English Majors Making Money

We all slip up from time to time with budgeting, keeping our email inbox at a respectable quantity, and other areas of freelance life. Using budgeting as an example, I want to share with you my three-step method to bouncing back.

English Majors Making Money is a podcast produced by Hatch Editorial Services in association with its Flourish Freelance initiative. For more information and free tips, follow us on Instagram at @hatch.editorial. For more information and to enroll in our courses to help creative entrepreneurs not just survive, but thrive, visit www.FlourishFreelance.com.

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Jessica explores a few of the foundational personal finance resources that helped her get started as a full-time freelancer way back in 2016.

English Majors Making Money is a podcast produced by Hatch Editorial Services in association with its Flourish Freelance initiative. For more information and free tips, follow us on Instagram at @hatch.editorial. For more information and to enroll in our courses to help creative entrepreneurs not just survive, but thrive, visit www.FlourishFreelance.com.

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Hannah Bauman started Between the Lines Editorial as a writing advice blog in 2016 and turned it into her full-time job in 2017. As a fiction editor, Hannah works with authors writing in a variety of genres, including sci-fi, fantasy, and romance for middle grade, young adult, and adult audiences.

Hannah graduated with her B.A. in International Affairs and English from Florida State University, where she also received her graduate certification in Editing and Publishing. She is a member of the Editorial Freelancers Association and ACES, the Society for Editing.

As a former corporate editor and a creative writer at heart, Hannah approaches her work with a balance of structure and creative suggestions that fit the author’s vision for the project. She believes editing is about nuance and education, aiming to let the author’s unique voice shine through while still teaching them something new. All right, let’s dive into the interview.

English Majors Making Money is a podcast produced by Hatch Editorial Services in association with its Flourish Freelance initiative. For more information and free tips, follow us on Instagram at @hatch.editorial. For more information and to enroll in our courses to help creative entrepreneurs not just survive, but thrive, visit www.FlourishFreelance.com.

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I recently paid down my car loan three years ahead of schedule, and that, I felt, was worth celebrating.

I’m going to use this episode to tell you how I did it, and I hope that my explanation can help you pay down your loans early as a freelancer, no matter what type of loan or debt you’re facing.

English Majors Making Money is a podcast produced by Hatch Editorial Services in association with its Flourish Freelance initiative. For more information and free tips, follow us on Instagram at @hatch.editorial. For more information and to enroll in our courses to help creative entrepreneurs not just survive, but thrive, visit www.FlourishFreelance.com.

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I wanted to switch tacks today from talking about career to talking about money, you know, the thing that makes the difference between surviving financially and achieving financial freedom. Specifically I want to talk about business loans: When is it a good idea to apply for one?

English Majors Making Money is a podcast produced by Hatch Editorial Services in association with its Flourish Freelance initiative. For more information and free tips, follow us on Instagram at @hatch.editorial. For more information and to enroll in our courses to help creative entrepreneurs not just survive, but thrive, visit www.FlourishFreelance.com.

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Jessica interviews Nayna Agrawal, a screenwriter based in Los Angeles, on affording SoCal while freelancing.

English Majors Making Money is a podcast produced by Hatch Editorial Services in association with its Flourish Freelance initiative. For more information and free tips, follow us on Instagram at @hatch.editorial. For more information and to enroll in our courses to help creative entrepreneurs not just survive, but thrive, visit www.FlourishFreelance.com.

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So, we’ve talked about mental health days and prepping for a truly relaxing freelance vacation. Finally, let’s pivot to: Time-Off Scenario #3: A Freelance Sabbatical of More Than Two Weeks.

English Majors Making Money is a podcast produced by Hatch Editorial Services in association with its Flourish Freelance initiative. For more information and free tips, follow us on Instagram at @hatch.editorial. For more information and to enroll in our courses to help creative entrepreneurs not just survive, but thrive, visit www.FlourishFreelance.com.

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The weather’s warming up down here in Jacksonville, and I’m vaccinated and champing at the bit to finally be able to travel again. I know that’s probably a long time coming, I know it’s probably a pipe dream that I’ll get to see a flight attendant do their whole safety spiel until at least 2022, but oh man, am I excited for the world to reopen whenever it does.

Speaking of travel, I wanted to do a time management topic for you today: 

How to Take Time Off as a Creative Freelancer.

English Majors Making Money is a podcast produced by Hatch Editorial Services in association with its Flourish Freelance initiative. For more information and free tips, follow us on Instagram at @hatch.editorial. For more information and to enroll in our courses to help creative entrepreneurs not just survive, but thrive, visit www.FlourishFreelance.com.

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Jessica answers a question that has a lot to say for pretty much every lib arts listener.

English Majors Making Money is a podcast produced by Hatch Editorial Services in association with its Flourish Freelance initiative. For more information and free tips, follow us on Instagram at @hatch.editorial. For more information and to enroll in our courses to help creative entrepreneurs not just survive, but thrive, visit www.FlourishFreelance.com.

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Last week, we talked about how to heat up those cold pitches so that they’re at the very least medium rare, lukewarm, in the hopes that your pitching success rate might increase. 

This week, we’re talking about inbound marketing: what it is, why your inbound efforts might not be translating into leads, and how you can troubleshoot and improve in this area of life as a freelance business owner.

English Majors Making Money is a podcast produced by Hatch Editorial Services in association with its Flourish Freelance initiative. For more information and free tips, follow us on Instagram at @hatch.editorial. For more information and to enroll in our courses to help creative entrepreneurs not just survive, but thrive, visit www.FlourishFreelance.com.

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