Freelancer Magazine

100 pages every three months dedicated to connecting the lives and growing the businesses of B2B and creative freelancers.

Editor's Letter

Your Freelancer Magazine Dream Team for Issue 12…

Your Messages

THE FREELANCE DOODLER

On Living the Dream

THE POWER OF WORDS • “The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.”

Three Tips Starting Out as a Freelancer

#FreelanceLifeOnTheGrid • Our favourite freelancer pics from the Gram.

A Day In The Life Of…

A Day in the Life…

So You Want To Be A… Sommelier?

Do I Need A… NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION FOR MY FREELANCE BUSINESS?

The Sound of Silence • Thomas Romana is a 36-year-old French/English hybrid who has been living in Berlin for nearly 10 years. He is a copywriter specialising in voice-overs and video scripts, and a creative translator. For fun, Thomas DJs and runs an experimental electronic music label called Failed Units.

How do you prioritise your mental health when you work from anywhere? • How does working from multiple places affect your mental wellbeing, and what can you do to ensure you're thriving as a digital nomad?

Freelancing Around the World • When we did a shout-out asking to hear from readers around the world about what freelancing is like for them, we were inundated with responses. Read on to find out in which country freelancers can get half their tax and pension contributions paid, where they have 300 days of sunshine a year, and which countries global freelancers think are the best (and worst!) to work in.

Relocation, Relocation, Relocation, • Christine Gritmon is an international speaker, personal branding expert and all-round firecracker. She lives in St Albans with her husband Greg and kids Josh (12) and Ellie (9), having moved her family over to the UK from the US. Mel Barfield grilled the Grit on what she does and how she juggles her work and family life.

Do Give Up Your Day Job • Tiffany Markman is a writer, speaker and copywriting teacher. She lives in South Africa and rehabilitates bats in her spare time. Yep, you read that right – a real life Batwoman.

You gotta Werk it out

The Freelancer Almanac • A Seasonal Guide to Your Freelance Business February – April

Dancing in the Dark • Are cold, gloomy days getting you down? How would you manage if you lived somewhere that gets really dark in the winter? Two freelancers tell us what it's like for them when the nights are long and the days are short, and how they work around it. By Penny Brazier

Super Street Art • Bourdelaud Lénaïc, aka the street artist Super Bourdi, lives in La Rochelle, a French city on the coast between Nantes and Bordeaux. You will struggle to walk down a road in La Rochelle without his character ‘Bobby’ gracing you with his presence in his bright red pants. Super Bourdi shares with us how he became a street artist and what inspires him.

Can You Make upworkTM Work For You? • Hugo Roger is from São Paulo, Brazil and now lives in South Dakota, USA with his wife Janae and their two children, Iris and Zion. He's been a full-time freelancer for 16 years and is a self-confessed diehard Upwork fan and is a top earner with them making close to $1million in payments received over 7 years. He shares his story with Freelancer Magazine.

Hugo's tips for freelancing with Upwork…

Why every freelancer could benefit from a global peer network • Do you have pros in different area codes? Here's how to ignite international friendships in a way that works for you.

FREELANCER MAGAZINE VIRTUAL COWORKING SESSION

How to Budget on an Irregular Income Peter Komolafe • Fellow freelancer and money expert Peter Komolafe shares his experience of navigating the...