freelance design

Chris Hopper is the layout and graphic designer for Burnaway, as well as for several other ttrpgs in the indie scene. We talk about working as a freelance layout designer, working within this community, tips for working with your designers, and making your games and layouts more accessible. I learned so much from Chris, and I know y’all will too!

This episode is actually going to be the first in a short series in which I chat with some of my own project team members. What does that mean? Well, some of you may remember that last year, I mentioned I am the project manager for a new indie ttrpg called Burnaway. The game is launching on Kickstarter on February 7th, and I wanted to introduce you all to some of the awesome people behind the scenes! Be sure to check out the show notes for a link to the pre-launch page on Kickstarter, and the Arnamantle website, where you can grab an interactive story primer to get an idea of the game’s setting.

Find Burnaway

• Kickstarter
• Website

Find Chris:

• Linktree

Find Roll Play Grow:

• Show Page
• Patreon
• Discord
• Lightheart Adventures Website
• Lightheart Twitter
• Lightheart Instagram

Find Roll Play Grow:

• Show Page
• Patreon
• Discord
• Lightheart Adventures Website
• Lightheart Twitter
• Lightheart Instagram

Our special guest on the podcast this week is Jill Valuet! Jill started out as a graphic designer and worked in corporate jobs for over 20 years before turning to freelance design work.  

In 2018, Jill was ready for a new challenge which led her to earn her certification in dog massage and open Radiant Paws. Dogs have always been her passion and it fills her with joy every day to bring relaxation and comfort to dogs of all shapes, sizes, and breeds.

Angela and Jill talk about how she left the corporate world to create a business out of her passion for dogs, and more! Listen to the full episode now on Apple, Spotify, and Amazon.

Website - radiantpawspm.com
Facebook - facebook.com/radiantpaws
Instagram - instagram.com/radiant_paws
TikTok - tiktok.com/@radiant_paws

Warning: Some episodes contain explicit language. Please proceed with caution.

In today's episode of the Design Break Podcast, we're going to discuss when to make the jump to full-time freelance—the second part of a two-part mini-series on the subject. This second part discusses how to make the jump when you're left with no other choice.

Some of what we cover in this episode includes:

1. Full-Time Freelance Doesn't Have to be Long-Term, it can be short-term if you want it to be.
    
2. You don't have the luxury to slack off or take time off, once you're trusted into the land of self-employment you need to get started yesterday.
    
3. Connect with other freelancers, those who have been doing it longer than you that you can get some support from both advice as well as mental support because it's about to get crazy!
    
4. Hustle is your mantra and time is both your best friend and enemy.
    
5. Don't take on every single project that comes your way, unless you absolutely have to.

In today's episode of the Design Break Podcast, we're going to discuss when to make the jump to full-time freelance—the first part of a two-part mini-series on the subject. This first part discusses specifically how to plan your leap into full-time freelance. 

There are six main things to consider and think through before you jump into full-time freelance and that you should work towards achieving before you do!

1)  You'll Want to Create a Financial Buffer for yourself of between 3 to 6 months.

2) Create A Running List of Your Current and Past Clients, Friends & Former Co-Workers that you can nurture.

3) Make Sure That Your Portfolio & All Social Channels are Up-to-Date and Ready to Go.

4) Get Your Affairs in Order and Get All the Accounts and Legal Stuff Ready to Go.

5) Don't Leave Your day Job on Bad Terms.

6) Plan Your Date to Go Full-Time Freelance—and don't do it any sooner than that.

Jonathan Stark is a former software developer who is on a mission to rid the world of hourly billing. He is the author of Hourly Billing Is Nuts, the host of Ditching Hourly, and he writes a daily newsletter on pricing for independent professionals.

