Art of Freelance is a 10-week online workshop carefully designed to help independent creatives plan, execute and showcase new work, push forward an ongoing project, or work on the business side of their creative careers.

The workshop is a combination of structure and accountability. There are a series of carefully crafted exercises that are done on your own schedule at your own pace, and weekly scheduled one hour online video chats with a small Cohort of other creatives.

The total time required for all the independent exercises is about 10 hours over the first four weeks of the program.

The total time for the online accountability meetups is 10 hours over the 10 weeks.

Apart from that, the time you put into the program is the time you spend working on your project.

We believe that “portfolios are the new resumes”, and that it is critical every independent creative take the time out of their busy schedules to “hire themselves”, and treat their personal work with the same level of effort they put into client work.

This is an opportunity to take the time to accelerate your career and take the next step.

We have made the times for the online meetings as inclusive as possible. People have taken the program while in Bali, Hungary, Chile, Dar Es Salaam, Amsterdam, as well as every time zone in the US.

The following time slots are typically available for your weekly accountability meeting (listed in Pacific Standard Time):

• Mon at 9am

• Tues at 9am

• Tues at 6pm

• Wed at 6pm

• Wed at 9pm

• Sun at 6pm

• Sun at 3pm

Do the Time Zone math or use this Time Zone Converter and see if there’s a time slot that will work for you!

We are here to serve independent creatives who want to do the work that will help them level up their careers, scratch a creative itch, or build a “side hustle”. Our program has hosted long term freelance veterans, fresh-out-of-college grads, and people with full time jobs. It’s not about being too experienced, or not experienced enough, it’s about being hungry to grow and create.

As a program built on the importance of accountability, we take showing up seriously. We also are long time freelancers with busy lives, so we get it.

We distinguish between not showing up because you got an important job, or you're sick and in the hospital, or the Governor called up and asked for you assistance on a top secret project, as separate from not showing up because your cousin is in town, or you had tickets to a concert, or you didn’t feel like you had accomplished enough that week to show your face. The former are valid excuses, the latter are just excuses.

If you miss a meeting, you record your video check-in for your Cohort and post it to the site. If you keep missing meetings, your Guide has the option to refund your money and ask you to leave the program.

The short story is: Show up. For your Cohort, yes, but mostly for yourself.

Choosing the right project to tackle right now can be tough for some folks. We have designed exercises to help you define your personal and professional goals, and weigh potential projects against an intelligent criteria to help you, but at the end of the day, the decision will be yours. “Analysis paralysis” is real for some people, and after you’ve done all the exercises and gotten feedback from your Cohort and Guide, eventually you will need to do just trust your instinct.

For others, the challenge is in carving out the time to work on their business, not just for their business. There’s an age old saying in the freelance business: if work is slow and you want to guarantee that you get a call for a project, just book a vacation. The phone is bound to ring with a project that conflicts with your new vacation dates perfectly. Well, this program has had that effect for people as well. As soon as they decide to invest in themselves, the phone starts ringing off the hook, and they’re inundated with work. But the best, most successful creatives find a way to do it all. This program is a sprint, just a piece of the marathon. You only need to keep up this pace for 10 weeks. So dig deep. Work late. Block off a weekend. At the end of the program, when you’re showcasing new work, you’ll be glad you did.

Each Cohort has a Guide who has done the workshop before and that has been vetted as particularly effective, supportive, and encouraging. They hail from all different creative industries and are at all levels of their careers, but they are all badasses.

We use Zoom.us, the industry standard for video meetings. It can be downloaded on your desktop and smartphone, which makes it easy to check in from anywhere in the world.

We encourage openness and honesty, but we also demand confidentiality for everyone’s creative and proprietary information. You will be asked to sign a confidentiality agreement and make a pact with your cohort that each of you will control how and when information you share with your group gets shared with the world. Any breach of that trust means a group member will be promptly banned from the group and the community.

We believe strongly in this quality of this program. If you invest in it, it can change your life, and so we confidently back your purchase with a 30-Day Money Back Guarantee.

Be bold, dive in, dig deep. If you’re not satisfied, just contact us within 30 days of starting the workshop, and we’ll refund every cent of your investment immediately.

There are lots of education resources online, some aimed directly at independent creatives. 

But none of them provide a specific roadmap, systems thinking, community, feedback, or the accountability needed to actually accomplish personally-directed projects that will help you advance towards your personal or professional goals.

“Portfolios are the new resumes”, and it is critical every independant creative take the time out of their busy schedules to “hire themselves”, and treat their personal work with the same level of effort they put into client work.

Now is the time to work on your business, not for your business.