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On today’s episode you get to meet Jenn Shore, the badass behind design agency Shore Creative (and our triplet flame — she wore a jumpsuit that said “tipsy” during our interview. Iconic). Over “Grey Rocking” cocktails we dove into learning how to turn failure into success and all about Jenn’s journey as an entrepreneur. We also heard about how she wants to become a “freelance matchmaker” of sorts, which is fab. We also got to listen tons of great stories — with notes! — about client red flags (like, no… you can’t have these assets until you pay me, ok?!), when an influencer stole her designs (🙃🙃🙃), and a good ole’ client meets block button action. You ready?! Dive on in with us (and hear about Jenn’s freelance inquiry warning signs cheat sheet, which is #everything). Send us your stories already. You know the ones we want to hear 👀 Head on over to perourlastemail.com! Follow Jenn on IG at @jenn_shore @shorecreative and check out her website at shore-creative.com Listen to Nicole's episode from Sprout Law: Gaslighting Inception Follow us on Instagram: @perourlastemail @weekendcreative

You guys know there are few things we love more than a great stories episode, and we’re starting off this week’s with a bang (AKA… stories). We’re diving in over citrusy cocktails named “Can I Pay You With (Sun) Exposure?” and cuddling with Elle’s new dog Cooper, who says hello at the beginning of the episode. (Bringing light to the clients who ask to pay you in exposure, ya know?) In this episode we hear about a freelancer who ended up doing a 12-hour trial shift — ugh, unpaid, of course — for an assistant job, a story that actually ends up being really helpful around how and why to fire a client, and some crazy wedding photo stories… including a bride who he later saw on Bumble. Ah. The freelance life is just such a charm. Psst… have some charm you want to share with us?! We’re always accepting new freelancer stories and would love to hear from you! Visit our website and tell us alllllll the tea, pals. Send your most audacious stories, thoughts, highs and lows to perourlastemail.com. Forever accepting memes, gifs and stress-relieving videos via IG, too. Find us at @perourlastemail @weekendcreative!

You know it’s going to be a good one when you hear us starting to throw out all of our best chicken expressions and puns. 🐓 Today’s episode is not like any regular episode… She’s a ~cool~ episode. (Mean Girls anyone?) And by cool, we mean… she’s a little different. 👀 We’re veering away from our usual format to bring you a little minisode where we catch up, share our honest thoughts about what it meant for us to take time off, how we’re managing post-break, our love/mostly hate relationship with social media (can we all join forces and start our own platform already? 😅) and some tips on how to prepare yourself for an *actual* vacation as a freelancer. And yes, that means fully unplugging from work. Are ya’ll ready? 😎 Submit your stories and questions at perourlastemail.com, and we’ll do our best to read them as ridiculously as possible. Follow us on Instagram: @perourlastemail @weekendcreative

On this week’s podcast we’re hanging out with our IG friend turned pod guest, creative photographer and artist Suzanne Clements! We’re talking about alllll the things (and red flags) with grapefruit, cranberry, and vodka cocktails named “What a Breeze,” which is aptly named for the best kind of clients AND Suzanne’s Florida livin’. We dove in talking about Suzanne’s journey to photography and why she loves the kind of work she does before getting to hear about her insanely cool personal project called relax.rehab (think: 80s pop and synth music meets imagery — seriously so fascinating). Then we got to hear some of Suzanne’s WILD client experiences, including a ~wildly inappropriate~ male client who told her to try out some nipple balm for her boyfriend (ugh. ew) and a client who expected her to somehow have access to a private jet for photos. Sigh. Do you ever just…? Because we do, too. Alright, friends! Come hang out with us and Suzanne — see you there! Send your most audacious stories, thoughts, highs and lows to perourlastemail.com. Forever accepting memes, gifs and stress-relieving videos via Instagram, too. Follow Suzanne on IG at @suzannecgd and check out her website at suzanneclements.com Check out her personal project: Relax.rehab Follow us on Instagram: @perourlastemail @weekendcreative

And we’re BAAAAAAACK! On this week’s episode, we’re finally welcoming our hilarious Scottish friend Alex Baxter (whose accent we LOVE, as you’ll hear). We’re diving in over tequila guava nectar cocktails we’ve concocted called “You Guava Be Kidding Me,” AKA how we’re all going to respond to anyone who annoys us from now on. Alex has been a longtime IG friend and POLE star (we’ve shared a couple of his stories on the pod already, like a two-word response he got after sending a proposal: Too expensive.), and we had so much freakin’ fun talking about everything from green and red flags to Scottish freelance culture to his work as a photographer and graphic designer in the hospitality industry. On this episode, you’ll get to hear about Alex’s stories about a client who essentially wanted to pay him with… a cake (ugh, the red flags we look past as green baby freelancers…), a broken hard drive with photos on it from a MICHELIN STAR RESTAURANT (#cries :’)), and a really fun shoot with a yoga instructor that ended with the saying “I’M COMING, I WILL FIX YOUR T*****S!” LOL, you just have to listen — there’s a lot to unpack. Ready to unpack it with us?! See you soon! You know you’re sitting on a good story that you’re just dying to share. Send it into perourlastemail.com. Submit the story now, deal with your conscience later. Follow Alex on IG at @alexbaxter.co and check out his website at alexbaxter.co Follow us on Instagram: @perourlastemail @weekendcreative

