Money strategy and freelance satisfaction, with freelance graphic designer and coach Morgan Overholt

06/13/22 • 32 min

Freelance graphic designer and coach Morgan Overholt discusses how she's built up a lucrative career, how the sky's the limit for freelancers, and why it would take at least a million-dollar salary to lure her back to work as a full-time employee.

Morgan’s bio:
Morgan Overholt is a freelance graphic designer, owner of Morgan Media LLC, freelance coach and co-founder of TheSmokies.com. Morgan transitioned into the role of freelancer and small business owner after spending nearly a decade in the traditional corporate world left her feeling unsatisfied and unfulfilled. Today, Morgan is passionate about sharing her story with other hopeful entrepreneurs who hope to follow in her footsteps. She has been featured on Upwork.com, Refinery29, and Business Insider.

Notable quotes from the episode:

“I think that we need to normalize six figures. We need to normalize bringing these big salaries. And I think we also need normalize talking about those numbers so that we can know those kinds of things are possible.”

“I would probably personally never go back to a full-time job ever again. We could start the conversation at a million dollars a year, and I'm not kidding. That's the kind of conversation it would take to retain me full-time.”

“And I love the fact that post-pandemic, companies are waking up to the idea that you can have the best talent and only employ them when you absolutely need them.”

“My goal is to have a million-dollar a year. That's my goal. I don't want to be the six-figure freelancer anymore. I want to be seven.”

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Notable quotes from the episode:

“And I love the fact that post-pandemic, companies are waking up to the idea that you can have the best talent and only employ them when you absolutely need them.”

“My goal is to have a million-dollar a year. That's my goal. I don't want to be the six-figure freelancer anymore. I want to be seven.”

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Previous Episode

Freedom, fulfillment, and money, with Justine Clay, coach to creative business owners and freelancers

Business coach Justine Clay talks about the importance of meaning and purpose, what questions we can ask ourselves to discover them, and how we can define our own businesses to fit ourselves.

Justine’s bio: Justine Clay is a speaker, writer, and business coach for creative entrepreneurs and freelancers. Using her actionable Profitable by Design framework, Justine helps established creative professionals, and business owners identify and articulate their unique value, position themselves to high-quality, well-paying clients, and build a fulfilling, efficient and profitable creative business.

Sign up for Justine’s free guide: How to Find High-Quality Clients and Get Paid What You’re Worth and start making monumental changes in your creative business or career today.

Check out the Creative Business Accelerator, the group coaching program I did with Justine:

Find Justine at https://justineclay.com/, on Facebook, or on LinkedIn

Notable quotes from Justine:

“Being independent — whether that's a freelancer or being a CEO of your of your own small business —there are things that drive us to make that decision, to go out on a limb, to take the risk. It's more freedom, more fulfillment, more money.”

“If you have a six-figure business and 80% of it is going into Facebook ads, then it's not a profitable business.”

“Money is the thing that buys you the freedom that you need; that's what gives you the freedom to live the life that you want to live, whatever that looks like for you.”

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How to express the joy of your business and why selling is beautiful, with sales coach for creatives Ivy Malik

Stockholm-based sales coach for creatives Ivy Malik discusses how selling is not only beautiful but sexy, and offers advice on how to express the joy of your business.
Ivy’s bio: Ivy Malik is a Stockholm-based sales coach for creatives. She started her business career by owning a restaurant in East London, which she sold to start her own coaching business to help creatives learn to sell without being salesy.

Find Ivy on social at @ivymalikofficial and online at ivymalik.com

Notable quotes from our conversation:

“If you want to be showing up in your marketing and in your business in a way that's really true to you, then you have to start with your values.”

“We're always dealing with people. And if we're dealing with people, then we're only having conversations. We never have to sell. We never have to pitch.”

“I want people to really love selling because it's beautiful. Because when we sell something, we're really helping the other person.”

“When people come to me and talk to me about my money mindset, I feel the difference is the inherent belief that money exists. I believe that there is a client out there at any point that will want to work with me, and they will pay what I want to charge.”

“If we say, ‘I believe there are clients out there who are going to want to work with me,’ then I'm going to subconsciously speak in a way and show up in a manner which is so different from when I believe that nothing is going to happen.”

“If we don't sell, we're going to deprive others of our gift.”