Freelance Talks

Podcast by Tom "Sir FreeLance-A-Lot" Kozacinski, co-founder of Indie Club UK. The podcast focuses on topics of Freelancing, entrepreneurship, careers, business advice, work-life balance, remote work, and various other topics related to self-employed lifestyle and life in general. Episode guest - Alberto Ares Alberto began his career in technology sales in his early twenties to fund his university degree in Economics. Before founding Rev-Engine, Alberto held various sales and strategy roles for various organisations in the IT industry, including world-class advisory and research firm Gartner, where he focused exclusively on helping CEOs of emerging tech providers grow, Alberto also has worked for high growth technology startups and leading cloud businesses and holds a track record of success as well as numerous promotions in sales. LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alberto-ares-43594435/ WEB: https://www.rev-engine.co.uk Alberto writes about all aspects of selling. Sign up for the newsletter: Visit https://blog.rev-engine.co.uk ABOUT THE INDIE CLUB COMMUNITY: Indie Club - https://www.indie-club.uk/Is a community founded by Tom Kozacinski and David Odier for independent business owners, bootstrappers and freelancers. We’ve decided not to follow the classic society framework, roughly named “commuting, working, sleeping”. We have decided to create our own business. And in our own way. Join our Slack channel, engage the community and continue the conversation: Slack channel: http://bit.ly/slackAplicationuk1Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/indieclubuk/ Connect with Tom on Social Networks: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/universeceo/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/universeceo About Tom: Tomislav Kozacinski, or Tom for friends. London based Product Design Consultant, speaker, Techstars mentor and stand-up comedian with over 14 years of experience across the digital and organisational landscape. Tom is a founder of Indie Club and is a strong advocate of Freelancing and Remote work, also, Creative Entrepreneur, World Traveller, Biker, Gamer, sharing stories from his experience and other people on a similar journey. He fancies himself to be a well-organised problem solver and a storyteller. You can find out more on his website: https://www.kozacinski.com/ CREDITS & THANKS: Stuart De Ville - Background music, Nikola Silic - Intro & Outro Animation, David Odier - for the best support one can ask in a co-founder!

Podcast by Tom "Sir FreeLance-A-Lot" Kozacinski, co-founder of Indie Club UK. The podcast focuses on topics of Freelancing, entrepreneurship, careers, business advice, work-life balance, remote work, and various other topics related to self-employed lifestyle and life in general. Episode guest - Sebastian Monadjemzadeh Sebastian has the standard background of modern western society. Two parents that immigrated to Sweden from completely different countries; mother from Finland and a Persian father, he was born with three passports and an identity crisis. He is coping with all this by constantly trying to challenge his intellect and finding fun new sparring partners to discuss politics, philosophy and the latest Ricky Gervais show. Sebastian has a problem with corporate BS so naturally, he is now working with a start-up called cfinder. A community and marketplace for freelancers in tech. LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastian-monadjemzadeh-73562a57/ WEB: https://cfinder.com/ ABOUT THE INDIE CLUB COMMUNITY: Indie Club - https://www.indie-club.uk/Is a community founded by Tom Kozacinski and David Odier for independent business owners, bootstrappers and freelancers. We’ve decided not to follow the classic society framework, roughly named “commuting, working, sleeping”. We have decided to create our own business. And in our own way. Join our Slack channel, engage the community and continue the conversation: Slack channel: http://bit.ly/slackAplicationuk1Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/indieclubuk/ Connect with Tom on Social Networks: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/universeceo/Twitter: https://twitter.com/universeceo About Tom: Tomislav Kozacinski, or Tom for friends. London based Product Design Consultant, speaker, Techstars mentor and stand-up comedian with over 14 years of experience across the digital and organisational landscape. Tom is a founder of Indie Club and is a strong advocate of Freelancing and Remote work, also, Creative Entrepreneur, World Traveller, Biker, Gamer, sharing stories from his experience and other people on a similar journey. He fancies himself to be a well-organised problem solver and a storyteller. You can find out more on his website: https://www.kozacinski.com/ CREDITS & THANKS: Stuart De Ville - Background music, Nikola Silic - Intro & Outro Animation, David Odier - for the best support one can ask in a co-founder!

