🟠🟠🟠Got questions about your freelance business? Today’s the day to talk them out over on the Discord! (You never know who might have experience or insight into your challenges.) discord.com/invite/63nwF...

Stop by the Discord for Feedback Friday! Get input on anything in your freelance business, from LOIs, to website content, to proposals and contracts discord.com/invite/63nwF...

This news was very sad to hear. Pneumonia from any cause is very serious in older individuals. This is why we recommend pneumococcal vaccines for everyone 60 and over and RSV, Flu and COVID vaccines to prevent viral causes of Pneumonia. R.I.P #DianeKeaton www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...

🔶 🔶 🔶 Feeling isolated as a freelancer? Network-based freelancing might be the answer🔶 🔶 🔶

🟠🟠🟠We're talking lessons that translate from employment to freelancing in the BF Discord...come on over! discord.com/invite/63nwF...

🟠🟠🟠Got questions about your freelance business? Come over to the Discord to to talk them out! (You never know who might have experience or insight into your challenges...or who you can help) discord.com/invite/63nwF...

One of my unhinged opinions now… Hated classics should be taught . We need to lean in to finding out why people hate them ! Because it tells us what part of the world has changed

Is there someone who writes about systems thinking and disability that you'd recommend I read? Consider this a wide net; I don't know quite what I'm looking for, so I can't ask a more focused question...

Hey let me issue a challenge If you are shocked about immigration and where we are and why you don’t know And every pundit you follow is so shocked Check how often your face pundit cites and actual immigrant Then ask why that hasn’t changed if their still shocked

Something refreshing about freelancing is the general attitude re: paying each other for labor is contributing to a community A stark difference from employment where labor is only a cost…and one that should be minimized as much as possible (preferably through AI)

From what I learned (also from private school) - the flip side of this is also meaningful. The presumption of guilt and punishment enacted by the powerful does not mean one is guilty. It means simply that one has been deemed an outsider. And outsiders lose.

Sorry went to private school and seeing too much of this The presumption of innocence and grace granted by enablers isn’t empathy It’s moral self indulgence at the expense of others

Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector. Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.

If you understand the benefits and long-term goals of home ownership... ...you understand the point of freelancing and indie work.

Stop by the Discord if you missed Feedback Friday and need some objective input on your freelance business: discord.com/invite/63nwF...

“Your manager affects your mental health more than your doctor or therapist and just as much as your spouse"

🔶 🔶 🔶 Feeling isolated as a freelancer? Network-based freelancing might be the answer🔶 🔶 🔶

⛔Freelance Mindset Reset #22: We might be out here as individuals but relationships are the heart of our business…you need partners, coaches, and a community. Swing by the discord to meet other freelancers who are on the same journey you are:

⛔Freelance Mindset Reset #15: Marketing and sales are skills you can develop…most of us need to work on both, but definitely sales. The good news is there’s tons of resources out there. (Come check out the BF Discord! discord.com/invite/63nwF...)

⛔Freelance Mindset Reset #17: You should be able to make at *least* your area’s average household income on 20 hours of client work a week. If it doesn’t look possible, that’s a strategy (marketing, price, service, value) issue. (Come check out the BF Discord! discord.com/invite/63nwF...)

🟠 BF Business Terms—Lifestyle Design: Integrating freelance work with personal goals and values to create a fulfilling lifestyle. Check out the glossary to learn more

⛔⛔Freelance Mindset Reset #2: As freelancers we should be the best employer we’ve ever had. Make yourself that promise and follow through…that means professional development, marketing and strategy, and not reinventing the wheel anywhere you don’t have to.

⛔Freelance Mindset Reset #4: Freelancing is building a career for yourself…that can be a loaded term, but you really are the CEO (and COO, and CMO) of your work life.

⛔Freelance Mindset Reset #21: Systems & Habits over goals…they help manage the emotional side of freelancing, make it easier to tweak and adjust your strategy and tactics, and help you find direction in the chaos. (Come check out the BF Discord! discord.com/invite/63nwF...)

⛔Freelance Mindset Reset #7: Don’t make the common freelance mistake of basing life on your highest income. (Come check out the BF Discord! discord.com/invite/63nwF...)

🟠 BF Business Terms: Agency: A company that provides outsourced services to businesses, often working with freelancers.

⛔Freelance Mindset Reset #6: The good times don’t last forever, but neither do the bad (make sure your strategy is ready to take advantage of the good and weather the bad)

The BlackFreelance Order of Operations 🔶Employment extraction 🔶Niche selection 🔶Skillset identification 🔶Value statement 🔶Prospecting 🔶Introductions 🔶Marketing/touches: 🔶Pitch 🔶Refine blackfreelance.com/freelancer-o...

