V.OLT Weekly

A slightly more personal episode this week: after months of waiting, I didn’t get the funding I’d applied for. Along with the disappointment came a huge wave of relief, and questions about growth, working at my own pace, and having room to adjust.

It brought up a bigger question: what does success mean to me, beyond growth targets and other people’s expectations?

So this time, I’m turning the listener question around: what does success mean to you? More income, stability, time, a team, or something else entirely? Send me a message or a voice memo back. I’d love to hear from you!

Mentioned in this episode:

• Watch back: Open Circle with Pittogramma on ⁠Youtube⁠
• Join: Open Circle⁠ on Nov 12: ⁠Sign-up here⁠⁠
• Thanks to Female Finance Connect, organized by Goldrausch e.V.

• More info about the ⁠Business Health Check or Sparring
• More info about the Tax Advisor Match Making Guided or Full Service

Connect with me:

⁠⁠⁠⁠Website⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠

This podcast is not tax, legal or financial advice.

General info based on my own experience, not tailored advice for your specific situation.

Thanks for listening! 🐚🌀

This week might help you find ways to stay encouraged when you're just starting out and don't have many clients or a support network yet. You might also get a better understanding of why a passion project can work like a business card that opens doors and how to find a good balance between projects.

Mentioned in this episode:

• ⁠KW40: Interview with Pittogramma
• KW39: Introducing Pittogramma
• Open Circle Recording with Mario & Andrea on Youtube
• Open Circle⁠ on October 22nd (in German): Sign-up here⁠
• Podcast with Behind the Scope: Financial Confidence as a Creative
• More info about the Business Health Check / Business Health Sparring

Connect with me:

⁠⁠⁠Website⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠

This podcast is not tax, legal or financial advice.

General info based on my own experience, not tailored advice for your specific situation.

Even though I put this together carefully, I can't guarantee it's fully accurate or complete, so please double-check anything relevant to your specific situation.

Thanks for listening! 🌀🐚

This week might help you understand what a business consultant for creatives does day to day, and how sorting and translating your numbers can make them feel less scary. And maybe it's a relief to hear that many creatives were simply never taught the basics of running a business.

Mentioned in this episode:

• ⁠Pittogramma interview: "Structure enables creativity: bringing financial literacy into design" (6 October 2026): Read it here!

• ⁠Open Circle⁠ on October 22nd (in German): Sign-up here!

Connect with me:

⁠⁠Website⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠, ⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠, ⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠

This podcast is not tax, legal or financial advice.

General info based on my own experience, not tailored advice for your specific situation.

Even though I put this together carefully, I can't guarantee it's fully accurate or complete, so please double-check anything relevant to your specific situation.

Thanks for listening! 🌀🐚

This week might help you understand which tax prepayments are usually relevant for solo self-employed people (specifically freelancers, or “Freiberufler” in the German legal sense) and when they are usually due. You might also get a better sense of why joining the Open Circle with Pittogramma could be worth it, and how a software tool might help if you have a limited company registered in Germany.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Open Circle x Pittogramma (Oct 8, English)

• Open Circle (Oct 22, German)

• mika accounting software*

• Previous episode KW32 on VAT

• Previous episode KW36 on preliminary profit overview (BWA)

• Previous episode KW38 on choosing a tax advisor

• Website, Instagram, Linked, TikTok

*Referral code: REFERRAL_V.OLT

(we both get 10% off for six months, yay!)

This podcast is not tax, legal or financial advice.

General info based on my own experience, not tailored advice for your specific situation.

Even though I put this together carefully, I can't guarantee it's fully accurate or complete, so please double-check anything relevant to your specific situation.

Thanks for listening! 🌀🐚

Not really a Podcast, more like a "Sprachi" ;)

This week I talk about starting to set up FAQs for my own practice, a networking event around the attention economy, Open Circle group call #6, and a question I get asked often: are you a tax advisor, or can you recommend one?

Feel free to join the next Open Circle!

It's a free group call for freelancers and self-employed people in Germany and beyond to talk about the business side of their creative practice, especially everything around the financial, operational or accounting side.

Next one: Oct 8 at 5pm

Come and join, it's freeee!

Sign up ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🐚

Connect with me 🔗

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⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Email⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

This podcast is not tax, legal or financial advice, nor do I claim completeness. General info based on my own experience, not tailored to your specific situation.

