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freelance therapy
by Kennedy Ann Roberts
Kennedy, your host and freelance therapy, created f/t to fill the gap between content encouraging you to pursue your dream and resources for freelancers focused primarily on developing hard skills. As we've grown Freelance Therapy has evolved into a community that helps you live your best and most adjusted freelance life. Think of us like a stressball for your freelance feelings from losing contracts to to trying to date as a freelancer. Find a chaise lounge, a topo chico and kick back - we're headed to therapy.
Episodes
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Farewell Freelance Therapy!
After two very real years, we say farewell (for now) to Freelance Therapy! Join your host, Kennedy, as she talks about the evolution of her career and her reflections on being a freelancer and now being a business owner. Want to keep in touch? Follow us @karcreative on Instagram! Looking to work...
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What Should I Invest In?
You've heard the old adage you have to spend money to make money - but determining what you want to spend money on can be a scary and difficult thing. This week a listener asks what should I invest in to level up my business? And your host, Kennedy Roberts spends some time talking through her...
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How to Ask for More Money
Once you've been with a client for a long time you might find yourself struggling to justify the project from a profit perspective. It's honestly a tale as old as time especially if your business is growing quickly. But the real question is HOW do you ask for more money from a long term client....
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Finding Your Footing and Niching Down
After you've been in business for a while, it is important to start to consider how you can niche down, find your footing as a business owner and create efficiencies that lead to more profit. But how do you figure out what is the most lucrative and what your footing looks like for you and your...
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A Special Valentine's Day Ep: I Have a Crush on My Client
Get that butterfly feeling when you're on zoom? You're not alone...I've been there and it was...well awkward to say the least. Here's my perspective on what to do when you have a crush on a client and spoiler alert - it's all about the power dynamics, okay. And PSA this is NOT dating advice.
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How to SURVIVE Bad Client Feedback
Have you ever gotten that terrible email? The one with the client feedback that makes you cringe, where they seem to hate everything you've done and want their money back? Well, same. But I'm here to tell you - you and your career actually CAN survive this terrible, terrible moment and listen to...
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What Happens when a Freelance Photographer Has Their Laptop Stolen
Okay, so my laptop was stolen and the events that came after were less than savory. But I got through it and so will you - well hopefully this doesn't happen to you - but something bad will and here is a step by step guide of how to get through it. Also a little bit of complaining on my end...
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How To: Talk to Clients
So your a creative...a designer, a copywriter, a photographer and you've never found yourself in the situation where you need to talk to clients. But now you're a freelancer and you're the sole person on the hook for negotiating contracts, discussing scope and talking timelines. How do you even…
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What the F*** Is a Tax Write Off?
We're bacccckkk (yet again) and this time we're chatting about taxes. You're in for 20 minutes of pure financial fun while I review what a tax write off is, how to organize your freelance finances and what NOT to do when you're writing things off. Curious? Get to listening! We'll be back next...
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Our Good, Good Friend : Charlee Black of Goodfriends Studio
Today we're chatting with our good friend, Charlee Black of Good Friends Studio out of Indianapolis, Indiana. Charlee is the founder and lead photographer of her own studio and currently in the process of building her physical space, BLOT Creative Studios. On today's episode we chat about being a...
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We're Back and We're Talking Boundaries
As freelancers (or just humans working from home during a pandemic) boundaries are hard to create. When do you shut your laptop? When do you open it? How many times a day is is acceptable to check your email during the day? Over the last year we have all had to navigate how to create and hold…
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Thrifting and Virtual Assisting with Kimmy Delahunty
Last year as Kimmy was preparing for her wedding and her honeymoon she had to make the difficult decision to leave a full-time job she really enjoyed in order to manager her chronic illness and still have the time off she would need to celebrate her big day. While it wasn't a part of her career...
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Positivity + Entrepreneurship
We're back this week with another solo episode and this time we're talking about positivity. And we're not talking about the toxic bubblegum positivity that we've all become accustomed to on Instagram - the kind of positivity we're talking about is more about creating a life and a career we are...
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A College Student Interrogates Me with Ava Lilie
Basically exactly what it sounds like. This week @avalillie takes the reigns and interviews me for a change. A business major at SDSU, Ava had a lot of questions about how marketing and business work in the ~real world~! Honestly...I have questions too. But regardless we sat down so I could...
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Checkin' In And Getting Better Clients
ok, honest moment - I didn't record this until twenty minutes before I released it. But you know what! times are weird - with America being a dumpster fire, daily fear about COVID and the future of our country and our rights and then also having to be active members in a capitalist society things...
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Cheers to 2 Years : A Slightly Intoxicated History of my First 2 Years Freelancing
2 years ago - almost to the day I put in my 2-ish week (it ended up being a lot longer than that) notice to leave my full-time job. It came on the back of being unhappy and job searching for a while and also never really feeling fulfilled or happy at any of the full-time or internship roles I had...