… Honestly, there are no words. Do you all go and search for the weirdest clients ever, just to entice us? Are you forever in the pursuit of a good meme? Actually, don’t answer that. We can’t really “allude” to anything in this episode, without just blatantly calling it out. It’s a stories episode. There are mentions - nay, allegations - of instances of hormonal imbalances, 💩 clipart, “can you turn this word document into a website?” and Michael Scott Paper Company-esque set ups. Told you. Like literally, a client asked a flourishing business owner and freelancer (i.e., story submitter) to theme her entire website around DOG POOP. THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🆘🚨SOMEONE CALL 911, WE WANT OUR PEACE OF MIND BACK!!! Anyways, this episode made us lose any chill we ever believed we might have had. Oh, it also includes a well-written, sumptuously performative and foreboding poem for all creatives. In other words, you’re going to squeal, love it, squeal, scream, cry and then laugh. What would you do without us? Don’t force us to sit and talk about ourselves, pls and thsnks. Send your stories, thoughts, highs and lows to perourlastemail.com. Follow us on Instagram: @perourlastemail @weekendcreative @littlesundaystudio

It’s true. @elliotisacoolguy. A very cool guy. A guy who runs a flourishing creative business, but a guy who isn’t very good at freelancing, nonetheless. Yeah, we said it. (only because he did 👀) In fact, Elliot is such a cool guy, he decided to join the coolest podcast on earth (that’s us), to discuss all of the incredibly important things about being a freelancer. You know, things like his love for Caramel Macchiatos, and our dialogue on lattes vs. french press, backyard kangaroos that’ll punch you, ginormous spiders (i.e., “husband” spiders according to Arabela), inches vs. whatever it is that they measure things in, and talking to himself in the shower. ✨Just normal WFH, self employed things✨ So let’s tally that up. Elliot: *Lives in Australia, mate *Agrees that their spiders are huge *Loves a Starbies Caramel Macchiato *Doesn’t believe he’s a good freelancer. Even though he’s built a wildly successful business and amassed over 100k followers. OK ELLIOT. Don’t worry, we eventually move on from the kangaroos and spiders to talk about his journey into graphic design, as well as his fair share of crazy client stories. Then, we put the cherry on top of a *very cool* episode to discuss his journey to creating passive income, without even using a website. Elliot. Is. A. Very. Cool. Guy. And he only mocked us like… twice. Listen in 😏 You know you’re sitting on a good story that you’re just dying to share. Send it into perourlastemail.com. Submit the story now, deal with your conscience later. Follow Elliot on IG at @elliotisacoolguy Check out his Twitch streams: Elliotisacoolguy Support his work: Casetify Phone Cases and Art Prints Follow us on Instagram: @perourlastemail @weekendcreative

Remember that time you paid your rent in popsicle sticks? No? Well, what about spoons? Still no? Weird, because we could’ve SWORN that it was considered socially acceptable to pay for the important things in life with inanimate objects. Just like it’s okay to pay for creative work (i.e., photography) with anything other than money, right? *scream cough scream cough* Yeah so, someone had the audacity to attempt to reason with someone else that paying for work with their spoons was acceptable. Thousands of dollars’ worth of spoons. That’s a lot of spoons. You can imagine our response to that. Sigh. And then someone else dealt with a homeless person running off with their prop food. Because that’s the big city, baby. Is that why they call it the Big Apple? And then you’ll hear us discuss our attempt to fly with 25 lbs of sand and food poisoning, how Elle enslaved her childhood friends, and why lowering scope > lowering rates. It’s a lot. Are you ready to get angry about spoons? Subscribe, listen, follow, pay and sponsor us, k? You can do allll of that and share your confusingly thought-provoking tales to perourlastemail.com! Why aren’t you following us on Instagram? Really, the audacity. (Find us at @perourlastemail and  @weekendcreative) Check out Barley & Sage's reel on Instagram: Charge What You Are Worth Watch the infamous reel by Cashmere & Cocktails Blog: Currency - Spoons

