Freelancer’s Gift Guide: Elevate your 2024 with self-care
Every year, the freelance gift guides start popping up all over the joint. And they a totally valid part of our experience. New toys to play and work with are fantastic. It’s always great to grab a few new book titles and have a read. Or invest in a course or two. But...
Video replay: Back yourself with Sandy Taylor
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Event replay: Finding joy even when chaos reigns with Nance Haxton
Overwhelmed by freelance challenges and need a pick me up? Feeling the bite of inflation, lost contracts and negative topics biting at the back of your freelance brain? Join Nance Haxton (The Wandering Journo) and Rebekah Lambert (Freelance Jungle) for an uplifting...
Mindful moments: Setting the table for tea
A lesson from an Indigenous community leader reminds me to set the table for tea, over and over if necessary, to be a person of value and to connect properly with community. The more you sit with a person and talk over the tea, the more the trust comes. But more than...
Nurturing freelancer wellbeing with mental health training
I wrote an article to Mental Health First Aid Australia’s email newsletter, reaching an impressive 1 million subscribers. I explored “How The Self-Employed can Benefit from Mental Health Training,” focusing on the specific challenges faced by self-employed...
Talking to people who don’t understand freelancing
Family gatherings and large groups of friends who don’t freelance congregate around us at the end of the year. Most people are maybe a little clueless, but not necessarily harmful in what they say or do. But there is a (rather vocal) wedge of people who really don’t...
It’s OK to need a new career plan
We don’t often talk about career plans or career plan changes when we freelance. The work is more visceral and lends itself less to contemplation and more to getting the job done. We know how we got here. But we sometimes struggle to work out where to next. Most of us...