So… you wanna freelance, huh?
Freelancing sounds freeing… until you’re hunched over your laptop at 1:47 a.m., whispering “just one more thing” while your client asks for version nine. In this piece, I unpack the chaotic, hilarious, caffeine-fueled truth about going out on your own as a creative. From undercharging to overdelivering to realizing you’re basically an entire agency wrapped in one exhausted human.
The Only One in the Room
Ever been the only creative in the room?
No team. No one to gut-check your layout. No “that’s fire” Teams message. Just you, your to-do list, and a creeping sense of “am I spiraling or innovating?”
This week on Out Loud, I wrote about the reality of being a one-person creative team. The autonomy, the weird in-between space where you’re both strategist and production artist, boss and intern, confident and second-guessing everything you just designed.
If you’re ever proofed our own final draft five times because there’s no one else to do it; been asked to “ask the creative team” and you are the creative team; or built an entire brand off a to-do list that starts with “email Phil”...
You’ll get it.