Fashion Designers Get Paid: Build Your Fashion Career On Your Own Terms
Hosted by Sew Heidi · Sew Heidi
4.9from 304 ratings
- 294
- Episodes
- 63
- Transcribed
- 304
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2016
- First episode
- 4M
- YouTube views
About Fashion Designers Get Paid: Build Your Fashion Career On Your Own Terms
This is a show for burnt-out fashion designers (and TDs, PDs, patternmakers, textile designer and beyond) who want more flexibility in their career while still doing work they love. You'll learn how to build a freelance fashion business, so you can do the work you love on your own terms. Freelancing in fashion is the only way to get freedom in your day (instead of being tied to a desk). Whether you want to earn extra money on the side, fund your fashion brand, or replace your salary, the FDGP podcast will help you get there. Listen in for actionable tips and strategies to kickstart or grow your career as a freelance fashion designer, build your confidence, and create the life you want. Hosted by $100k+ fashion freelancer Sew Heidi, the show features interviews and strategy sessions with successful freelance fashion designers from around the world who've ditched toxic fashion jobs and taken control of their own destinies. This is the only place to get REAL insights from REAL freelancers who have built REAL careers on their own terms. (Formerly the Successful Fashion Freelancer podcast.)
- Publisher
- Sew Heidi
- Category
- arts · education
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 14 Mar 2016
- Latest episode
- 9 Mar 2026
Latest episodes
63 of 294 episodes have a transcript.
9 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT
274: Fully Booked but Underpaid: Ingrid’s Path to Doubling Her Rates (Without Losing Clients)
16 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT
273: This Simple Follow-Up Strategy Landed Her a $4K Client
2 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT
272: The Cold Pitch That Landed JoAnne a $7800 Freelance Project
Inside a recent episode
274: Fully Booked but Underpaid: Ingrid’s Path to Doubling Her Rates (Without Losing Clients)
Published 9 Mar 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I make really, really detailed text packs. I make like, I'm very detailed oriented. I take a lot of care of everything that I put on a text pack or an email and that takes a lot of time. If you're not charging for hour, then that project price needs to reflect all the time that you're going to take on that. So with the time, with the hourly pricing, I felt like I was in a safer space and I was. But then the next step was, once I was comfortable with that, I started raising my rates and I started changing a bit the nature of the clients that I was having mainly because as you raise your rates, you just get a different profile of people that can afford me now are a bit different than the people that could afford me before. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on Fashion Designers Get Paid: Build Your Fashion Career On Your Own Terms
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- Ingrid Lange
- Rebecca Kendall
- JoAnne Hopkins
- Jacqueline
- Max Guemto
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- 3,937,419
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- 4.9 / 5
- 304 ratings
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- 94
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- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 96
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Who hosts Fashion Designers Get Paid: Build Your Fashion Career On Your Own Terms?
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