Freelancing? Being boss of your own life and business can be tough and isolating. But it can also be totally rewarding. Pick up tips, advice and thoughts on how to make it as a freelancer, an entrepreneur, as the owner of your own business, by hearing other freelancers share their experience. Hosted by Steve Folland. Come join us in the Being Freelance Community - You're not alone being freelance. Not anymore. www.beingfreelance.com/community
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In our Back to the F**kture podcast, hosted by The Future Laboratory co-founder Martin Raymond, we ask a future-thinker to put foresight predictions under the hindsight spotlight and explore how trends were disrupted and what this has meant for the future.
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This podcast is created by Alon Ben Joseph. I am an entrepreneur from Amsterdam in the Netherlands. On this podcast I will talk about things that interest me and this time I share my favorite podcasts and would love to hear what are yours. For more info: http://www.ben-joseph.com
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The Positive Education Podcast engages with experts in the field of wellbeing and Positive Education, with the aim of having authentic and meaningful conversations about how to cultivate wellbeing for individuals and communities. It is our hope that these conversations provide our audience with tangible strategies to advance Positive Education in their school, as well as to support their own wellbeing.
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Passion over Profit: Desire Lacap's Freelancing Philosophy
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Purpose Driven Freelancer Ettie Bailey-King
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Subscription freelancing - Brand Designer Brennan Gilbert
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Start Local - Freelance Marketer Hannah Isted
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Finding your Freelancing Niche - Video Production Specialist Kirth Noel
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S3 Ep1: Des Fitzgerald in Search of the Cities of Tomorrow
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We’ve covered a lot about green cities and the rise of blue zone city districts on LS:N Global, but what if we have been too simplistic, judgemental and morally narrow in our approach and understanding that green is good and the concrete grey of the city is inevitably bad for our physical, spiritual and moral wellbeing? Professor Des Fitzgerald rem…
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Niche Resistant - Freelance Writer Shea Karssing
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This time we're off to South Africa to hear the freelancing story of writer Shea Karssing. Shea was changing jobs every couple of years. Boredom setting in again. Taking freelance projects on the side to keep things interesting, she eventually realised she didn’t need a ‘job’ after all. In this episode we chat about - setting boundaries - building …
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Build A Freelancing Life - Architect Turned Designer Andy Hau
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Meet multifaceted designer and illustrator and one-person agency, Andy Hau. Andy shatters the typical freelance mold by sharing his unique journey from architecture to the wide world of design, revealing how a chance encounter with musician Imogen Heap kickstarted his career in a new direction. Andy discusses the challenges of marketing yourself, t…
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Owning your age as a freelancer: The Wrinkly Writer - Mary Cameron
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Age doesn't matter. Until it does. Until you get the feeling people won't hire you anymore because you're too old. For Mary, she was 58. From New Zealand, but having spent 30 years in Australia in 'normal' full time jobs. Faced with ageism, she realised maybe it wasn't just that the interview panels didn't want her. Maybe she didn't want them anymo…
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Winning freelance clients from Instagram & TikTok with logo designer James Barnard
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James 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 strategies in attracting the right clients. When to first disc…
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Art Beyond the Arches: From McDonald's to a varied diet of design & illustration for freelancer Dan Bailey
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Dan 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 expand his chance of finding work. He also flexed himself …
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From 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 warm relationships and a niche in emails themselves. Ad…
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This 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. Additionally, Blesson shares insights on his approach to handli…
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S2 Ep25: Susanne Etti and the reality of a carbon footprint
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In our latest Back to the F**kture podcast, Dr Susanne Etti talks carbon labelling and more collaborative and constructive ways to tackle the climate crisis through her role and work with sustainable travel group, Intrepid. Dr Susanne Etti and I hit it off straight away. For one, she lives in Melbourne – my favourite maritime city and skinny white …
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Meet 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 she propelled herself into an online business world she had…
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S2 Ep24: Tasha Golden and the impact of art on mental health
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According to the World Health Organization, good health isn’t ‘merely the absence of disease’, but ‘complete physical, mental and social wellbeing’. Dr Tasha Golden, my latest guest on Back to the F**kture, concurs. But – given the fact that she is a poet, songwriter, performer and storyteller, as well as a public health scientist – she takes this …
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Early 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 the 'Savvy Social' Podcasts, YouTube, Membership, cours…
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Exhibition Designer Rebecca Shipham - Revisited
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In 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 to hear what happened next, through the challenges and re…
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S2 Ep23: To Luxury and Beyond with Carlota Rodben
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In our latest Back to the F**kture podcast, Beyond Luxury author and innovator Carlota Rodben discusses the future of luxury and emotion with The Future Laboratory’s co-founder, Martin Raymond. There are two great quotes at the beginning of Carlota Robden’s latest book, 'Beyond Luxury: The Promise of Emotion', which very much sum up luxury’s future…
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In 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, an opportunity came along that was too good to refuse.…
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S2 Ep22: Mimi Nicklin is Softening the CEO edge
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Successful leaders are empathetic ones, according to author, leadership coach and strategic thinker Mimi Nicklin. They are also great perspective takers who understand the context of our decisions, as well as the moods and emotions that motivate us to make them. If that sounds simple – it isn’t. In fact, as Nicklin identifies in her book, Softening…
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From 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 daily even in her darkest days has built Lucy’s reputati…
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Study, 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 the daunting reality of having to survive without savings…
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Hannah 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, she is ‘Hannah from Shiny Happy Digital Design’. Happy …
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S2 Ep21: A very private function with Peter Cole
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As private membership clubs try to regain their privacy and mojo, on this week’s Back to the F**kture podcast The Future Laboratory’s co-founder Martin Raymond talks with hospitality entrepreneur Peter Cole about how they could go about doing it – and at scale. The problem with most private members’ clubs is that they’ve become too public. While lu…
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Joel 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 company with major clients and seven figure revenue. But …
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Life is f**ked – then you make it happen. And this epithet seems to embody the life of Australian author, broadcaster and entrepreneur, Sarah Wilson. Not that her life has been fu**ed –if anything, the opposite is very much the case - but that her journey through it is a constant reminder to us all that when the chips are down the only person who c…
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Graphic Designer & Illustrator Sam Minton
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Sam 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 shut. But Sam’s happiest when he’s working… You'll find fu…
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For 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 this new confidence and focus, her rate quadrupled. As di…
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