Balance Your Biz

Here's the thing: If you're only offering one service in your freelance business, you're probably on the train to burnout town. What's better? Offering a few (related) services, which helps you pivot when things get wild (hi, pandemic) and allows you to shift when you're feeling low-energy or craving something more vulnerable.

This week's coaching session includes a conversation all about balancing your energy in your business. Wudan chats with Maria Paula Rubiano, a freelance journalist based in Colombia. Maria covers environmental justice, and she just graduated from New York University’s Science Health and Reporting Program last winter. She's now an early-career fellow at The Open Notebook. You can check out her work at mariapaularubiano.com and follow her on Twitter: @pau_erre.

Wudan and Maria talk about building confidence and business planning, which will feel like familiar ground for those of you tuning into each episode so far this season. (Have we mentioned that so many of us struggle with the same things? You're not alone!) Then they get into bandwidth. For instance, reporting and writing are oftentimes very vulnerable. Creating things is an act of vulnerability, and vulnerability takes a lot of energy out of us! Listen as Wudan helps Maria anchor herself by adding another service to her roster that is not super demanding.

If you’re an All-Access member and higher, you’ll get access to several resources along with this episode: a worksheet that helps you evaluate your services based on bandwidth, and a modified confidence log -- a negotiation log -- to track your negotiation wins. If you’re looking to purchase these resources a la carte, we got you: They’re online here.

By the way: Listeners of this podcast may also enjoy the podcast Is This Working? Now in its fifth season, Is This Working? is a podcast where two best friends have honest conversations about money, careers and success. Listen wherever you podcast!