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The Writing Coach Podcast with Rebecca L. Weber — 292 episodes

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WCP247 Coach me

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WCP246 First Tuesday: Write that pitch

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WCP245 Archives: 🐶 Monday mornings on the mountain with Mishka

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WCP244 Freelance feast or famine

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WCP243 Gift of specificity

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WCP242 Miss that exit

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WCP241 Archives: Internal and external accountability

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WCP240 Time distortion

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WCP239 You set your freelance writing rates

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WCP238 Accountability hit

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WCP237 ⚡ Archives: Lights out

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WCP236 Judge me

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WCP235 Expectations on the road

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WCP234 Answer the question

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WCP233 Fun with numbers

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WCP232 Podcast power with Steph Fuccio

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WCP231 Archives: Writing through grief

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WCP230 Co-writing, experiments, and timing

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WCP229 Do good work with Raul Hernandez Ochoa

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WCP228 Archives: Anti-racist reporting

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WCP227 You spelled/spelt it wrong

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WCP226 Exhume your lede

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WCP225 Seasonal eval

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WCP224 Archives: Best and worst clients

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WCP223 Cut and paste pitching

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WCP Bonus Why apply?

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WCP222 🍦 Have a taste

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WCP221 Vulnerability

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WCP220 Archives: Don't pay your dues

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WCP219 You can't include it all

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WCP Bonus 🩴 Taking the easy peasy route

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WCP218 When it's hard to let it be easy

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WCP Bonus Just like that, I had a cover story with Bonnie Raitt

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WCP217 Episode TK

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WCP216 Archives: Enterprise stories with Ray Joseph

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WCP215 Live coaching: Are you experienced

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WCP Bonus You CAN get lost in Cape Town

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WCP214 Cultivate flow

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WCP Bonus Selling yourself on your goals

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WCP Bonus My 3-step pitching process

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WCP213 🎶 Let's dance

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WCP212 Two-story goals

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WCP Bonus Free live coaching call Wednesday

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WCP 211 Archives: Story ideas you can't google

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WCP210 Authors pitching publications with Jo Buer

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WCP 209 Archives: Year-end pitching

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WCP 208 Archives: Freelancing when sick

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WCP207 Strategy and mindset

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WCP 206 Archives XXI: Mother tongue with Beatriz Miranda, Agnieszka Pikulicka- Wilczewska, and Yolisa Qunta

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WCP205 Everything you do matters with Allison B. Salerno

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WCP204 🐘🐘 Don't think of baby twin elephants

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WCP203 Archives XX: The $10k email

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WCP202 Repurposing

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WCP Bonus 🥑 Breaking the cycle of procrastination

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WCP201 Interconnections with Iona Brannon

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WCP200 What I've learned creating 200 podcast episodes

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WCP199 Archives XIX: Favorite freelance writer resources

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WCP198 Listener Q&A, Vol. IX

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WCP197 Borrow this

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WCP196 Repetition. Again

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WCP195 Archives XVIII: Pitching travel stories before or after the trip

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WCP Bonus When you're not enjoying the writing life

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WCP194 Beautiful Writers with Linda Sivertsen

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WCP Bonus Earning more as a freelancer: Do this, don't do that

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WCP 193 Rates shaming

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WCP Bonus Breakthroughs and transformations

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WCP192 No nonprofit saviors

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WCP Bonus Do you need more writing time?

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WCP191 Time passing

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WCP Bonus Daffodils, transitions, and arguing for what's helpful

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WCP190 Archives XVII: Sorting and archiving freelance articles

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WCP Bonus Morning in the library

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WCP189 Scope creep

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WCP188 Not a fluke

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WCP187 You're invited

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WCP186 Archives, Vol. XVI: Pitch anything

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WCP185 Freelance writing goals, Vol. VII

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WCP184 Human rights reporting with Sara Cincurova

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WCP183 Going backwards

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WCP182 Archives, Vol. IV: Annoying pitches

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WCP181 Curiouser and curiouser

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WCP180 Learning mindset

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WCP Bonus 🍌 Bananas, late paying clients, and the familiar zone

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WCP179 Pregnancy and parental leave

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WCP178 Archives, Vol. XIV: Sources who want to review your draft

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WCP177 A new answer to "Why now?"

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WCP176 Bombing vs brilliant

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WCP175 Writing in Community

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WCP Bonus 5 percent pitching

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WCP174 Archives, Vol. XIII: 100 reasons not to pitch today

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WCP173 One night stand mindset

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WCP172 Reason why chsbgdx (aka consistency)

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WCP Bonus Making application decisions

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WCP171 Seasons and cycles

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WCP Bonus Thinking long term

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WCP170 Archives, Vol. XII: Bridge thoughts

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Invitation Tuesday March 17 2022

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WCP169 Do you need an X?

