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Becoming a Freelance Illustrator for Marvel, Disney and DC: Doaly
May 31, 2026
50m 59s
Business Name vs Your Own Name: Which is Better for Freelancers?
May 24, 2026
22m 55s
Becoming the go-to freelancer in your niche - Jessi Illustrates
May 10, 2026
43m 42s
Freelancer BTS - Somethings are more important
May 3, 2026
3m 41s
Freelancer BTS - Some things are more important
May 3, 2026
3m 41s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5/31/26 |  Becoming a Freelance Illustrator for Marvel, Disney and DC: Doaly | How does a creative side project turn into a decade long freelancing business working with the biggest names in pop culture, like Disney, Pixar, Marvel, DC Comics, Lucasfilm, Warner Bros and Sony Pictures? All good super-heroes have an origin story. And this interview tells the series of events that took Doaly from working for a company in Birmingham, England, to the front page of comic covers seen all over the world. Signing at Comic-con events. It's quite the transformation. Tarlochan Doal,... | 50m 59s | ||||||
| 5/24/26 |  Business Name vs Your Own Name: Which is Better for Freelancers? | It's a question Steve Folland gets asked a lot: as a freelancer, is it better to have a company name or use your own? In this compilation episode, Steve digs deep into 11 years of the Being Freelance podcast archive - pulling together voices from guests including brand copywriter Mark Grainger, branding expert Bhavini Lakhani, copywriter Graeme Piper, illustrator Dan Bailey, social media consultant Alison Battisby, marketing agency founder Ross Simmonds, and more - to try and get to the bott... | 22m 55s | ||||||
| 5/10/26 |  Becoming the go-to freelancer in your niche - Jessi Illustrates | Jessica Hartshorn was trained as an illustrator, but unable to get work as one she went in another direction. Jessica spent the next 16 years working in museums and galleries. But the itch to illustrate never went away. So she set up a secret Instagram account and started painting again without telling a soul. Seven years on, she's a successful illustrator, freelancing with museums, galleries, heritage sites and parks across the UK. And her 16 years behind the scenes at the museum? Turned o... | 43m 42s | ||||||
| 5/3/26 | Freelancer BTS - Somethings are more important✨ | podcast updateseason break+3 | — | — | — | freelancepodcast+3 | — | 3m 41s | |
| 5/3/26 |  Freelancer BTS - Some things are more important | New episodes with fresh freelancing stories coming very soon. But as Jess Bruno said on her episode of Being Freelance: "Content can always blood wait". JOIN THE COMMUNITY You're not alone being freelance. Come and hang out with your BFFs (Being Freelance Friends). beingfreelance.com/community NEW TO FREELANCING? THERE'S A COURSE FOR YOU! The Being Freelance course is made for you! Take the course and you'll also get 6 months FREE community membership. FREELANCER MERCH ... | 3m 41s | ||||||
| 3/22/26 |  Stop Waiting for Clients. Start Making - Charles Commins✨ | freelancingpodcast production+3 | Charles Commins | BBC Radio | Northampton Town | freelancepodcast+5 | — | 1h 06m 09s | |
| 3/15/26 |  Field Trip Fridays and Four Bank Accounts - Illustrator Perryn Ryan✨ | freelancingillustration+3 | Perryn Ryan | ITfashion+1 | Brooklyn | freelance illustratorcareer transition+3 | — | 47m 15s | |
| 3/8/26 |  Chase Those Late Payments - Graphic Designer Laura Whitehouse✨ | freelancinggraphic design+3 | Laura Whitehouse | Mighty Fine | Belfast | freelancegraphic designer+3 | — | 55m 14s | |
| 3/1/26 |  How to Find Your Freelancing Niche✨ | freelancingniche+3 | — | — | — | freelancingniche+5 | — | 19m 02s | |
| 2/22/26 |  When Freelancing Goes Quiet: Getting Proactive with Mark Grainger✨ | freelancingclient acquisition+4 | Mark Grainger | — | — | freelancecopywriter+5 | — | 40m 07s | |
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| 2/16/26 |  Freelancer BTS - What happens when they click?✨ | freelancingbusiness strategy+3 | — | — | — | freelancepodcast+3 | — | 6m 08s | |
| 2/8/26 |  From Freelancer To Studio - The Power Of Positioning✨ | freelancingdesign career+3 | Laura Viola Maccarone | Rizbee Studio | Manhattan | freelancedesign+5 | — | 56m 10s | |
| 1/31/26 |  Cold Outreach: What Actually Works for Freelancers✨ | cold outreachfreelancing+3 | — | Being Freelance | — | cold outreachfreelancers+4 | — | 15m 34s | |
| 1/25/26 |  How Katie Chappell Built (and Unbuilt) a Scalable Freelance Illustration Business✨ | freelancingillustration+3 | Katie Chappell | — | — | freelanceillustration+3 | — | 54m 33s | |
| 1/18/26 |  How These Freelancers Work ON Their Business All Year✨ | freelancingbusiness planning+3 | — | — | — | freelancebusiness strategy+3 | — | 14m 37s | |
| 11/24/25 |  Graphic Designer & Illustrator Itzel Islas | From an overworked designer posting “a visual diary” on Instagram to running a multi-stream creative business, Itzel Islas has built a freelance life entirely on her own terms. After almost a decade in apparel design, she started illustrating for fun - and quickly realised people loved her colourful, playful style. “Little by little I started creating art… and then I started getting clients through it.” Today she runs YAY Itzel, blending branding work, her online shop, Patreon sticker club, b... | 34m 45s | ||||||
