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Carolien Mertens, M.A. is a location-free event planner, working from New York, Italy, Greece, Germany, Switzerland, and counting, for digital entrepreneurs, biz owners and coaches. In less than 5 years, over 100 professional events and 10, 000 participants she has expanded to include major organisations such as LingoGlobe, the European Commission and several national governments, universities and museums. Her #1 priority is to give her clients the opportunity to focus and thrive on their offline event through her signature flexible planning strategy, that ensures smooth event flow & intense participant experience.   SUMMARY In this podcast, Alison talks to Carolien Mertens about event planning. Carolien elaborates on how she came into the event planning industry and opens up about the challenges she faced becoming an entrepreneur and leaving her corporate job. She touches on her most important first step for organizing a live event. She gives a little insight to how she runs her location independent busi