Remember why you started - Illustrator Martha Williams
Illustrator Martha Williams set out to build a freelance business that would give her opportunities to explore and experiment with her work. We talk about how she’s made that happen, including how she’s changed her personality to become more organised, learned to set boundaries and protect her own time and work, and got her head around the finance side of being freelance.
Episode 155 of the Being Freelance podcast, hosted by Being Freelance - The freelancing podcast with Steve Folland and a stack of inspiring freelancer stories, titled "Remember why you started - Illustrator Martha Williams" was published on December 16, 2018 and runs 28 minutes.
December 16, 2018 ·28m · Being Freelance
Summary
Illustrator Martha Williams set out to build a freelance business that would give her opportunities to explore and experiment with her work. We talk about how she’s made that happen, including how she’s changed her personality to become more organised, learned to set boundaries and protect her own time and work, and got her head around the finance side of being freelance.
Episode Description
After studying Graphic Arts at uni and leaning towards the more experimental forms of art, Martha found herself working in an in-house graphic design role that left little room for creativity.
Now two years into her freelance career and living between England and Spain, Martha has built herself a flexible business where she has plenty of variety in her work.
And, more than that, Martha is now able to give herself time to work on her craft, scheduling in 5-day “holidays” where she’s free from client work and can focus entirely on her side projects.
“The idea was to become freelance so I could enjoy my life more and work on these areas that I wanted to work on,” Martha says.
Find out how she’s made that a possibility in this episode of Being Freelance.
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