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Jack Redley

Interviews with successful Webflow designers about their 3 biggest failures as creative entrepreneurs.

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Hello and welcome to episode 89 of Webflail.

I'm your host, Jack, your failure connoisseur, and today my guest is Christina Liubynska.
She is constantly juggling different projects.
With Supercharged, she she helps early stage startups by consulting, designing and developing websites that bring them higher profits and happier clients.‍
She also freelances with agencies like Nexus Creative with Dylan Harrocks and with ViDesigns with Vimalam Vijayasekaran.

With Navbar Gallery, she’s building the home to the best navbars on the internet. She’s one of those people that’s a multi-talented but for someone as young as Christina is and as talented as she is, she’s pushed her comfort zone a lot.

Naturally, failure has been part of her story just like any successful webflower we have on the pod!

The failures we’ll talk about in today’s episode are:

  1. Not building an audience earlier
  2. Wasting a year designing for free for a startup
  3. Not getting any projects or work in nearly a year

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LINKS FOR CHRISTINA
💻 See Website: https://www.supercharged.design/
🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Suupercharged
🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/khrystynaliubynska/
TRY OUT WEBFLOW
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🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackRedley1
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So, for the 100th episode, I decided to get the big guns in, fly to SF and do this bad boy in person with the CEO (at the time) and co-founder of Webflow, Vlad Magdalin.
Vlad came to US as a refugee with his parents from Russia.
He learnt graphic design almost by accident when he worked with his entrepreneurial dad asked him to convert catalogues from english to Russian.
This lead to a job with a company called Russian American media → deepened his interest in graphics and then 3D animation.
At college, he studied computer science but dropped out to go to the academy of art in San Francisco.
The technical aspect of sophisticated 3D and animation tools and feeling like he was getting superpowers really interested Vlad.
He dropped out of art school and got a job at a design agency.
Why can’t web designers design stuff and hit publish to be live on the web just like 3D - render something and it’s live on the screen
As you may have guessed, this spark was the catalyst for Webflow.
Webflow now has over 200,000 users and is over $100 million annual revenue.
And it was an easy ride with no failures whatsoever.
No no no dear Webflailer... it wasn’t quite this easy.
The failures that we’ll talk about today are:
1) Not valuing himself when he went back to freelancing – until a client rejected my invoice for $750 and said that to him the site is worth at least $5k
2) Stopping to work on Webflow in 2008 (for the 3rd time) when there was a trademark issue and I couldn’t use that name – combined with Weebly raising money
3) (Not sure if I can talk about this one publicly yet... noodling on it) Getting too caught up in the no-code hype and trying to do too much (e.g. Logic) before fully nailing the fundamentals (e.g. CMS)
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LINKS FOR TORY
💻 See Website: https://www.doorwaycreative.com/
🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/toryhowell/
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Hello and welcome to episode 36 of Webflail.
I’m your host, Jack and today my guest is Connor Finlayson.
You probably already Connor if you are listening to a podcast all about Webflow freelancing but for those that haven’t, Connor is a no code weapon. On his YT channel with over 11K subs, he helps people who cannot code build their own online businesses with no code tools like Webflow, Airtable and Zapier.
Connor comes from a marketing background and then came across webflow in 2018 which helped him spin up landing pages fast. He wanted to get more freelance work so instead of building a portfolio website, he built a directory for freelancers and put himself at the top. He then built this in to the Unicorn Factory, a job board for New Zealand based freelancers. Now, it’s is his main source of income.

