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Freelance Feels - a podcast all about freelance life and being a freelancer! The format is interview-style and guests range from freelance writers and authors to adventurers and chefs. It’s about career journeys, career lessons and work/life balance as well as mental health when you’re freelance Host Jenny Holliday, a career coach and founder of Freelance Feels Coaching - chats to guests about their freelance career journey, their challenges, triumphs and advice.
Episodes
Friday Jul 15, 2022
Friday Jul 15, 2022
Get ready for some inspiring chat and a big dose of positive energy in this episode with Faye Dicker, AKA Freelance Mum.
Faye is a Broadcaster, Voiceover and founder of the award-winning network
Freelance Mum.
Faye set up Freelance Mum in 2013, when she struggled to find a
network for fellow mums in business. If it didn’t exist then she’d just
have to create one!
Freelance Mum was established and successfully run in Bristol for 7
years, before pivoting during lockdown to launch hubs across the
country.
Faye has been named Top 100 Most Influential Women in The
West for two consecutive years, awarded Freelance Ambassador of the
Year Award and Covid-19 Success Story, for her work with Freelance
Mum.
When she’s not busy running her businesses (or on the school run!) Faye
can often be found swimming in her local lido and Clevedon Marine Lake.
Find Faye at freelancemum.co.uk
Follow on instagram: @freelancemum01
#freelancemum #freelancemumcommunity #networking #netwalks #freelancemumlife #freelancemom #freelancemoms #freelanceparents #freelancemummy #freelanceisolation #freelancefamily
Friday Jul 01, 2022
Friday Jul 01, 2022
Andrea Wildt and Samantha Anderl are the co-founders of Harlow, an all-in-one freelance tool and community to help solopreneurs manage their business and reduce stress. As former marketing execs and freelancers themselves, they built Harlow because they value balance and autonomy and want to help others find it.
Remote working became the norm during the pandemic - but founders of Harlow, Samantha and Andrea, take that to a whole new level as they explain how they began - and run - a business from two different US states!
In this episode the business partners explain what led them to found Harlow, what it offers freelancers, their best working practices and how they fit self-care into their working days.
Find, follow and join Harlow...
Website: meetharlow.com
Twitter: @MeetHarlow
Instagram: @meetharlow
#harlow #meetharlow #newbusiness #freelance #freelancing
Monday Jun 13, 2022
Monday Jun 13, 2022
Freelancing For Journalists was founded by Emma Wilkinson and Lily Canter, and is now an online community, with workshops, webinars and more, as well as an award-winning podcast!
If you're starting out on your writing career, their advice is invaluable.
We talk about the 'pitching feels' as well as how they navigate their own 'freelance' with running FFJ - and actual running. All the links to their platform are below!
Monday Jun 06, 2022
Monday Jun 06, 2022
TW: Trauma, addiction
For episode two of season 7 we dive into trauma therapy with Lucinda Gordon-Lennox.
Lucinda Gordon-Lennox, MSc, MBACP, is an accredited psychotherapist, writer and lecturer. She is a Consultant at The Recovery Centre, Belgravia and has a private practice.
She also lectures on trauma at the IESE Business School in Barcelona, helping students to recognise when and why they are triggered, and how to step back into their adult selves so that they can thrive. She lives in London with her two children.
Friday May 27, 2022
Friday May 27, 2022
Welcome back to the Freelance Feels podcast! Season 7 kicks off with Sian Meades-Williams, author of The Pyjama Myth and founder of the hugely popular Freelance Writing Jobs newsletter.
We chat about mental health, why Sian doesn't like the phrase 'side-hustle' and freelance interiors (watch out for the cuckoo clock!)
Friday Dec 10, 2021
Friday Dec 10, 2021
Monday Dec 06, 2021
Monday Dec 06, 2021
** Festive warning: Christmas-themed spoilers! Probably best not to listen in front of the children **
It's the first of this year's Christmas Specials!
Being a parent and self-employed is hard enough, but when you add in the festive period, Christmas holidays and clients who can feel a bit like having an extra child (or two) then it can be stressful.
So I called on Steve Folland and Frankie Tortora, who run the award-winning Doing it For the Kids podcast, to chat about all of the above as well as much more. Jam-packed with honest advice, giggles and info on the Being Freelance Christmas Quiz, it's the perfect way to start your December!
About Steve and Frankie:
Frankie is a freelance graphic designer, mum of two and founder of Doing It For The Kids — a community by and for freelance parents. Through the DIFTK Facebook community, blog, face-to-face meetups and podcast, Frankie is proving that all sorts of good stuff can occur when self-employed parents are given the opportunity to connect.