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WCP Bonus Wordle walked into a café

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WCP168 Wordle wisdom

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WCP167 Organic tomatoes vs. Twinkies

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WCP166 Archives, Vol. XI: Call for pitches

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WCP Bonus: Bootcamp scholarship and why your story should be told now

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WCP165 Real negotiations

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WCP Bonus: Deeper dive on putting yourself out there

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WCP164 Putting yourself out there

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WCP163 The late paying client

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WCP162 Writing Coach Podcast 162 Archives, Vol. X: The research rabbit hole

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WCP161 Neediness cycle

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WCP160 Setting freelance writing goals, Vol. VI: 5W1H goal setting

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WCP159 Resolutions, experiments, and followups

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WCP158 Archives, Vol. IX: Urgency

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WCP Bonus Year-end pitching

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WCP157 Worth the money

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WCP156 Evaluations and entitlement

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WCP Bonus Masterclass Invitation December 8

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WCP155 Why your pitch is too long

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WCP154 Change your mind

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WCP153 Archives Vol. VIII, Pay me now

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WCP152 Cost of a new client

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WCP 151 But, but, and

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WCP150 Archives Vol. VII, Company policies

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WCP Early bird applications for Bootcamp opening soon

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WCP149 Underrepresentation in journalism

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WCP Bonus Apply for the Yolisa Qunta Freelance Writer Bootcamp Scholarship

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WCP 148 Who is the bad freelance friend?

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WCP147 Enterprise stories with Raymond Joseph

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WCP146 Archives Vol. V, Coming attractions

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WCP145 Don't pay your dues

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WCP144 Archives Vol. V, What's your (writing) problem?

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WCP143 Love notes

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WCP142 Judgment day

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WCP141 Decision making for financial growth

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WCP140 Archives Vol. IV Portfolio shame

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WCP139 Topsy turvy

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WCP138 Listener Q&A, Vol. VIII

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WCP137 Asking better questions with Maggie Reyes

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WCP136 Archives Vol. III: Pitch the chicken

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WCP135 Constrain for focus

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WCP134 What to charge

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WCP133 Transitional skills

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WCP132 Archives Vol. II Celebrating

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WCP131 Pitch anything

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WCP130 Pitching for demand

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WCP129 Writing space

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WCP128 Archives Vol. I Managing overwhelm

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WCP127 Favorite freelance writer resources

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WCP126 Listener Q&A, Vol. VII

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WCP125 Flexible deadlines

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WCP124 3-minute marketing makeover

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WCP123 Why you don't followup

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WCP122: Freelancing while sick

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WCP121 Mission: Accomplished

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WCP120 Priority power

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WCP119 I want to, I want to not

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WCP Bonus Masterclass invitation

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WCP118 Best and worst clients

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WCP117 Evolve with your clients

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WCP116 Lights out

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WCP Miniseries bonus: Break the cycle

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WCP115 Pitching as a freelance superpower: Pitching triad miniseries (3 of 3)

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WCP114 Everyday dream clients: Pitching triad miniseries (2 of 3)

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WCP113 Believe me: The pitching triad miniseries (1 of 3)

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WCP112 15 Minutes of focus

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WCP111 Intentions and transitions

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WCP110 Passive vs. active

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WCP Bonus: Pitch Imperfect Masterclass

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WCP109 No complaints

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WCP108 Default to deliberate with Judith Gaton

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WCP107 The End

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WCP106 Nobody wants your pitch

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WCP105 Should-free pitching

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WCP104 When to pitch

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WCP103 Urgency

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WCP102 Mother tongue with Beatriz Miranda, Agnieszka Pikulicka- Wilczewska, and Yolisa Qunta

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WCP101 Ask back

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WCP 100 Call for pitches

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WCP99 Risky business

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WCP98 3 things your editor isn't thinking about you

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WCP97 Setting freelance writer goals, Vol. V: Celebrations

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WCP96 Winning

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WCP95 Low-hanging fruit

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WCP94 Impact with Melissa Noel

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WCP93 Listener Q&A, Vol. VI

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WCP92 Anti-racist reporting

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WCP91 Redirect

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WCP90 Overpitching

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WCP Bonus Masterclass Wednesday

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WCP89 Annoying pitches

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WCP88 Assignment Guilt

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WCP87 Plan from the future

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WCP86 Good news

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WCP85 Replacing clients

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WCP84 Excitement!!

