Freelancer Magazine

100 pages every three months dedicated to connecting the lives and growing the businesses of B2B and creative freelancers.

Editor's Letter

Your Freelancer Magazine Dream Team for Issue 17…

Our new freelance expert columnists…

Your Messages • Thank you so much for all your emails and messages. Please keep sending them in and let us know what you want to see more of.

On Having an Emergency Fund

THE FREELANCE DOODLER

THE POWER OF WORDS • "The money you make is a symbol of the value you create.”

Three Tips How to stop hating numbers

DIGITAL Nomading Van Life • By the time this mag lands with you, Amy Gumbrell will be living in and working from a van in northern Spain with her family, and she’s agreed to take us with her! For the next year, we’ll follow her digital nomad life and find out what freelance family van life is really like.

Van Life Timeline

THE STATS How are you doing? • Matthew Knight shares key freelance findings from the 2025 leapers.co report.

A Professional Declutterer

Freelance Business Experts • Introducing our new expert freelance business columnists

Tom Hirst • On Freelance Pricing

Latasha James • Content Creation Expert

Dan Nelken • A Self-help Guide for Creatives

Heather Murray • AI for Non-Techies

Gus Bhandal • The Linkedln Guru

Pascalle Bergmans • The Public Speaking Coach

Mel Barfield • Building a Freelance Business You Love

Anita Ellis • Seeing Yourself as a Business

Are finance worries taking the shine off your freelance dream? • If you’re thinking about a career change into freelancing - or you’ve just made the move - the money stuff is probably still top of your list of ‘what ifs?’, even after weeks or months of research.

Why is it so hard to talk about money? • What makes naming our price and asking for payment so vomit-inducing? And how do we get better at it?

How to pay yourself consistently as a freelancer with inconsistent income • Why paying yourself a regular income should be a non-negotiable as a freelancer.

Cultivating a money mindset that feels both empowering and exciting • Let's move out of money overwhelm to freelance financial freedom.

Cultivating a money mindset that feels both empowering and exciting

14 THINGS YOU CAN DO TO HELP WITH GETTING PAID ON TIME • Clients should always pay you on time, but that isn't always the case. Here are some things you can do to help ensure it is.

BEING HELD ACCOUNTABLE • We asked Freelancer Magazine’s AI expert columnist Heather Murray to signpost us to her best finance resources, expecting some profit-calculating genius robot. Instead, she told us we had to talk to her (very human) accountant, Jodie Parsons at Asteroid Accountancy.

Freelancer Business Planning Sheets • Don’t skip these pages! You’ll never regret spending time on the business instead of in the business. Set a timer for 20 minutes and see how far you can get with your planning and strategising for this quarter.

Marketing Awareness Days for Q2

YOUR FREELANCE FINANCE BREAKTHROUGHS • What’s your biggest mindset shift or breakthrough about pricing or money in your freelance business? We asked the Freelancer Magazine community to share what they’ve learnt about finances.

Broken records: keeping tabs as a freelancer

THE ENERGY OF MONEY • How to cultivate a healthy money mindset.

Money • Increasing your prices

FREELANCE PRICING STRATEGIES

"You can be productive and neglect to do the single most important thing." • Austin L. Church is based in Knoxville, Tennessee. He's the founder of Freelance Cake which offers coaching, coworking and...