Wow, episode 20 already...!
And on this episode, we talk about How to build a freelancing business with Matt Inglot.
Matt helps freelancers to get paid quickly and more, so they can focus on growing their freelancing business!
So here it is, the Podcast with Matt Inglot
Daniel: Today, I have a very special guest. I am really excited to have him here with us, I am here with Matt Inglot, the owner, and operator of freelancetransformation.com. Freelance Transformation helps and teaches freelancers to get higher paying clients and projects to work less and get rid of the stress. Sounds good, right?
So let's continue talking with Matt about Freelance Transformation, and how you can use a freelancing business to create freedom in your life so you can live a lifestyle with more flexibility and income as well. Matt, welcome to the show!
Matt: Thanks so much for having me, Daniel.
Daniel: Very happy to have you, Matt. I'm excited of course, we were talking before the interview, and you're right now in Alberta Canada. So, Matt, would you please take a few minutes and tell us a little bit more about you and share a little bit of your story if you could?
Matt: Yeah, absolutely. Since university, I have been a web developer, I have been running my own web agency, and it's something that I started because I was originally working for a start-up and that startup went bankrupt. I found myself suddenly needing work, needing to support myself, and I started building websites. And it went for me building websites on my own to me eventually hiring a team, and then me deciding to get an office, and then realizing that I had actually really created a job for myself, of really kind of a 9-5 prison, instead of 9-5, it was more like 99. And then in 2011, I rebuilt that completely, and I transitioned the business and made it in a way where I still have the agency but now it's remote, I'm able to live where I want. I don't have to work crazy hours, I mean, it's more of like a 20, maybe a 30-hour a week position now. And it allows me to have the free hand to be able to shape my way, to shape my life the way that I want to shape it.
Daniel: Very nice, Matt. Tell me a little bit about what is the part of your freelancing business that you enjoy the most?
Matt: That's a great question. I think the thing that I enjoy most is that everything I do has a positive impact on someone's life. I've got my agency, and there we've helped a lot of our clients really grow their businesses, and to actually make a meaningful contribution there, and then get compensated accordingly, which is nice as well. And then with Freelance Transformation, it's the same thing, we've been able to help people get started with freelancing, we've been able to help people become better freelancers, higher-earning freelancers, less stressed out freelancers, so being able to do that kind of work and being able to wake up every day knowing that you are actually having some kind of impact, and that you're not just getting up and sitting down in front of a computer and punching keys on a keyboard because your employer tells you to - that's incredibly rewarding.
Daniel: Yes, definitely, it gives a little bit more meaning to your freelancing business for sure and in your life of course. Matt, how or where did this idea for Freelance Transformation came from?
Matt: I started Freelance Transformation back in 2015, and I had been thinking about it longer. It basically came from my own story and from everything that I saw with the mistakes that I had made, and then talking to other freelancers I realized that a lot of them were making the same mistakes, and going down the same path and having the same sorts of problems such as suddenly finding themselves working 60 or 80 hours a week, and having the types of clients that they don't want to have, and not really earning the kind of income that they w...
