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Send us Fan Mail To compete in a global marketplace of freelancers, you need to stand out - to be distinctive, unique, and tempting, to your perfect client. That means you won't be everybody's favorite, but you know what - that's okay! When you're cooking up your unique freelancing flavor, you need to find something a little bit special. Something which lets you stand out, to y...

Send us Fan Mail Being a solopreneur in a global marketplace is great, as you have access to a world of opportunity. But you're also contending with a world of competition too - so how can you stand out, to the clients you need to find you? This is one of our practical 'how to' episodes, which every freelancer needs to pay attention to and take notes. Just as previous guests have he...

Send us Fan Mail Digital nomads sometimes get a bad rap, for impacting local communities in a negative way rather than creating positive change. But today's guest is working hard to counter that, with two fantastic projects. Tarek Kholoussy is a social entrepreneur with an MBA with honors from New York University and a career of working at top organizations like Goldman Sachs. In 2013, he lef...

Send us Fan Mail Lily Szabo is a startup storyteller and community builder, currently focusing on the fast-moving world of global mobility, and ways we can take our work to different countries through new visa programmes. With more countries every month offering special visas to attract remote workers and digital nomad visas, this is a moving target to keep track of. Lily's exploration of the...

Send us Fan Mail Are you a freelancer who is totally on top of your finances, from cashflow to long-range planning and investments? What about your net worth? If so, congratulations and scroll on by - you'll learn nothing, from this conversation with Shlomo Freund, creator of Free Financial Self! But for the rest of us, listen up, because Shlomo specialises in helping freelancers, remote work...

Send us Fan Mail Life and work have never been more integrated than they are today, and the coliving phenomenon is the ultimate expression of this. Offering unique opportunities for solopreneurs and all digital nomads to find the right place to live and work in a new environment, coliving centres ensure everything you could possibly need is right at hand - including a community of fellow traveller...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever wished you had more hours in the day, or that some of the less inspiring, yet essential tasks in your business would go away? Today's guest Imogen Cook has found a great solution for this, through tactical outsourcing to professional virtual assistants in the Philippines - a solution which not only helped her to grow her original business, it led to a completely...

Send us Fan Mail When your lifestyle means you travel all the time, what do you look for in a destination? And what does it mean to feel like you're 'coming home'? Today's guest Gonçalo Hall knows that digital nomads seek community and connectedness, alongside their next adventure - and when you don't live in a fixed location, that sense of community matters more than ever...

Send us Fan Mail  At this time of year we may all be dreaming of exotic destinations - but for Nora Dunn travel is a way of life. Her almost 17 years on the road have taken her to some incredible places, and you definitely need to check out her website and socials if you're getting itchy feet. But the most important thing is that Nora has figured out how to do all of this while balancing the...

Send us Fan Mail Minimalism. The very word feels serene, and an antidote to stress and busy-ness. But what is BUSINESS minimalism, and why does it matter? Today's guest, Saskia Mardi, was described by a client as 'The Marie Kondo' of business, and she helps her coaching clients defeat overwhelm and move from chaos to calm. Working with online entrepreneurs worldwide individually and...

Send us Fan Mail Matt Stait transformed his life through martial arts - but like so many in our amazing Xolopreneur community, his freelance career has taken him in various unanticipated directions. From his own championship achievements, he has found new ways to inspire audiences beyond those who can attend his gym in the UK, by mastering online publishing. In demand as a speaker, consultant, and...

Send us Fan Mail Freelancing as a company-of-one is a great way to live - flexible, versatile, and autonomous. But, as a solopreneur, you have different vulnerabilities, when unexpected change happens.  Have you ever thought about how you'd cope, if something came up and you simply couldn't work as normal, if your whole world shifted overnight? Or what if your client had a crisis, which...

Send us Fan Mail Many freelancers are drawn to platform like Upwork to find success at the start of their solopreneur journeys, but many fail to crack the code: ending up disillusioned with a race to the bottom on costs, or finding it impossible to successfully pitch for gigs - never mind reaching the point of having the right work (at the right price) come to find them directly. Today’s guest, gr...

Send us Fan Mail Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) is an attractive route to freelancing - and an easy option for anyone who was lucky enough to be born a native speaker of the global tongue for business and communications.   But making a decent hourly rate is challenging, with a proliferation of platforms and marketplaces, and varied levels of qualification and experience required. To...

Send us Fan Mail Lona Alia is not a freelancer right now... She's presently the head of revenue at SafetyWing, who specialise in underwriting the insurance needs of the new remote and mobile global population. So it's unsurprising that her journey to this point was entrepreneurial, and further that she lives and embodies that spirit and lifestyle, even while running a large international...

Send us Fan Mail   This week’s episode is your podcast host, Maya Middlemiss, flying ‘Xolo’ (sorry, not sorry…)  Maya reflects on her journey through various models of business formation over a long period, and the evolution of what she has come to call ‘Minimum Viable Freelancing’ - the amazing intersection of circumstances which enables anyone to get started working for themselves today, from an...

Send us Fan Mail Mark Izatt is a luxury brands consultant, early adopter of e-residency, and board member of the non-profit EERICA: the Estonian E-residents International Chamber Association. EERICA is the official 'voice' of the more than 80 thousand strong community of e-residents, to the government of Estonia. They fulfil a vital lobbying and policy-making role, but also offer members...

Send us Fan Mail Freelance tech storyteller Jennifer Riggins joins us to talk about the power of LinkedIn - how to perfect your profile, interact with intelligence, and engage with elegance.  Every solopreneur can benefit from the insights you will hear, and taking notes is highly recommended! Soon you will understand how LinkedIn search works (though it may be less smart than you think), how to u...

Send us Fan Mail Rowena Hennigan works remotely as a University Lecturer and Adjunct Faculty with TU Dublin,  and remotely operates her consultancy company RoRemote, providing wellbeing and mentoring services for corporate remote workers.  Rowena is an experienced traveler, combining remote work and travel, sometimes with her family too. In this conversation Rowena talks about how she has grown he...

Send us Fan Mail Many dream of creating a perfectly balanced lifestyle combining professional activities, creative fulfilment, travel, and family. Hayley King is a true renaissance soul who has figured this out better than most, and now helps other people to achieve the same.  As well as providing social media support to other businesses, she uses these tools very successfully to show up with auth...

Send us Fan Mail Today we explore how the digital nature of Estonia's business and government technology has led the world, in extending these services of business owners from anywhere.  Ülane Vilumets and her team support the e-residency services marketplace, and the increasingly global network of e-resident businesses it serves - from solopreneurs to high-growth startups, who are part of a...

Send us Fan Mail Today we gain an invaluable perspective of the future of life and work, and location-independent living, from freestyle freelancer Andreas Wil Gerdes. From his nomadic childhood to first career in the early days of mobile telecommunications, we explore how the vision of truly blended life has now become a reality.  Creating new multi-generational communities of remote entrepreneur...

Send us Fan Mail Allan Martinson brings 30 years of entrepreneurialism to head up Xolo, the leading platform for independent solopreneurs worldwide - with shared roots in Estonia, Allan explains how Xolo brings all that is best about the Estonian digital business administration infrastructure, to a world of freelancers hungry for reduced complexity.  Unleashing the freedom and creative energy of i...

Send us Fan Mail Orest Zub is a Ukranian citizen from Lviv, and had created a great freelance lifestyle business over the past decade - travelling the world, thanks to passive income from content creation. In February 2022 everything changed, for Orest and his compatriots. And he knew that the best way he could contribute to the resistance effort was to leverage his creative skills to tell the sto...