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A Path Better Traveled with Valeria Ponce-Jimenez (@valeriaponcej)
Valeria and I met 7 years ago (holy shit- we are old) in our Freshman Seminar at Loyola Marymount University. In the Western pocket of Los Angeles I think we were drawn to each other because of our out of place energy. Eventually that first semester ended and we both would announce over the phone...
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Expanding your Creative Toolkit with Shawn Binder (@thatbinderdude)
Shawn is a visual storyteller and community curator. His full-time gig is at ilovecreatives putting together partnerships and making connections. But on the side he creates music videos and tells stories through visuals. This week we jumped on the airwaves to chat with Shawn about how he even got...
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Work is Work with Mckenna Diverde (@kendiv)
Long story short, Mckenna taught me to teach yoga (yes, I teach yoga or did if you missed it during the first episode) and we quickly realized we had a lot more in common than just teaching yoga. So maybe long story long after spending plenty of hours deep cleaning the yoga studio together and...
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Mind on Your Money with Ayana Campbell Smith (@millennialmoney.guide)
Last week I had the opportunity to sit down with Ayana Campbell Smith the founder of Millennial Money Guide and full-time Creative Director / UI Designer. We chatted everything from her new found hobby, long boarding and how she has used Millennial Money Guide as a creative outlet to explore new...
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Best Freelance Friends with Jordan Drankoski (@dancing.for.donuts)
On today's episode, we meet Kennedy's 'BFF' (best freelance friend), Jordan Drankoski. We chat everything from career evolution to building your own creative consulting business to balancing professional and personal projects to the best snacks to eat while your procrastinating. Follow Jordan:...
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Throwing your Hat Over the Fence with Aaron Lund (@lundn)
What's that you hear? New musiccccc? What, what?! That's right and today we're talking to the man behind it all, Aaron Lund. We chat everything from finding work-life balance to finding inspiration and throwing your hat over the fence! Follow Aaron: https://www.instagram.com/lundn_/,...
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Wonderful Strokes of Luck and Dealing with Creative Rejection
I can still feel the tightening of my throat from the first time that I lost a client because they just didn't really like my work. I remember crying myself to sleep and checking job listings for project management roles and assuming that because someone didn't like my work meant my work wasn't...
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HBD 2 Me - A Reflection on my 25th Year
I woke up this morning one year older and one year more confused about who I am or what I'm supposed to be doing...just joking...kind of. When I thought about turning 25 - I expected that this would be some kind of monumental inflection point in my life, like suddenly overnight I would be brand...
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What Now - an Interview with a Marketing Director turned Freelancer
today we're chatting with my former work wife, Kylie Maraj. Kylie has over 8 years of brand marketing experience including work as the marketing director of a growing cbd brand. after being laid off due to COVID-19 Kylie (quicker than most) pivoted to take on more freelance and personal projects...
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one for the road - preparing to leave your full time job
Today we tackle my most frequently asked question (by my peers and honestly by me in the year leading up to putting in my notice) : 'how do I know if I'm ready to leave my full-time gig?' And while I don't believe in being 'ready' necessarily, there are definitely steps you can take to set…
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wfh - new rules for working from home
On Wednesday, a listener DM'd me and asked me for tips on working 'well' from home. It's a good question, actually - one that I have asked myself a million times over the last two years of running my business from home - and one that I'd like to think I have all of the answers to. But as I sat…
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$$$ - freelancing and finances during COVID-19
Damn, these are wild and uncertain times - especially when it comes to freelance and small business finances. In today's episode I'll walk you through all of the ways you can receive support for your business through government programs and private grants, how to make informed decisions about…
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from inside - redefining my business in the age of COVID-19
When I wrote my original first episode it was focused on building credibility - making myself sound like someone that someone like you might want to listen to. So I spent thirty minutes waxing poetic about all of the things I 'did' on a daily basis that made me a successful freelancer. And then,...
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Show Preview
See you back here on 4/5 to discuss all things freelance: from taxes, to dating, to imposter syndrome. In the meantime you can connect via @freelancetherapy on Instagram or sign up to hear the episode first at freelance-therapy.com.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Kennedy, your host and freelance therapy, created f/t to fill the gap between content encouraging you to pursue your dream and resources for freelancers focused primarily on developing hard skills. As we've grown Freelance Therapy has evolved into a community that helps you live your best and most adjusted freelance life. Think of us like a stressball for your freelance feelings from losing contracts to to trying to date as a freelancer. Find a chaise lounge, a topo chico and kick back - we're headed to therapy.
HOSTED BY
Kennedy Ann Roberts
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