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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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Monday Mar 16, 2020
Monday Mar 16, 2020
Lizzie co-founded Hoxby in 2015, and brings together a team of remote freelancers through a unique way of working. She talks about using slack for business, heated blankets, fitting in exercise, defining ourselves as freelancers and remote working - and the need for it - during Coronavirus.
Find Hoxby at www.hoxby.com and @hoxbycollective
Monday Mar 09, 2020
Monday Mar 09, 2020
Welcome to season 2 of Freelance Feels: The podcast for humans who work for themselves!
To kick things off, I spoke to Zoe Perkins, an events planner, about her amazing organisational skills, making the leap to freelance and the joys of travel for work. Oh, and how she loved (loved!!) doing her tax return!
You can find Zoe at www.vodkaontoast.com and @vodkaontoast
Friday Feb 07, 2020
Friday Feb 07, 2020
Want lots of great advice on pitching as a journalist? Rosie has it! She's freelance following jobs at Cosmopolitan, where she worked for 9 years, and the Co-op food magazine and shares the idea of a pitching spreadsheet, the tenacity it takes to find new editors and email them as well as how she makes time for a proper home-cooked lunch and juggling work/life balance. Find Rosie at https://www.rosiemullender.co.uk/
Monday Jan 27, 2020
Monday Jan 27, 2020
Andy Cope spent years studying happy people and now delivers keynote speeches and training - he talks about the idea of pronoia (as opposed to paranoia), destination addiction, where we're always thinking 'I'll be happy when...' and how we need a 'to be' list as well as a 'to do' list.
Find him at www.artofbrilliance.co.uk on Twitter @beingbriliant and instagram @artofbrilliance
Tuesday Jan 21, 2020
Tuesday Jan 21, 2020
Louise founded the Homeworker Magazine, which explores everything to do with working for yourself - from home! It's an online magazine with a print edition, too. She talked about the decision to found the mag, as well as the balance of using your living space for your office or business, as well as the concept of a 'to-dont' list. Find her at https://www.thehomeworker.com/
Sunday Dec 22, 2019
Sunday Dec 22, 2019
For the final episode of 2019, I was joined by Bec Evans, founder of Prolifiko - a writer's mentoring company - and author of How to Have a Happy Hustle - and we talked about setting goals for the new decade, how to choose and pursue a side hustle, the love/hate of LinkedIn and moving out of London for a new life in Yorkshire and how that's helped her freelance feels. Find Bec at https://www.happyhustlebook.com/ and https://prolifiko.com/
Wednesday Dec 18, 2019
Wednesday Dec 18, 2019
It's almost Christmas and it's the first male guest for Freelance Feels! Steve - who runs two podcasts and a Facebook community alongside his day job as audio and video producer - talks about being positive, insurance and Christmas party feels as well as juggling life, work and parenthood over a mince pie. Find Steve at www.beingfreelance.com and @sfolland.
Monday Dec 09, 2019
Monday Dec 09, 2019
It's party season! So we put the biscuits to one side and had a glass of wine. Amy is a broadcaster and journalist as well as author of Confessions of a Single Mum. She's often on telly, and is very honest with her feelings. We talk about being your own cheerleader and the 'pitch abyss' (AKA Professional Ghosting). Find her on social media @solo.mamma
Friday Nov 22, 2019
Friday Nov 22, 2019
This episode I travelled down to Brighton to speak to Lisa, who founded Radish, a womenswear label, two and a half years ago. Lisa talks about her inspirations, challenges, the joys of travelling to LA for work (and why work travel isn't just a jolly!) as well as why freelancers still mop their own floors.
Tuesday Nov 05, 2019
Tuesday Nov 05, 2019
Bringing the freelance feels to a fiction thriller is all in a day's work for author Caroline, who shares her experiences of freelance life from moving out of the 'big city' of London, finding your freelance tribe and the realities of 'freelance maternity leave'.
Through the Wall is out now in bookshops, on Amazon, Kindle and Audible.