Podcast by Tom "Sir FreeLance-A-Lot" Kozacinski, co-founder of Indie Club UK. The podcast focuses on topics of Freelancing, entrepreneurship, careers, business advice, work-life balance, remote work, and various other topics related to self-employed lifestyle and life in general. Episode guest - Tom Hunt Tom is the founder of SaaS Marketer and bCast. He loves tequila, the internet and his puppy Bear. LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomhuntio/ WEB: https://saasmarketer.io/ WEB: http://bcast.fm/ ABOUT THE INDIE CLUB COMMUNITY: Indie Club - https://www.indie-club.uk/Is a community founded by Tom Kozacinski and David Odier for independent business owners, bootstrappers and freelancers. We’ve decided not to follow the classic society framework, roughly named “commuting, working, sleeping”. We have decided to create our own business. And in our own way. Join our Slack channel, engage the community and continue the conversation: Slack channel: http://bit.ly/slackAplicationuk1Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/indieclubuk/ Connect with Tom on Social Networks: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/universeceo/Twitter: https://twitter.com/universeceo About Tom: Tomislav Kozacinski, or Tom for friends. London based Product Design Consultant, speaker, Techstars mentor and stand-up comedian with over 14 years of experience across the digital and organisational landscape. Tom is a founder of Indie Club and is a strong advocate of Freelancing and Remote work, also, Creative Entrepreneur, World Traveller, Biker, Gamer, sharing stories from his experience and other people on a similar journey. He fancies himself to be a well-organised problem solver and a storyteller. You can find out more on his website: https://www.kozacinski.com/ CREDITS & THANKS: Stuart De Ville - Background music, Nikola Silic - Intro & Outro Animation, David Odier - for the best support one can ask in a co-founder!

Podcast by Tom "Sir FreeLance-A-Lot" Kozacinski, co-founder of Indie Club UK. The podcast focuses on topics of Freelancing, entrepreneurship, careers, business advice, work-life balance, remote work, and various other topics related to self-employed lifestyle and life in general. Episode guest - Matthew Knight Matt is a creative strategist and innovator, with over 25 years of experience in creative, technology, brand and product, and running teams which deliver progressive and impactful work. He is also the founder of Leapers.co - a community for freelancers, with the aim to create awareness, discussion, prioritisation and adoption of positive behaviours to support your mental health at work when you’re self-employed. LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thinkplaymake/ TW: https://twitter.com/thinkplaymake WEB: https://www.leapers.co/ ABOUT THE INDIE CLUB COMMUNITY: Indie Club - https://www.indie-club.uk/Is a community founded by Tom Kozacinski and David Odier for independent business owners, bootstrappers and freelancers. We’ve decided not to follow the classic society framework, roughly named “commuting, working, sleeping”. We have decided to create our own business. And in our own way. Join our Slack channel, engage the community and continue the conversation: Slack channel: http://bit.ly/slackAplicationuk1Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/indieclubuk/ Connect with Tom on Social Networks: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/universeceo/Twitter: https://twitter.com/universeceo About Tom: Tomislav Kozacinski, or Tom for friends. London based Product Design Consultant, speaker, Techstars mentor and stand-up comedian with over 14 years of experience across the digital and organisational landscape. Tom is a founder of Indie Club and is a strong advocate of Freelancing and Remote work, also, Creative Entrepreneur, World Traveller, Biker, Gamer, sharing stories from his experience and other people on a similar journey. He fancies himself to be a well-organised problem solver and a storyteller. You can find out more on his website: https://www.kozacinski.com/ CREDITS & THANKS: Stuart De Ville - Background music, Nikola Silic - Intro & Outro Animation, David Odier - for the best support one can ask in a co-founder!

Podcast by Tom "Sir FreeLance-A-Lot" Kozacinski, co-founder of Indie Club UK. The podcast focuses on topics of Freelancing, entrepreneurship, careers, business advice, work-life balance, remote work, and various other topics related to self-employed lifestyle and life in general. Episode guest - Dan Parry LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dkparry/ TW: https://twitter.com/yodanparry/ WEB: https://tectoniclondon.com/ ABOUT THE INDIE CLUB COMMUNITY: Indie Club - https://www.indie-club.uk/Is a community founded by Tom Kozacinski and David Odier for independent business owners, bootstrappers and freelancers. We’ve decided not to follow the classic society framework, roughly named “commuting, working, sleeping”. We have decided to create our own business. And in our own way. Join our Slack channel, engage the community and continue the conversation: Slack channel: http://bit.ly/slackAplicationuk1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/indieclubuk/ Connect with Tom on Social Networks: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/universeceo/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/universeceo About Tom: Tomislav Kozacinski, or Tom for friends. London based Product Design Consultant, speaker, Techstars mentor and stand-up comedian with over 14 years of experience across the digital and organisational landscape. Tom is a founder of Indie Club and is a strong advocate of Freelancing and Remote work, also, Creative Entrepreneur, World Traveller, Biker, Gamer, sharing stories from his experience and other people on a similar journey. He fancies himself to be a well-organised problem solver and a storyteller. You can find out more on his website: https://www.kozacinski.com/ CREDITS & THANKS: Stuart De Ville - Background music Nikola Silic - Intro & Outro Animation David Odier - for the best support one can ask in a co-founder!