In this episode we discuss:

• How Jonathan Stark went from working a typical job to becoming coach for independent software developers
• Why is hourly billing so bad?
• The problem with growing your business by hiring more people
• What are the alternatives to billing by the hour?
• How else can you price project based work?
• What is value based pricing?
• How you should create and structure your proposals to maximize your income AND the client's happiness
• How to deal with (inevitable) scope creep on a fixed price project
• Avoiding adversarial client relationships by aligning your incentives with your clients
• How many options should you offer in a proposal and why?
• How can you figure out how valuable the work is to the client
• The importance of uncovering an actual business outcome
• The exact questions to ask a prospective client before giving a price or writing a proposal
• How to get a prospective client to sell themselves on working with you
• The important question that most people are too afraid (or too shy) to ask
• You have more options than you realize!

Links:

• Jonathan's free Value Pricing Bootcamp (start here)
• Lots more free resources on Jonathan's website
• Alan Weiss  who helped inspire the "Why conversation"

'The Importance of Honest Feedback' with Justin Gignac, Co-Founder & CEO of Working Not Working | Host of the Overshare Podcast, Artist, Speaker

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Melinda Livsey on How to Attract and Serve Your Ideal Client and/or Tribe

It’s extremely hard to gain traction and see progress if you’re not sure:

• Who your work, product, or service is for
• What your secret sauce is that sets you apart
• The value you provide and why someone should care

Regardless if you’re a side hustling artist, designer, or freelancer, these should be top of mind if you want to win in the short-term and thrive in the long-term.

These are all pieces of a puzzle in the greater jigsaw of Brand Strategy.

Luckily, today’s guest is a wizard in this world.

I’m talking about Melinda Livsey, founder and creative director of Marks & Makers, and a valuable asset to Chris Do and The Futur and their ongoing series, The Process.

She went from designing identity systems to getting paid by her ideal clients to help them accomplish their big target goals and shape their bigger picture.

Today, Melinda’s here to simplify this complex Brand Strategy monster and parallel it to attracting and helping our ideal clients and/or tribe.

Get ready to take notes and we dive deep into:

• Brand Strategy for Dummies 101
• Determining who your work or service is for
• Pinpointing your unique key differentiator (AKA your secret sauce)
• Understanding and communicating the value you provide
• The power of your story, teaching what you know, books, pizza, and more.

This episode is going to give you some solid, actionable steps to take your ambitious side hustling pursuits to the next level.

Connect with Melinda

• Instagram
• Website
• Behance
• Melinda on the Futur

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6 FREE resources to help you grow an audience and build a profitable creative side hustle outside your day job. Download here.

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The proven blueprint that’ll help you gain clarity, confidence, and a mental edge to unlock your biggest side hustling breakthrough. Purchase here.

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Join the Private Facebook Community for Creators

Join a like-minded FREE global community of kickass creators and take your side hustle to the next level. Your tribe is waiting.

Connect With Me

• Instagram
• Podcast Instagram
• TikTok
• Pinterest
• Twitter

Credits

• Music  -  Blookah
• Executive Assistant  -  Paige Garland
• Photo & Video Specialist  -  Colton Bachar
• Social Media Coordinator  -  Hannah Schick
• Animation Specialist  -  Greg D'Amico

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Meg Lewis on How to Thrive by Being Yourself in Your Creative Work

Meg Lewis is a rad freelance brand designer, motivating mentor, creative cheerleader, and wicked dancer who injects fun into whatever she touches out of Minneapolis, MN.

I respect and admire the impact she’s making on the world through her books, videos, workshops, and talks titled Full Time You...and a new workshop called Find Your Personal Style.

Today, Meg and I peel back the layers on the topics of your journey of self-discovery, using fear as fuel, finding your superpowers, and more!

Stick around to the end to find out how you can win a Digital Version of the Full Time You Self-Discovery Workbook and Video Series!

