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Leaving Academia: Becoming a Freelance Editor — 84 episodes

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The Identity Shift Every Academic Needs Before Becoming a Paid Editor or Coach

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Stop Leading with Your CV: Why Your Credentials Are Repelling Your Ideal Clients

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"I Wish I Hadn't Waited So Long": How to Build a Business With Your Academic Expertise

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My First Online Course Flopped (and What I Did to Sell 120 Seats in the Next One)

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Your Post Got 2 Likes: Here's Why That Doesn't Matter

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How to Market Your Academic Business... Without Feeling Gross

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The Money Stuff Nobody Tells You: What a Financial Planner Wants Academics in Business to Know

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How to Land Your First Coaching Client (When You Have No Idea What You're Doing)

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Rethinking Education: How to Teach Outside the Traditional Classroom

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Academia Uncensored: The Top 5 Reasons Why People Are Leaving

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Hosting Your First Writing Retreat? Here's Everything You Need to Know to Make It a Success

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Why Your Academic Job Search Isn't Working (Hint: It's Not Your Resume)

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Don't List Your Credentials, Tell Your Story: The Real Secret to Attracting Clients

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"I Finally Have a Life": What One Poli Sci Professor Gained When He Gave Up Academia

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Academia Trained You To Overwork. Here's How to Undo It In Your Business

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Is Consulting Your Escape from Academic Burnout? What Happens When You Stop Doing Free Labor

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You Got Your First Inquiry... Now What?

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Should You Leave Academia for Industry or Business? A Path to Coaching via Data Science

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Why Good Academics Struggle to Make Good Money (and How to Fix It)

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Marketing as an Academic Editor: What No One Teaches You

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How to Create Regular Marketing Content without Losing Your Mind

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How to Regret-Proof Your Life: Leaving Academia Mid-Career

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Why DIY-ing Your Academic Business is Killing Your Profits (and What to Invest in First)

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"You Can't Eat Prestige": Why Academic Identity Is a Trap, and How to Get Over It

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Are Career Coaches for PhDs Worth the Money?

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How a Free Writing Group Turned into Paid Clients: Building a "Plan B" Academic Business

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Can Editors Survive the Rise of AI?

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"It's OK to Choose Your Mental Health": One Academic's Leap into Industry and a Side Hustle

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What It's Really Like to Run a Business (and Why Academics Get It Wrong)

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Peg Dolls and Postcards: This Professor's Subscription Box Might Be the Writing Workshop You Need

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Can You Be a Scholar Without Academia? This Writing Coach Says Yes

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Stop Charging Like a Freelancer. Start Earning Like a CEO.

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Get Paid for Your Academic Expertise: 3 Steps to Launch Your First Online Workshop

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From Chemistry PhD to Academic Writing Coach: Launching and Growing the Researchers' Writing Academy

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Is This All There Is? How One Professor Launched a Side Hustle and Reclaimed Her Joy

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From PhD to Paid: The Exact Process I Used to Land $100/hr Clients as an Academic Editor

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Why Credentials Don't Land Clients... and What Does

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From the Lab to Multi-6 Figures: How this STEM PhD Built a Medical Writing Empire

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From Mad Men to Mom Life: How One Professor Is Reinventing Herself through Comedy and Coaching

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Planning Your Exit: 3 Steps to Build Your Business Before You Leave Your Academic Job

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Will AI Replace Editors? A Conversation with the Founder of PerfectIt and Draftsmith

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Overthinking Your Website? How to Simplify Your Homepage and Attract Your Ideal Clients

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The Breaking Point: When You Realize You Have to Leave Academia--and What You Can Do Instead

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How to Build Confidence in Business: Lessons from a Multi-6-Figure Academic Turned Business Coach

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AI, Marketing, and Mindset Shifts

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Marketing for Introverts: How to Use SEO and Avoid Social Media FOREVER!

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The 2 Things Keeping Editors Stuck at $20/hr (It's NOT Your Skills)

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The Academic Website Mistakes You Don't Know You're Making (and How to Fix Them)

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From Burnout to CEO: How I Left Academia and Built a 6-Figure Editing Business

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Coaching Session: Here's what you're missing if you're not attracting clients

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From English Major to 6-Figure Editor (and Why AI Won't Take Our Jobs!)

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Still Using Your Professor Voice? Here's Why It's Hurting Your Business... and How to Stop

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Burned Out by the Academy? Here's How One Scholar Reclaimed Her Joy

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Faculty Skills = Editing Gold: Why Scholars Make the Best Freelancers

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How a Tenured Professor Left Academia and Built a Booked-Out Editing Business... in Just 2 Months

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How to Land Steady Editing Work from University Presses and Journals

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The 3-Page Website Formula that Turns Visitors into Paying Clients

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Want to Earn More Money as an Editor? These Systems Will Change EVERYTHING

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Inside My $100+/hr Workday

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From Sabbatical to CEO: How One Scholar Created a Thriving Coaching Side Hustle

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The Secret to Success in Writing Nonfiction: Insights from a PhD Turned Editor

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5 Tips to Help You GTFO of Academia

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Fiction or Fantasy? How to Bring Your Passions into Your Editing Work

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Can Middle School Teachers Become Academic Editors? Here’s how…

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5 Must-Have Tools to Edit Faster and Earn More Money

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4 Steps to Get Started with Academic Editing NOW

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A Deep Dive into Developmental Editing: How to Find Academic Clients, Set Your Rates, and Deliver the Final Product

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How to Escape High School Teaching: Work 100% Remotely as an Academic Editor

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How Do Clients Find Me? My 2024 Year in Review

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Academic Editing around the World: How to Build a Global Editing Business

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From Traveling Postdoc to Freelance Success: Building an Editing Career

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How to Start an Academic Editing Agency: Founding and Building “Editing Worm”

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From Academia to Editor: Creating a Successful Freelance Business

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Combining Work and Play: A Unique Type of Freelance Editing

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When You Need to Relocate: How to Work Remotely as an Academic Editor

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Applying Your Academic Experience as a Dissertation Coach

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Escaping Adjunct Hell and Rekindling Your Passions

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How Blogging Can Attract Clients

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Breaking Out of Academia and Finding Your Joy

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How do freelance academic editors make money?

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Overcoming Academic Burnout and Finding Fulfillment

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Is Freelance Editing Right for Me?

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What Does an Academic Editor Do?

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Becoming a Freelance Academic Editor