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Being Freelance
by Steve Folland
Freelancing? Being boss of your own life and business can be tough and isolating. But it can also be totally rewarding. Pick up tips, advice and thoughts on how to make it as a freelancer, an entrepreneur, as the owner of your own business, by hearing other freelancers share their experience. Hosted by Steve Folland. Come join us in the Being Freelance Community - You're not alone being freelance. Not anymore. www.beingfreelance.com/community
Episodes
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From Burnout to Balance: Pacing Your Business as a Neurodivergent Freelancer with Celie Nigoumi
Photographer and creative facilitator Celie Nigoumi shares her journey from severe burnout and chronic health challenges after university to building a thriving freelance business that works for her in a way normal employment and fluorescent offices never could. Celie talks about navigating...
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Embracing The Weird: How Quirky Outreach Built a Copywriting Business with Helen Carrie
What happens when the industry you’ve worked in for a decade gets shut down overnight? In this episode, host Steve Folland chats with Helen Carrie to talk through her complete freelance overhaul when COVID hit. Helen worked in UK television production: traveling the world, interviewing…
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5 Ways AI Could Be Tripping Up Your Freelance Business - Bonus - with lawyer Ingrid Fernandez
AI is already in your freelance business, whether you invited it or not. The usual Being Freelance podcast is on its summer break, but here's a bonus treat for you: a replay of a live LinkedIn session Steve did with lawyer Ingrid Fernandez, part of the Being Freelance community, looking at what…
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The Blogs Became Books... Became Clients - David Airey
David Airey is a freelance graphic designer based in Northern Ireland, self-employed since 2005. He's the author of several best-selling design books including Logo Design Love and Identity Designed - both of which started life as blogs, before turning into books... before turning into a steady...
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Freelancer BTS - Not rushing on
New full episode coming soon. But in this super short one - Steve Folland explains why he's not publishing a new interview this week. Too often we rush on from one thing to another. But by doing so we don't do justice to the thing we just finished. With the Being Freelance podcast, that can mean...
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Freelancing Through Every Tech Shift Since the 90s - Lisa Emmington
Lisa Emmington is a freelance instructional designer (or as her newly SEO'd website puts it, a training course designer) based near Milton Keynes. She's been freelance almost her entire career, starting out as an IT trainer back when Apple Macs were a mystery box on people's desks, and has...
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Chase the Happiness: Meaningful Freelancing - Filmmaker Zoe East
Zoe East has never had a proper job. A work experience placement at a big TV channel that felt old-fashioned and sexist put her off the traditional route before she'd even graduated, so she went freelance instead and never really looked back. That was over ten years ago. She started with whatever...
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The Recipe Is Always the Same: Reach Out, Follow Up - Émilie Chen
French creative Émilie Chen had what she calls her dream job: senior designer at The National Theatre in London, working on posters she'd dreamed about since university. Years later though, it had turned sour in the studio, her mental health took a hit, and she gave herself 8 months to start…
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Freelancing as an Unpaid Carer - Adrian Ashton
Adrian’s been a successful freelancer for 21 years. But in the past 7, his definition of framing success has changed. For the last seven years, Adrian has also been an unpaid carer for three immediate family members. He talks honestly about what that's meant for his business - the travel he's had...
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Her Niche Is Fishe - Becoming The Ocean Writer - Melissa Hobson
Melissa spent over a decade in PR & Comms. She was good at it but she was drawn to the ocean. So she started pitching dive magazines on the side, moved to Mozambique to volunteer with a marine conservation charity, and when the pandemic sent her home, decided to go all-in as a freelancer rather...
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Becoming a Freelance Illustrator for Marvel, Disney and DC: Doaly
How does a creative side project turn into a decade long freelancing business working with the biggest names in pop culture, like Disney, Pixar, Marvel, DC Comics, Lucasfilm, Warner Bros and Sony Pictures? All good super-heroes have an origin story. And this interview tells the series of events...
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Business Name vs Your Own Name: Which is Better for Freelancers?
It's a question Steve Folland gets asked a lot: as a freelancer, is it better to have a company name or use your own? In this compilation episode, Steve digs deep into 11 years of the Being Freelance podcast archive - pulling together voices from guests including brand copywriter Mark Grainger,...
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Becoming the go-to freelancer in your niche - Jessi Illustrates
Jessica Hartshorn was trained as an illustrator, but unable to get work as one she went in another direction. Jessica spent the next 16 years working in museums and galleries. But the itch to illustrate never went away. So she set up a secret Instagram account and started painting again without...
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Freelancer BTS - Some things are more important
New episodes with fresh freelancing stories coming very soon. But as Jess Bruno said on her episode of Being Freelance: "Content can always blood wait". JOIN THE COMMUNITY You're not alone being freelance. Come and hang out with your BFFs (Being Freelance Friends). beingfreelance.com/community…
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Stop Waiting for Clients. Start Making - Charles Commins
Charles Commins handed his notice in at his pub management job with no plan and no business. His partner gave him one month to figure it out. All he knew was that he wanted to love his job. Seven and a half years later, he's an award-winning freelance podcast producer whose almost entire client...
