The Freelance Success Podcast

Join Freelance Success Freelance Success is a community built for freelancers at every stage — with expert sessions, curated resources, and daily conversations with people who get it. Try it free for one month at ⁠JoinFreelanceSuccess.com⁠ . About this episode Money is the thing freelancers worry about most — and the thing most of us are least equipped to manage. In this episode, Liam sits down wi...

Join Freelance Success 1 month for free Feast or famine is one of the most talked-about challenges in freelancing—and one of the most feared. The income rollercoaster can be brutal, and it doesn't discriminate. Even experienced, successful freelancers hit stretches where work dries up, and they are left wondering where their next payment will come from. In this episode, I'm joined by Shwet...

Pivoting sounds simple — until you're in the middle of one. In this episode, Liam talks with fractional COO and business coach Sarah Duran about what pivoting actually looks like for freelancers and solopreneurs: the fear, the sunk cost thinking, and that uncomfortable wobbly period when you're straddling two things and haven't committed to either. Sarah reframes the pivot as a spectru...

LinkedIn has changed—and if you've felt it, you're not imagining things. In this episode, Liam sits down with his longtime friend Meredith Farley, CEO of Medbury, a LinkedIn-focused agency that creates strategy and content for everyone from Fortune 500 executives to solopreneurs building their first real pipeline. They get into what's actually working on the platform right now: the pos...

Felicity once taught a course about AI ethics for writers, and she's spent a lot of time helping freelancers and solopreneurs think more carefully — and more honestly — about where AI fits into their work. In this episode, she and Liam get into the questions that don't get asked enough: who actually benefits from the AI boom, what cognitive atrophy really means for freelancers who rely on...

Every freelancer will face an unexpected emergency at some point — a health crisis, a family situation, something that forces you to step away from your business without warning. Most of us aren't prepared for it. In this episode, Liam talks with Anna Burgess Yang, a B2B FinTech writer and solopreneur systems expert, about what it actually looks like to keep a freelance business alive during t...

Most freelancers know what it feels like to be at the beginning — no clients, no portfolio, no clear idea of where to start. Three years ago, that was Nick Baird. Today, his problem is the opposite: too much work. In this episode, Liam talks with Nick — a former mentee and FLX community member — about what the journey from zero to fully booked actually looked like. They get into the practical move...

Fear is something every freelancer knows — whether you're just starting out or years into your career. In this first episode of the Freelance Success Podcast, host Liam Carnahan gets honest about the fear that shows up at every stage of freelancing: fear of income uncertainty, fear of failure, fear of putting yourself out there. He shares the strategies that have helped him push through it ove...