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Event Recap: Turn Adversity into Your Superpowers

Event Recap: Turn Adversity into Your Superpowers

by Meredith Hunt | Feb 27, 2022 | advice, Event, Freelance Austin Blog

Fayruz Benyousef’s first taste of adversity started when she was eight. Born in Tripoli, Libya, she moved to the US with her parents so they could attend graduate school when her father was diagnosed with leukemia. Living in a foreign country, facing complicated...
Event Recap: Everything You Need to Know about Pricing   

Event Recap: Everything You Need to Know about Pricing  

by Meredith Hunt | Jan 25, 2022 | advice, career, Confidence, Event, Freelance Austin Blog, Pricing

When I started freelancing full-time in 2016, figuring out how to charge clients fairly for my services at a rate that would allow me to live comfortably was a mental hurdle. It almost made me run back to my cushy corporate job, tail between my legs. If I started out...
Event Recap: From Distraction to Intention

Event Recap: From Distraction to Intention

by Meredith Hunt | Nov 18, 2021 | advice, career, Event, Freelance Austin Blog, Freelance Tips, Meeting Recaps, Productivity

As Maura Nevel Thomas noted during November’s Freelance Austin meeting, “Empowered Productivity: Win the War Against Information Overload,” most of us start our days simply by looking at what’s in front of us. But according to Maura, if our goal is to increase...

Event Recap: Three Steps to Unapologetic Confidence as a Solopreneur

by Meredith Hunt | Oct 20, 2021 | advice, career, Confidence, Freelance Austin Blog, Freelance Tips, Marketing & Self Promotion, Meeting Recaps

Christina Glickman – a Chicago mom of four and self-described “Type A hustler” – has a stock reply when her kids complain they cannot do something. “Tell me what you CAN do, not what you can’t.” It is this philosophy that helped Christina – after 15 years in...

Event Recap: Sell More with Case Studies

by Meredith Hunt | Sep 16, 2021 | advice, career, Event, Freelance Austin Blog, Freelance Tips, Marketing & Self Promotion, Meeting Recaps

Emma Siemasko started off Freelance Austin’s September meeting with a discussion about …wait for it, toilets. She explained that her friend raved about her recent purchase of a bidet, touting its life-changing qualities, to the point where Emma went and purchased one...

Event Recap: Seeing the Bright Side During Challenging Times

by Meredith Hunt | Aug 20, 2021 | advice, Austin, career, Event, Freelance Austin Blog, Freelance Tips, Marketing & Self Promotion, Pricing, Resources

As temperatures soared in August, Freelance Austin members met virtually to share their coolest tips for thriving during challenging times, the resources they find most helpful, and what they’d like to change about their freelance lives. Three breakout groups featured...

Freelance Austin Members Spill Their Success Secrets

by Meredith Hunt | Apr 27, 2021 | advice, career, Freelance Austin Blog, Freelance Tips, Marketing & Self Promotion, Meeting Recaps, Resources, technology

As freelancers, we often turn to experts for answers about taxes, marketing, and technology, but when the topic is freelancing, we don’t have to go very far to get the wisdom we seek. During an unconventional monthly meeting on April 14, Kara Myers, VP of Freelance...

Event Recap: A Stress-Free Approach to Getting New Clients

by Meredith Hunt | Apr 1, 2021 | advice, career, Event, Freelance Austin Blog, Freelance Tips, Marketing & Self Promotion

If you ask freelancers the toughest part of their job, many would say it’s getting new clients. Melanie Padgett Powers, owner of Mel Edits and host of The Deliberate Freelancer podcast, offered her tips and strategies for taking stress out of the process during...
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