREEME

FREE FOR "MORE"

"MORE" is different for every person.  What a huge relief it is when you can be freed up to be able to focus on your MORE.  What a huge relief it is when MORE is delivered to you so you can live your MORE.  We were all meant for MORE.  We were all designed with a purpose.  What is your purpose?  What is your "Why"?  The sweet spot is when our "Why" at work aligns with or makes possible our "Why" in our personal life.  That's when life seems to flow and you seem to be walking in the greater plan for your life.  We would love to Free You Up For your MORE as that is part of our "Why" and leads to our "MORE".  

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Let us do what we are good at, so you can focus on what you are good at! 

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Freedom is focusing on your MORE while experts manage your brand and  monthly content production for you.  Many small companies do not have a full-time marketing person on staff or the budget to hire a major branding agency, so the team often times adds the brand and marketing tasks to their to-do list, and end up managing (often times unsuccessfully) the monthly production of content development, communication and marketing plan execution even though they are not trained to do so.  What if there was a better way?  What if you could free up your time without breaking the bank and have experts handle this for you so that you could focus on what you do best?

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OUR BRAND PHILOSOPHY

CONNECT WITH THEIR EMOTIONS.

KNOW YOUR WHY AND LEAD WITH IT!

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People don't buy what you do, they buy WHY you do it.  People choose your product or service because they believe in what you believe in.  Apple, Martin Luther King, The Wright Brothers are all leaders who rose to success and started movements because they all communicated in the same way. They start with the "Why", not the "What".  They speak directly to people's emotions so that they connect to the part of the brain that makes decisions, which is the part that feels emotions, not the part that analyzes data.  Do you know your Why?  Are you communicating with you customer in this way?  If you are considering working with us, we recommend you watch this TED Talk by Simon Sinek.  Ten years ago, this talk and his book, "Start With Why", profoundly changed our founder's approach to branding, and is still the basis of our branding philosophy to this day.  If you hire us for Brand Creation, she will lead you through the process of building your brand based on Sinek's Golden Circles to  position yourself as a leader who will inspire others to follow, and build the foundation that the rest of our brand services build from.

LEAD WITH PURPOSE!

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Emily was born and raised in the US to American and Cuban parents.  She graduated in 2002 from Cornell University with a major in Design and Development and minor in Marketing.  She has been working in interior design, event design, branding and graphic design since 2000, and has been an entrepreneur for more than 15 years.

In 2014 she moved to Quito, Ecuador with her family to build a non-religious ministry to support, educate and empower the female community in Ecuador.  She led a women's ministry there for 2 years before she had to move to the coast for health reasons.  She and her family now manage a bed and breakfast near Salinas, which they are in the process of converting into a small conference-retreat center to support the local community and American professionals and travelers.

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Mother to 4 bilingual and adventurous kids, she prides herself in living the entrepreneurial, freelance life as working from home has been a huge blessing for as she has raised her family.   She works hard to make that same life possible for her freelance team.  Just as she guides them to design their lives with purpose, she also guides her clients to do the same thing.  It is her hope that no one she has the privilege of working with "go to the grave with the song still in them".... that she can help those who are unsure - discover their song, live it and share it with the world!

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Native Country:  

USA

Country of Residence:  

Ecuador

Level of Spanish:  

Fluent

Bachelors Degree:  

Cornell University

Years of Industry-Related Experience: 

20

Expertise:  

Branding & Design

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EMILY BARAHONA

BRANDING EXPERT

MBTI Personality Type:

INFJ - Advocate

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Passion Verbs:  Inspire, Help, Encourage, Believe, Dream, Design

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Life Guiding Quote:  

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation, and go to the grave with the song still in them.   - Henry David Thoreau

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Life Purpose:  Help people discover, live, and share their song (their unique Purpose/Why/Design).

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Super Powers:  Ability to Connect with People and Super Determination

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WHY SOUTH AMERICA

AFFORDABLE TALENT IN OUR TIME ZONE

Branding agency work can be done virtually from anywhere.  When our founder moved from the States to Ecuador 7 years ago, she just picked up her clients and took them with her.  These are clients who are still with her now for 10 years.  In these modern times of managing an entire company and a whole team of people virtually, the question isn't if you can, it is how you can do it intelligently. Many outsource work to talent in Asia, but Emily  not only speaks the Spanish language and has a heart for supporting people in the Latin American community, but she also recognizes the enormous conveniences of working with talent in the same North American time zones for a fraction of the cost of hiring American freelancers.  By building a network of freelancers across South America (in Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina and Chile) she furthered her cause to  support the developing Latin American community, and she simultaneously created a win-win for her freelancers and her clients.  She brings her team quality clients, and she is able to deliver to her clients quality work quickly for less than what most American branding agencies charge.  A win-win for everyone!

FREEING YOU UP FOR MORE!

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I couldn't be more proud of this amazing team of people.  Not only are they talented, committed, hard workers who always deliver quality work on time, but they are wonderful people!  God has somehow sent FreeMe people with highly compatible personalities.  We all work so well together and enjoy every moment as we have all become good friends!  I have only met a few in person, yet some have been with me for years and we know each other very well.  This is the beauty of technology.  We are able to achieve so much together despite living miles apart in 5 different countries.  My focus is building a strong team as the quality of our team is what delivers quality for our clients.  

I love you FreeMe Team!  

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Emi

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ECUADOR

COLOMBIA

VENEZUELA

ARGENTINA

CHILE

FREE ME UP!

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