Latest Freelance podcast Podcast Episodes
Winning freelance clients from Instagram & TikTok with logo designer James Barnard
Being Freelance - April 07, 2024 07:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsJames Barnard shares his journey of becoming a freelancer and the strategies he uses to find clients and grow his business. He emphasises the importance of niche specialisation. When James focussed on logo design it made it much easier to attract clients. Steve and James discuss pricing stra...
Art Beyond the Arches: From McDonald's to a varied diet of design & illustration for freelancer Dan Bailey
Being Freelance - March 17, 2024 06:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsDan went freelance twice. First for creative freedom. Secondly to free him up for his family. Starting out as a designer for McDonald's but wanted a more varied diet of projects. With a lot of time freelancing in agencies, Dan learnt to stand out, be indispensable and build relationships to exp...
Copywriter Adri Kopp
Being Freelance - March 03, 2024 06:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsFrom big cat zookeeper to taming words as a freelance copywriter, Adri's freelancing story starts a little differently. Burnout led to her quitting the zoo before even securing a paying client. A persistence in cold emailing, dealing with rejections that would have made many give up has led to w...
Logo Designer Blesson Varghese
Being Freelance - February 18, 2024 06:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsThis time we're off to India to chat to self taught Logo & Brand Identity Designer Blesson Varghese. We cover the importance of networking, 'silent' mentors, balancing work and life, and the challenges faced by freelancers in a society that doesn't yet fully value creative professions. Additi...
Virtual Assistant Erin Buck
Being Freelance - February 04, 2024 06:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsMeet VA & Social Media Assistant Erin Buck. Not that she knew what that was 5 years ago. But then, she was happy working in a school. She didn't need to know. But then a twinge in Erin's back turned her world upside down. Nerve damage could left her housebound, watching daytime TV. Instead sh...
Social Media Strategist Andréa Jones
Being Freelance - January 21, 2024 06:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsEarly success on platforms like Fiverr and Upwork led to Andréa expanding her services and horizons. Using video and podcasts she built trust. She also built an agency. Dealing with the challenges of managing a team, working around family, and staying focussed in a world of shiny objects. With...
Exhibition Designer Rebecca Shipham - Revisited
Being Freelance - January 07, 2024 21:10 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsIn this episode, Steve catches up with previous guest Rebecca Shipham, a freelance exhibition designer with 13 years of experience. They first spoke for the Being Freelance podcast in October 2015 - you can hear how Rebecca got started by listening to that. Here we are, eight years on - time ...
Copywriter Eddie Shleyner
Being Freelance - December 17, 2023 06:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsIn 2014 Eddie started the Very Good Copy blog. Using it to educate himself, to explore copywriting techniques whilst working in-house. But he wasn’t the only one reading it. As it grew in popularlity, people started reaching out, offering him work. He turned them down. Until eventually in 2020,...
PR Lucy Werner
Being Freelance - December 03, 2023 06:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsFrom starting as a PR freelancer to accidentally heading a small agency, working with her husband and then transitioning back into solo freelancing, Lucy shares the challenges she's faced along the way - both professional and personal. As the creator of ‘Hype Yourself’, we hear how showing up d...
Webflow Expert Robert Smart
Being Freelance - November 19, 2023 06:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsStudy, determination, and a knack for design were going to take Robert out of his poor upbringing in South Africa. But the death of his brother, drew him back again. To help young people see a brighter future for themselves, he needed time. To have time, he needed to go freelance. Faced with th...
Web Designer Hannah Dossary
Being Freelance - November 05, 2023 06:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsHannah wondered how the people she met whilst travelling could afford to travel non-stop. It turned out, they were freelancers. And so began a journey into figuring out how she could make that happen, whether she’d like it when she did - and finding her niche along the way. Now back in the UK, ...
Case Study Buddy Joel Klettke
Being Freelance - October 22, 2023 06:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsJoel was originally on the Being Freelance podcast in November 2015. Now it’s time to catch up on the intervening 8 years. As he’s gone from a single solo copywriter to being a married father and founder of a company. We hear how Case Study Buddy grew out of a freelancing side project into a c...
Graphic Designer & Illustrator Sam Minton
Being Freelance - October 08, 2023 06:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsSam was drawn to freelancing when the bar he pulled pints for, asked him to design a poster. The writing was on the wall. Well, it wouldn’t have been a great poster otherwise. Sam became known as a designer/illustrator for bars, pubs and clubs. And then covid hit. Overnight all those places sh...
Brand & Web Designer Kayleigh Hall
Being Freelance - September 24, 2023 05:40 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsFor a long time Kayleigh didn’t even see what she had as a 'business'. She was trading time and skills for money. But a few years ago she embraced outside help. Coaches. Group coaching. Working with a strategist, a photographer and copywriter. She polished her brand and found her niche. With t...
Copywriter Franky Shanahan - Revisited
Being Freelance - September 10, 2023 05:55 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratings8 years after Franky first appeared on the podcast, it’s time to catch up. Still a freelance copywriter. Still in Bristol. But so much has changed. Not just her kids getting taller. In this episode, Franky shares how she had to reshape her business around a chronic illness, diagnosed less tha...
