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Making Time by Bella Foxwell

Your practical, honest guide to the weird and wonderful world of freelancing, whether you’re about to take the leap or you’re in the first few years of figuring it all out.

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  1. Issue · Sep 23, 2026

    You’ll never succeed at freelancing if you can’t be cringe (opens the original)

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    18 months ago, a wonderful client of mine told me that she felt cringed out by posting on LinkedIn. As someone who’d never put herself out there online (never posted on social media and certainly never shared her opinions or photos featuring her), our new LinkedIn strategy was making her feel a certain way. Using the evidence we had that things were working — great engagement, fruitful conversations with her target clients — I explained that those feelings are normal. It does feel a bit (a lot?)

  2. Issue · Sep 17, 2026

    How to succeed on social media as a freelancer (NOT a content creator) 💫 (opens the original)

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    Open up Instagram right now and you can hardly move for content by content creators about content creation for other aspiring content creators. This post is <span style="color:

  3. Issue · Sep 9, 2026

    How to set boundaries (+ stay sane) with clients as a freelancer 🧘🏻‍♀️ (opens the original)

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    One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned over the past 7 years of freelancing is that building a successful business with clients you love isn’t possible unless you have boundaries. And my goodness they’re hard to have in the beginning. Really <span style="c

  4. Issue · Sep 2, 2026

    How to find new clients as a freelancer | 11 actions to take TODAY (opens the original)

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    Finding new clients when you’re self-employed can feel something akin to black magic. How does it happen?? Where are they lurking?? “They” being clients that are a) really nice to work with and b) have healthy budgets. I promise they’re out there. But finding them isn’t magic. It’s a series of very mundane activities done over and over (and over) again.I used to think, before I went freelance, that if I was good enough at my craft — if I did an excellent job for client

  5. Issue · Aug 26, 2026

    How to be a happy freelancer ✿ (opens the original)

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    How do you stay happy and motivated through the ups and downs of freelance life? During days and sometimes weeks when you don’t see many other people except your partner, your housemate, or your cute corgi? How I try to do this is shared below. I’d love your suggestions, too ♡Quitting my last corporate job to go freelance was the best thing I’ve ever done. I wasn’t scared — quite the opposite. I was excited by the possibilities. I didn’t have lots of c

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