The Freelance Lifestyle Blog
Your hub of practical tips and advice to live your best freelance life, from bite-sized promotion tasks, to working from home wisdom!
The Freelance Lifestyle Blog
Your hub of practical tips and advice to live your best freelance life, from bite-sized promotion tasks, to working from home wisdom!

How to survive the summer holidays as a freelance parent
This summer will be my last one before my son starts school, and school holidays become a Real Thing. It's all a bit unnerving as a freelancer! So I've been thinking about how to survive the summer holidays as a freelance parent, and I've come up with some survival...
Five people every freelancer needs in their life
Edit: This is a blog post from 2011, updated in 2018. A good support structure is so important when you're a freelancer, or you're self-employed, particularly when you're starting out. Having that freelance support network structure can help you get through the tough...
Three ways to speed up invoice payments: Podcast
The podcast is back for 2018! I've missed recording these little snippets you can listen to while you're waiting for the kettle to boil, and this episode is one that's particularly important for freelancers - invoice payments. How can we speed them up, deal with the...
Are you working MORE now you’re freelance?
A common misconception about being freelance, is that we have a chilled approach to work, waking when we fancy, working in front of This Morning, potter off somewhere for work and never work weekends. Right? Nah. NAH. If you're freelance, you know this isn't the case....
What are your core priorities for 2019?
The Freelancer’s Teabreak is BACK! I’ve got a whole year of content planned for you, so keep an eye out for a new episode each week.
Business Books For People Who Don’t Read Business Books
Listen to the latest episode here It's been a fun week here at Freelance Lifestyle HQ. I merged my Instagram accounts, so I'll just be using my @Emmacossey account going forward. I've also landed a new digital client, a few new coaching clients, and a current client...
The best books to read about freelancing in 2018
Got an Amazon credit burning a hole in your pocket? Then you're a stronger person than I am. I'd have sunk that immediately on unneeded notebooks, too good to be true cheap dresses and iPhone charger cables (I should really start treating those cables better). Anyway,...

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