New freelancers often think like employees, taking any job that comes. The shift to business owner means recognizing your unique skill, positioning yourself as a service provider, and attracting clients who can afford and value what you do.
One of the things that you do is you help freelancers kind of change their way of thinking around the whole concept of freelancing versus owning a business versus being self-employed. Can you elaborate on, um, what that means for freelancing?
Yes. So a lot of times when I speak to a freelancer who's just starting out or someone who is looking to get into a side hustle or even a full-time freelancing gig, they're excited. The things I hear are things like, ooh, I've gotta get my resume ready, or ooh, self-employment is hard. And so what happens is they get in this mindset that they are the employee of another person and they start chasing jobs and they start filling their space with that clinging to whatever jobs they can get. And the successful freelancer approaches things a little differently. So in, in my space, in my experience, success comes when you shift your mindset and you become a business owner. You are a freelancer. You are a person with a, a magic power, a secret sauce, a sellable skill that someone really needs. They, they need, they require that skill of you. You are not employed by them. You are providing a service. And so when, when freelancers start to shift that mindset, that's when they become successful. That's when they say, look out world, this is what I have to offer. And they start attracting, attracting the clients that pay and that kind of fit their mindset and, and who they can best serve in the world.
