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Firstly, a heartfelt thank you for considering joining our podcast family. At 'The Future is Freelance', we aim to not only uncover and celebrate the wonders of the freelancing and remote work world, but to also create an environment where stories …

I am terribly sorry, I am British, and this is really most awkward. But we need to talk about money. We need to talk about it. We need to get comfortable managing it, accounting for it, asking for it, and getting paid what we are owed - because no…

Let's talk about meeting expectations of hirers and recruiters, when you're looking for remote work. How do you make sure you're exactly what they're looking for.? But first, have a listen to the latest podcast episode, IRL for Introverts: Hac…

A shorter post today, because we have family guests - making it all the way from the UK to Spain, for the first time since ‘BC’ 😎 But I am so glad to have published Lumjana Shehu's story on the podcast today. If like me, you are increa…

So, you're getting an extra podcast this week outside of the fortnightly rhythm.  I just had to share with you my reflections following the Running Remote conference in Lisbon, and I wanted to do so while I was still buzzing happily in the afte…

Every time we have a few fiestas back to back, people start to wonder what day or week it is. And the good people at Remote Work Spain were naturally wondering where their regular fortnightly email was. I could blame Easter and tell you I was too b…

Are the robots coming for our freelance gigs? Hopefully not, because while large language trained models like chatGPT can do extremely impressive things, they can't add value in the uniquely human way that we can - however quickly they can spit out…

Back when I started building a small business brand, the main thing people meant when they talked about content creation was having a blog. Okay, no problem - for me anyway, as writing came naturally, and it was a great way to tell human st…

Hands up, anybody who’s ever experienced impostor syndrome? That sense that you’re simply not good enough, and everyone can see that. The lurking lurch in the guts that, just maybe, you’re about to be exposed to the world fo…

My head is literally in the clouds this week, because I am in Madeira for a conference. It’s cloudy a lot here in February I gather, while over the space of 5 days I have enjoyed pretty much every kind of weather available - something t…