Freelancing and job hunting have a lot in common, but one crucial difference determines whether you build something sustainable or burn out trying.

Sending a rate increase email is one of the biggest mistakes freelancers make. Here's how to have the conversation instead and why it gets you better results.

Feast or famine isn't just a cash flow problem. Here's the simple math showing why saving as a freelancer is hard, and the mindset shift that actually breaks the cycle.

Before you spend thousands on a business coach, know what you're actually buying. Here's the difference between a coach and a mentor and what to ask before you commit.

Here’s what is going wrong when people cold pitch over email:

their subject line.

You’re making enough…but you know you’re capable of more.

You’re stuck at $5k months, when $10k+ is totally within reach.

Meanwhile, people you considered peers last year are now scaling up and speeding ahead.

Why?

Because they stopped waiting for the “right time.”

In this day and age, unplugging is something often talked about but not practiced enough.

Using these 3 tips will help you turn the client towards signing up with you faster when you utilize them. Let me know if you have used any of these and how that has gone for you.

In order to even have a freelance business, or any business, you need income.

How do you get income?

By getting clients.

When you are trying to step away from being employed, every little shift in mindset matters, every single change you’re trying to make in how you view yourself, operate and come into the business world should be an intentional decision.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned over years of being in business and coaching students, it’s this: new freelancers often come into marketing completely unprepared.

Marketing Isn’t Just Social Media

To me, being an entrepreneur isn’t something you can learn from a textbook or lecture. It requires innate traits—things you’re born with or not.

I’m not usually one to talk about manifesting and visualization—I’m more of a hardcore, nuts-and-bolts, facts-and-education type when it comes to building a business. But I’ve come to realize that if you want to truly come into inspiration, you can’t do it without letting your imagination run wild.

I hope you’re taking a much needed break during the end of 2025 and finding time to focus on yourself, your business, and really map out a strategy.

In 2025, my guiding word was “Harmony”. I wanted to find harmony in business and in my personal life. I always felt like business was overtaking personal life and I was thinking about it all the time.

I stuck to my plan like my future depended on it. If I wanted to leave corporate, something had to change.

Starting and maintaining a business involves a lot of erasing, yet too often, new freelancers treat it like it's written in pen. If something isn't working, we think there is no going back and so, giving up is a lot easier.

You can’t deny that when you work corporate, you have one main job and you work 8-9 hours per day for this employer. That's not to say you can't have side hustles, or part-time jobs on the side, but 8-9 hours for five days a week makes it so that ONE job is the priority.

One of my Flourishing Freelancer members said something that caught my attention a few months ago...

Follow up! Over and over and over again until you get a hard not.

This is your livelihood, this is your income.

So, today, ask yourself: what do you have to lose?