Hello love! This week I’m here to talk to you about resting and taking time off from your business! If you are wondering how to take time off in your business without the guilt or loss of earnings, this episode will guide you through the steps. I also take you into my own methods for planning vacations, days off and rest as well as how you can ensure you cover yourself financially during periods away from work.

What I’ll be teaching you on today’s show:

✹ How to prepare for unexpected leave e.g. sickness or compassionate leave

✹ Why you need an emergency fund + how to plan for this

✹ How to take guilt-free time out of your business

✹ Why you need to plan your holidays at the start of each quarter

✹ How you can design and own your rest time more powerfully 

✹ The best way to ‘hack’ your schedule to suit your energy, interests and work style

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Hello love and welcome back to another episode of Frankly Freelance, our monthly series on the podcast featuring conversations with real life freelancers! This month I’m chatting to Ella Gilchrist, a social media manager and branding specialist about her experience with imposter syndrome and showing up online.

Ella is the founder & owner of Sociella, a social media management and branding agency based in Brighton, UK and helps entrepreneurs to sell their services and launch their businesses with on-trend branding design. 

Ella is such a fun, grounded and inspiring freelancer and I adored hearing her story!

Highlights from this episode include:

✹ How Ella planned out her business idea on the beach whilst travelling 🏝

✹ Transitioning from part-time freelancer to business owner

✹ Ella’s biggest lessons in the first year of business

✹ Embracing your own schedule and getting out of the hustle mentality

✹ Ella’s experience with imposter syndrome and comparisonitis

✹ Setting goals and boundaries to make business more fun, positive and enjoyable

✹ Top tips from Ella on how to deal with the imposter syndrome feels!

Connect with Ella Gilchrist

Follow Ella on instagram @sociellauk

Visit her website http://www.sociella.co.uk

Visit her Linkedin profile  

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Do you want to get more clients and increase your visibility?! This week I am joined by PR consultant and journalist Lucy Sambrook to chat about how you can pitch yourself and your business to the press in a way that feels easy and exciting!

Lucy is the founder of PR for The People, an inclusive DIY PR membership for businesses, solopreneurs and freelancers. With over 10 years in PR and journalism, Lucy has been nominated for entrepreneur of the year awards, featured in Forbes and has helped over 350 businesses secure press coverage for themselves.

If you have ever wondered how you can get yourself featured in the media,  Lucy’s expert tips and tricks will walk you through exactly how to get started, plus:

✹ The big difference between marketing and PR

✹ Where to find press opportunities + how to respond to them

✹ How to get noticed by journalists

✹ Pitching yourself to influencers and podcasters

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Connect with Lucy on instagram @prforthepeople

Visit her website at http://www.prforthepeople.co.uk/

You can sign up for PR for The People membership waitlist, and also receive their weekly 'Hot PR Trends' newsletter here https://prforthepeople.co.uk/sign-up/

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Having conversations with clients about money is one of the most nerve-wracking aspects of freelancing and can be enough to send even the most assured business owner into a spiral of self-doubt. 

After listening to this episode, you’ll feel more empowered to have money conversations with clients during the sales process and beyond, as well as learning more about: 

✹ How to talk about budgets with clients even if you do bespoke rates

✹ The importance of owning your pricing and believing in your rates

✹ How to avoid clients ghosting you because of your prices

✹ What to do when clients try to negotiate with you

✹ How not to get sucked into the discounts trap!

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Like SO many freelancers I speak to, marketing consultant Danni Greene once worked in the corporate world – a world that stifled her ideas and left her craving an opportunity to do things differently. Using her marketing knowledge and local connections, Danni began building a freelance business on the side of her full-time job which eventually created enough income for her to quit.

Listen in to hear how Dundee-based Danni found the courage to quit her job on a Teams call with her boss and go all-in on her marketing business, plus her top tips on making the transition from employment to freelance life.

Thank you so much for sharing your story, Danni!

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OMG we’ve changed our name!! 🐅🔥 Yes that’s right, we are now Fiercely Freelance! In this special episode I’m here to walk you through this exciting new chapter, the reason behind our name change and a few reflections on my journey so far in building the podcast and community.

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Do you often get into discussions or even disagreements with clients about the work you’ve agreed to do for them? I’ve got you covered! I’m here today to chat to you about creating a rock-solid scope of work, sharing my tips from many years of scoping large and complex projects. 

In another one of my fast-fire, strategy-led episodes, you’ll discover:

✹ Why using a scope of work is important

✹ The difference between quotations and scopes of work

✹ The reason why your clients don’t understand what they’re getting

✹ How to set out your scope of work and what to include

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This week on the podcast I am joined by the gloriously comforting and soothing company of Jo Hooper, a mental health business mentor who is here to help you re-connect with what work means to you and to share how you can set your own rules in your work to take care of yourself, your energy and your sanity.

In this episode you’ll hear Jo’s wonderfully refreshing take on:

✹ Why + how the workplace is fundamentally broken 

✹ The structures and constraints of the traditional workplace

✹ Why we feel guilty when work feels easy and well paid

✹ The importance of setting boundaries to protect your needs

✹ How to spend less time on Instagram

Quotes from the episode:

“We often go self-employed but we only give ourselves the freedom within the structure that we’ve been taught to put ourselves in”. 

“Boundaries aren’t about being a bitch – they’re about making ourselves and others feel safe”.

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When the space where we run our businesses also happens to be where we see, hear and experience what’s happening in the world, the lines can get a little blurry. Should we be sharing content about atrocious, shocking events? Should we be talking about our feelings or hiding away? Should we carry on posting our own stuff, or go quiet?

In this episode I’m here to guide you through some steps on reducing social media overwhelm, whether caused by news, other people or simply ideas that make you feel you need to act or behave in a certain way. 

I hope this episode helps you feel less confused about how to show up in your business during difficult times, and if you have further thoughts or questions I’d love to chat to you on Instagram about it more – meet me in the DM’s.

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How much do you prioritize your wellbeing as a freelancer? In this guest expert episode of Fearlessly Freelance I chat to Sophie Coulthard, co-founder of FidLeaf, a Forbes-featured workplace wellbeing company working with fashion, government, banking and tech brands.

Sophie started FidlLeaf after realizing how much wellbeing impacts on work performance and she was always sending YouTube videos to clients on how to be more assertive!

I absolutely LOVE Sophie’s insights on wellbeing because everything she shares is so engaging and fascinating.

Sophie really helps you to think about the way you connect to work and how your values and your skills relate to how you feel at work. based on Nobel-Prize winning science. 

Her work is utterly fascinating and I know you’re gonna love hearing what she has to say!

Included in this episode:

✹ How to create your own wellbeing plan at work 📖

✹ A dip into some cool Nobel-Prize winning science 🤓

✹ Why if we value ourselves more we will produce better results at work ❤️

✹ What self-driven stress is and how it affects your self-esteem 😶

✹ How the pandemic has affected our wellbeing + what we can learn from this 💁🏼‍♀️

✹ What a wedding cake has to do with your energy levels! ⚡️

Connect with Sophie

Follow Sophie on Instagram @fidleaf and @sophiecoulthard

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Get Sophie’s Workplace Wellbeing Guide: https://www.fidlleaf.com/

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