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The Writers’ Co-op
The Writers’ Co-op is an audio business handbook for freelance creatives. Host and executive producer Wudan Yan leverages her and co-hosts' experiences to provide a transparent look at what it takes to run a resilient freelance business. From negotiating higher rates, to protecting your business and...
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Your questions and TWC’s answers
Today, we’re releasing the last episode of the last season of the show. After running three businesses for the bulk of a year, Wudan will focus her at...
10 Lessons in 10 Years of Freelancing with Wudan Yan
It's been 10 years since Wudan started freelancing, and she's learned a lot of lessons over the past decade. Now, she's running three businesses simul...
Turn Your Solo Freelance Business into an Agency with Caity Cronkhite
Over the past year, we've heard from many listeners who are curious about scaling up their freelance businesses to an agency. Agencies can allow freel...
Creating Your Own Podcast Production Network with Amy Westervelt
Starting a new publication or production network has long been a big dream for many freelance journalists. Some have become disenfranchised with the s...
Fractional C-level Roles with Matthew Fenton
If you've been on LinkedIn lately, you might have noticed bios that include a “fractional” C-level job. Traditional C-suite jobs can be all-consuming,...
From Journalism to Money with Maya Lau
Typically, when we strike out on our own and launch a freelance business, we play it safe and start with what we know. If we previously worked at a ma...
Diversify Your Business Fearlessly with Ashley Cisneros Mejia
As a freelancer, the topic of diversification may be on your mind. The freelance market is what it is, and the pool of freelancers continues to grow...
Why Freelancers Should Adopt a Leadership Mindset with Cynthia Pong
What if we told you that all freelancers are leaders?
The idea might seem counterintuitive at first: After all, freelancers provide services or...
Confronting Fear with Nicole Tsong
Career transitions often come with an element of fear. For freelancers, this might be a fear of rejection or of losing stable income. It might show up...
Q&A with Wudan Yan
Welcome to Season 8! We’re calling this year the “Year of Expansive Thinking.” This season will focus on how to think big about our businesses, oursel...
Crosspost! Conversations, Not Confrontations: Learning the Art of Negotiation with Wudan Yan
This episode is a cross-post between The Writers' Co-op and Freelance Cake, a podcast for ambitious freelancers who want to get more results with less...
A sneak peak into Season 8!
A preview into what this upcoming season holds!
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Fast and Slow Freelancing with Amy Romer
If you’ve been listening to The Writers’ Co-op since the first few seasons, you’ve heard us say: The magic is in the mix of work you get. Slower work...
Approaching Clueless Clients with Sara Gates
As freelancers, we’ve probably all worked with clients who couldn’t pin down exactly what they wanted. Maybe they never had a clear vision for the pro...
Corporate to Freelance with Melody Burdette
A very overdone and true statement about freelancing is: “You’re running a business!” Businesses of all sizes have things like income targets, goals,...
Market Yourself Authentically with Rux Guidi
Most of us who work for ourselves probably don’t love marketing but know that it’s a necessary task to attract more clients. Some take a more traditio...
Create Your Own Publication with Leah Sottile
Most of the time, freelancers who work with clients do not own the rights to the creative work that's produced. Even retaining a modicum of your right...
Rate Increases and Price Ceilings with Kat Boogaard
Determining rates can be really tricky for freelancers. We need our clients to agree to a price for a project, but we can’t sell ourselves short and l...
Navigating Freelance Career Transitions with Simone Stolzoff
Navigating crossroads in our careers isn’t easy — not when we’re traditionally employed, and certainly not as freelancers, where we pick the rules. Th...
Set Yourself Up Well for Freelancing When You’re Full-Time with Karen Given
If you consume media, are a media worker, or just happen to pay attention to what’s happening to the media landscape, you might have heard that the in...
Reclaim Hours – Even Days! – From Your Workweek with Anna Burgess Yang
A big reason why many of us feel drawn to freelancing is because we love the freedom and flexibility that it offers: we can work when, where, and how...
Redefine Freelance Success with Joanne Machin
Welcome to Season 7 of the Writers’ Co-op! To kick off the season, we wanted to dedicate our first episode to a word that often shapes how we view bot...
Season 7 of The Writers' Co-op: Coming Soon!
Season 7 (!!) will launch shortly, after a month-long break.
Wudan will be hosting and executive producing the show moving forward, after Jenni...
Embrace Authentic Marketing (July 2021)
Today we’re playing an episode from July 2021 with freelancer Emma Diehl. This was from our third season, where we coached other freelancers. In this...
Another Ask Us Anything
Today we’re running our last live episode of the season! Jenni will be stepping away from TWC to focus on her family and health, and Wudan will carry...
To Bail or Not to Bail
It’s rare to have a perfect relationship with a client. They might do small things that bug us, like scrub all of our oxford commas and em-dashes.
The Subtle Art of Saying No (May 2020)
Saying no is just as critical to running a freelance business as saying yes. You can't say yes to the right opportunities if you're filling up your ti...
Pace Yourself
Today we have a new episode for you, which is about pacing your workdays.
This episode was inspired by a tweet Jenni sent out about a month ago,...
Building Relationships (May 2020)
This episode is a re-run from May 2020.
Making connections with other writers, editors and creatives is essential to building a fr...
Chasing Corporate Clients with Matt Villano (October 2020)
This episode is a re-run from October 2020.
If you want to talk about running a 6-figure freelance writing business, Matt Villano is the person...
Mistakes Were Made
Let’s be honest: No one is perfect at running a business. We’ve all screwed up. We’ve all been too pushy or not pushy enough. We’ve all reacted too qu...
Managing Service Transitions
Happy July! We hope you’re hanging in there. We are both officially OOO right now – Jenni with her new baby, and Wudan hiking the PCT. This episode wa...
Grow Your Career (June 2020)
We're re-running old TWC episodes over the course of the spring and summer, as we both slow down. This re-run is all about career planning and growth!...
The Discovery Call
Wudan's love for discovery calls probably surprises very few of you: She loves connecting with others and enjoy learning about how she can bring her s...
Money Mindset (March 2020)
We're running some older episodes while we take this spring and summer season more slowly! This week's re-run is our very first money-related episode...
Embracing Slow Seasons
Today we’re bringing you a new episode about approaching slow seasons. You know what we’re talking about: Those lulls in freelance work after all your...
Inflection Points (July 2021)
As we take this spring and summer more slowly, we're currently replaying some old hits! This one is from July 2021.
Building a freelance career...
Freelancing + Buying a House
Is it possible to buy property while working for yourself? Recently, Jenni and Wudan both bought houses -- so the answer is yes, but with a lot of cav...
Werk It (March 2020)
It's an oldie but a goodie! We're currently releasing episodes at a slower cadence and re-sharing some old favorites.
In this 2020 episode, Jenn...
Welcome to Season 5 of The Writers' Co-op!
Welcome to season 5 of The Writers' Co-op! This season, we're slowing things down a bit because Jenni will be stepping away for maternity leave come J...