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WCP83 Dateline Milan with Janna Brancolini

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WCP82 Live coaching

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WCP81 Remote reporting

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WCP80 Freelancing in the time of coronavirus

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WCP Bonus The Confident Writer Masterclass Live on Wednesday

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WCP79 Covering coronavirus

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WCP Bonus Masterclass

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WCP78 Professional jealousy

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WCP77 Making sales without being salesy

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WCP76 Late bloomer

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WCP75 Niche drama

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WCP74 Why you're the one

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WCP73 Freelance journal

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WCP72 Internal and external accountability

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WCP Bonus The Confident Writer Masterclass

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WCP71 2020 vision

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WCP70 Application opportunities

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WCP69 Right action

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WCP68 Listener Q&A, Vol. V

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WCP67 3 ways to earn more money

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WCP66 Reading and advice from Margaret Atwood

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WCP65 Portfolio shame

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WCP64 Process

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WCP Bonus Free masterclass this Wednesday: Creating sustainable freelance writing success

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WCP63 Your relationship with your freelance writing business

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WCP62 PITA clients

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WCP61 Coming attractions

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WCP60 OOO la la

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WCP Bonus: Join me for a free class

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WCP59 Setting freelance writer goals, Vol. IV: Money goals

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WCP58 Listener Q&A, Vol. IV

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WCP57 Climate strikes and objectivity

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WCP Bonus: Podcast birthday! :D

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WCP56 Playing it safe

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WCP55 Finding story ideas you can't Google: Conferences, conventions, and trade shows, oh my

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WCP54 Indistractable with Nir Eyal

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WCP53 Rejection

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WCP52 Covering social justice: passion and pay

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WCP51 Democratizing food writing with Ishay Govender-Ypma

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WCP50 Self Evaluations

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WCP49 Sources who want to review drafts

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WCP48 100 reasons why you shouldn't write your pitch today

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WCP47 Listener Q&A, Volume III

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WCP46 Literary Paris with Nichole Robertson

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WCP Bonus: Secrets of sustainable freelance writing success

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WCP45 Setting freelance writing goals, Vol. 3

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WCP44 Monday morning on the mountain with Mishka

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WCP43 Bridge thoughts

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WCP Bonus: Don't believe everything your mind tells you

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WCP42 Writers and imposter syndrome

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WCP41 Sorting and archiving freelance articles

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WCP40 Warming up to your next client

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WCP39 Listener Q&A, Volume II

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WCP38 Writing through grief

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WCP37 Write locally, publish globally

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WCP36 Editing expectations

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WCP35 Podcasting with Suchandrika Chakrabarti

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WCP Bonus: Telling people you're a writer

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WCP34 Investing in your writing

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WCP33 A writer by any other name

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WCP32 Setting freelance writer goals, Vol. 2

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WCP31 How do you feel about breaking into your dream publications?

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WCP30 Working on the road

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WCP29 The research rabbit hole

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WCP Bonus FB Live on Structure

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WCP28 Listener Q&A

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WCP27 Name your niche

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WCP26 Decolonizing science writing with Sibusiso Biyela

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WCP25 Using juicy quotes in your pitches

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WCP24: Which comes first, the pitch or the interview?

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WCP 23: Company of One with Paul Jarvis

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WCP 22: The $10,000 email

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WCP Bonus: Why aren't you making more money as a freelance writer?

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WCP Bonus: FB Live Integration Q&A

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WCP21: What if you loved to pitch?

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WCP20: Setting freelance writer goals

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WCP19: Your year in review

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WCP18: The creative process with Emma Philipson

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WCP 17: Overwhelm

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WCP16: Freewriting for freelancers

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WCP Bonus: Working (or not) when other people are on vacation

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WCP15 How Nelson Mandela taught me to write faster

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WCP14 Reporting behind bars with Shaheen Pasha

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WCP13 Setting freelance boundaries and company policies

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WCP Bonus: Boost your bottom line as a freelance writer

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WCP12 How to get freelance clients to pay on time

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WCP11 Money and negotiation blocks

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WCP10 The confident writer

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09: Longform articles and short documentaries with Christopher Clark

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08: Backstory of a New York Times travel feature with Sarah Khan

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07: Procrastinate later

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Bonus: FB Live with Freelance Writer Bootcamp alumni

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06: Why you're not pitching when you "should" be

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05: Pitching mindset

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04: The perfect black T-shirt

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03: Travel writing: Pitching stories before or after the trip

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02: Thinking thoughts and feeling feels

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01: What's your problem?