The failures we will talk about are:

Failure 1: Not pulling the plug on my first startup Hatcher sooner

Failure 2: Splitting my time between doing Facebook ads and no-code as a freelancer

Failure 3: Taking on too many projects at once

CONNECT WITH CONNOR
💻 See Website: https://www.unicornfactory.nz/🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FinlaysonConnor
📬 Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/connorfinlayson/
TRY OUT WEBFLOW
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🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackRedley1
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💜 Leave a rating on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5834...
💜 Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/infoHg
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For Episode 2, my guest is Dexter Washigton, founder of Crafted Studio. In today’s episode we talk about:
1) Trying every new strategy I came across versus being myself authentically, posting and talking about the results and letting the work speak for itself.
2) Not vetting people well enough and finding not only someone with good work and strong skills -- but a finding a good personality fit that meshes with our culture.
3) Focusing too much on getting larger clients versus ones with a reasonable deadline, personality fit, and if it's a project we'd actually like to work on.
The biggest lesson from this episode is that the big jobs don't always equal the most satisfaction. There is the most red tape, the most people that have to see the final designs before the project gets signed off, marketing teams to deal with which might derail your designs. It's not all sunshine and roses when you get larger clients basically. Often, people want clients with recognisable logos on their website in order to get more large companies to hire them but is that the rabbit hole you really want to go down? As Dexter mentions, the larger clients can come with a ton of baggage for lack of a better term. Larger clients often get payments late, the timelines are unreasonable, and the list goes on and on.
CONNECT WITH DEXTER
📬 See his website: https://dexterwjr.com/
🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dexterwjr
📸 Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dexter-washington-a219bb182/

CONNECT WITH WEBFLAIL
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🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackRedley1
📸 Connect on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jackredley_...
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💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/webflail/id1631518870
💜 Leave a rating on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5tS93w7aIxXQzICrdEqfw4

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In this moment, Jack and Lucie discuss the digital nomad lifestyle and its profound influence on her design career. From England to El Salvador, Lucy shares how her global journey has broadened her design perspective. She highlights the significance of understanding diverse user experiences and the real challenges of living abroad, dispelling myths about the digital nomad lifestyle.
LINKS FOR LUCIE
💻 See Website: https://www.positiveimpact.studio
🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lucielldesign
📬 Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucie-le-liard-986373b4/
📸 Connect on Instagram

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In this moment, Silvia, despite starting small, explains her bold strategy to take on large-scale projects in a field dominated by industry giants. She shares her journey from gaining confidence at big agencies to targeting midsize deals in web design and branding, blending expertise with content and search experience. The conversation also touches on personal challenges, including navigating family expectations and the pursuit of happiness over financial security, offering a candid look at the realities of entrepreneurial growth.
LINKS FOR SILVIA
💻 See Website: https://www.slammedialab.com
📬 Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvialisam/
🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lisamsilvia

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For episode 20, my guest is Hamish Duncan. At 16, he became a professional snowboarder but at 22 he broke his back forcing him to rethink his life. After finding a love of storytelling and brand identity design, Hamish eventually set up Penny Black that transforms digital products that move businesses, people and planet forward.
What I love about this episode is the power of being a generalist. Hamish’ attributes some of his success is to do with knowing a little bit about a lot of things but a real depth of knowledge about business needs. Hamish has let all these different interests - photography, wildlife, snowboarding - inspire his design aesthetic and the clients he attracts.

Don’t be a clone is Hamish’ advice - make sure you don’t squash your general interests because it is what makes you truly distinct!

CONNECT WITH HAMISH
📬 See their website: https://www.pennyblack.co/
📬 Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hamishduncan/
🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hambourine
TRY OUT WEBFLOW
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🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackRedley1
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💜 Leave a rating on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5834...
💜 Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/infoHg
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Welcome to Episode 54 of Webflail with Lucie Le Liard

I met Lucie in a online coaching course a few years ago and then for the first time in real life in Bordeaux a few months ago! She’s the founder of Positive Impact Studio which works with mission mission-driven startups from early stages to more established. With an honourable mention for that website, she’s grown in design and has worked with all sorts of mission driven start ups. Lucie is insanely passionate about what she does but what I love about Lucie is that she is also keen to build an agency while also living and working abroad like living in Central America for a year. Lucie goes the extra mile for clients - she is one of the hardest working people I know and I’m excited to dig in to her failures today!