| 11/10/25 |  I’m Not a Machine - Freelancing Balance & Bandwidth with Katie Tucker | Freelance market research consultant Katie Tucker shares how being intentional - with her time, energy, and choices - helped her build a freelance life that truly fits. From walking away from a corporate job for a family adventure to launching her freelance business Product Jungle and writing excellent business book Do Penguins Eat Peaches?, Katie opens up about patience, priorities, and the reality of balancing work, parenting, and wellbeing. You can watch the video podcast of th... | 50m 03s | ||||||
| 7/21/25 |  Slow Down - Lineo's Intentional Freelancing | From choreographing dance routines and directing a TV show at a South African megachurch… to running her own freelance business - Lineo Kakole’s journey into branding was anything but traditional. When no one would hire her after she quit her job, Lineo started sharing passion projects on Instagram. From there, she built her creative identity design studio, Get Ready With Me, around beauty, strategy, and intentional living. But freelancing wasn’t always smooth. Burnout forced Lineo to rethink... | 47m 07s | ||||||
| 7/7/25 |  Surgeries, Grief, & a Six-Figure Business - Jess Bruno | When Jess Bruno left her corporate job in marketing, to help with managing her chronic illness - she had no idea freelancing was even an option. It was her mum that made her realise all the free marketing advice she was giving to her friends should be worth paying for. The next time they called asking for help, it would cost £25. Since then, Jess has built a six-figure freelancer business. And what's more, she's built it on her terms: around her health, around surgeries, around grief.&n... | 49m 15s | ||||||
| 6/23/25 |  No Suit, No Broccoli: Escaping Corporate Life with André Spiteri | From finance lawyer in Malta to FinTech copywriter in Edinburgh — André Spiteri’s freelancing story is full of risk, reinvention, and real talk. In this episode, André shares how he went from a corporate job he hated to building a sustainable freelance writing business. He talks honestly about the pressures of starting out, the mindset shift that came with success, and why the freedom of freelancing can sometimes be the hardest part. You’ll hear: Why André quit law and moved to London w... | 47m 42s | ||||||
| 6/9/25 |  20 years freelancing as Ben The Illustrator | PODCAST SPONSORED BY RIVERSIDE: High quality audio/video recorded online www.beingfreelance.com/riverside It’s free to get started - use code BEINGFREELANCE to save 15% on a paid plan ABOUT THIS EPISODE Ben O’Brien, known to many as Ben The Illustrator, returns to share how his freelance journey has evolved since his first Being Freelance appearance back in 2018. From losing all his travel industry clients overnight in 2020, to discovering new income streams through lockdown list... | 40m 14s | ||||||
| 5/26/25 |  Your Handy Dandy Brandy Gal: Hollie Arnett | PODCAST SPONSORED BY RIVERSIDE: High quality audio/video recorded online www.beingfreelance.com/riverside It’s free to get started - use code BEINGFREELANCE to save 15% on a paid plan ABOUT THIS EPISODE From a young age, Hollie Arnett was inspired to pursue a creative path. Fast forward to today, and she’s running not one but two brands from Wellington, New Zealand: Maker & Moxie, where she coaches artists and makers on building their own brands, and By Hollie Arnett, w... | 55m 29s | ||||||
| 5/5/25 |  Collaborating, Not Competing - Jerel Ramsey’s Freelancer Story | PODCAST SPONSORED BY RIVERSIDE: High quality audio/video recorded online www.beingfreelance.com/riverside It’s free to get started - use code BEINGFREELANCE to save 15% on a paid plan ABOUT THIS EPISODE From a young age, Jerel Ramsey was inspired by his father to work for himself. And here we are. In this episode, Jerel shares how he turned his passion for design into a full-time business, Sola, which he runs with his wife from their home in Trinidad and Tobago. Starting out as a... | 36m 01s | ||||||
| 4/21/25 |  Communications Specialist Dee Primett | PODCAST SPONSORED BY: RIVERSIDE: High quality audio/video recorded online www.beingfreelance.com/riverside It’s free to get started - use code BEINGFREELANCE to save 15% on a paid plan PODCAST SPONSORED BY: PORKBUN: Get a domain name for your website. www.beingfreelance.com/porkbun ABOUT THIS EPISODE This time around Dee Primett shares her 10 year journey from a side hustle grinding with content mills to becoming a sought-after freelance communications sp... | 50m 32s | ||||||
| 4/7/25 |  Using Creative Skills For Good - Conservation Illustrator Styngvi | Icelandic artist Stefán Yngvi Pétursson, also known as Styngvi, shares his journey from working in an ad agency to becoming a freelance conservation illustrator. Inspired by shocking pollution during a trip to Indonesia, Stefán decided to use his creative skills for environmental activism, or 'artivism'. He established a successful freelancing career through Instagram, but more recently has expanded his network and leads via LinkedIn and email outreach. With a growing online... | 38m 50s | ||||||
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5 placements across 5 markets.
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5 placements across 5 markets.