🟠 BF Business Terms—S-corp (US): A type of corporation that meets specific Internal Revenue Code requirements, allowing income to be passed through to shareholders. Useful for freelancers who want to pay themselves as employees Check out the glossary to learn more

🟠 🟠 🟠 What is lifestyle design for Black freelancers? It's a strategy that allows you to work to live (without sacrificing income.) 🔸 Sustainable work-rest rhythms 🔸 Healthy business boundaries 🔸 Freelance relationships that align with your values

The BlackFreelance Order of Operations 🔶Employment extraction 🔶Niche selection 🔶Skill set identification 🔶Value statement 🔶Prospecting 🔶Introductions 🔶Marketing/touches 🔶Pitch 🔶Refine blackfreelance.com/freelancer-o...

A reminder that right now all AI is subsidized by venture capital. No one yet is quite certain what the real price of profitable AI will be, and thus no one can accurately predict what will happen when it legitimately comes to market. Energy prices alone will make many uses cost prohibitive.

When Chris Smalls was rl being tortured by them a couple months ago it was crickets so try to be loud about everyone, not just Greta. Even in searching its hard to source all of WHO they have because it's just articles about Greta.

The BlackFreelance Order of Operations 🔶Employment extraction 🔶Niche selection 🔶Skillset identification 🔶Value statement 🔶Prospecting 🔶Introductions 🔶Marketing/touches: 🔶Pitch 🔶Refine blackfreelance.com/freelancer-o...

The BlackFreelance Order of Operations 🔶Employment extraction 🔶Niche selection 🔶Skillset identification 🔶Value statement 🔶Prospecting 🔶Introductions 🔶Marketing/touches: 🔶Pitch 🔶Refine blackfreelance.com/freelancer-o...

⛔Freelance Mindset Reset #4: Freelancing is building a career for yourself…that can be a loaded term, but you really are the CEO (and COO, and CMO) of your work life.

⛔Freelance Mindset Reset #14: Niches are non-negotiable. They’re incredibly flexible but if you can’t clearly name yours it’s time to do some work on strategy blackfreelance.com/niche-resour... (hint: employers are a good guide...they’ve done a lot of the high-risk trial and error work for you)

⛔Freelance Mindset Reset #1: Mindset is the biggest challenge in freelancing…even for established freelancers…especially if you have a deep employment background. Start there whenever you need to make a change.

You’ve got enough experience to learn how to work for yourself. Even just a side gig…you don’t want to deal with a layoff and no other options post 35 in this market

Talking in the Discord re: employers asking about candidates having an LLC during interviews…which could be reasonable in terms of client poaching risk But I really doubt that’s why. Side income is a threat to their control and they want workers without options

🟠🟠BlackFreelance is focused on B2B freelancing that prioritizes lifestyle design through maximizing income and balancing peace Come by the discord to meet other freelancers and learn more:

I’m so very confused sometimes because I don’t comprehend how some folks think what they buy with their work money changes the fact they have to work to get it

Just because I’m a member of the Oregon Trail generation doesn’t mean I wanted everyone to die of Oregon Trail diseases

⛔Freelance Mindset Reset #20: Your pipeline is the health of your business…you should be nurturing it regularly the same way you tend a garden.https://blackfreelance.com/prospecting-freelance-habit-didnt-know-needed/

🟠 🟠 🟠 What is lifestyle design for Black freelancers? It's a strategy that allows you to work to live (without sacrificing income.) 🔸 Sustainable work-rest rhythms 🔸 Healthy business boundaries 🔸 Freelance relationships that align with your values

🟠 BF Business Terms—(Freelance) Intermediaries: Entities that facilitate work between a freelancer and a client, including agencies, gig platforms, and fractional executives. These can be useful in generating sustainable work, especially for those new to marketing.

Apropos of nothing much...

⛔Freelance Mindset Reset #8: Learn to love “no”…”no” is information and direction. “No” is your best friend. (Come check out the BF Discord! discord.com/invite/63nwF...)

Y’all Israel has intercepted the HUMANITARIAN flotilla and is trying to surround them. Now more than ever would be the time to pay close attention to live streams from the passengers and the live tracker.

⛔Freelance Mindset Reset #16: Freelance opportunity is like a glacier…only the tip is visible above water (i.e. gig postings Upwork/LinkedIn). The real opportunity is deeper but takes more intentionality (i.e. strategy, positioning, marketing, and sales)