HeyJaredFreelance for Life
A newsletter about designing a fulfilling freelance practice and living a creative life. Written by Sarah Jutras, an experience designer for digital and physical worlds, a small business owner, and a collector of life's delights.
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Your freelance questions answered (opens the original)
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This is an invitation email. 💌I’m continuing celebrating my anniversary of 10 years in business by opening the whole decade for questions. If you missed my latest article, I just completed a 10-year retrospective ritual on 10 Years of Making a Freelance Life.This week I’m hosting a free AMA (Ask Me Anything) session to share the lessons I’ve uncovered from a decade of practice.I’ll also be joined by friends and alumni from my Designing Your Freelance Business course
10 years of making a freelance life (opens the original)
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Ten years ago this month, I left my role as a design director at a Bay Area startup and ventured out on my own to found Huzzah Studio.I didn’t have a master plan. I actually told myself that the whole thing would just be a big experiment. I held a lot of questions: could I make enough money freelancing to afford my San Francisco rent? Could I find enough clients as an introvert? Could I build a creative practice that supported not only the work I wanted to make, but the life I wanted to live?Luc
A commonplace journal practice (opens the original)
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I’ve always kept a little notebook in my purse. With no real rules attached to it, the notebook just ensured that no matter what I wanted to capture (a fleeting idea, notes from a phone call, something I saw in the environment), I’d have pen and paper to do so. Months back I discovered a new-to-me term called “Commonplace Journaling”. As a natural researcher, I looked into the meaning and history. What I discovered was a delightful type of documentation that felt supportive of a mindful creative
Summer bingo (opens the original)
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I don’t have any big plans or special trips this summer, so I made a bingo board instead!Here’s the thing about a bingo board: it’s really just a list wearing a fun costume. It won’t feel like a to-do list (though I do love a list), it’ll feel like a joyful game.I‘ve got this strange, secondhand nostalgia for summer camp (even though I never actually went to sleepaway camp, but definitely watched Camp Nowhere repeatedly in my youth). So I filled my board with my version of fun “summer camp” acti
The Mid-year Review 2026 (opens the original)
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Here we are again, more than halfway through another strange year. Regardless of how different the energy of a year may feel, it’s always a rewarding study to look back on the patterns, themes, and impactful moments that make up my life. This mid-year review is a study in pace (mine, not the world’s), and what it takes to keep longing, dreaming, and reaching for beauty inside of it.Feelings over figures Life: The threads emerging in my life so far this year have been:(Still) Playing tug-of-war w
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