Last Friday I had the pleasure of hosting a panel conversation at the Creative Coalition Festival to discuss this. It’s an event that The Freelance Bible has sponsored since it first started. To help [...]
I am really honoured to share that I have joined the Board of Governors at BOA Stage and Screen Academy. I was first introduced to BOA when the original school [...]
Seize opportunities to reach your goals, even if it's outside your comfort zone. Those who know me know that I’m not someone who tends to hold back and will make the most of any [...]
You’re not a secretary, you’re a diplomat. You’re not in sales, you’re in solving people’s problems. Our job titles hide a hundred skills we have at our disposal wherever we need them. We use them [...]
I get asked this question A LOT. It comes up when I am mentoring freelancers, whether it’s in a formal capacity or, just a quick chat with someone who has reached out to me informally. [...]
The most significant factor that sets freelancers apart from employees is that, as freelancers, we are responsible for finding work for us to do. There’s no boss sitting over us saying do this now, then [...]
You’ve ditched the corporate life, or maybe corporate life ditched you. Either way it’s behind you and you’ve gone freelance. It’s both scary and exciting in equal measure. Scary because that regular paycheque is a [...]
Overdelivering is one of those things that seems like a good idea at the time. You think to yourself ‘I’ll quote this new client for something that I think they’ll buy and then I’ll do [...]
Exam season is imminent in our house. My oldest is in Year 9 and he has end of year exams coming up and the youngest has 11+ in September. Nails are being bitten down [...]
So said Patrick McGoohan’s character Number Six in late 1960s TV series, The Prisoner. It’s a phrase that’s been going round in my head a lot recently. I’ve been thinking deeply about the relationship between [...]
