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Leaving Academia: Becoming a Freelance Editor — 84 episodes
The Identity Shift Every Academic Needs Before Becoming a Paid Editor or Coach
Stop Leading with Your CV: Why Your Credentials Are Repelling Your Ideal Clients
"I Wish I Hadn't Waited So Long": How to Build a Business With Your Academic Expertise
My First Online Course Flopped (and What I Did to Sell 120 Seats in the Next One)
Your Post Got 2 Likes: Here's Why That Doesn't Matter
How to Market Your Academic Business... Without Feeling Gross
The Money Stuff Nobody Tells You: What a Financial Planner Wants Academics in Business to Know
How to Land Your First Coaching Client (When You Have No Idea What You're Doing)
Rethinking Education: How to Teach Outside the Traditional Classroom
Academia Uncensored: The Top 5 Reasons Why People Are Leaving
Hosting Your First Writing Retreat? Here's Everything You Need to Know to Make It a Success
Why Your Academic Job Search Isn't Working (Hint: It's Not Your Resume)
Don't List Your Credentials, Tell Your Story: The Real Secret to Attracting Clients
"I Finally Have a Life": What One Poli Sci Professor Gained When He Gave Up Academia
Academia Trained You To Overwork. Here's How to Undo It In Your Business
Is Consulting Your Escape from Academic Burnout? What Happens When You Stop Doing Free Labor
You Got Your First Inquiry... Now What?
Should You Leave Academia for Industry or Business? A Path to Coaching via Data Science
Why Good Academics Struggle to Make Good Money (and How to Fix It)
Marketing as an Academic Editor: What No One Teaches You
How to Create Regular Marketing Content without Losing Your Mind
How to Regret-Proof Your Life: Leaving Academia Mid-Career
Why DIY-ing Your Academic Business is Killing Your Profits (and What to Invest in First)
"You Can't Eat Prestige": Why Academic Identity Is a Trap, and How to Get Over It
Are Career Coaches for PhDs Worth the Money?
How a Free Writing Group Turned into Paid Clients: Building a "Plan B" Academic Business
Can Editors Survive the Rise of AI?
"It's OK to Choose Your Mental Health": One Academic's Leap into Industry and a Side Hustle
What It's Really Like to Run a Business (and Why Academics Get It Wrong)
Peg Dolls and Postcards: This Professor's Subscription Box Might Be the Writing Workshop You Need
Can You Be a Scholar Without Academia? This Writing Coach Says Yes
Stop Charging Like a Freelancer. Start Earning Like a CEO.
Get Paid for Your Academic Expertise: 3 Steps to Launch Your First Online Workshop
From Chemistry PhD to Academic Writing Coach: Launching and Growing the Researchers' Writing Academy
Is This All There Is? How One Professor Launched a Side Hustle and Reclaimed Her Joy
From PhD to Paid: The Exact Process I Used to Land $100/hr Clients as an Academic Editor
Why Credentials Don't Land Clients... and What Does
From the Lab to Multi-6 Figures: How this STEM PhD Built a Medical Writing Empire
From Mad Men to Mom Life: How One Professor Is Reinventing Herself through Comedy and Coaching
Planning Your Exit: 3 Steps to Build Your Business Before You Leave Your Academic Job
Will AI Replace Editors? A Conversation with the Founder of PerfectIt and Draftsmith
Overthinking Your Website? How to Simplify Your Homepage and Attract Your Ideal Clients
The Breaking Point: When You Realize You Have to Leave Academia--and What You Can Do Instead
How to Build Confidence in Business: Lessons from a Multi-6-Figure Academic Turned Business Coach
AI, Marketing, and Mindset Shifts
Marketing for Introverts: How to Use SEO and Avoid Social Media FOREVER!
The 2 Things Keeping Editors Stuck at $20/hr (It's NOT Your Skills)
The Academic Website Mistakes You Don't Know You're Making (and How to Fix Them)
From Burnout to CEO: How I Left Academia and Built a 6-Figure Editing Business
Coaching Session: Here's what you're missing if you're not attracting clients
From English Major to 6-Figure Editor (and Why AI Won't Take Our Jobs!)
Still Using Your Professor Voice? Here's Why It's Hurting Your Business... and How to Stop
Burned Out by the Academy? Here's How One Scholar Reclaimed Her Joy
Faculty Skills = Editing Gold: Why Scholars Make the Best Freelancers
How a Tenured Professor Left Academia and Built a Booked-Out Editing Business... in Just 2 Months
How to Land Steady Editing Work from University Presses and Journals
The 3-Page Website Formula that Turns Visitors into Paying Clients
Want to Earn More Money as an Editor? These Systems Will Change EVERYTHING
Inside My $100+/hr Workday
From Sabbatical to CEO: How One Scholar Created a Thriving Coaching Side Hustle
The Secret to Success in Writing Nonfiction: Insights from a PhD Turned Editor
5 Tips to Help You GTFO of Academia
Fiction or Fantasy? How to Bring Your Passions into Your Editing Work
Can Middle School Teachers Become Academic Editors? Here’s how…
5 Must-Have Tools to Edit Faster and Earn More Money
4 Steps to Get Started with Academic Editing NOW
A Deep Dive into Developmental Editing: How to Find Academic Clients, Set Your Rates, and Deliver the Final Product
How to Escape High School Teaching: Work 100% Remotely as an Academic Editor
How Do Clients Find Me? My 2024 Year in Review
Academic Editing around the World: How to Build a Global Editing Business
From Traveling Postdoc to Freelance Success: Building an Editing Career
How to Start an Academic Editing Agency: Founding and Building “Editing Worm”
From Academia to Editor: Creating a Successful Freelance Business
Combining Work and Play: A Unique Type of Freelance Editing
When You Need to Relocate: How to Work Remotely as an Academic Editor
Applying Your Academic Experience as a Dissertation Coach
Escaping Adjunct Hell and Rekindling Your Passions
How Blogging Can Attract Clients
Breaking Out of Academia and Finding Your Joy
How do freelance academic editors make money?
Overcoming Academic Burnout and Finding Fulfillment
Is Freelance Editing Right for Me?
What Does an Academic Editor Do?
Becoming a Freelance Academic Editor