Today there are two words dominating the internet, social media, our inboxes and even our newspapers and magazines – Black Friday. If...

The chill in the air and the darker nights as well as talk of Christmas plans with family made me think about freelance winter. Do you...

Freelancing and plastic might not seem to have much in common, but if you look around you, at your desk and your work, you might start to...

Loneliness has been a thread running through this past year. Isolation, fear, loss – it’s been a lonely time for many if not all of us....

Over the years during my work as a journalist, I’ve spoken to countless coaches as experts for my features. Working on the features desk...

As freelancers - especially in the past year - we spend a lot of time indoors. You'd think that with the flexibility we have, we'd be...

Retraining had been on my mind for a while, pre-pandemic. I was one of those people who had got to a stage of their career – for me,...

As freelancers, there are so many things that can make us stressed that when I started thinking of a list it felt never ending! There’s...

March 23 2021. A day of reflection in the UK to mark a year since our first lockdown. There have been some TV adverts for this which have...

"Are you in Clubhouse?" "Ooh, I've joined Clubhouse..." "Come find me in Clubhouse..." "Hey guys, I'm over in Clubhouse right now..."...

January can feel bleak and quiet when you’re freelancing, but there are plenty of ways to try and get yourself ‘out there’ and make new...

You’ve heard of going ‘out-out’, right? OK, so I know at the moment that’s pretty tricky, but the idea is that when you go ‘out-out’, you...

November 4 is National Stress awareness day and this week, until the 6th, is International Stress Awareness Week. You can find out more...

Today is International Podcast Day, and it's funny to think that I can call myself a podcaster! I'm very much still an amateur in many...

I've been working on my CV and LinkedIn profile lately, and it's got me pondering on the fact that I haven't often been the big shot...

The things I love about freelancing include the bylines-a-plenty in so many places, and never having to ask if my holiday dates clash...

I just had to write a short post, and it's for anyone who is also feeling a little frustrated with their working space right now. I...

This week is loneliness awareness week. Last year I wrote on loneliness as a freelancer for the same week and, reading over that post,...

I see this sign on one of my daily walks and it kept 'speaking' to me - it might sound cheesy but it's so pertinent right now - it has...

April 18, 2020 I have often been what you might call a lone freelance wolf. I've mentioned before in posts that I was never the best at...