Freelance Radio, Episode 19: Dealing With Self-Doubt
John BrougherThe nineteenth episode of Freelance Radio, the official FreelanceSwitch podcast, is now available! This episode, we talk about a number of topics, including dealing with self-doubt, ethical ways to collect payment, getting out of a project that’s not a good fit and more! Subscriptions to the podcast are available via iTunes and an archive of all podcasts will appear in the podcast section. We hope you enjoy it!
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You can subscribe on other podcast aggregators by using our podcast feed–it’s simply http://feeds.feedburner.com/FreelanceRadio. The Shownotes:
- Theme of the Episode: This episode’s theme is the dealing with self-doubt; we talk about how to deal with some of those nagging, scary questions that can eat away at a freelancer’s self-confidence and drive.
- Fantastic Forum Post and Mailbag: We talk about ethical ways to collect from a client who takes a very long time and how to get out of a project.
- Freelance Radio Recommends…:No recommendations this week for time! Other links and topics mentioned include Kristen’s blog about some of the topics her new book covers at http://www.ramenrentresumes.com and that’s about it.
- Outro: This week’s song is by Raflesia and is called El Camino from the album Logenplatz im Pantheon. The song (and indeed the album, as it’s licensed under Creative Commons) can be obtained by going to the album’s website.
And that’s the episode! If you like it, please feel free to rate it in iTunes or your favorite podcast aggregator (check us out on Digg at http://www.digg.com/podcasts/Freelance_Radio), and don’t forget to email your questions/comments via the Freelance Radio form. If you’d like to record a question/comment or submit an original outro song, you can upload them via this form!





















Rogers
August 12th, 2008
Nice!
Ben Gribbin
August 12th, 2008
Awesome guys, that was brill
You thinking of using ustream?
Joe Norton
August 12th, 2008
Sounds like a very interesting post-college book, I’ll check it out.
Ustream would be awesome!
Alex Fraiser
August 12th, 2008
Great work guys, I love this podcast. I still have to get caught up though, I’m only on #11!
Melek
August 12th, 2008
i had no idea you did podcasts. awesome!
Nishant
August 12th, 2008
Please try answering this question in your next podcast, How do you do things so perfectly every time?
John Brougher
August 13th, 2008
@Nishant Can you be more specific? What do you mean by “things,” exactly? And who is “you”?
kristen
August 14th, 2008
I think it’s clear there’s nothing perfect about us! haha We wing just about everything…podcasts…careers…etc.
Matti Kemppainen
August 14th, 2008
Freelance radio is quickly becoming my favorite podcast (and i listen to a lot of podcasts).
Great job guys!
Will
August 18th, 2008
The comment in the podcast where one of the panelist say’s “Why don’t you want to be my friend?” was awesome! I must of played that part back like 50 times already! Epic!
Nishant
August 22nd, 2008
oops sorry, i meant the whole freelance switch, podcast team.
Things: Everything you do, start a new thing like themeforest, the every tut site. and the whole envato network.
Nishant
August 22nd, 2008
oh and i forgot to say, awesome!