“How can I get started with freelancing?”
After freelancing for a while, I started hearing this question more and more from students, young professionals, and even friends who had been working at the same company since college.
In other words, I noticed an opportunity to solve multiple problems with the…
I was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, and in case you weren’t aware, it’s the biggest smallest town there is.¹
Known for baseball, beer, and beads², St. Louis is also home to countless design firms and marketing agencies (thanks to the presence of the previously mentioned pastimes).³
Thanks…
If you’re stubborn enough to freelance and work with clients over a long period of time, you naturally develop the need to scratch your own itch.
Like most creative thinkers, I have always jotted down my ideas in notebooks and apps. …
Over the past decade of my career, I’ve discovered two fundamental truths that apply to all creative people:
1) We all want to master everything, and;
2) We all have an extreme lack of focus
All you have to do is take a look at my LinkedIn profile to figure…
There I was, sitting on a panel with three other creatives in front of a lecture hall filled with half-interested juniors and seniors, answering questions about freelancing as an actual career while their eyes actively glazed over.
How did I get here?
Early on in my freelance design career, I…
These days, most social media profiles have morphed into a clusterfuck of labels and commas that ends up telling us very little about the person behind the bio.
At the end of the day, it all comes down to fear — we’re all afraid of being misunderstood and, ultimately, rejected.
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While freelancing, I worked out of a coworking center for over almost five years and it completely changed my professional life.
Whenever I talk to students and young professionals who are nervous about networking in the real world, my first suggestion tends to be to find the closest coworking center…
Freelancing comes with a lot of baggage.
Not only do you have to learn how to do everything on your own (or outsource it), you also have to answer the age-old question:
Should I brand myself as an agency or a one-person army?
Like countless other naive fools getting started…
Back in 2014, I was ready for a change of pace.
Like many freelancers, I had been working from home and in the beginning, my home office was the ultimate lifesaver.¹After …
I value my time more than anything else in this world.
So much so that, in the beginning of my career, I chose to prioritize the time it took to explore my options over the immediate financial stability of a full-time job.
In my mind, it was simple — if…