The failures we’ll talk about today are:

  1. Failing to help yourself before you can help other people
  2. Making good decisions, at the wrong time
  3. Specialising too early

LINKS FOR LUCIE
💻 See Website: https://www.positiveimpact.studio
🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lucielldesign
📬 Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucie-le-liard-986373b4/
📸 Connect on Instagram

TRY OUT WEBFLOW
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🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackRedley1
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💜 Leave a rating on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5834...
💜 Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/infoHg
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Welcome to episode 22 of Webflail. Today’s guest is legendary in the Webflow space, Mason Poe, founder of Edgar Allen Studio.

Edgar Allen won 3 awards this year at Webflow Conf including winning agency of the year - an incredible achievement and it’s easy to see why after listening to their dilligent founder in this interivew. As someone that’s been running his agency for almost 10 years, it’s clear that Mason’s experience gives him a unique insight in to Webflow as a platform and community. Mason talks about all sorts of different topics - how a rising tide lifts all the boats within the Webflow community, how anger is a gift, how Edgar Allen is working to be the tip of the spear for the enterprise market and ambitions for 2023.
The 3 failures we talk about are:

  1. I failed the third grade. it was a painful time in my life, and I spent most of my time under a desk. (literally sitting under my desk) I struggled through school but in some ways I learned a lot about perseverance. (It kind of made me better at sales)
  2. At my last job there was a time I embraced the idea of 'fail harder'... it was a nice motto but it also feed into this idea of hussle culture. Long story short I in the end did fail harder... and was fired from my last job.
  3. When I was first starting my business I was working from 4:00 AM until 11:00 at night. At one point my daughter asked my wife... "is daddy coming over today"

CONNECT WITH MASON
📬 See their website: https://www.edgarallan.com/
📬 See Letter Run: https://letter-run.webflow.io/
📬 Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/masonpoe/
🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/masonpoe
TRY OUT WEBFLOW
🚀https://webflow.grsm.io/webflail
CONNECT WITH WEBFLAIL
📬 Subscribe to the newsletter: https://www.webflail.com/newsletter
🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackRedley1
SAY THANKS
💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...
💜 Leave a rating on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5834...
💜 Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/infoHg
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For Ep 48 of Webflail, my guests are Alex Tourgis & Balerein Aranda Arestizabal.

I met these 2 for the first time at their incredible event in Barcelona where they had some big name speakers like Emily Lonetto, Maguire, and Tambien studio presented some of their beautiful work - you’ve probably seen it in the Webflow space. It’s characterised by beautiful, large images, gsap animations, and large sans serif fonts. I recommend checking out their beautiful work on the Tambien studio website after this episode! Along with Mael Ruffini, their studio punches well above their weight both in quality of work, size of clients and content output. But their journey to building their studio has not been linear as you’re about to hear.

The failures we talk about in this episode are:

1) Failing to follow your instinct rather than your bank account

2) Rushing the process and trying to grow too fast

3) Failing to balance work and life

CONNECT WITH ALEX & BALEREIN
💻 See Website: https://www.tambien.studio/
🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tambien_studio
📬 Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tambienstudio/
TRY OUT WEBFLOW
🚀https://webflow.grsm.io/webflail
CONNECT WITH WEBFLAIL
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🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackRedley1
SAY THANKS
💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...
💜 Leave a rating on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5834...
💜 Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/infoHg
🖥 CHECK OUT THE WEBSITE!
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How many episodes does Webflail have?

Webflail currently has 137 episodes available.

What topics does Webflail cover?

The podcast is about Freelancing, Entrepreneurship, Design, Web Development, Podcasts, Arts, Business and Freelancer.

What is the most popular episode on Webflail?

The episode title 'Ep 37 | Pros And Cons Of Subscription Based Pricing | With Thorir Runarsson' is the most popular.

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The average episode length on Webflail is 43 minutes.

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Episodes of Webflail are typically released every 6 days, 23 hours.

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The first episode of Webflail was released on Jun 23, 2022.

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