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Freelance Road Trip Podcast with Alvalyn Lundgren 82 Cultivating Limitless Success

Cultivating Limitless Success

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Succeeding as a freelance creative begins with how you think. How you think affects how well you do creatively and business-wise. What you think either hinders or promotes. We all struggle with limiting beliefs and negative thinking, but we don’t have to embrace them. In this episode I share for your consideration a mindset shift through the analogy of gardening and farming. This may make a difference for you if you’re struggling as a freelance creative.

Freelance Road Trip Podcast with Alvalyn Lundgren 81 How the PRO Act will make life worse for freelancers

How The PRO Act Will Make Life Worse For Freelancers

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The hidden costs for freelancers if the ABC test isn’t removed from the PRO Act. The PRO Act, which is now included in the massive

Freelance Road Trip Podcast 80 Budgeting Smarts for Freelance Creatives

Budgeting Smarts for Freelance Creatives

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How to budget on a feast-or-famine income Money is a necessary tool in business and life, and freelancers can embrace the budgeting process creatively. Budgeting

Freelance Road Trip Podcast with Alvalyn Lundgren 79 Contracts, Spec Work, and the Friends & Family Plan

Contracts, Spec Work and the Friends & Family Plan

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Q&A Session on various topics for freelancers Neither speculative nor pro bono work generate income for you. With each, you’re working for free. In this episode

Freelance Road Trip Podcast With Alvalyn Lundgren 78 Does Formal Design Education Matter?

Does Formal Design Education Matter?

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Do you need a degree to succeed as a freelance creative? A young designer asked me if formal education makes a difference in becoming successful.

Freelance Road Trip Podcast With Alvalyn Lundgren 77 Why the PRO Act Should Scare You

Why The PRO Act Should Scare You ( If you’re a freelance creative)

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Freelancers have the right to work. We pray it stays that way. The ABC test to determine independent contractor vs. employee status in CA’s AB5

Freelance Road Trip Podcast with Alvalyn Lundgren 76 Things They Don't Teach You In Design School

Things They Don’t Teach You In Design School

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What you need to know to succeed as a creativepreneur Talent, passion and a portfolio will get you through school, but you can’t build a

Freelance Road Trip Podcast 75 For Better Results Add Pliability To Your Planning

For Better Results Add Pliability To Your Planning

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Anticipate and plan ahead to respond well in any circumstance. Things don’t always go the way you planned, especially when it’s more than just you

Freelance Road Trip Podcast with Alvalyn Lundgren 74 Should Freelancers Work With Friends and Family?

Should Freelancers Work With Friends and Family?

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Balancing business and friendship. Friends and family should not be in your “ideal client” description. Why? Because all sorts of unexpected things happen that can

Freelance Road Trip Podcast with Alvalyn Lundgren 73 Better Clients Through Filtering

Better Clients Through Filtering

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How the discriminating freelancer can filter out problem clients before the contract is signed. Do you accept every client and project that comes your way?

Aesthetics, Your Clients, and You

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Book review and remarks about “Aesthetic Intelligence: How To Boost It and Use It in Business and Beyond” by Pauline Brown. A book review and

Freelance Road Trip Podcast with Alvalyn Lundgren 71 How Setting Goals Helps You Succeed

How Setting Goals Helps You Succeed

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As a freelance creative, you get to design your own success. Your whole life relies on your ability to achieve your professional objectives, so success isn’t optional. Setting significant goals is one of the most powerful things you can do to accelerate your business. Here are essential insights and a strategic approach to goal-setting that can help you ensure success and longevity.

Freelance Road Trip Podcast with Alvalyn Lundgren 70 Don't Fall For This Scam!

Freelancers, Don’t Fall For This Scam!

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Indy creatives are targeted with projected inquiry scams. Scammers are highly creative in who and how they target. No one is exempt. This -creative project

Freelance Road Trip Podcast with Alvalyn Lundgren 69: 12 Rules For Freelance Success

12 Rules For Freelance Success

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Make your rules before you need them. I share a few of my rules and business policies which have helped me build a successful freelance

Freelance Road Trip Podcast with Alvalyn Lundgren 68: 7 Things You Must Do To Start Freelancing

7 Things You Must Do To Start Freelancing

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Mechanics of getting your creative business on the road. Do you want to build a business out of your creative work? Stop thinking like an

Freelance Road Trip Podcast with Alvalyn Lundgren 66 How To Listen To Your Clients

How To Listen To Your Clients

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Listening belongs at the start and and all the way through a creative project. Step up your listening skills. You can win better clients and

Freelance Road Trip Podcast with Alvalyn Lundgren Episode 65

Planning For A Prosperous Year

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Steps for effective business and whole life planning from a seasoned freelance pro. It’s annual planning season! Where have you come from? Where are you

Why Clients Leave

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And how to keep them for as long as possible One inconvenient truth about freelancing is the fact that, no matter how well you get

Freelance Road Trip Podcast with Alvalyn Lundgren 63: Project Management for Creative Freelancers

Project Management For Creative Freelancers

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Pro tips for organizing and tracking your workflow. How do you manage your creative projects from beginning to end? How do you keep track multiple,

Freelance Road Trip Podcast with Alvalyn Lundgren episode 61

This Will Keep You Going

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Why you need a vision and how to discover it. Every freelance creative needs a vision — a reason to look beyond their current circumstances.

Freelance Road Trip Podcast with Alvalyn Lundgren Episode 60

4 Keys to Success for Freelance Creatives

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Mission, Mindset, Mechanics, and Marketing Whether you serve clients by offering creative services and creative results are your clients, or you create a product that

Freelance Road Trip Podcast With Alvalyn Lundgren episode 59 Ethics, Motives, and Responsible Creativity

Ethics, Motives, and Responsible Creativity

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Doing Good Work and Working for Good What’s the end result of our creative efforts? What responsibility do we as creative professionals have toward the

Freelance Road Trip Podcast with Alvalyn Lundgren episode 58

Are You Idling? Or Accelerating?

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Kick procrastination to the curb by taking action and moving forward. To realize success as an independent creative, we need to move forward consistently, even

Freelance Road Trip Podcast with Alvalyn Lundgren 057 - Do Freelancers-have-the-right-to-work

Do Freelancers Have The Right To Work?

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AB5, the PRO Act, and You AB5 took effect in California in January 2020. It narrows the definition of independent contractor, and the type and

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Hi! I'm Alvalyn. I'm the founder of Freelance Road Trip and host of the Freelance Road Trip podcast. I'm a designer, illustrator and educator. I send out a free newsletter of tips and tools to help creative freelancers build lasting, fulfilling businesses.

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