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 15…

Our new freelance expert columnists…

Your Messages • Thank you so much for all your emails and messages. Please keep sending them in and let us know what you want to see more of.

On Design Thinking

THE POWER OF WORDS • “It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognise, accept, and celebrate those differences.”

Three Tips Valuing neurodiversity: practical advice for a more inclusive freelance world

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THE FREELANCE DOODLER

A Day In The Life Of…

Freelance Business Experts • Introducing our new expert freelance business columnists

Tom Hirst • On Freelance Pricing

Latasha James • Content Creation Expert

Dan Nelken • A Self-help Guide for Creatives

Heather Murray • AI for Non-Techies

Gus Bhandal • The LinkedIn Guru

Pascalle Bergmans • The Public Speaking Coach

Mel Barfield • Building a Freelance Business You Love

Anita Ellis • Seeing Yourself as a Business

Building a business that works for your brain… and your bank balance • Amanda Perry is writing a brain-first business book and works with neurodivergent founders to create their brain-first businesses and understand themselves better.

When words hurt: navigating RSD as a freelancer • Rejection sensitive dysphoria (RSD) means you’re unusually sensitive to the responses of others. So how on earth do you survive in the freelance world, fraught with ghosting, unhelpful feedback and clients from hell?

GEEK GIRL • Holly Smale is a writer of books, screenplays and the occasional piece of journalism and is based in Hove. She writes the enormously popular Geek Girl series which has recently debuted on Netflix, and her adult fiction was chosen for Reece Witherspoon’s Book Club.

Why Neurodivergence Led Me to Freelancing • Seven neurodivergent Freelancer Magazine readers told us why building a freelance business is the best option for them.

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Freelancer Business Planning Sheets • The last few months of the year are a time to reflect on the successes of 2024 so far in terms of your business growth and personal development. Start to set yourself up with a plan for 2025 based on your learnings, and work out what else you’d like to achieve before the year is done.

ADHD AND ME • Five freelance business owners share their experience of accepting and embracing work life with ADHD.

ACCESS TO WORK • Jessica Dark and her organisation ND Perspective is helping neurodivergent freelancers succeed with Access to Work.

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The business support Celie Nigoumi has received through Access to Work has been a real game changer.

THE POWER IS IN YOUR HANDS • Freya Swenson Costello runs the digital marketing agency Freya Helps Me in Bristol. She believes being your own boss can be amazing if you’re neurodivergent, and she works to help neurodivergent people thrive wherever they work.

"UNTIL I WAS 36, I THOUGHT THAT I WAS RUBBISH, LAZY, LACKED WILLPOWER, BROKEN AND HOPELESS." • Charlotte Dover is an accredited life coach and mentor specialising in supporting other latediagnosed ADHD (and maybe-ADHD) women.

A GOOD EGG • Sophie Bellamy is a copywriter from the North of England and the cofounder of Good Egg.

A quick way to work out your hourly rate • If you are new to being freelance (or even if you’re not), can I show you a quick way of working out your own hourly or day rate?

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