Health First Freelancer
Build a business that puts your health and wellbeing FIRST, even if you have a chronic illness. If I did it, so can you! Weekly freelancing, health and lifestyle tips, straight to your inbox.
A sneak peek for ya 👀
How's it going, Reader? We are rapidly approaching the launch of the *official* Health First Freelancer community on Mighty! 🥳🥂🙌 Doors will open on December 15th and stay open for our founding members until January 10th. So you have almost a full month to decide if you want to join us and make 2025 the year you become a profitable, successful, amazing, brilliant Health First Freelancer. Not that I'm biased or anything. 😉 I'm someone who likes to sit on and mull over these kinds of decisions...
Purpose 🤝 wellness
Hey there Reader, As we creep closer and closer to the end of the year (and the beginning of a new one), I find myself taking a closer look at many areas of my life, including my "purpose." Purpose can seem like a big scary word, but I think it can be a lot simpler than we think. You might have One Big Purpose in your life, which might be tied to your career, your family, or your artistic endeavors. But you might also have a "smaller" sense of purpose: to spend time in nature, to show up with...
Should you ever power through?
Hey there, Reader, If you've been around these parts for a while, you know I'm a big advocate for getting the rest you need, and not overworking yourself. As you learn pretty quickly with a chronic illness, overworking and the stress that comes with it often leads to a flare up of your condition, or general exhaustion. Consistently overworking leads to burnout that can take much longer to recover from. The point of being a Health First Freelancer is that overworking becomes much harder to do...
Healthy fats 101 🥑
What's up, Reader, You're getting this email on Tuesday this week because I took some time off last week, and it kind of rolled over into Monday. I'm sure you don't mind, right? 🤷♀️ That's freelancer life. Anyway, a while back I sent an email around supporting your brain FIRST in order to work on other areas of your health, business, productivity, etc. Because it all starts with your brain power. If you're feeling lethargic, or brain foggy, or unfocused, you won't have the drive to focus on...
Find your why
Fall is upon us, Reader, 🍁 And very interestingly, it seems like all of my friends are starting businesses right now. 👀 Well, okay, not all of them, but like a significant percentage. A high school friend who moved back to MKE a few months ago told me last week that she's starting her own one-woman virtual counseling practice. Which makes her a freelancer in my book! Another friend bought a business a few months ago where she sells promotional products to local (and not so local) small...
Looking for new clients
Hey Reader, I'm super excited to say that I recently hired a new junior copywriter to help out with a few things in my business! Mainly, blog writing (for a client) and social media (for Health First Freelancer). And now that I have some extra help, I'm thinking about searching for new clients again. As I've mentioned before, I'm more of a "buy and hold" kind of investor when it comes to clients. I tend to stick with the same ones for a long time, and slowly grow a partnership that turns into...
How I "time block"
Hello there, Reader, Another business-adjacent topic for you this week: how I've adapted "time blocking" to my own workflow and scheduling tendencies (i.e. my inability to schedule things in Google Calendar). So just quickly in case you don't know, "time blocking" is when you block out sections of your calendar for specific projects and tasks during the day, so you know exactly what you're doing and when you're doing it. It basically looks like this: A beautiful (if simplified) time-blocked...
Are we having fun yet? 🥳
Hey there Reader, I recently rejoined Duolingo (a language-learning app) to work on my Korean skills. (Why Korean? It's a long story, maybe if you reply I'll tell it to you. 😉) It's been a solid 15 years or so since I've used the app, and they've totally changed it since I used it consistently in high school and college. Duolingo used to look more like vocabulary flashcards and writing prompts, exercises that mimicked a school-like education format. But now it's more like a game. 🎮 You...
Turn your brain back on
You know what I've been thinking about lately, Reader, If you had to focus on just one area of your health that would lift up all the others, which one would that be? You could make a good argument for gut health. If you have gut issues, you know, it's pretty much all you can think about. And it seriously drags down every other area of your life. But I think there's an even more important piece that needs to be addressed first: your brain. 🧠 You support the brain first, and suddenly...
Getting a little uncomfy
Happy Monday, Reader, Recently I've made a decision that is making me just a little uncomfortable. But in a good way. Let me explain. I decided to stop working with a client I've had for over three years. 😬 Nothing was wrong with the relationship -- this client has been a Very Good Client. I've primarily been writing articles for them about all kinds of health topics from gut health to hormones to how to make healthy lifestyle changes. And I've been paid very well for those articles. As you...
Build a business that puts your health and wellbeing FIRST, even if you have a chronic illness. If I did it, so can you! Weekly freelancing, health and lifestyle tips, straight to your inbox.