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 MoreAfter six months of working remotely from home on her company, Katy realised she needed company. Eventually she founded a weekly pop-up co-work group called Freelance Folk. And that's who she found.
We also chat about taking on her niche, taking risks and taking the train with a forest of cardboard furniture.
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 MoreAfter years of agency and in-house experience, Luan stepped out into being freelance. A story of spotting opportunities, maintaining relationships and self development underlines her solo career.
She shares her experience hiring coaches, writing a book, speaking, making courses by herself and alongside LinkedIn - and above all, thinking like a business.
Read MoreIn 2000 Jason and (his now wife) Hannah started 'Bouncing Fish'. Working first as freelancers it grew into an agency with a big team, big office and when the decade's financial crash came... a big problem.
Hear how Jason bounced back as a freelancer vowing never to let it happen again. Working from home with his four children (and a Tardis toilet) not too far away - we chat work/life balance, side projects, speaking, writing, a freelancer website and more...
Read MoreJess spent the first decade of her career in the corporate world. Branding, marketing and advertising for global businesses.
Now, she's a freelance illustrator, documenting her creative business journey on YouTube as 'Studio Jess' in Austin, Texas.
Hear how she finally made the move into following her passion whilst still drawing on her experience.
Read MoreBryce is the freelance writer behind the Clients From Hell blog and podcast... but how the devil did he get to where he is today?
He takes us through the isolation, the daily marketing habit of reaching out and how actually - maybe getting a job with an agency might have been a good idea.
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