Podcasts are helpful for freelancers who are always busy. It is the perfect background noise when you are knuckling down to work, need an extra voice in the shower, or are wanting something to keep you from road raging during load shedding. As we all know, those are the moments when creativity can strike and where the best ideas are made.
Have you heard the generic podcast intro that goes: "Hey everybody, this is Jané Rossouw from
media update, and you're listening to
Four beneficial podcasts for freelancers". If not, then put on those AirPods and let's get talking.
Let's turn up the volume on some podcasts:
1. Freelance to Founder
The
Freelance to Founder podcast is co-hosted by Clay and Preston. It features a new freelancer that calls in every week to speak to the "two freelancers-turned-business-builders."
The interviewee gets to tell them their story, ask questions about the qualms of freelancing and help the rest of us who are sometimes too scared to ask for help.
This podcast is hard to define as it covers multiple topics such as:
- handling difficult clients
- how to take out a loan for your business, and
- overcoming cultural barriers.
Our episode recommendation:If you are a starter freelancer and you don't know whether to continue or to stop with your side hustle, the episode
Will you sink or swim is the episode for
you.
It features a full-time worker who has been freelancing on the side. Like most of us, Kate has been debating whether to make the jump on ditching the nine-to-five for a life of working for herself.
You go, girl!So freelancer, if you are on that rocking boat, wondering if the jump is worth it, go tune in and see if you are ready to sink or swim with your freelancing journey.
2. It's All Journalism
To the journalists, writers or bloggers,
It's All Journalism might be just the podcast for you. This podcast is updated weekly and focuses
on the changing media landscape and how journalists are dealing with constantly fluctuating trends, topics and platforms.
The podcast features different journalists speaking on a wide variety of topics, such as:
- fact-checking and misinformation
- travel reporting
- different narrative writing, and
- cultural-focused writing.
This podcast is for freelancers wanting to explore the industry and all that it has to offer for professionals in their industry.
It is beneficial for freelancers to stay up to date with the changing culture of digital media as it is
always changing. With something new to learn, use or be wary of — what better way than to learn from the experts?
Our episode recommendation:Thinking about starting a career in travel reporting? Well,
It's All Journalism has an episode that focuses on just that.
Kassondra Cloos, the travelling freelancer who was interviewed in the episode
Kassondra Cloos: Adventures in freelance travel reporting, tells freelancers that "the ethics of journalism don't go away when changing from a full-time job to being a full-time freelancer."
The writer talks about all aspects of travel writing and keeping oneself accountable as a journalist.
3. Creative Elements
We have all suffered at the hands of the chemical element table in high school. Fortunately for you,
Creative Elements is the opposite of suffering. This podcast is hosted by Jay Clouse, who hosts interviews with different creators in the "now" of life.
Episodes of
Creative Elements vary, as each episode is focused on some type of creator's success, their failures and how they learnt from it. The podcast gives tips, tricks and specific tactics that are exclusive to certain domains in freelancing.
Some speakers are Twitch streamers — others are marketers and copywriters — but
all of the speakers speak of the journey that their careers took from when they started as freelancers to now.
Our episode recommendation:For the vloggers or the Youtubers, this might be just the inspiration you need:
Josh Hall [Opportunity] — from freelance web design to professional creator earning $300K / year.
One might become despondent because of the many hours one spends working for oneself, or it might be because sometimes growth and clients come slowly at the start.
But that's why success stories are such a success: They remind individuals that there is hope with all their hard work and dreams.
4. The Accidental Creative
Ever had epiphanies in the strangest of places? Well, The
Accidental Creative is all about that. The weekly podcast focuses on speaking to different industry leaders in the creative realm and how individuals can learn from others' experiences.
Speaker Tod Henry "consults across dozens of industries on creativity, leadership and passion for work" and is also an author of several creativity books.
This podcast touches base on the benefits and negatives of the self-employment industry and how individuals can maximise their reach with simple tricks of the trade.
Our episode recommendation:Podcast users can expect topics ranging from:
The benefits of all these podcasts are that if they don't have what you are looking for, you can contact the interviewee with questions regarding the industry — and hey, you might even end up being featured in one of their episodes!
Are you tuned in to any freelancing podcasts? Be sure to let us know in the comments section below.
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