Double Your Freelancing Podcast

About Double Your Freelancing Podcast

Better Clients. More Money. A Happier Life.

Publisher

Brennan Dunn, Zach Swinehart

Category

business · technology

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

26 Sept 2012

Latest episode

20 Oct 2025

Latest episodes

1 of 153 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   20 Oct 2025

   How Virginie is Scaling From Solo Freelancer To 100 Active Clients

   Zach talks to one of his students, Virginie, who went from relying on word of mouth referrals → to signing **10 new clients in the past few months.** You’ll get a behind-the-scenes look at how Virginie diversified her client revenue and is well on her way to her goal of 100 active clients.

2. 

   29 Sept 2025

   How Freelancers Can Fix the “Forced-Hire” Scaling Mistake

   Zach breaks down how to escape the “panic hire” cycle by building a simple hiring funnel you can use before you hit capacity. This includes evaluating candidates in a standardized way, using structured rubrics to protect your client work, and using your project manager (not you) as the filter in the process.

3. 

   16 Jun 2025

   How To Price Your Freelance Services in 2025

   Zach explores a common pricing error and demonstrates how freelancers can increase their rates by adjusting their market position.

Inside a recent episode

Episode 25: Jonathan Stark on Risk Mitigation through Fixed Bid Pricing

Published 4 May 2015 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Like, they wanted to be able to say, I will pay you 50 grand, and this is what I'll get. And the issue we ran into there, and again, this was early on when I was, I think a little more naive about, like, assumption -making and everything else, and, you know, they would describe the website or the application that they need built, and I would have in my head a picture of what that meant, and then, at the 11th hour of the project, we realized actually, oops, they actually wanted something, a little more complex than what we were thinking, and we ended up in this kind of, like, almost like a free buffet sort of thing, like, and all you can eat buffet type of problem, where some of these projects just dragged on, almost indefinitely, because the client never, the client and I just never got to a point where we could agree upon, you know, what actually, what a complete system looked like. […]

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

16,850

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

77 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 71 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

75

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

92

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