Do you want to know what being a freelancer is really like? Read our series of interviews with the people who live and breathe the freelance life.
Meet our Featured Freelancer Heroes
Featured Freelancer: Holly Chetan-Welsh, Freelance Copywriter
This week we have copywriter Holly Chetan-Welsh in the Featured Freelancer hot seat. Holly has only been...
Featured Freelancer: Caroline Silver: Strategy, Operations and Business Development
https://youtu.be/jhH5uFCgoI0 Summarised interview below. What is your name and what do you do? Hi, I’m Caroline...
Featured Freelancer: Amy Dawson, PR and Copywriting Agency
Taking the spotlight this week is Amy Dawson of Gatekeeper Communications, a PR and Copywriting magician with a...
Featured Freelancer: Helen Calvert, The No Bullsh*t Coach
Are you feeling overwhelmed by your business and want to give yourself more guilt-free self-care? If yes, you...
Featured Freelancer: Richard Shrubb, Freelance Copywriter
If you aren't already acquainted, meet Richard Shrubb: A well-seasoned journalist and copywriter working in some...
Featured Freelancer: Wendy Weaver, Virtual Assistant and Business Writer
In our latest Featured Freelancer interview, we meet Wendy Weaver, a business writer and virtual assistant...
VIDEO: Featured Freelancer Interview Featuring Shakuntla Joshi of ADS Agency
Freelance Heroes chats to Shakuntla Joshi about starting up her business - ADS Agency - and her 25-year career in...
Featured Freelancer: Kyle Rushton McGregor; SEO, PPC and Analytics Specialist
Meet Kyle, an SEO guru nestled away on the Orkney Islands but making a massive impact on clients across the UK....
Featured Freelancer: Jo Martin – The Grammar Mamma, Content Writer
After being made redundant, Jo took her 8 years of experience in content writing and took the plunge to...
Featured Freelancer: Vicky Hughes, freelance Illustrator
Meet Vicky Hughes, a civil servant come freelance illustrator convert. After feeling the joy that working...
Featured Freelancer: Sharon Gray, Copyeditor and Proofreader
Sharon Gray is a copyeditor and proofreader based in Caerphilly, South Wales. Sharon retrained in 2019 and now...
Featured Freelancer: Ryan Scollon, PPC Freelancer and Micro PPC Agency Owner
With two other freelancers already under his wings after 4 years in the business, Ryan Scollon is powerhousing...
Featured Freelancer: Tracy Weeks, Graphic Designer
Graphic Designer Tracy Weeks joins us this week for our Featured Freelancer segment. Tracy has vast experience,...
Featured Freelancer: Cam Baxter – Copywriter, Content Writer, Storyteller
This week we had the pleasure of a video call with storyteller Cam Baxter where he divulged some freelance home...
Featured Freelancer: Amanda Wright, Content Writer and Proofreader
Aptly named Good Wrighting, Amanda Wright started her freelancing journey in search of more flexibility...
Featured Freelancer: Kevin Dowling, Copywriter and Content Specialist
Meet Kevin Dowling, copywriter and content strategist who does the all important job of "making things sound less...
Featured Freelancer: Robin Waite, Founder of Fearless Business
"I love business; More than that I want to help businesses like yours, not only survive, but thrive." For the...
Featured Freelancer: Claire Harrison, Creative Director of West9 Design
After working full time for the London School of Economics for over 15 years Claire decided it was time to stop...
Featured Freelancer: Sara Donaldson: Northern Editorial – Copywriter and Proofreader
Sara Donaldson has been helping brands concentrate on the business side of things since 2001. Sara is in the...
Featured Freelancer: Katie Thompson, Director of Katie Lingo
Katie started her writing journey way back in the mid 90s when she would steal her grandfather's printer paper...
Featured Freelancer Catchup: Emma Willder, financial and governance support for charities
Emma Willder started Beyond Profit as a small business to fit around family life. 5 years later it has grown into...
Featured Freelancer: Les Howard, VAT Advice and Consultant
Les Howard is a partner in vatadvice.org; a specialist VAT consultancy practice. Les works mainly with charities...
Featured Freelancer: Jade Sims, Small Batch Ceramics and Marketing
Jade Sims is the owner of Olla Emporium and splits her time between her small retail business and creating...
Featured Freelancer: Laura McDonald, Digital Marketing Consultant
Laura McDonald is the owner & digital marketing consultant at LMc Digital Marketing who partners with...
Featured Freelancer: Katie Partridge, Freelance Copywriter
Katie Partridge is the founder of Kosie Copy, your friendly freelance copywriter. As with many during the...
Featured Freelancer: Hannah Dossary, Digital Designer
Hannah Dossary is a web designer and tea addict who loves to work with creative small businesses. With a...
Featured Freelancer: Helen Hill, Learning Content Designer
Helen Hill is a West Yorkshire based freelance designer, now in her third year of full-time self-employment....
Featured Freelancer: Giles Metcalfe, Digital Marketer
Giles Metcalfe is a Lancashire-based freelancer and is a FSB Member, Freelance Heroes Member, and Good Business...