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Field Trip Fridays and Four Bank Accounts - Illustrator Perryn Ryan
Perryn Ryan didn't set out to become a freelance illustrator. After a degree in computer information systems (to keep her parents happy), years in tech,, and a long stint in the fashion industry, she eventually gave herself permission to just... draw stuff she liked. Nothing serious. Then a...
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Chase Those Late Payments - Graphic Designer Laura Whitehouse
Laura Whitehouse didn’t follow the usual path into graphic design. While studying archaeology and anthropology (told you) at university, she started designing posters for student theatre shows. At first for free, then for £20 here and there (or sometimes just a pint). What began as a creative...
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How to Find Your Freelancing Niche
In this short compilation episode, Steve revisits conversations from across 11 years of the Being Freelance podcast archive to explore what actually happens when freelancers specialise in a niche. Full of stories of how these freelance creatives found their niche and the impact it had. You’ll…
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When Freelancing Goes Quiet: Getting Proactive with Mark Grainger
For years, Mark Grainger’s freelance business ticked along nicely. Referrals. Word of mouth. Repeat clients. And then… things went quiet. In this episode, we explore what happens when the reliable stream of freelance work slows down. And what it really takes to respond proactively rather than...
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Freelancer BTS - What happens when they click?
This is the first time I've done this as an episode. A quick behind the scenes of what I'm up to with my own freelancer business - as a freelance video and podcast editor. If you'd like to go even more behind the scenes, check out my freelancing life vlog on YouTube. If I'm going to pay for an...
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From Freelancer To Studio - The Power Of Positioning
Laura has been a professional graphic designer for over 20 years, but her freelance journey began in 2008 after the birth of her first child. With daycare in Manhattan costing more than rent, Laura started piecing together freelance work from home; juggling projects from a tiny dining table in a...
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Cold Outreach: What Actually Works for Freelancers
Cold outreach can often get a freelance business started. But in this episode I propose even those of us years down the line don't give it the cold shoulder. When you need to bring in clients, maybe a period of cold outreach, or even a consistent long term pattern of it, could be exactly what…
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How Katie Chappell Built (and Unbuilt) a Scalable Freelance Illustration Business
Katie Chappell is a freelance live illustrator based in the UK - and her story takes some unexpected turns. After being sacked from a graphic design job, Katie slowly built a freelance illustration career through side jobs, teaching guitar, working in retail, and even becoming a nanny abroad. A...
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How These Freelancers Work ON Their Business All Year
As freelancers, it’s easy to spend most of our time in the business - delivering client work, meeting deadlines, keeping things ticking over. But if we never step back, time has a habit of running away from us. We can be swept along on a current of what people ask us to do, not thinking about if...
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Graphic Designer & Illustrator Itzel Islas
From an overworked designer posting “a visual diary” on Instagram to running a multi-stream creative business, Itzel Islas has built a freelance life entirely on her own terms. After almost a decade in apparel design, she started illustrating for fun - and quickly realised people loved her...
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I’m Not a Machine - Freelancing Balance & Bandwidth with Katie Tucker
Freelance market research consultant Katie Tucker shares how being intentional - with her time, energy, and choices - helped her build a freelance life that truly fits. From walking away from a corporate job for a family adventure to launching her freelance business Product Jungle and writing...
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Slow Down - Lineo's Intentional Freelancing
From choreographing dance routines and directing a TV show at a South African megachurch… to running her own freelance business - Lineo Kakole’s journey into branding was anything but traditional. When no one would hire her after she quit her job, Lineo started sharing passion projects on...
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Surgeries, Grief, & a Six-Figure Business - Jess Bruno
When Jess Bruno left her corporate job in marketing, to help with managing her chronic illness - she had no idea freelancing was even an option. It was her mum that made her realise all the free marketing advice she was giving to her friends should be worth paying for. The next time they called...
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No Suit, No Broccoli: Escaping Corporate Life with André Spiteri
From finance lawyer in Malta to FinTech copywriter in Edinburgh — André Spiteri’s freelancing story is full of risk, reinvention, and real talk. In this episode, André shares how he went from a corporate job he hated to building a sustainable freelance writing business. He talks honestly about…
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20 years freelancing as Ben The Illustrator
PODCAST SPONSORED BY RIVERSIDE: High quality audio/video recorded online www.beingfreelance.com/riverside It’s free to get started - use code BEINGFREELANCE to save 15% on a paid plan ABOUT THIS EPISODE Ben O’Brien, known to many as Ben The Illustrator, returns to share how his freelance journey...
