This post will help you with Phase 2 of your Freelance Workbook. I sat down to write this as a general guide to help people better understand their opportunities as freelance writers, but as I sit and watch the world react to yet another round of extra-judicial killings of Black people, I realized why exactly […]
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 […]
When a Media Outlet Doesn’t Pay its Writers, Do Freelancers Make a Sound?
This post will help you with Phase 1 of the Black Freelance Foundations Workbook…if you haven’t started yours yet, download it now! OK, so Black folk on Twitter illuminated some stuff for me today — namely that a lot of people think it’s completely cool that some media platforms don’t pay their writers…you know…because “freelance”, […]
What a funeral taught me about insatiable organizations
This post will help you with Phase 1 of the Black Freelance Foundations Workbook…if you haven’t started yours yet, download it now! The fashion at Black funerals is amazing — I had forgotten that, as it’s been a year or so since I’ve been to one. Even in a massive gold, floral necklace and gold-studded […]
4 Simple Ways to Build Your Freelance Brand
This post will help you with Phase 3 of the Black Freelance Foundations Workbook…if you haven’t started yours yet, download it now! Yeah…so…LinkedIn is REALLY starting to win me over, and that’s despite them being weird about my new ProFinder account. So if you’ve hung around here for a while, you may have noticed […]
The Power of Firsts
Freelancing for me has been the fuel for beginning a new life. I walked away from a draining corporate career and the poor eating, spending, sleeping, social, and emotional habits that came along with it. The last five years for me have been an exercise in rebuilding — aside from a few, well-curated core relationships — pretty […]
5 Things They Won’t Tell You About Freelance Life
This post will help you with Phase 2 of the Black Freelance Foundations Workbook…if you haven’t started yours yet, download it now! When I started freelancing, I had zero concept of how freelancers lived. Entrepreneurs? Sure. I’ve got family and friends all over the place who’ve started their own businesses, but freelancers? As far as […]
Freelancing Changed My Relationship With Food
My father, being the Southern Black man he is, has zero qualms commenting on people’s weight. I’ve been horrified on multiple instances to hear him gleefully exclaim that someone was “gettin’ fat”…something that seems to be perfectly normal and acceptable conversation for his generation (they put less value on the amount of space bodies […]
Code School Offers Refund If You Don’t Find Work
This post will help you with Phase 2 of the Black Freelance Foundations Workbook…if you haven’t started yours yet, download it now! Ran across this article on Udacity today (via Wired)…apparently, the startup Udacity is offering a refund of your ~$299 if you don’t find work within 6 months after completing one of its Nanodegree programs. […]
How To Get Your First (or better) Freelance Clients: Part 2
Check out Part 1 here We’re going to kick off part 2 with possibly the most frustrating piece of freelance advice you can get… The first client is the hardest one to get. It’s completely true…it just doesn’t help much when you’re not hearing back on proposals and you’re feeling like no one will […]