Podcast by Tom "Sir FreeLance-A-Lot" Kozacinski, co-founder of Indie Club UK. The podcast focuses on topics of Freelancing, entrepreneurship, careers, business advice, work-life balance, remote work, and various other topics related to self-employed lifestyle and life in general. Episode guest - Adrien Montcoudiol Adrien is co-founder of Mozza, Based in Paris, collective of Product Managers and UX/UI designers, an off-shoot of Mangrove collective, he is a startup mentor and regular speaker on Marketing and Growth Strategy. LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrienmontcoudiol/ TW: https://twitter.com/adrienm WEB: https://mozza.io/ You can watch the video of the recording session here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v4LRGspLo SHOW TOPICS: 0:02:00 Founding Mangrove and Mozza 0:04:00 Working alone vs. Working in a collective 0:06:30 More companies will hire more remote workers 0:08:00 Pricing in a team vs. freelancers vs. companies 0:11:00 Finding space between what a client needs vs. what the client wants 0:16:30 Remote work and finding clients 0:22:00 Becoming Nich Super Star 0:25:00 Scaling your personal brand 0:28:00 Freelancing vs. 9-5 ABOUT THE INDIE CLUB COMMUNITY: Indie Club - https://www.indie-club.uk/ Is a community founded by Tom Kozacinski and David Odier for independent business owners, bootstrappers and freelancers. We’ve decided not to follow the classic society framework, roughly named “commuting, working, sleeping”. We have decided to create our own business. And in our own way. Join our Slack channel, engage the community and continue the conversation: Slack channel: http://bit.ly/slackAplicationuk1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/indieclubuk/ Connect with Tom on Social Networks: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/universeceo/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/universeceo About Tom: Tomislav Kozacinski, or Tom for friends. A London based Product Design Consultant, Techstars Mentor and Stand Up Comedian who fancies himself a hyper-organised artist and a problem solver. Tom is a founder of Indie Club, also - Speaker, Entrepreneur, World Traveller, Biker, Gamer, No Bullshit Bro, and some other buzz words as well... You can find out more on his website: https://www.kozacinski.com/ CREDITS & THANKS: Stuart De Ville - Background music Nikola Silic - Intro & Outro Animation David Odier - for the best support one can ask in a co-founder!

Podcast by Tom "Sir FreeLance-A-Lot" Kozacinski, co-founder of Indie Club UK. The podcast focuses on topics of Freelancing, entrepreneurship, careers, business advice, work-life balance, remote work, and various other topics related to self-employed lifestyle and life in general. Episode guest - R Michael Anderson: Michael started out his career behind a keyboard pounding out code. Technically adept yet socially awkward, he kept sabotaging his own career growth with his lack of soft skills. Despite himself, he did manage to climb the corporate ladder and worked as an international director and VP for enterprise software companies in the USA, England, Denmark, and Singapore. In 2005 he moved back to California and started three software companies over the next 5 years. After almost losing everything in a lawsuit with a business partner, he figured he better quickly learn how to be a leader. He put all his effort into growing personally and professionally, including earning a unique Masters Degree in Spiritual Psychology. Now he teaches his uplifting and empowering Elevated Leadership to other companies and leaders who want to elevate themselves as well as their teams and do it all from a place of service. As a best-selling business leadership author, former radio show host, and contributor of entrepreneur.com, he’s spreading his message of positive leadership all over the world. LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tallmikey TW: https://twitter.com/RMAElevates FB: https://www.facebook.com/RMAElevates WEB: https://rmichaelanderson.com You can watch the video of the recording session here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDJ0gba-Dnc SHOW TOPICS: 0:01:10 Selling everything and going nomad. 0:03:40 Starting first company 0:07:30 Raising prices as a consultant 0:08:20 (Tom) Charging as Freelancer - "Tomonomics" :) 0:12:40 Problems with Leadership 0:25:45 Making twice as much as Freelancer 0:34:20 (Tom) Are people turning to freelance due to COVID 0:39:20 Teaching Leadership and writing a book 0:50:15 A bit about Gaming, X-Com2, Tides of Numenera and Witcher ABOUT THE INDIE CLUB COMMUNITY: Indie Club - https://www.indie-club.uk/ Is a community founded by Tom Kozacinski and David Odier for independent business owners, bootstrappers and freelancers. We’ve decided not to follow the classic society framework, roughly named “commuting, working, sleeping”. We have decided to create our own business. And in our own way. Join our Slack channel, engage the community and continue the conversation: Slack channel: http://bit.ly/slackAplicationuk1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/indieclubuk/ Connect with Tom on Social Networks: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/universeceo/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/universeceo About Tom: Tomislav Kozacinski, or Tom for friends. A London based Product Design Consultant, Techstars Mentor and Stand Up Comedian who fancies himself a hyper-organised artist and a problem solver. Tom is a founder of Indie Club, also - Speaker, Entrepreneur, World Traveller, Biker, Gamer, No Bullshit Bro, and some other buzz words as well... You can find out more on his website: https://www.kozacinski.com/ CREDITS & THANKS: Stuart De Ville - Background music Nikola Silic - Intro & Outro Animation David Odier - for the best support one can ask in a co-founder!

