Freedom Week Part 01 - Sean Mort & Tallboy

SEAN MORT

01 - How To Quit Your Day Job Slowly

Sean  Mort explains how he was able to correctly pick a full-time job that respected him as an already established designer and poster artist because he chose his day job accurately hear how he was able to slowly reduce his daytime commitments and go full-time freelance in baby steps. 

02 - Deciding To Freelance Under Your Name Versus A Studio Name

One of the big decisions many freelancers face right out of the gate is to decide to create work under their name or a studio name?

03 - When To Quit The Day Job And Go Full-Time Freelance.

Timing is so crucial to making a decision as big as leaving your day job and guaranteed money behind for the unknown world of freelance. Sean Mort explained when he knew the time was right. 

04 - Working From Home With A Baby

Are you thinking about having your first child? Do you work from home? Listen to Sean Mort's brutally honest account of how this has worked for him and how efficient a stay home parent freelancer is. 

05 - Going On The Road To Meet Your Customers And To Spread Your Freelance Brand

Living in England hasn't kept Sean from having a presence in America, Spain, and his home country. Hear his strategy of using business-related travel as a way to increase his fun and profitability. 

TALLBOY & SURPRISE GUEST KRUSTY

06 - How To Convince Your Early Clients To Give You Money To Do The Work You Want To Do

Sometimes when you know where you want to go but have no idea how to get there, you have to take a couple of side roads to find your way.  Tallboy shares the roundabout way he chose to see his final destination of being a skateboard graphics illustrator. 

07 - Working In A Day Job In A Different Industry To Have Better Focus On Your Freelance Career. 

When your day job resembles your dream career destination, it can be a hazardous environment to settle in, but when you go out of your comfort zone for you daytime work, it can inspire the most significant jump of your career that much faster because you know you have to get out. Hear how we all have Whole Foods to thank for Tallboy's career. 

08 - After Taking A Break From Full-Time Freelance When Do You Know It's Time To Dive Back In And What Changes The Second Time Around

Tallboy's second attempt at fulltime freelance was a complete success. Listen to the metrics life was showing him to know that the time was right to leap one more time into the self-employed party. 

09 - When To Quit Doing Freelance For Clients And How to Decide To Just Work For Yourself.

Tallboy knew when it was time to quit again, but this time it was abandoning a majority of his client work so that he could better use his time to work on projects for Night Watch Studios that he runs with his wife, Krusty. 

10 - Letting Someone Else Take Care Of The Booking.

As you've made it this far into the episode, you probably identify with Tallboy's passive nature and come to understand that just like you he want's to make pretty pictures for a living. Hear why we all know that it's smarter for his wife to start booking the 10% of client work that he does agree to take on.