Believe it or not, the job of a lighthouse is not to pose for your nana’s favorite wall calendar or appear in artwork at the dentist’s office. Though you’d never guess based on the volume of gift items adorned with its likeness, the lighthouse has but one simple and profound purpose, and that is guiding boats to…
There's a lot of business advice out there to help freelancers get to six figure income quickly, and it’s true that a lot of it works. But a lot of it is also exceptionally unhealthy for you - physically, mentally, spiritually, you name it. The Burnout Cycle A six figure student of Mike Shreeve's recently experienced this first…
There's one key difference between freelancers who struggle to get by and freelancers who can charge more and bank serious cheddar, and it’s something we’ve talked about many times before: The former sells a commodity, and the latter sells a result. Making the jump from the former to the latter won't be an overnight event, and it also…
If you’re like most people, you’ve probably allowed procrastination to keep you from getting started, from doing the things that you’ve wanted to do with your life. After spending over a decade in the transformation economy, Mike Shreeve shares a core belief in this premiere episode of The No Pants Show podcast, concerning our life’s dreams and goals:…
We all want clients - great clients. But we don’t always have time to be out looking for them ourselves. In fact, if we’re doing this freelancing thing properly, we should be spending our time helping others. As freelancers, nothing lasts forever though, which means we need a system of attracting new clients to us even while we’re…
Me, before I made a podcast for the first time… (two days ago): Yes, podcasting could help me establish a voice in the market, but I’m a simple person. I prefer writing with pens on wide rule paper. The mess of cords under my desk gives me anxiety. I can’t even figure out the thermostat. Podcasting is probably too…
Have you ever thought about how your money beliefs could be hurting your freelance business? While most of us probably don’t aspire to be filthy rich, every freelancer I know wants to make good money on some level. Freedom money. But our methods of doing this are often misguided. We often believe that if we learn X new…
If you've ever felt frozen in the face of important decisions, or exhausted by a project that you haven’t even started, or just creatively fogged, then you know what it's like to be overwhelmed. In his recent episode of The No Pants Show podcast, How To Refocus When Feeling Overwhelmed, Mike Shreeve talks about the four domains…
A quick Google search will turn up a hundred and one things that you supposedly need to make it as a freelancer. A proper working space, a 57-step sales funnel, an undying and burning passion for the work you do… But the reality of successful freelancing has shown us that those lists just aren’t true. In a recent…