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Sep 10, 2022

How to Start Making Money as a Freelance Writer

Tips from 2 years of experience — Before you even say it, no. Setting yourself up as a freelance writer isn’t a “get rich quick” scheme. It takes time, effort, and a certain amount of self-belief to start a career as a freelancer. If making money as quickly as possible is your goal, writing isn’t the way. …

Freelance Writing

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How to Start Making Money as a Freelance Writer
How to Start Making Money as a Freelance Writer
Freelance Writing

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Published in Freelancer’s Hub

·Feb 25, 2021

3 Tough Lessons After 6 Months of Freelance Writing

What I’ve learned after quitting my ‘normal’ job — Click, click, click, sip, click, make an annoyed face, click some more, make notes, click, get more coffee, sanitize my hands, click... If you repeat those actions long enough, you’ll have a pretty good idea of my experience working in a 9–5 office during a global pandemic. There I was…

Freelancing

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3 Tough Lessons After 6 Months of Freelance Writing
3 Tough Lessons After 6 Months of Freelance Writing
Freelancing

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Published in P.S. I Love You

·Feb 8, 2021

3 Lessons I’ve Learned Transitioning From Female to Male

And what you can take away from them — In everyday life, I often come across people who, after finding out I’m transgender, become curious about it all. “What’s it like?” “Does it feel weird?” I’ve been medically transitioning for five years. After several assessments over four years by different doctors, I was finally approved for HRT (Hormone Replacement…

Transgender

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3 Lessons I’ve Learned Transitioning From Female to Male
3 Lessons I’ve Learned Transitioning From Female to Male
Transgender

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Published in Better Marketing

·Jan 28, 2021

5 Reasons Why Your Content Marketing Fails

And what to do about them — Content marketing is another one of those marketing iceberg sub-disciplines strongly related to SEO. When you start getting into it, sometimes it can feel like all of a sudden, there’s a whole lot more underneath the surface. Which, to be honest with you, is totally accurate. You might think, content…

Content Marketing

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5 Reasons Why Your Content Marketing Fails
5 Reasons Why Your Content Marketing Fails
Content Marketing

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Published in Mind Cafe

·Jan 28, 2021

5 Quotes by Socrates to Help You Live a More Meaningful Life

Advice from ancient Greece that still applies today. — Socrates was a prominent philosopher in ancient Greece circa 470–399 BCE. In all honesty, I hadn’t really thought about him much until I played the game Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, in which he is a leading character. …

Advice

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5 Quotes by Socrates to Help You Live a More Meaningful Life
5 Quotes by Socrates to Help You Live a More Meaningful Life
Advice

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Published in The Self-Experimenter

·Jan 21, 2021

I’ve Been Vegan For 2 Years — Here’s What I’ve Learned

From cheese-lover to carrot cruncher — There I was, lying in my hospital bed with blood circulation wraps on my feet, each alternating their turn to inflate every few seconds—Cshhh, fffff, Cshhhh, ffffff. It was maddening. To try distracting myself from the noise, I popped open Netflix and put on the documentary ‘Cowspiracy’. …

Vegan

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I’ve Been Vegan For 2 Years — Here’s What I’ve Learned
I’ve Been Vegan For 2 Years — Here’s What I’ve Learned
Vegan

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Published in Blank Page

·Jan 19, 2021

Why It’s So Important to Network with Other Freelancers

And strategies for building your own network. — A little while back, I decided to quit my full-time job to focus on freelance writing and my Ph.D. One of the things that I quickly discovered was how lonely both of those things could be, especially freelancing. At a standard 9–5, even a writing one, you have people to…

Freelancing

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Why It’s So Important to Network with Other Freelancers
Why It’s So Important to Network with Other Freelancers
Freelancing

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Published in Ascent Publication

·Jan 18, 2021

How to Start a Bullet Journaling Habit in 2021

Here’s what I learned by BuJo-ing in 2020. — “The best time to start was yesterday. The second best time is now.” Unknown The above quote doesn’t appear to have a source, but it does appear to be a revised version of the phrase attributed to ‘Chinese proverb’, “the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago…

Productivity

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How to Start a Bullet Journaling Habit in 2021
How to Start a Bullet Journaling Habit in 2021
Productivity

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Published in Mind Cafe

·Jan 14, 2021

Do You Have Subscription Fatigue?

What it is and what you can do about it. — Sometimes, you get a notification from your bank in the middle of the month about your balance. Damn, overspent again; I don’t even know where the money goes. It just disappears. You check your statement, and it’s full of $4.99’s here and $9.99’s there. It doesn’t seem like much, right? …

Personal Development

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Do You Have Subscription Fatigue?
Do You Have Subscription Fatigue?
Personal Development

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Published in Better Marketing

·Jan 13, 2021

How to Boost Your Work-Life With These Content Marketing Tools

If you’re getting into content marketing, listen up — Let’s start this off with a quick list of what content marketing is, and is not — just so we’re on the same page. If you’re a business selling a product or service, content marketing is: Educational in nature Answers questions people are asking in your industry About your audience…

Content Marketing

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How to Boost Your Work-Life With These Content Marketing Tools
How to Boost Your Work-Life With These Content Marketing Tools
Content Marketing

6 min read

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