Coach for creatives – freelance project manager
Here’s a story for you…a story of two freelancers, three books and quite a lot of penguins! A few months ago I went to a book launch – for Emma Cossey’s book The Freelance Lifestyle. I’ve known Emma since my early freelancing days in 2013, and did one of her original intro to freelancing courses … Continue reading It’s funny the things that happen when you go to events and talk to people
So as you’ll have gathered from my previous two posts, I’ve been making some changes to the way I explain what I do. I took inspiration from a talk about vision and mission, and I’ve done some work using the A.I. tool Claude to spot patterns in my testimonials and some of my content. What … Continue reading How can coaching help when you have loads of ideas in your head?
If you’ve read my last post, why do I need a niche for my business, you’ll see that this is something I struggled with for a long time, and that I’ve only recently got clarity on it. So how I did get to this point? Well it’s not a short story or one obvious solution, … Continue reading How do I find a niche for my business?
This is a question I’ve asked myself often, even after two of my podcast guests, Matt Drzymala and Jon Richards, demonstrated so well why having a clear niche works. As someone who likes lots of things, has lots of skills and loves variety in my work, I have struggled for a long time with working … Continue reading Why do I need a niche for my business?
That is the question I’ve been pondering this morning, as I make some other changes to my website. I am heartily sick of social media algorithms not showing my posts to the people I want to reach with them. And while Substack posts do seem to appear high up in searches, there’s the whole ethical … Continue reading Do I need a blog on my business website?
Last year I published 3 conversations I’d had about creativity, as videos (on YouTube) and as audios (on Substack). (You can access all the videos and audios from here.) When I published them I had plans to do more, once I’d got past a busy period of doing talks at networking meetings. I’m now past … Continue reading Creative Conversations – how they came to be and what happens next
In 2024 I did some experiments with making videos. Video is a medium I had done nothing with at all up until then, and I just found the whole idea daunting. I’d previously had the same thought about sharing my photo online – on my website, landing pages and social media – and these days … Continue reading How I experimented with making videos and figured out what worked for me
Why have I done a few free coaching and ‘untangling’ sessions recently? When training as a coach, one of the things we are encouraged to do is find people to coach who are not on our course. And often we do this for free to start with as we are building our experience. Some of … Continue reading Why (or when to) work for free?
I don’t do a lot with video, so the other day I made a video to explore a few reasons why and what I’m planning to do about that. Very few people saw the video because of social media algorithms and people being busy having a life outside social media, so I thought I’d reshare … Continue reading Why I don’t do much with video and how I plan to change that (slowly!)
I’ve been self-employed for over 10 years, and I started networking fairly early in my self-employed life. My first experience of in-person networking was going to a Ladies Who Latte meeting within the first month of becoming a freelancer. It was an event where we met other business owners over a cup of tea, and … Continue reading What is business networking really about?