Networking Can Work! How Andre De Almeida built his freelance business on conversations
Moving from Brazil to London to learn English in 2016, Andre De Almeida didn’t just pick up the language - he picked up the Being Freelance...
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The podcast for creative freelancers who want a better business and a better life. Pick up tips, advice and thoughts on how to make it being freelance by hearing others share their stories....
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From Burnout to Balance: Pacing Your Business as a Neurodivergent Freelancer with Celie Nigoumi
Photographer and creative facilitator Celie Nigoumi shares her journey from severe burnout and chronic health challenges after university to...
Embracing The Weird: How Quirky Outreach Built a Copywriting Business with Helen Carrie
What happens when the industry you’ve worked in for a decade gets shut down overnight? In this episode, host Steve Folland chats with Helen...
5 Ways AI Could Be Tripping Up Your Freelance Business - Bonus - with lawyer Ingrid Fernandez
AI is already in your freelance business, whether you invited it or not. The usual Being Freelance podcast is on its summer break, but here'...
The Blogs Became Books... Became Clients - David Airey
David Airey is a freelance graphic designer based in Northern Ireland, self-employed since 2005. He's the author of several best-selling des...
Freelancer BTS - Not rushing on
New full episode coming soon. But in this super short one - Steve Folland explains why he's not publishing a new interview this week. Too of...
Freelancing Through Every Tech Shift Since the 90s - Lisa Emmington
Lisa Emmington is a freelance instructional designer (or as her newly SEO'd website puts it, a training course designer) based near Milton K...
Chase the Happiness: Meaningful Freelancing - Filmmaker Zoe East
Zoe East has never had a proper job. A work experience placement at a big TV channel that felt old-fashioned and sexist put her off the trad...
The Recipe Is Always the Same: Reach Out, Follow Up - Émilie Chen
French creative Émilie Chen had what she calls her dream job: senior designer at The National Theatre in London, working on posters she'd dr...
Freelancing as an Unpaid Carer - Adrian Ashton
Adrian’s been a successful freelancer for 21 years. But in the past 7, his definition of framing success has changed. For the last seven yea...
Her Niche Is Fishe - Becoming The Ocean Writer - Melissa Hobson
Melissa spent over a decade in PR & Comms. She was good at it but she was drawn to the ocean. So she started pitching dive magazines on the...
Becoming a Freelance Illustrator for Marvel, Disney and DC: Doaly
How does a creative side project turn into a decade long freelancing business working with the biggest names in pop culture, like Disney, Pi...
Business Name vs Your Own Name: Which is Better for Freelancers?
It's a question Steve Folland gets asked a lot: as a freelancer, is it better to have a company name or use your own? In this compilation ep...
Becoming the go-to freelancer in your niche - Jessi Illustrates
Jessica Hartshorn was trained as an illustrator, but unable to get work as one she went in another direction. Jessica spent the next 16 year...
Freelancer BTS - Some things are more important
New episodes with fresh freelancing stories coming very soon. But as Jess Bruno said on her episode of Being Freelance: "Content can always...
Stop Waiting for Clients. Start Making - Charles Commins
Charles Commins handed his notice in at his pub management job with no plan and no business. His partner gave him one month to figure it out...
Field Trip Fridays and Four Bank Accounts - Illustrator Perryn Ryan
Perryn Ryan didn't set out to become a freelance illustrator. After a degree in computer information systems (to keep her parents happy), ye...
Chase Those Late Payments - Graphic Designer Laura Whitehouse
Laura Whitehouse didn’t follow the usual path into graphic design. While studying archaeology and anthropology (told you) at university, she...
How to Find Your Freelancing Niche
In this short compilation episode, Steve revisits conversations from across 11 years of the Being Freelance podcast archive to explore what...
When Freelancing Goes Quiet: Getting Proactive with Mark Grainger
For years, Mark Grainger’s freelance business ticked along nicely. Referrals. Word of mouth. Repeat clients. And then… things went quiet. In...