Thanks for listening! ✨

Curious about the Business Health Check? Book yours ⁠⁠here⁠⁠!

Not really a Podcast, more like a "Sprachi" ;)

This week I talk about one of the biggest pitfalls I see when going freelance (and how digital bookkeeping can help), the launch of my new Business Health Check, and what a BWA (Betriebswirtschaftliche Auswertung) actually is and why it can be helpful.

Mentioned in this episode:

• ⁠⁠KW36⁠⁠ on what to watch out for when going freelance

• ⁠KW32⁠ on VAT

Feel free to join the next Open Circle!

It's a free group call for freelancers and self-employed people in Germany and beyond to talk about the business side of their creative practice, especially everything around the financial, operational or accounting side.

Next one: Oct 8 at 5pm

Come and join, it's freeee!

Sign up ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🐚

Connect with me 🔗

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Email⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

This podcast is not tax, legal or financial advice. General info based on my own experience, not tailored advice for your specific situation.

Thanks for listening! ✨

Curious about the Business Health Check? Book yours here!

Not really a Podcast, more like a "Sprachi" ;)

This week I talk about planning out upcoming workshops and more Open Circle collabs, my 5th Open Circle, and what might be helpful to watch out for financially when going freelance.

Mentioned in this episode:

• ⁠KW32⁠ on VAT pre-reports

• KW35 on my talk at the Forward Festival

Feel free to join the next Open Circle!

It's a free group call for freelancers and self-employed people in Germany and beyond to talk about the business side of their creative practice, especially everything around the financial, operational or accounting side.

Next one: Sep 17 at 5pm

Come and join, it's freeee!

Sign up ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🐚

Connect with me 🔗

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Email⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

This podcast is not tax, legal or financial advice. General info based on my own experience, not tailored advice for your specific situation.

Thanks for listening! ✨

Not really a Podcast, more like a "Sprachi" ;)

This week I talk about a full-circle moment with a friend about old controlling lessons I almost had forgotten and about my talk on turning ideas into action at the Forward Festival introducing one of the most basic, yet most powerful concepts: Break-even.

Feel free to join the next Open Circle!

It's a free group call for freelancers and self-employed people in Germany and beyond to talk about the business side of their creative practice, especially everything around the financial, operational or accounting side.

Next one: Sep 17 at 5pm

Come and join, it's freeee!

Sign up ⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🐚

Connect with me 🔗

⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠Email⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠Newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠

This podcast is not tax, legal or financial advice. General info based on my own experience, not tailored advice for your specific situation.

Thanks for listening! ✨

Not really a Podcast, more like a "Sprachi" ;)

This week I talk about why accounting feels meditative to me, my first collab Open Circle with Creatives Tool on rates and transparency in the industry, a logo emergency, and a question I kept running into while prepping for Forward Festival: "I'm just a designer, how should I know all this business stuff?" Spoiler: You don't!

Mentioned in this episode:

• ⁠ Softdrive Foundry

Feel free to join the next Open Circle!

It's a free group call for freelancers and self-employed people in Germany to talk about the business side of their creative practice, especially everything around the financial, operational or accounting side.

Next one: Sep 3 at 5pm

Come and join, it's freeee!

Sign up ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠ 🐚

Connect with me 🔗

⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠Email⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠Newsletter⁠⁠⁠

This podcast is not tax, legal or financial advice. General info based on my own experience, not tailored advice for your specific situation.

Thanks for listening! ✨

Not really a Podcast, more like a "Sprachi" ;)

This week I talk about setting up financial snapshots for clients, how the solar eclipse showed a brilliant real-life example of a classic economic concept, and a more personal listener question: how I actually got into what I do.

Mentioned in this episode:

• KW31 on balance sheets

• My Instagram posts (⁠1⁠, ⁠2⁠, ⁠3⁠) on business dinner with clients & collab partners

Feel free to join the next Open Circle!

It's a free group call for freelancers and self-employed people in Germany to talk about the business side of their creative practice, especially everything around the financial, operational or accounting side.

Next one: Sep 3 at 5pm

Come and join, it's freeee!

Sign up ⁠⁠here⁠⁠ 🐚

Connect with me 🔗

⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠

⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠

⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠

⁠⁠Email⁠⁠

⁠⁠Newsletter⁠⁠

This podcast is not tax, legal or financial advice. General info based on my own experience, not tailored advice for your specific situation.

Thanks for listening! ✨