Own your success in 2025 [+ new jobs!]

Welcome to 2025, freelance fam!

If you’re anything like us, you forget who you are and what you do in December, wonder if you’ll ever get clients again, sign back on in a fog, and then remember: AH, I am good at what I do.

There's often an influx of work in January. And we get the opportunity to visualize a whole new year, setting our sights on where we’d like to go from here. Let’s get back into it together! 

Today I’m bringing you the latest hot jobs from the job board, an inspiring interview with business coach Jenni Gritters, and a message from our sponsor, who wants to help writers make more money.

Our Interview with Jenni Gritters

If you haven't yet, meet Jenni! She’s a pal and fellow community member who’s here to help freelancers build sustainable businesses. 

In her own words: My name is Jenni Gritters and I’m a business coach and strategist for creative, multi-passionate solopreneurs. I help my clients build businesses that don’t burn them out (and I write about building my own sustainable businesses, too). I was formerly a journalist and you can still find my writing in major publications like The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and more. I’m also a mom of two little humans and I live in the woods in Central Oregon, where you’ll often find me hiking, cooking, gardening, and reading.

We chatted with Jenni about her business, her advice for freelancers heading into 2025, and what she's most excited about in the upcoming year. 

Q. Give our crew an overview of how you help freelancers and entrepreneurs.

As a business coach and strategist, my job is to help my clients find clarity, confidence, and motivation. (It’s the best job!!) I’m obsessed with life-first business models, and I spend a lot of my time helping my clients deconstruct complexity in their businesses or full-time jobs.

I have a few different ways I do this work: SUSTAIN is a group coaching program, where we meet weekly and learn about different business-building topics, like relationship-based marketing, authentic branding, a peaceful approach to money, and building powerful offers.

I also do some 1-1 coaching through PLAY, which is a 3-month container with pretty much non-stop support. Most of the people who go through that program are starting a business from scratch or wanting to get out of survival mode in their existing business so they can start finding joy and ease in their work.

I also offer a lot of workshops and low-cost/free resources!

Q. What’s your number one piece of advice for freelancers who are building their business and looking for new clients?

It’s an inside-out job. If you’re looking for new, higher-paying clients, we have to work on the way you view yourself. Do you believe you can deliver value? Do you speak kindly to yourself? Are you able to confidently explain that to other people? If not, we have to start there. No marketing strategy will work well until we’ve shored up the self-belief portion.

The same goes for authentic branding, which involves being the real you in public. For a lot of us, this is terrifying! So until we do the mindset work required to step out bravely (with support!), your branding strategy won’t work very well.

I always say: You need to find a coach, therapist, or peer group to help you through this inner work. It is so challenging to do this solopreneur thing alone — and it’s easy to get stuck in your own head, wrapped up in shame, without someone else mirroring the same feelings back to you.

Q. What work or program are you most excited for in 2025?

I am forever obsessed with SUSTAIN, my group coaching program for solopreneurs who want to move from reactive to proactive. It’s the best community with the kindest creative people! I run it in a special way: After you work through your 6- or 12-month payment plan, you get free lifetime access for as long as the program runs. This removes scarcity and makes it such a safe place to learn (and make friends)!

I’m also really excited to offer a brand-new intensive training for journalists, starting January 13th. It’s called Beyond Journalism and it’s all about how to pivot, using your journalism skills to find more financial stability and peace.

Highly recommend you follow Jenni on Instagram, LinkedIn, or Substack.

Hot jobs

Jubilee Media is hiring for a freelance copywriter to craft social and product copy for their love and dating brand, Nectar. Pay isn’t listed so pitch your rates!

The MLB is looking for a seasonal brand designer. Pay is up to $34/hr.

Expert App Devs is hiring a freelance content writer. The writer should have a strong grasp of writing for the tech and mobile app development industry. Pay isn’t listed so pitch your rates!

Hothouse, a branding, content, and design agency, is on the hunt for a freelance senior copywriter.

The Exceptional Plan is hiring a freelance SEO writer. Pay is up to $50/hr. 

Technosmarts, Inc is looking for a contract graphic designer. Pay is up to $50/hr.

If nothing here is right for you, we’ve seen a bunch of jobs drop over the past couple of days. Lots of opportunities for designers and writers, specifically. Check out the latest here.

Repeat after me: We all own our own success in 2025. We’ve got this. Here's to a fruitful and abundant year.

On my end, I'm working this week to wrap up my 2025 goals. From money to fun, I'm manifesting and outlining what I want this year to look like. Don't miss next week's newsletter when I share those!

Cheers -

Samantha & Andrea

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