The small agency Nick had joined had become a big agency. He’d become part of the leadership team. HR. Management. Meetings. He missed doing the ‘work’.
He did know how much big clients were willing to pay for that work though.
So Nick set out as a high-billing tone-of-voice specialist. A company of one.
With various side projects, Nick embraces the freedom of freelance life - allowing moments of ‘high performing procrastination’ to explore his creativity.
Fungi left university as a scientist. But it was her experiments with Photoshop that had unexpected results. She now wanted to be a designer.
Whilst working full-time in science, she designed on the side. By changing her entire persona online, she began to turn what started as a passion project, into a full-time freelance career.
Fungi’s focus is in lifting African culture and narratives to the forefront of her design. From the ‘Sunshine City’ Harare, Zimbabwe, she’s brightening brands, packaging and websites the world over.
Read MoreLevi left art school with no job, but worse, no love of art.
Eventually he started creating and experimenting. Finding his style, he also found an art director and his lucky break. Going from flipping burgers to turning over big meaty clients.
Still Levi has worked hard to keep the ‘play’ of art in his life. Joining a studio and forming a collective. He’s not going to let getting paid to create detroy his love for it.
Read MoreOver 10 years ago Frankie crowd funded her training as a graphic designer. It’s fair to say she doesn’t look at problems the same way everyone does.
And when pregnancy took her flourishing freelance career a few steps back, when she felt isolated amongst parents with full-time jobs, she didn’t settle. She searched. She got creative.
As her first child was born, so was ‘Doing It For The Kids’. Through a blog, Instagram, award-winning podcast and thriving community, she’s forged a second family of freelancers juggling kids & business.
Read MoreBal loved his job in advertising, but posting on Instagram as ‘Mr Whisper’ changed the course of his career, leading him to work not only for himself, but with some insanely high profile brands from the off.
As an early ‘creator’, Bal has had to adapt as social media has evolved, to make sure the brands and the full-time rates kept coming. But despite the competition, he has his blinkers on. He’s only in a race against himself.
Read MoreAlthough Michelle had a brief fling living the nine to five life in Silicon Valley, there was no chance of her resisting being her own boss.
In two decades she’s grown a successful business, a family, a Twitter community and ridden out recessions and tough spells. It’s the long game and she’s got plenty to share on how to play it.
Read MoreAfter graduating with a degree in illustration, Andi moved back to his hometown.
Renting an odd-shaped office with no windows might not have given him great views. But it did give him amazing business connections that would set the first of many freelance plates spinning.
With a varied career, Andi’s also enjoying the challenge of mastering freelancing with his latest clients…his children.
Read MoreAfter being made redundant from her New York agency job, Nikki thought she’d go to Israel and freelance as a copywriter. Try it for a year…
7.5 years later her family has grown up in Israel. Their mum is very much still freelance. But she’s built a reputation as an email expert & a small team to help her pull it off.
Read MoreRyan started freelancing still in his teens, mentored by his first (and only) boss.
For SEO purposes he has a freelancer website and a local agency site, but doesn’t want to grow bigger than being a solo business. He’s putting work-life balance ahead of profits.
Read MoreKrishna was always freelance on the side of other jobs, eventually going full self-employed in 2019.
Now with the support of a mentor, a community and mastermind group she’s growing her business into an agency.
A lot going on, a lot happening fast. But then she loves life ‘100 miles per hour’.
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