View the full show notes: https://www.perspective-collective.com/166

CONNECT WITH MEG
► Instagram https://www.instagram.com/darngooood/?hl=en
► Website https://darngood.co/
► Twitter https://twitter.com/darngooood

FULL TIME YOU WEBSITE
https://www.fulltimeyou.co/

LISTEN TO MEG’S PODCASTS | Dribbble Overtime | Sit There & Do Nothing
► https://dribbble.com/overtime
► https://sitthereanddonothing.com/

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DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE GUIDE TO SIDE HUSTLE FREEDOM
6 Resources designed to help you create a killer side hustle and elevate your brand outside your day job: http://sidehustlefreedomguide.com/

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PURCHASE THE SIDE HUSTLER’S HANDBOOK PDF COURSE
Here’s the proven blueprint that’ll help you gain clarity, confidence, and a mental edge to unlock your biggest side hustling breakthrough: http://sidehustlershandbook.com/

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Retro Supply ► Use SCOTTY20 to get 20% OFF high-quality AI, PS, Procreate & Affinity resources: http://bit.ly/RetroSupplyScotty  

Design Cuts ► Get your FREE Ever-Expanding design resources bundle pack: www.perspectivebundle.com

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JOIN THE PRIVATE FACEBOOK COMMUNITY FOR CREATORS 
Get around like-minded creatives all over the world sharing their work, resources, tips while providing feedback and encouragement to take your side hustle to the next level: http://bit.ly/P-CFacebook

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CREDITS 
Music  ► Blookah (https://soundcloud.com/blookah)
Executive Assistant  ► Paige Garland (https://www.instagram.com/jpaigegarland/)
Photo & Video Specialist  ► Colton Bachar (https://www.instagram.com/wrktocreate)
Animation Specialist  ► Greg D'Amico (https://www.instagram.com/gmdamico)

This is a very exciting time of year, a great time to evaluate 2019 and look ahead to what you want to achieve in 2020. In this episode, the first episode of the new decade, we talk about our goals and intentions for the year ahead. This has become a tradition for us on the podcast, at the start of every year we reflect on our goals and look forward to what we want to achieve next. 

Plan your year workbook

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Kim Scott, Radical Candour
Liz + Mollie, No Hard Feelings

In this episode of Design Life, we talk about how to get your first design job. It can be a conundrum, in order to get a job you need to have experience, but in order to get experience you need a job. How can you get experience if no one is willing to give you a job? We share our tips, along with an exciting new product we have launched in the Design Life store.

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Liz Steel
Hollie Arnett

If you discount the 3 consecutive Saturdays he spent at Waitrose, Tom’s a thoroughbred entrepreneur. He started out knocking on the doors of local businesses at 16 years old, and then went from freelance to founder when he launched Design Cuts - a global marketplace of resources for designers.

Tom loves his company, but he’s learnt some hard lessons along the way. He talks openly about his experience of burnout that led to serious illness, and how he’s still dealing with the effects of that today.

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Love learning from other freelancers like this? Check out the website beingfreelance.com, be part of the Being Freelance Community!*

You'll also find useful links for this episode. That's beingfreelance.com

Like VIDEO? - Check out the Being Freelance vlog - YouTube.com/SteveFolland

Who the hell is Steve Folland?

You know how everyone bangs on about how powerful video and audio content can be?
Yeah, well Steve helps businesses make it and make the most of it. Find out more at www.stevefolland.com
Track him down on Twitter @sfolland or lay a trail of cake and he'll eventually catch you up.

JOIN THE COMMUNITY
You're not alone being freelance. 
Come and hang out with your BFFs (Being Freelance Friends).
beingfreelance.com/community
 

NEW TO FREELANCING? THERE'S A COURSE FOR YOU!

The Being Freelance course is made for you!
Take the course and you'll also get 6 months FREE community membership.
 

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Get Being Freelance merchandise at beingfreelance.com/shop

Like VIDEO? - Check out the Being Freelance on:
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The podcast launches a new segment to broaden the dynamic of the show.  The monologue episodes will serve as an opportunity for the audience to get to hear from the podcast host himself, Corbin Mendenhall.  

In this first installment of the new segment brings a variety of content.  We look into Corbin's previous work history, plans for the podcast moving forward and finally, he shares some resources and ideas of his own.

Please let us know what you think of this new segment and be sure to rate and review our podcast using your favorite podcast app.  Thank you to our audience for the support and motivation!

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