Emma loves meetings. Kaleigh hates them. We’ve built different freelance businesses based on our preferences. In this episode, we discuss all our feelings about client meetings, as well as where they should fit into your services.

Social media sites like Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook can be powerful ways to connect with your community. But what happens when using these tools has a negative impact on your mental health? In this episode, we discuss how we’ve re-framed our thinking around social media so that it’s not only a better tool for business, but a better tool for ourselves.

“Choose a niche” is one of the most common pieces of advice in the freelancing community. But we’ve seen people flounder when it comes to choosing niches. Why is that? Are niches really necessary?

Other freelancers are not the enemy. In fact, they’re your friends. In this episode, we discuss how we partner and work with other freelancers.

Writing is demanding work, so what happens when you’re giving all your writing energy to your clients? It makes it tough to write a novel, comedy sketch, or op-ed for the local paper. In this episode, we discuss how you can make time for writing side projects.

After many years of success as freelance writers, we still have days where we feel that everyone else has it figured out… and we… don’t. In this episode, we discuss those feelings and how we handle them.

You want to over-deliver for your clients, but you don’t want to provide them with loads of extras that are out of scope. Too much for your clients = not enough time for you. In this episode, we discuss some easy ways to over-deliver for your clients so that they see you as a freelancer who goes above and beyond.

What do you do when you’re overloaded with work? One option is to subcontract that work to other writers. In this episode, we talk about how we came to subcontract, the objections we hear from freelancers considering it, and how we approach sharing the news with our clients (or not).

You’re in control of your own schedule, so it should be easy to take a vacation. But, it’s really not. Why is that!? In this episode, we share our strategies for taking breaks, as well as the challenges along the way. Emma also shares how she approached maternity leave.

Most freelance writers get business because of referrals, but how do you find your people? In this episode, we discuss why building relationships is so important, as well as how to stand out and be memorable.