Being Freelance
Hosted by Steve Folland and Steve · Steve Folland
4.9from 98 ratings
- 373
- Episodes
- 15
- Transcribed
- 98
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2015
- First episode
- 30K
- YouTube views
About Being Freelance
Freelancing? Being boss of your own life and business can be tough and isolating. But it can also be totally rewarding. Pick up tips, advice and strategies on how to make it as a freelancer, an solopreneur, as the owner of your own independent business - by hearing other creative freelancers share their experience. Hosted by fellow freelancer Steve Folland. Serving the world's self-employed with episodes since 2015. Come join us in the Being Freelance Community - You're not alone being freelance. www.beingfreelance.com/community
- Publisher
- Steve Folland
- Category
- business · business · business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 18 Jan 2015
- Latest episode
- 19 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
15 of 373 episodes have a transcript.
19 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Networking Can Work! How Andre De Almeida built his freelance business on conversations
12 Oct 2026
From Burnout to Balance: Pacing Your Business as a Neurodivergent Freelancer with Celie Nigoumi
5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Embracing The Weird: How Quirky Outreach Built a Copywriting Business with Helen Carrie
Inside a recent episode
Networking Can Work! How Andre De Almeida built his freelance business on conversations
Published 19 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So I started messaging people that I collaborated with because I was a marketing manager for them. So within that three-year period, we run events, we run shared funds. So I ended up expanding my network and I reached out to those people. At the same time, I started visiting and going to networking events, which it was very challenging at the beginning because I always hated network events. But when you go as a freelancer, as a business, It is so much different than when you go as an employee to a big trade fair. And that's how I found, okay, I like this now. I like this better. So officially, my first client came out of one of the network events that I went, recommended by another freelancer that was there. […]
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- Andre De Almeida
- Celie Nigoumi
- Helen Carrie
- Ingrid Fernandez
- David Airey
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 29,856
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 42 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 56 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 80 / 100
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- Quality
- 92
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 76
- Engagement
- 96
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Who hosts Being Freelance?
Steve Folland and Steve host the show. Published by Steve Folland.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes monthly, based on its RSS feed.
Does Being Freelance take guests?
Yes. Guests have been identified in episode analyses.
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