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Your Handy Dandy Brandy Gal: Hollie Arnett
PODCAST SPONSORED BY RIVERSIDE: High quality audio/video recorded online www.beingfreelance.com/riverside It’s free to get started - use code BEINGFREELANCE to save 15% on a paid plan ABOUT THIS EPISODE From a young age, Hollie Arnett was inspired to pursue a creative path. Fast forward to today,...
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Collaborating, Not Competing - Jerel Ramsey’s Freelancer Story
PODCAST SPONSORED BY RIVERSIDE: High quality audio/video recorded online www.beingfreelance.com/riverside It’s free to get started - use code BEINGFREELANCE to save 15% on a paid plan ABOUT THIS EPISODE From a young age, Jerel Ramsey was inspired by his father to work for himself. And here we…
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Communications Specialist Dee Primett
PODCAST SPONSORED BY: RIVERSIDE: High quality audio/video recorded online www.beingfreelance.com/riverside It’s free to get started - use code BEINGFREELANCE to save 15% on a paid plan PODCAST SPONSORED BY: PORKBUN: Get a domain name for your website. www.beingfreelance.com/porkbun ABOUT THIS...
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Using Creative Skills For Good - Conservation Illustrator Styngvi
Icelandic artist Stefán Yngvi Pétursson, also known as Styngvi, shares his journey from working in an ad agency to becoming a freelance conservation illustrator. Inspired by shocking pollution during a trip to Indonesia, Stefán decided to use his creative skills for environmental activism, or...
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Freelance Freedom: How Rebecca Rosenberg Balances Work and Wanderlust
This time, we explore both a metaphorical freelance journey and physical one. In 2015 Rebecca decided she wanted to travel whilst freelancing. After building up savings and clients for a couple of years, she headed off to Europe as a digital nomad. Travelling whilst working as a content writer…
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Animation Director Dave Anderson
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Antisocial Socialite Yolanda Sissing
How does a Welsh schoolboy recommended by a career advisor to become a tree surgeon end up illustrating and animating for some of the biggest media outlets across the globe? Becoming a location independent freelancer, working from London, Lima in Peru, and Barcelona in Spain. Getting known for...
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Illustrator Helen Ridley
In this episode , Steve Folland interviews Helen Ridley, a freelance illustrator who has carved a unique niche in live event illustration. Helen shares her inspiring journey from studying fashion design to working in retail for over a decade and finally making the leap to full-time freelance...
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Photographer Xavier Buendia
In this episode, Xavier Buendia shares his journey from Mexico City to Brighton, and more importantly from the world of hospitality as a sommelier to a career as a successful freelance photographer. Xavi discusses the importance of people skills, marketing consistency, self-confidence, and...
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Podcast Producer Kate Taylor
In this episode of the Being Freelance podcast, host Steve Folland interviews Kate Taylor, a seasoned podcast producer and founder of the Feast Collective. Kate discusses the highs and lows of her 20-year freelance career, emphasising the importance of personal relationships and trust in bringing...
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Laughs for Leads on LinkedIn - Freelancer Dave Officer
Hear how Dave Officer, a freelance graphic designer got started and finds clients in this episode of the Being Freelance podcast hosted by Steve Folland. Dave shares his late leap into freelancing, discussing the challenge of overcoming the urge to procrastinate by consuming endless information....
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Graphic Designer Angela Lyons
EPISODE SPONSORED BY RIVERSIDE Record high quality video & audio with Riverside. See how recording, live streaming and repurposing your content with Riverside can help your freelance business. It’s free to get started, but use code BEINGFREELANCE to save 15% on a paid plan. Use this link to help...
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Copywriter & Creative Director Thomas Kemeny
EPISODE SPONSORED BY RIVERSIDE Record high quality video & audio with Riverside. See how recording, live streaming and repurposing your content with Riverside can help your freelance business. It’s free to get started, but use code BEINGFREELANCE to save 15% on a paid plan. Use this link to help...
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Purpose Driven Illustrator Hazel Mead
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Sustainability Copywriter Raymond Manzor
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Illustrator Mariery Young
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Voiceover Emma Clarke
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Web Designer Phil Matthews
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Passion over Profit: Desire Lacap's Freelancing Philosophy
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Purpose Driven Freelancer Ettie Bailey-King
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Freelancing? Being boss of your own life and business can be tough and isolating. But it can also be totally rewarding. Pick up tips, advice and thoughts on how to make it as a freelancer, an entrepreneur, as the owner of your own business, by hearing other freelancers share their experience. Hosted by Steve Folland. Come join us in the Being Freelance Community - You're not alone being freelance. Not anymore. www.beingfreelance.com/community
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Freelancing? Being boss of your own life and business can be tough and isolating. But it can also be totally rewarding. Pick up tips, advice and thoughts on how to make it as a freelancer, an entrepreneur, as the owner of your own business, by hearing other freelancers share their experience....
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