Featured Freelancer: Maria Soleil, Marketing Consultant
Maria Soleil began her freelancer marketing consultant business after losing her job in travel marketing....
Featured Freelancer: Russell O’Sullivan, Digital Marketer
Russell O'Sullivan had spent almost two decades gaining experience in digital marketing before he decided to...
Featured Freelancer: Lisa Gust, Translator
Lisa Gust started freelancing in 2017. Going into her new venture, she had no expectations other than becoming...
Featured Freelancer: Bhavini Lakhani, Print Designer
Bhavini Lakhani has been freelancing for 9 years after her graphic design role was removed from the agency she...
Featured Freelancer: Deborah Wroe, Copywriter
Our latest Featured Freelancer, Deborah Wroe, has been freelancing since 2010 after returning to the UK from...
Featured Freelancer: Christian Tait, Graphic Designer
Our latest Featured Freelancer, Christian Tait, has been freelancing for seven years. Becoming as freelancer has...
Featured Freelancer: Robert Kinsella, Website Developer
Freelancing was never a long-standing plan for Robert Kinsella as a full-time job until an opportunity appeared...
Featured Freelancer: Alice Hollis, Copywriter
Alice Hollis is a B2B copywriter from the Thames Valley who started her journey back in 2015 after her son was...
Featured Freelancer: Adrian Ashton, Enterprise and Business Consultant
This isn't the first time Adrian Ashton has appeared on our blog as a Featured Freelancer. It's been three years...
Featured Freelancer: Jane de Vos, Virtual Assistant
Our latest Featured Freelancer, Jane de Vos, started freelancing because she believed she wanted to work on her...
Featured Freelancer: Jennifer Williams, Virtual Assistant
Our latest Featured Freelancer, Jennifer Williams, took to freelancing after being made redundant and wanting...
Featured Freelancer: Helen Williams, Accountant
Getting started with building your own freelance company is never easy, but starting your business in 2020 comes...
Featured Freelancer: Rebecca Scambler, Graphic Designer
Our latest Featured Freelancer is Rebecca Scambler. Rebecca started her journey as a part-time freelancing...
Featured Freelancer: Fi Shailes, Digital Marketer
We mostly focus on full-time freelancers in these weekly Featured Freelancer stories, but many freelancers do...
Featured Freelancer: Bhavini Lakhani, Graphic Designer
How long is it before you feel confident that you're okay at everything, your order book is full, and your...
Featured Freelancer: Ian Olsson, Photographer
In the week that we launch tickets for Freelance Heroes Day 2019, it seems appropriate that this week's Featured...
Featured Freelancer: James Devonshire, Freelance Writer/Copywriter
The temperature is turning, winter is starting to make itself at home, and dreams of running a business while...
Featured Freelancer: Helen Campbell, Business Coach
Along with delivering client work and running our own businesses, we're often told that we should be scheduling...
Featured Freelancer: Dehra Sweet, Freelance Digital Marketer
Each week, feedback tells us that these Featured Freelancer interviews are inspirational, and that they inspire...
Featured Freelancer: Emma Willder, Financial/Governance Support for Charities
Adjusting from being employed to self-employed can be a tricky transition for some. For example, there's often no...
Featured Freelancer: Hayley Patton, Virtual Assistant
It's amazing what confidence can do for a freelancer. It's tempting to start a business and say yes to any work...
Featured Freelancer: Lyndsey Clark, Museum and Exhibitions Consultant
There are more industrys represented in the freelance community that we could possibly mention, and the idea of a...
Featured Freelancer: Christine Aplin, Bookkeeper
Networking is one of those ideas that people either love or hate. For some, local networking groups are either...
Featured Freelancer: Eoin Oliver, Web Designer & Marketing
Over the last 18 months or so, we’ve read some very personal journeys of freelancers from all over the country,...
Featured Freelancer: Lisa Gust, Writer, Translator, Proofreader
It’s Sunday evening and you’re sitting at home watching the television, when suddenly your mind is filled with...
Featured Freelancer: Steve Folland, Video/Audio Producer
Steve Folland wear's many hats, as a podcast host, vlogger, video and audio producer, and speaker. The last of...
Featured Freelancer: Dave Smyth, Web Designer
Little prepares someone for their new life as a freelancer, as the challenges vary so much to those in the...
Featured Freelancer: Gareth Hancock, Copywriter
We're often told, as business people, to focus on our end game. Where are we heading for? What do we want to...
Featured Freelancer: Vicki Doudelle, Virtual Assistant
It seems appropriate that as (at the time of writing this) we're in the midst of the Summer holidays, when...
Featured Freelancer: Berenice Smith, Graphic Designer
It's easy to run out of superlatives when introducing each Featured Freelancer, which aren't written as intro's...
Featured Freelancer: Natasha Daniels, Fashion Writer
There are many reasons for starting a freelance business, and I hope few of them share the same reason as this...
Featured Freelancer: Livia Lucie, Graphic Designer
One of the Featured Freelancer questions is "What is your ultimate professional goal as a freelancer?" and it's...