Latest Freelance podcast Podcast Episodes
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...
Web Developer Stephen Adams
Being Freelance - October 16, 2022 06:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsStephen wasn’t looking to go freelance, but when redundancy came 10 years ago, he took on a contract for a few months. And here is all those years later saying he’d never go back. In between he’s evolved specialisms, written a book that became a course and started working remotely. Stephen take...
Sound Designer David Jeffers
Being Freelance - October 09, 2022 06:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsIn 2011, taking a family holiday from his job as a Ford engineer, changed David’s life forever. An accident on the beach left him paralysed from the chest down. Quadriplegic. When David was ready to work again, an old friend remembered their shared love of music. He suggested David create audi...
10. That Moment When You Realize All You Do Is Work
Entrepreneurs in Progress - October 03, 2022 07:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWhat do you do when you realize your life has become all about work? We think that we’ll have more freedom and flexibility when we leave corporate jobs to become entrepreneurs, but often end up working more than before! We need to recognize when it’s time to adjust our work-life balance and keep...
09. That Moment When You Realize You Need to Sell More
Entrepreneurs in Progress - September 26, 2022 07:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWhat do you do when you’re not bringing in enough revenue? You might have gotten a bump from your initial launch, but there typically comes a point where you realize you need to sell more in order to keep your business running. What are some ways to boost sales for your business? And should you...
08. That Moment When You Get Your First Sale!
Entrepreneurs in Progress - September 12, 2022 07:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsHow did we get our first sale? Getting your first sale is a big deal - it can be harder than most people think and it’s the next level towards reaching financial independence. So for those of you wondering, What did it feel like getting your first sale? And why is it a big deal? We'll tell you ...
07. That Moment When Nothing Seems to Work
Entrepreneurs in Progress - September 06, 2022 07:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWhat do you do when nothing seems to be working? In the beginning, it can take a while to figure out what will drive sales, and very difficult troubleshooting what part of the process is really the issue. When should you test or make changes? What should you do when you run out of ideas? We...
06. That Moment When You Realize Nobody Cares About Your Business
Entrepreneurs in Progress - August 29, 2022 07:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWhat do you do after your launch when your business isn’t an instant hit? Having a slow start and post-launch blues can kill your momentum. You’ll need to push through the valleys of despair on your way to mountain tops of success. So, how can you manage your expectations beforehand? And how...
05. That Moment When You Launch Your Company
Entrepreneurs in Progress - August 22, 2022 07:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWhat’s it like launching a company? It takes more than a great idea to have a successful business and achieve financial freedom - you need to launch and start executing! Everyone wants their company launch to be a success but what does it actually mean to launch your company? And when is the “ri...
04. That Moment When Setting Up Your Business is More Work Than You Realized
Entrepreneurs in Progress - August 15, 2022 07:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWhat do you need to do to set up your business? If you build it, the money will come. Well, hopefully - but you need to get your shit together. You start with a few ideas of what to do to get set up, but as you go down the rabbit hole, you realize there’s a lot more you need to think about and d...
03. That Moment When You File For Your LLC
Entrepreneurs in Progress - August 08, 2022 07:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsOfficial paperwork is definitely part of the less glamorous side of entrepreneurship, but it gets you one step closer to making your dreams a reality. What is an LLC? Why should you even form one? Is it even a big deal? These are all questions we answer as we share our experience filing for our...
01. That Moment When You Break Through Fear and Start Your Business
Entrepreneurs in Progress - August 01, 2022 07:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsHow do you break through fear and start your business? The hardest but most important step is getting started. Entrepreneurs have to learn how to deal with perfectionism, procrastination, self-doubt, and fear in order to become and stay successful. In this episode, we share our breakthrough mome...
02. That Moment When You Leave Your Full-Time Job
Entrepreneurs in Progress - August 01, 2022 07:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWhen is the right time to leave your job and pursue an entrepreneurial venture? Ultimately, our goal as entrepreneurs is to quit working for someone else and be our own boss, but taking that leap can be scary & nerve-wracking. It’s a huge deal! In this episode, we share that moment when we quit ...
Writer Nick Parker
Being Freelance - July 24, 2022 06:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsThe small agency Nick had joined had become a big agency. He’d become part of the leadership team. HR. Management. Meetings. He missed doing the ‘work’. He did know how much big clients were willing to pay for that work though. So Nick set out as a high-billing tone-of-voice specialist. A compa...
Ep 8 - Growing your professional worth
That Freelance Life - July 21, 2022 09:18 - 1 hourAs freelancers we’re always thinking about how we can facilitate long term relationships with clients. How to make ourselves invaluable to them and be the first choice for work. So we chatted to Olga Pope about How to grow your value as a freelancer - not only in the sense of earning more, but a...
