Freelancing Stories ft. Lucy Smith | THISTL FOUNDER

About this episode

The episode features a conversation with Lucy Smith about her freelancing journey and the launch of her tool, Thistl, for personal branding.

This conversation explores the freelancing journey of a marketing professional turned entrepreneur - Lucy Smith. The discussion covers the challenges and opportunities of this career path, the importance of defining services and pricing, building a reputation through testimonials, and strategies for finding clients. It emphasises collaboration over competition, shares lessons learned from mistakes, and highlights the significance of setting boundaries for work-life balance. Additionally, Lucy introduces her new tool, Thistl, designed to help individuals grow their personal brands online - https://thistl.io/ https://lucy-smith.com/

People in this episode

Host: ANA ROGERSON

Guest: Lucy Smith

Topics covered

• freelancing
• entrepreneurship
• marketing
• client acquisition
• work-life balance
• personal branding

Keywords

• freelancing
• entrepreneur
• marketing professional
• client strategies
• work-life balance
• Thistl
• personal branding

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: THISTL, lucy-smith.com

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