Being Freelance

AI is already in your freelance business, whether you invited it or not. 

The usual Being Freelance podcast is on its summer break, but here's a bonus treat for you: a replay of a live LinkedIn session Steve did with lawyer Ingrid Fernandez, part of the Being Freelance community, looking at what AI means for freelancers legally - not "will it take my job" but "how ...

David Airey is a freelance graphic designer based in Northern Ireland, self-employed since 2005. 

He's the author of several best-selling design books including Logo Design Love and Identity Designed - both of which started life as blogs, before turning into books... before turning into a steady stream of client work.

In this episode, David talks...

New full episode coming soon. But in this super short one - Steve Folland explains why he's not publishing a new interview this week.

Too often we rush on from one thing to another.
But by doing so we don't do justice to the thing we just finished.

With the Being Freelance podcast, that can mean not promoting an episode with clips, socials and emails. That do...

Lisa Emmington is a freelance instructional designer (or as her newly SEO'd website puts it, a training course designer) based near Milton Keynes. 

She's been freelance almost her entire career, starting out as an IT trainer back when Apple Macs were a mystery box on people's desks, and has reinvented her business every time the market has shifted underneath her - from ...

Zoe East has never had a proper job. A work experience placement at a big TV channel that felt old-fashioned and sexist put her off the traditional route before she'd even graduated, so she went freelance instead and never really looked back. That was over ten years ago.

She started with whatever work came along. The niche found her gradually: charities doing meaningful...