Steve is a freelance video/podcast producer, running his business whilst also looking after his two kids. His other babies are the long running Being Freelance podcast where Steve chats to freelancers from around the world about their story. And co-hosting the award-winning Doing It For The Kids podcast - a fun Q&A for those parents freelancing 'with kids in the mix'.
Steve spends a lot of time hanging out in his Being Freelance Community where he brings together self-employed creatives for support, fun and biscuits. He’s also brought together his own experience and that of 250+ guests to help new freelancers with the course “How to get started being freelance”.
Links
Doing it for the kids: doingitforthekids.net
Being Freelance: beingfreelance.com
Course: https://school.beingfreelance.com/p/how-to-get-started-being-freelance
** Photo of Steve and Frankie by Sian Parker @sianshoots
Friday Nov 12, 2021
Friday Nov 12, 2021
Helen Hill is a self-employed Digital Learning and Content Designer at Unlikely Genius Ltd. Having always been an eternal student, she fell into the eLearning industry by accident and found her place in the world – creating enjoyable learning for others. She works as a freelancer/contractor for clients in the UK and Europe, with a focus on physical and mental health, medicine, personal development, technology, and the environment.
Helen keeps getting herself shortlisted for awards such as Digital Women ‘Freelancer of the Year’, ‘Digital Woman of the Year’, and IPSE ‘Outstanding Freelancer’. She also appears on the Digital Women ‘Top 40 Digital Women to Watch list’ and won the ‘2020 Article of the Year’ award for her series of contributions to the industry journal Communicator.
During her squiggly career she ran her design business as a side hobby for 10 years, before launching herself into full-time self-employment in 2018. She has never looked back. Helen built a thriving business in less than two years, saving her sanity and health in the process. Her new book Falling Off The Ladder: Revamp your mindset and thrive in self-employment tells the story of that leap, how she (and 9 other contributors) did it and provides you with the tools to do it too.
Helen is also a co-founder of Be The Future - a project aimed at helping guardians to raise the eco-leaders of the future, through positivity, storytelling and humour. No doom and gloom here!
Helen lives in semi-rural West Yorkshire with the long-suffering Graham, and two extremely fluffy, diva rabbits Tiffin and Strudel.
Friday Nov 05, 2021
Friday Nov 05, 2021
To mark the week of the COP26 conference, I spoke to Tessa Clarke, founder of food sharing app OLIO. We talk about running a company with sustainability in mind, how much food we waste, sharing household items and the remote working world. There's so much to think about, from the food we chuck away to the things we buy such as fancy dress or seasonal 'tat'...
Tessa says:
The ‘lightbulb’ moment came on 17th December 2014 – I remember it well. I was packing up our apartment in Switzerland, getting ready to move back to the UK. Despite our best efforts to eat everything we had, we were still left with 6 sweet potatoes, a whole white cabbage and some pots of yogurt. The removal men told me that all the food had to be thrown away, but I just couldn’t bring myself to do this. And so – much to their frustration as we still had a lot to pack up – I got my new-born baby and toddler dressed and set off armed with this food to find someone to give it to. Unfortunately, the lady who I had hoped to give it to wasn’t in her usual spot outside the supermarket and I got quite upset. I thought about knocking on my neighbours’ doors to see if they wanted it, but the problem was I didn’t know if they would be in; and even if they were in, I didn’t really know them and it might be a bit awkward if they didn’t want what I was offering. Feeling thoroughly defeated I thought to myself – “This is absolutely crazy…. this food is delicious. Why isn’t there an app where I can share it with someone nearby who wants it?” And so the idea for OLIO was born…
I told some friends & family about my idea of a food sharing app, and they all
thought I was crazy. But in February 2015 when I told Saasha, her eyes immediately lit up and we just knew that we had to work together to bring this app to life!
Find out more at olioex.com
Follow on Instagram @olio.app
Friday Oct 22, 2021
Friday Oct 22, 2021
T/W: Therapy, abuse, sexual assault
Boo Paterson joins me from her home in New York to talk about therapy, art, running away from the circus, battling poverty as a freelancer and joining Tik Tok...
She was declared a winner in the American Illustration Awards 2021 and has been shortlisted in the World Illustration Awards twice.
A journalist and editor for many years, she’s a regular cultural commentator on the BBC. The broadcaster has even produced a film about her fine art and a radio programme on her unconventional life and work. Extensive press coverage on Boo has appeared across the world, including The Guardian, The Week, The Sunday Times, and television and radio.
Paterson - who lives in New York - is also an experienced creative director, forging ambitious, spectacular concepts for festivals, circuses, theatres, and advertising. Her Art Nurse art/therapy subscription boxes are to be launched later this year.
Find out more at www.boopaterson.com
Instagram: @officialboopaterson
TikTok: BooPaterson Art Nurse