About
- STEVE FOLLAND
Steve is a freelance video & podcast producer. Usually for businesses, but as you can tell, he has a habit of doing it for the freelance community too.
That's what he does now. For years he worked in radio.
In 2013 he swapped early starts for a life being freelance: to be his own boss, to be with his two kids, to be more awake.
He's always freelanced alongside 'full time' jobs though: radio producer, presenter, script writer, voiceover or copywriter.
He started the Being Freelance podcast in January 2015.
In 2016 he started documenting his freelance life with the Being Freelance vlog.
In 2018 he started speaking at events on the subject of freelancing and finding work-life balance.
2019 started with the launch of the Being Freelance Community. Steve also become the co-host of a second podcast for freelance parents: Doing It For The Kids podcast (DIFTK).
2020 saw DITFK win Bronze for ‘Best Business Podcast’ at the British Podcast Awards. Steve also started the Being Freelance Book Club and a Mastermind group called The Cookie Collective.
In 2021 Steve created and launched the course ‘How to get started being freelance’. Meanwhile ‘Doing It For The Kids’ returned to the British Podcast Awards to win GOLD for ‘Best Business Podcast’. The first artist/BF collaboration print raised money for UNICEF.
In 2022 the Being Freelance Podcast was a finalist, shortlisted for Best Business Podcast at the BPAs. Plus freelancers around the world could finally wear the BF logo on their own hoodie and tee, whilst and a second charity art print kept their walls happy.
In 2023 a third, longer-running Cookie Collective mastermind kicked off and the BF Community moved to its own home away from Facebook becoming even better with more IRL meet-ups and a new live show called The Freelance Disco.
That year he also won ‘Community Champion’ at the prestigious IPSE Awards in London for his work supporting the freelancing community.
He loves cake.
He runs because he knows he should.
Sometimes it's past a bakers.