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Embracing The Weird: How Quirky Outreach Built a Copywriting Business with Helen Carrie
October 5, 2026 · 45 minWhat happens when the industry you’ve worked in for a decade gets shut down overnight? In this episode, host Steve Folland chats with Helen Carrie to talk through her complete freelance overhaul when COVID hit. Helen worked in UK…
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5 Ways AI Could Be Tripping Up Your Freelance Business - Bonus - with lawyer Ingrid Fernandez
August 23, 2026 · 33 minAI is already in your freelance business, whether you invited it or not. The usual Being Freelance podcast is on its summer break, but here's a bonus treat for you: a replay of a live LinkedIn session Steve did with lawyer Ingrid…
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The Blogs Became Books... Became Clients - David Airey
July 19, 2026 · 49 minDavid Airey is a freelance graphic designer based in Northern Ireland, self-employed since 2005. He's the author of several best-selling design books including Logo Design Love and Identity Designed - both of which started life as blogs…
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Freelancer BTS - Not rushing on
July 12, 2026 · 3 minNew full episode coming soon. But in this super short one - Steve Folland explains why he's not publishing a new interview this week. Too often we rush on from one thing to another. But by doing so we don't do justice to the thing we just…
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Freelancing Through Every Tech Shift Since the 90s - Lisa Emmington
July 5, 2026 · 46 minLisa Emmington is a freelance instructional designer (or as her newly SEO'd website puts it, a training course designer) based near Milton Keynes. She's been freelance almost her entire career, starting out as an IT trainer back when…
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Chase the Happiness: Meaningful Freelancing - Filmmaker Zoe East
June 28, 2026 · 47 minZoe 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 traditional route before she'd even graduated, so she went freelance instead and never really looked…
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The Recipe Is Always the Same: Reach Out, Follow Up - Émilie Chen
June 21, 2026 · 51 minFrench creative Émilie Chen had what she calls her dream job: senior designer at The National Theatre in London, working on posters she'd dreamed about since university. Years later though, it had turned sour in the studio, her mental…
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Freelancing as an Unpaid Carer - Adrian Ashton
June 14, 2026 · 48 minAdrian’s been a successful freelancer for 21 years. But in the past 7, his definition of framing success has changed. For the last seven years, Adrian has also been an unpaid carer for three immediate family members. He talks honestly…
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Her Niche Is Fishe - Becoming The Ocean Writer - Melissa Hobson
June 7, 2026 · 60 minMelissa 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 side, moved to Mozambique to volunteer with a marine conservation charity, and when the pandemic…
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Becoming a Freelance Illustrator for Marvel, Disney and DC: Doaly
May 31, 2026 · 51 minHow does a creative side project turn into a decade long freelancing business working with the biggest names in pop culture, like Disney, Pixar, Marvel, DC Comics, Lucasfilm, Warner Bros and Sony Pictures? All good super-heroes have an…
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Business Name vs Your Own Name: Which is Better for Freelancers?
May 24, 2026 · 23 minIt'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 episode, Steve digs deep into 11 years of the Being Freelance podcast archive - pulling together…
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Becoming the go-to freelancer in your niche - Jessi Illustrates
May 10, 2026 · 44 minJessica Hartshorn was trained as an illustrator, but unable to get work as one she went in another direction. Jessica spent the next 16 years working in museums and galleries. But the itch to illustrate never went away. So she set up a…