BONUS - LIVE Q&As with Prerna Malik, Beth Gladstone and Tom Garfield
Being Freelance - July 23, 2023 07:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsIn this special bonus episode of the Being Freelance podcast we take a selection of the regular Live Q&As that we host in the Being Freelance Community and let you soak up the wisdom once more. You can catch full video replays of all of our Live Q&As in the Being Freelance Community. In this e...
Graphic Designer Liz Mosley
Being Freelance - March 26, 2023 06:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsWhen Liz left uni, she was adamant she didn’t want to be a freelancer. And yet here we are, via starting a stationery business and a family. A 9 year gradual process which has resulted in her switching from treating her freelancing like a hobby, to firmly treating it like a business. Starting...
Lettering Artist Jackson Alves
Being Freelance - March 19, 2023 06:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsThis is actually the fourth time Jackson’s been freelance. He’s not just quit jobs, he even once quit his own company. But whereas the other times he was a ‘regular’ graphic designer, this time he’s spent a decade as a specialist: a lettering artist and calligrapher. Regularly posting to Insta...
Copywriter Anna Rogan
Being Freelance - March 12, 2023 06:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsAnna had built a career across corporate and government comms in Melbourne. But if she wanted to move her family out of the city and that meant first meant transforming the way she worked. Anna set out to prove she could match her past income, now as a freelance copywriter. The seeds she plant...
Motion Designer Alex Liou
Being Freelance - March 05, 2023 08:26 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsAlex trained as a musician. He followed a drumming dream to Nashville along with an internship at a 'mom & pop' business. There, they had him creating graphics and videos - those two things came together when Alex discovered motion graphics. He took to studying and developing as a motion design...
Marketing Consultant Ayo Abbas
Being Freelance - February 26, 2023 06:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsSpring 2020. A pandemic lockdown. Doesn’t sound like the ideal time to build a business, but Ayo had 20 years of marketing experience as her foundations. And a love of marketing that she’d put to good use on herself. Specialising in the ‘built environment’ - think construction, engineers, archi...
Graphic Designer Victoria O'May
Being Freelance - February 19, 2023 06:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsBrazilian creative Victoria was working in advertising in London when in 2013 she fancied a change. A change of pace, country and language, and to help her do that she figured she’d go freelance in Spain. After 3 years she took a job in an agency. Four years on she felt ready to freelance agai...
Fashion Photographer Marcelle Adrianna
Being Freelance - December 11, 2022 06:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsIt’s quite a winding route that’s taken Marcelle to be known as a fashion photographer. But from working in shops on London’s Oxford Street as a teenager, now her photos can be seen in those windows instead. Marcelle did lots of work for free early on but it built a network, a portfolio and a r...
Motion Designer Kyle Hamrick
Being Freelance - December 04, 2022 08:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsKyle left agency life and started his self-employed journey working with friends as a collective. 8 years on though, he’d built his own name through hosting meet-ups and speaking at events to the point where it made sense to go solo. From small meet-ups he ended up speaking on some of the bigge...
Market Researcher Jenna Kang-Graham
Being Freelance - November 27, 2022 06:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsWhen Korean Hyunjin, or ‘Jenna’ as she’s also known, met her American husband, she moved to be with him and needed to find work in small town USA. Whilst blogging tips about international relationships, Jenna found readers started to approach her for help with their own written English requirem...
Graphic Designer Luke Tonge
Being Freelance - November 20, 2022 06:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsLuke needn’t have been scared of going freelance. He’d spent 10 years of agency life making great work and making a name for himself. Through writing, speaking and community, people knew he’d be a great freelancer even if he didn’t. And whilst all of his income is derived from client work, that...
Editor & Proofreader Robyn Santa Maria
Being Freelance - November 13, 2022 06:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsWhen Australian Robyn quit her job working in comms for a French yacht company, she wasn’t expecting her boss to be so keen to keep her that he’d offer her a 2-day-a-week retainer if she went freelance. So she did. Finding work through her network and referrals along the way. 6 years later Roby...
PPC Consultant Ryan Scollon
Being Freelance - November 06, 2022 06:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsWhile working in his first job at a small agency, Ryan started a website. He didn’t think much of it. Until its local SEO started bringing him leads and the chance to do extra work on the side. A year on, working evenings and weekends, he’d reached capacity. This was it. Time to go full time fr...
Marketing Consultant Nadine Campbell
Being Freelance - October 30, 2022 06:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsAlready established in her marketing career, Nadine went freelance in order to ‘stretch’ herself professionally. And stretch she has! Her natural networking style served her well. Nadine has been freelancing for 10 years with big name clients and still doesn’t have a website of her own. LinkedI...
Writer Momina Asif
Being Freelance - October 23, 2022 05:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsMomina realised traditional office life didn’t fit with taking care of her mental health. Sh'e’d go freelance and be a better boss to herself. Having quickly built up a personal brand and relationships on Twitter, work soon came her way. This was in January 2022. So when she spoke for the podc...
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