After six months of struggling to get her freelance career off the ground, Lauren started blogging.
Every day. For a year.
It took off. Her diary booked up months ahead with a waiting list of clients for her business Elle & Company.
We chat about using a business coach, content marketing, hiring assistants, evolving a passive income stream and more.
Read More15 years of being freelance has given Jon plenty of thoughts to share. Long term gigs versus variety. Finding other freleancers to set up a coworking space. Freelancing as a dad with babies to when their teenagers.
Portfolio polishing, book writing, conference speaking, side project creating, payment chasing. The guilt. Don't let freelance fill all your spare time. Let some of it be filled listening to this.
Read MoreIt's our 100th episode! It's taken time to get this far and that's something Swedish freelancer Anton knows all good, long lasting things need. Be it a newsletter, a business, a reputation....
Anton shares his story - through finances, workloads, positioning... mastering freelance. Taking time.
Read MoreAfter starting out portraying himself as an agency that covered everything graphic & web design, Matthew's discovered a) his natural niche of web development and b) that clients prefer knowing they're working with an individual.
He's stripped it back: dropped the 'everything' offering, refocused, rebranded and revoiced as 'I'.
Read MoreSecond time round at freelancing, Colorado based designer Jimmy knew he needed to put himself out there and found a use for Instagram. Since then, people around the world have found him and his work - and he's found his voice.
Hear the lessons he's learned as he set out to diversify his income from band merch to his own products and beyond.
Read MoreRan is a designer working amongst the start-up community of Tel Aviv. As part of that he also works on his own start-up and products.
For a year Ran's been documenting his freelance life with a daily YouTube vlog purely for the joy of creating. What really brings him work... is making friends. And a lot of lunches.
Read MorePaddy spent 10 years in agency life working his way towards the top... and then looked down at the view and decided to take a leap into being freelance. He'd grown too far from the actual creativity. He couldn't control what his day looked like. He wanted to grow a beard. A really big beard.
Through dedicated learning, taking action, blogging, networking and, well, working 6 days a week - Superlogoboy is soaring to success.
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