Episodes
Oct. 15, 2024
#53: Stop Undervaluing Yourself: Expert Advice on Pricing Strategies – Filip Fučić
Filip Fučić is a pricing mentor based in Croatia but active on FIVE continents. Pricing is an evergreen topic, and it's a difficult one to master, especially for freelancers and small business owners. (Myself included.) Filip...
Oct. 8, 2024
#52: Applying CEO and COO Dynamic Strategies to Small Businesses – Diane Mentzer
This week, you’re in for a treat as Diane Mentzer is not only a kind and empathetic human, but she’s also on a mission to help CEOs and COOs work together, clarify goals, roles & responsibilities, and strengthen the organizat...
Oct. 1, 2024
#51: Start-Ups, Hiccups, and Landing Big Brands – Luka Glavaš
Luka Glavaš is a co-founder of Flaster, a Croatian start-up founded in 2020, and in this episode, he talks about the hiccups he and his business partner, Filip Carić have experienced in the last four years. Flaster is a platf...
Sept. 24, 2024
#50: Learning How to Teach: Strategies for Online Educators – Višnja Željeznjak
Episode #50! Is that a milestone? Either way, I'm thrilled to be joined by Višnja Željeznjak, an educators' educator based in Croatia. She started her business in 2002 (it's incredible how that's 20+ years ago), initially foc...
Sept. 17, 2024
#49: Tackling Taboo Topics and Staying True to Oneself Online – Pamela Perkić
Pamela Perkić, an activist and the main organizer of the ICON Retreat, which she hosts a couple of times a year in Croatia, opens up and shares her experiences on being outspoken online and standing your ground regardless of ...
Sept. 10, 2024
#48: Integrating HubSpot into Your Freelance Business – Nenad Kostić
Nenad Kostić, a HubSpot expert based in Croatia, shares some valuable tips on how we can use it to manage our client work efficiently. In this conversation, Nenad discusses his experience with HubSpot and how it has helped hi...
Sept. 3, 2024
#47: Exploring Marketing Opportunities Your Way – Sarah Silva
Sarah Silva, a freelance German-to-English chemical translator and a very proactive marketer, shares her journey of starting her own business and how she has been marketing herself for years in a way that feels authentic and ...
Aug. 27, 2024
#46: Embracing Career Pivots as Part of Life – Iesha Small
In my opinion, career pivots are such a great topic, but they are not discussed enough in the freelance landscape. This is why I was thrilled to have discovered this week’s guest, Iesha Small, who specializes in career pivots...
Aug. 20, 2024
#45: Why Good Copy is Now More Important than Ever – Joni Sweet
Joni Sweet is a copywriter and a copywriting coach based in the U.S. She works with some big-name clients, such as National Geographic and Time Magazine. However, Joni keeps it real and openly shares what she struggled with i...
Aug. 13, 2024
#44: Cash VS Cashflow and Why Business Owners Get It Wrong – Yinka Ewuola
Yinka Ewuola, a multi-award-winning business owner, coach, speaker, and business and asset strategist, talks about the topics of money, mindset, finances, cash, and cashflow. She shares her journey and how she became a busine...
Aug. 6, 2024
#43: Navigating Year 1 of Self-Employment in the Copywriting Space – Luca Kozina
Luca Kozina, a copywriting expert, shares her career journey and transition to self-employment. She started her career in marketing, but writing has always been her No. 1 skill. So luckily, she discovered copywriting! She emp...
July 30, 2024
#42: Marketing, but Make it Ethical – Jessica Lohmann
Jessica Lohmann is the founder of Ethical Brand Marketing, a company that helps eco-friendly brands and creatives design their own ethical marketing strategies. Ethical marketing is such a huge topic and is being discussed mo...
July 23, 2024
#41: How to Build a Simple AND Powerful Freelance Business – Jenni Gritters
Jenni Gritters is a business strategist and coach for freelancers and solopreneurs based in Oregon, U.S. We talk about various things, but we mostly focus on her coaching journey and what she has seen freelancers struggle wit...
July 16, 2024
#40: A Masterclass on Personal Branding – Nela Dunato
Nela Dunato is an artist, brand designer, teacher, writer, and speaker based in Croatia. She describes what her process of working with clients looks like, and, in case you were wondering, the first step does NOT include talk...
July 9, 2024
#39: Reshaping Our Relationship With Money & Investing – Anouk Knuffmann
It is my pleasure to bring you the first episode dedicated entirely to money & investing! Anouk Knuffmann, a female financial empowerment coach, shares her journey from freelancing to coaching and her mission to help women fe...
July 2, 2024
#38: Creativity as a Survival Skill – Filipe Alverca
In this episode, Filipe Alverca, a Brazilian Portuguese translator, reviewer, and transcreator, digs deep into the topic of creativity. After hearing his presentation at this year's BP Conference (a translation-focused event)...
June 25, 2024
#37: Why Introspection is Crucial to Becoming Better (Business) People – Eva Feldman
Eva Feldman, a psychologist from Croatia, talks about tackling difficult topics online, how to put ourselves out there and let our voices be heard, and how to deal with the ever-present impostor syndrome. She explains all of ...
June 18, 2024
#36: Fostering Meaningful Online Connections With Students – Edita Bandur
Edita Bandur is an English language teacher from Croatia specializing in business English and entrepreneurship. Edita notes that teaching business English was not as dry as she initially thought, as it involves interesting to...
June 11, 2024
#35: Why Visuals Matter: The Power of Business Portraits – Darko Mareš
Darko Mareš is a portrait photographer based in Croatia and specializing in business portraits and headshots. Darko started his photography business in 2016 after a career in IT; he saw an opportunity in the market for busine...
June 4, 2024
#34: Ins and Outs of Content Creation – Vasily Kichigin & Mila Kichigina
Vasily and Mila are a married couple who run a marketing agency, and they started as freelancers on Fiverr (and they go more in depth in terms of their journey on Fiverr). They now have a content creation team and work with v...
May 28, 2024
#33: How to ACTUALLY Make Workcations Work for You – Agostina Babbo
Agostina Babbo is not only an English- and Italian-into-Spanish translator, a product localization specialist, and a handball and team sports expert, she is also one of my dear friends and colleagues! I've had the opportunity...
May 21, 2024
#32: Storytelling as a Content Creation Pillar – Arrey Bate
Arrey Bate is one of my new business friends and after hearing about his story and his accomplishments on the Cameroonian market, I had to invite him to the podcast! Arrey helps business owners get clients through social medi...
May 14, 2024
#31: Taking Care of Yourself and Your Business – Corinne McKay
Corinne McKay, a successful freelancer with over 20 years of experience, shares her journey and insights into running a sustainable business. She discusses the importance of mentors, establishing authority, and being open abo...
May 7, 2024
#30: Transform Your Business With an Accountability Buddy – Chiara Vecchi
Chiara Vecchi is not only a translator and a budding copywriter, she is also my accountability buddy and one of the best people I know :) I really wanted to share our journey of becoming and staying accountability buddies, as...