How to Start Freelancing with Dana Miranda (Online)
- Date:
- Saturday, May 17, 2025
- Time:
- 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm, Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Series:
- Writing Workshop
- Audience:
- Adults NSU Sharks
- Categories:
- Online / Virtual Author Events Discussion / Lecture Workshop or Class Writing
About the Event
Freelancing offers a different way to approach work that gives you autonomy, flexibility and access to opportunities traditional jobs don’t offer. In this session, you learn the exact steps to set yourself up financially, professionally and emotionally to start freelancing — whether you want a career change or a side gig to make a little extra money. This session will cover:
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How freelancing and self-employment help you bust through barriers and bias in the traditional workforce.
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The mindset that makes a successful freelancer.
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Ways to make money as a freelance writer.
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Steps to prepare your finances and your lifestyle for the shift to freelancing.
DANA MIRANDA is a Certified Educator in Personal Finance (CEPF), journalist and author of You Don't Need a Budget. She’s been writing about personal finance as a staffer, freelancer, author, and creator since 2015, sharing her innovative budget-free approach, which recognizes the ways financial education fails to meet the needs of marginalized folks and shifts the conversation toward a better relationship with money for everyone. For more information about Dana and her book, please visit https://www.youdontneedabudget.com/
This workshop is on Zoom and registration is required. Please click here to register.
The video is available for on-demand viewing May 18 – July 8.
Sponsored by the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
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