Podcast by Tom "Sir FreeLance-A-Lot" Kozacinski, founder of Indie Club UK. The podcast focuses on topics of Freelancing, entrepreneurship, careers, business advice, work-life balance, remote work, and various other topics related to self-employed lifestyle and life in general. Episode guest - Gasper Sopi: Gasper Sopi is an awarded interdisciplinary designer working at the intersection of branding, visual design and interactive technology. He is the founder of Hyperactive, a boutique design & development agency based in Zagreb, Croatia. With over 15 years of industry experience, Gasper has executed, directed and coordinated projects for a variety of local and international brands as well as helped launch cutting edge startups and technologies ranging from fintech & health tech to retail & creative industries. He holds a Masters degree in Cognitive Systems and Interactive Media and is a published author in academic publications. When the world is not locked down due to bat-originating viruses he travels the world, studying zen meditation, exploring photography and attempting to build bridges between cultures, bringing people together one person at a time. LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gaspersopi/ TW: https://twitter.com/gaspersopi You can watch the video of the recording session here: https://youtu.be/HeEq5vK7dUg SHOW TOPICS: 0:0:40 About Gasper 0:02:45 Starting his business 0:09:45 Making decision to go remote and work from an island 0:14:15 Big companies going remote 0:15:30 Brick and Mortar office vs. Remote Office 0:21:55 How companies are changing in a new shift of workspace and real estate 0:25:07 Traveling the world while working. And walking barefoot Camino De Santiago 0:32:27 Calculating your financial independence 0:38:55 Deciding to be independent and grow an independent career 0:57:40 Being happy and finding his life purpose ABOUT THE INDIE CLUB COMMUNITY: Indie Club - https://www.indie-club.uk/ Is a community for independent business owners, bootstrappers and freelancers. We’ve decided not to follow the classic society framework, roughly named “commuting, working, sleeping”. We have decided to create our own business. And in our own way. Join our Slack channel, engage the community and continue the conversation: Slack channel: http://bit.ly/slackAplicationuk1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/indieclubuk/ Connect with Tom on Social Networks: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/universeceo/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/universeceo About Tom: Tomislav Kozacinski, or Tom for friends. A London based Product Design Consultant, Techstars Mentor and Stand Up Comedian who fancies himself a hyper-organised artist and a problem solver. Tom is a founder of Indie Club, also - Speaker, Entrepreneur, World Traveller, Biker, Gamer, No Bullshit Bro, and some other buzz words as well... You can find out more on his website: https://www.kozacinski.com/

In this episode I talked about three most important thing I learned about networking: Be present, be helpful and be visible. Question was asked by Martin Rosner - author of Hot Paper Comics. If you would like to ask a question for the upcoming episode, please send it via any social channel or directly via my https://anchor.fm/kozacinski Video from Charisma on Command "5 Common Phrases That Ruin First Impressions" I've mentioned in the episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xzEgqoSdfQ I would recommend their channel for some great insights on behaviour that can greatly improve your communication skills. www.freelancetalks.com Join the community and continue the conversation: Slack channel: http://bit.ly/slackAplicationuk1 Facebook Group: http://bit.ly/kozacinskiFB Connect with me on Social Networks: Instagram: http://bit.ly/tkinstagram Twitter: http://bit.ly/twitterhren Who am I? My name is Tomislav Kozacinski. You can call me Tom. I'm a London based Product Designer & Stand Up Comedian who fancies himself a hyper-organised artist & a problem solver. Also - Speaker, Entrepreneur, Mentor, World Traveler, Biker, Gamer, No Bullshit Bro, and some other buzz words as well... You can find out more on my website: http://bit.ly/aboutTomislav Background music: Rock Angel by Joakim Karud https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0 Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/K8eRXvLL7Wo

First (proper) Podcast Episode! First topic I want to cover - and this is the question I get a lot - is “how can I determine how much to charge my clients”. And this is something a lot of people struggle with when they decide to go freelance - I know I did. I'd like to make this podcast more interactive, so please send me what you struggle with, and I'll give my best to answer it and help you out. You can send your audio question via Anchor.fm/kozacinski or via any of my social networks you can find on http://www.freelancetalks.com Also, if you use facebook, join me in Freelance Talks group. Speak soon.