Brand & Web Designer Fungi Dube
Being Freelance - July 17, 2022 06:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsFungi left university as a scientist. But it was her experiments with Photoshop that had unexpected results. She now wanted to be a designer. Whilst working full-time in science, she designed on the side. By changing her entire persona online, she began to turn what started as a passion project...
Ep 7 - Navigating freelance and mental health with Martina Gordeen
That Freelance Life - July 12, 2022 08:14 - 1 hourWe have been wanting to chat about mental health for ages now, but it’s even more apparent that this conversation is necessary post-pandemic. We are not all cookie cut-outs from the same dough, yet the system we are born into; school, work environment, isn't set up quite well enough yet for all ...
Illustrator Levi Jacobs
Being Freelance - July 10, 2022 06:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsLevi left art school with no job, but worse, no love of art. Eventually he started creating and experimenting. Finding his style, he also found an art director and his lucky break. Going from flipping burgers to turning over big meaty clients. Still Levi has worked hard to keep the ‘play’ of a...
Graphic Designer Frankie Tortora
Being Freelance - July 03, 2022 06:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsOver 10 years ago Frankie crowd funded her training as a graphic designer. It’s fair to say she doesn’t look at problems the same way everyone does. And when pregnancy took her flourishing freelance career a few steps back, when she felt isolated amongst parents with full-time jobs, she didn’t ...
Photographer & Creative Director Bal Bhatla
Being Freelance - June 26, 2022 06:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsBal loved his job in advertising, but posting on Instagram as ‘Mr Whisper’ changed the course of his career, leading him to work not only for himself, but with some insanely high profile brands from the off. As an early ‘creator’, Bal has had to adapt as social media has evolved, to make sure t...
Ep 6 - That remote work life with Jenna Smith
That Freelance Life - June 22, 2022 05:00 - 56 minutesWe all have those visions of sipping on a Pina Colada on the beach and checking emails when you feel up to it. That remote work life sounds dreamy, but how realistic is it? Now that the pandemic has almost forced us into remote working, how can we take full advantage of working from just about an...
Write & PR Consultant Michelle Garrett
Being Freelance - June 19, 2022 05:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsAlthough Michelle had a brief fling living the nine to five life in Silicon Valley, there was no chance of her resisting being her own boss. Starting out as a freelancer 20 years ago, Michelle could never have predicted that social media would become such a big part of her freelancing life - wi...
Ep 5 - That freelancer mortgage chat with Adrian van Cooten
That Freelance Life - June 15, 2022 05:00 - 1 hourThe self-employed are not the most desirable bunch to a mortgage lender, even though we can potentially earn more than those in perm positions. So how do we look more attractive to get the mortgage we want, for the dream home we desire? In this episode we chat to fellow freelancer and home buyer...
Designer & Illustrator Andi Best
Being Freelance - June 12, 2022 05:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsAfter graduating with a degree in illustration, Andi moved back to his hometown. Renting an odd-shaped office with no windows might not have given him great views. But it did give him amazing business connections. Resources and referrals that would set the first of many freelance plates spinnin...
Ep 4 - Hard conversations: Bullying with Sue Higgs
That Freelance Life - June 08, 2022 11:43 - 52 minutesIn this episode on hard conversations we cover the topic of bullying in the workplace. Often a subject shrugged to the side, especially when it involves someone senior to you or you are part of the minority in the workplace. Inspiring us and sharing her deep and personal story, we sat down with ...
Email Strategist & Copywriter Nikki Elbaz
Being Freelance - June 05, 2022 05:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsAfter being made redundant from her New York agency job, Nikki thought she’d go to Israel for a year and freelance as a copywriter. If it didn’t work out, she’d come back and get another agency job. 7.5 years later her family has grown up in Israel. Their mum is very much still freelance. But ...
Web Designer and Developer Ryan Gittings
Being Freelance - May 29, 2022 05:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsRyan started freelancing still in his teens, mentored by his first (and only) boss. Intriguingly, for SEO purposes he has both a freelancer website and a local agency site, but doesn’t want to grow bigger than being a solo business. He’s putting work-life balance ahead of profits. Our chat inc...
Ep 3 - Planning for a baby as a freelancer with Rebecca Rowntree
That Freelance Life - May 27, 2022 04:00 - 52 minutesDeciding to have a baby is one thing, deciding to have one with no security of maternity pay, is a whole nother feat freelancers need to think about. In this candid chat with Rebecca Rowntree, host of This Way Up podcast and Creative Director at Leo Burnett, we get into the nitty gritty of being...
Brand & Squarespace Website Designer Krishna Solanki
Being Freelance - May 22, 2022 06:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsKrishna was always freelance on the side of other jobs, eventually going full self-employed in 2019. Now with the support of a mentor, a community and mastermind group she’s growing her business into an agency. A lot going on, a lot happening fast. But then she loves life ‘100 miles per hour’....
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