This post will help you with Phase 1 of your Freelance Profile Workbook. One of my biggest beefs with career advice is that it seldom addresses a person’s full life. Like when you get tips on what degrees pay the most without a nod to the satisfaction levels in the careers those degrees lead to […]
The Conversation that Launched My Freelance Career: Doers vs. Connectors
We all, every last one of us, walk into our careers with incomplete understanding. No matter how well-connected, long-educated, or perceptive we might be, there will always be certain rules, certain corners, movements, and paths of power that we cannot see or simply don’t understand. That obscuring of our vision happens because of multiple factors […]
Revisiting The Scars of Employment
This post will help you with Phase 1 of the Black Freelance Foundations Workbook…if you haven’t started yours yet, download it now! Sometimes you don’t realize how bad a relationship is until it’s over. As much healing as I’d thought I’d done since I launched my freelance business, I was reminded today that I […]
5 Signs Your Workplace is More Racist Than Normal
This post will help you with Phase 1 of the Black Freelance Foundations Workbook…if you haven’t started yours yet, download it now! One of the main reasons I started freelancing was a need for more control over my work environment. I’m an introvert, and being American, most work environments I’d been in were designed to […]
2017: The Year I’m Giving Up Goals
I’m done with goals. At least for a year. Goals are overrated. I still have things I want to see happen (namely upping the level of my clients), but I’m at a point where that’s going to have to happen as a natural outgrowth of how I live as a freelancer. After decades of forcing […]
11 Freelance/Business Habits I’m Leaving in 2016
This year’s been a benchmark year for me as a freelancer. With all the garbage 2016’s brought with it, for my freelance business, it’s actually been a good run. I hit my earning goals of matching my full-time monthly income while working part-time. I’ve plugged into a great referral network in my niche, and I’ve […]
Pros and Cons: Freelancing, Entrepreneurship, and Creative/Social Projects
This post will help you with Phase 1 of the Black Freelance Foundations Workbook…if you haven’t started yours yet, download it now! There are a thousand different ways to earn online and one, surefire way to fail — That’s not understanding what you’re really trying to do. I put this list together because I realized that […]
…So I Just Realized How My Emotional Eating Works
A friend of mine just texted me to let me know her pants are fitting better; this is on top of the 15 lbs she’s dropped since leaving an office work environment. I couldn’t help but smile since I’d experienced the same thing since I was laid off…less stress, more ease in making good food […]
10 Things That Impact Your Spending More Than You Realize
This post will help you with Phase 1 of the Black Freelance Foundations Workbook…if you haven’t started yours yet, download it now! I don’t talk about money much around here, and that’s mostly because there are a bunch of resources out there on budgeting, accounting and whatnot. That though, doesn’t mean it’s not important. Freelancing […]
How to Find the Energy for Your Side-Hustle
This post will help you with Phase 1 of the Black Freelance Foundations Workbook…if you haven’t started yours yet, download it now! I give quite a bit of advice here, but there’s one thing you’ll probably never hear me recommend to anyone, and that’s to quit a job to start a full-time freelance career. Emphasis […]