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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.
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Friday Jan 22, 2021
Friday Jan 22, 2021
It's the first two-interviewee episode! I speak to sisters and business partners Alice and Madeleine Weightman, who founded online freelance platform for marketers, The Work Crowd in 2016.
They talk about working together as siblings, the family 'exercise' what's App group chat, and have loads of advice for anyone starting out in the freelance world as well as how they make time for self-care as business women.
Find the work crowd at www.theworkcrowd.com
Friday Jan 15, 2021
Friday Jan 15, 2021
Lucy also runs an ethical & sustainable jewellery range, Creature Jewellery, founded in 2014.
Monday Jan 11, 2021
Monday Jan 11, 2021
Sound baths, gongs and meditation - we're diving into a rather alternative freelance life this episode as I speak to Leo Cosendai, a meditation master and sound bath expert who runs Third Ear.
Leo has held over 2330 sound baths, and the app is a self funded, creative family affair led by Leo Cosendai (Sound Gong Bath) and his sister Julie Cosendai (Designer), with friends Charles Vila and Julien Rosamund.
Friday Jan 01, 2021
Friday Jan 01, 2021
It's a bonus episode! I speak to Millie Gooch, who founded The Sober Girl Society and now has a book out on Jan 14th 2020, The Sober Girl Society Handbook.
We discuss her journey to sobriety, how it affected and affects freelance life, and she shares lots of tips for those looking into mindful drinking and Dry January.
Blending memoir with practical survival tips, this empowering self-help book is The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober for the Gen Z and Millennial generations. Millie uses her own story to offer a supportive, arm-
round-the-shoulders approach to show readers that sobriety can be fun and fulfilling.
Millie Gooch is the founder of The Sober Girls Society, a hugely popular Instagram community (currently 100k followers and growing) and one of the leading voices pioneering the sobriety movement here in the UK. High-profile followers include Sam Smith, Bryony Gordon, Zoe Ball and Jameela Jamil's iWeigh. As a journalist, she has written for a
range of publications, and her campaigning work has been featured everywhere from ELLE and Stylist to the BBC and Evening Standard.
Find out more @sobergirlsociety "An empowering space for sober & sober curious women to make friends & celebrate being hangover-free" and www.sobergirlsociety.com
#sobergirlsociety #sobergirlssociety #sobersisters #sobreity #freelanceandsober #soberoctober #sobercurious
Monday Dec 14, 2020
Monday Dec 14, 2020
Rebecca Seal is a journalist and broadcaster - you might recognise her name from Channel 4's 'Sunday Brunch'. She's also written a brilliant new book called 'SOLO', all about working alone. She shares advice on how she manages the work from home juggle - including having a partner who also works from home - as well as why pot plants are the best thing you can get for your home office!
Find the book in all good bookshops and via her site (where you can also find out more about her work) https://www.rebeccaseal.co.uk/
Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
Gemma Bray created The Organised Mum Method (TOMM) 13 years ago when her first baby was born. Overwhelmed as a new mother her anxiety manifested itself as over-cleaning and she soon found herself cleaning for hours each day. Determined to stop cleaning from taking over her life she sat at her kitchen table and developed a method that took only 30 mins each day, she freed herself from the never-ending to-do list in her head and created a method that gave her cleaning free weekends. You can find Gemma on Instagram (@the_organised_mum); Facebook (@theorganisedmumUK; and YouTube (The Organised Mum).
In this episode, Gemma delves into how that can help us as freelancers, as well as her own solutions for daily juggling of working life, parenting life and, well, a pandemic.
From fish and chip shops to influencer life, she opens up about freelance highs and lows, and how the washing machine can help you with your self-employed life.
Friday Dec 04, 2020
Friday Dec 04, 2020
Tom Chapman is a barber with a difference - he's founded The Lion's Barber Collective which supports men with their mental health. In this episode, he speaks openly about how he's worked to help other men open up about their emotional wellbeing, as well as his freelance journey through inspiration from self-employed parents to working in the hairdressing industry.
He talks about juggling all his commitments with being a dad, and reveals the key way he gets all his plans and ideas out of his head in the office (clue: it's not a spreadsheet or a notepad!).
Tom founded The Lions Barber Collective in 2015, becoming a charity late in 2017 after losing a friend to suicide in 2014. BarberTalk has been developed by Tom and former psychiatrist of the year and lead for suicide prevention in the SW, Dr Peter Aitken and trained well over 1500 hair pros globally in the last 18 months.
Their mission is to create non-clinical non-judgmental safe spaces where people feel comfortable to open up and talk about mental health, being able to signpost them to support and information. This is achieved through pop up barbershops in public spaces, public speaking, events and BarberTalk training.
Find out more and follow Tom at www.thelionsbarbercollective.com and @tomchapman_hair
Friday Nov 27, 2020
Friday Nov 27, 2020
Recorded during the UK's Lockdown#1, this episode I speak to Maddy Shine, who makes it her freelance business to help you get YOUR freelance business seen!
Maddy Shine is a coach who helps ambitious female entrepreneurs get more sales by increasing visibility.
Known as the SEO & Visibility Queen, she has helped hundreds of clients get to page one of Google, as she teaches no-fluff strategies that focus on business growth. In 2020 she launched the High Vis podcast, your biz bestie for visibility and has used lockdown to help thousands of entrepreneurs with her downloads, group courses and Visibiliyay members’ community.
She firmly believes that life is literally full of opportunity, and it’s up to us to find and get booked by those who want to work with us.
Specialising in the creative industries, Maddy has been featured on many industry stages, podcasts and events in the UK and around the world. Based in London, Maddy is easily spotted by her ever-changing hair and large and colourful earrings. Her love of naming inanimate objects (Gladys is her hair and Penelope is her drinks trolley) entertains people daily over on Instagram and Sandi Toksvig once called her a clever girl, a fact she cherishes daily.
You can follow her on Instagram here - @maddy.shine and check out more about her here - https://business-shine.co.uk/
Friday Nov 20, 2020
Friday Nov 20, 2020
Monday Nov 16, 2020
Monday Nov 16, 2020
Welcome back to the podcast! It's Season 4 and we're kicking off with a fantastic episode, where I speak to Rob Law, founder of Trunki.
Rob speaks about his journey creating the product and brand, the rejection he experienced on Dragon's Den and how he also manages Cystic Fibrosis alongside his work and family life.
Rob's new book, 65 Roses and a Trunki: Defying the odds in life and business tells the extraordinary success story of entrepreneur Rob Law - designer and inventor of the Trunki, the award-winning children’s ride-on suitcase that’s sold millions of units worldwide. Born with cystic fibrosis (children often call the disease ‘65 Roses’), and told he could not expect to live into his twenties, he made a promise that he was going to defy the odds and live a long and successful life.
Find more about Trunki and Rob at www.roblaw.com and follow him on Instagram @trunkidaddy