On this week’s episode, we’re welcoming our longtime friend and fellow creative, Claire Xue of Moodelier! Over mezcal hibiscus sours we’ve named “Taking Care of Business” we dove in quickly to talk about everything from insecurities and old stories to enneagrams and Reddit.  We looooove a tangent! We have been wanting to get Claire onto the podcast for a long time, so it was so freakin’ fun to hear more about her start with Moodelier, the things she’s learned as a creative and a brand owner, and taking risks in business. We heard about a situation when she was on visa and at a seeeeerious disadvantage with a client, clients with LOTS OF OVERPROMISES, and some good ole’ red flags. We do love a red flag on the pod, huh? Okay, pals — are you ready to tune in?! See you there! Send us your stories already. You know the ones we want to hear 👀 Head on over to perourlastemail.com! Follow Claire and Moodelier on IG at @clairexue @moodelier and check out her website at moodelier.com Follow us on Instagram: @perourlastemail @weekendcreative

We are the living embodiment of the “story time! WAKE UP!” TikTok sound this week, because we have some goooood stories to share… including some of our own! We’re pouring up a beer, whiskey, and shandy cocktail called “Feeling Dandy” and diving right on in with two different brands and sites who have hijacked the heck out of our images here recently and then absolutely destroyed them with some truly, truly #terrible Photoshop action. Ah. Nothing like the sweet smell of copyright infringement. In this stories ep, you’ll get to hear some good ole’ pain-in-the-ass client stories (it happens), fun stuff from a client who decided to launch 3 (!!!) businesses at the same time but didn’t want to pay full-price for the branding — because of course — and some confusing, rockstar-esque, what-does-it-MEAN feedback one freelancer got from a university marketing team. Plus, we’re musing on the difference between commercial work, personal work, and art… which turned out to be a great convo. So, story time! WAKE UP! (Can you tell we’ve been watching lots of TikTok…? But, really — have fun!) You know you’re sitting on a good story that you’re just dying to share. Send it into perourlastemail.com. Submit the story now, deal with your conscience later. Find and fight theft: Pixsy Check out Sprout Law's contract: Copyright Cease + Desist Follow us on Instagram: @perourlastemail @weekendcreative

This week, we’re so freakin’ honored to have artist Megan Galante on! We’re keeping with our beer month theme, and dove right into this convo alongside a half Guinness, half cider cocktail we coined “The DM Slitherer.” This episode kicks off with a little fangirling, a quick Anna Delvey tangent, and all things wine (we love an off topic moment, ok?!) — before we start digging into Megan’s journey. She’s such a cheerleader for others, which we LOVE, and it was so fun to hear about how she merged her passion for mixing art and interiors into an actual career. You’ll also get to hear alllll the hilarious and relatable stories and experiences she’s had along the way, including a freelance experience involving a basement AND a wardrobe ~malfunction~ situation, a reminder to be careful about the platforms you’re working with out of the country, and the super fun (#sarcasm) time that a fast fashion brand used her work online without her permission. Plus, you’ll even get to hear a special appearance from Megan’s cat, Chester. We love Chester. Ready to tune in? Click that play button, and we hope you have as much fun as we did! Submit your stories and questions at perourlastemail.com, and we’ll do our best to read them as ridiculously as possible. Follow Megan on IG at @megangalante and check out her website at megangalante.co Shop Megan Galante: CASETiFY and Society6 Find and fight theft: Pixsy Follow us on Instagram: @perourlastemail @weekendcreative

This week on the pod, we’re diving deep with Keegan Evans, a photo and video content creator and educator (and one of our fav follows, always!). We’re drinking beer cocktails again, a la micheladas we’ve called “Chel-of-a-lada Money,” even though… Arabela isn’t a beer gal and Keegan went rogue with a mojito. The sacrifices we make for the pod. 😅 On this episode, we started with Keegan’s origin story as the founder of a high-protein waffle business, and how it led him to finding his true passion… AKA, product photography. We dove deep into all things small biz life, including the time in the early days when Keegan pitched a (painfully) all-inclusive package including design, photo, video, and social for… $500. We live, we learn, huh?! You’ll also get to hear about a realllllly fun experience he had on a shoot where someone from the team LITerally watched him on Zoom. While he was, you know, working. We die. We also talked about the importance of licensing, freelance pet peeves, and an inquiry Keegan got from someone who wanted to literally *live* with him while he taught them photography. Anyways. If you’re ready to dive into a jam-packed episode, you know what to do! 🎙 Submit your stories and questions at perourlastemail.com, and we’ll do our best to read them as ridiculously as possible. Follow Keegan on IG at @keeganevansphoto and check out his website at keeganevansphoto.com Find and fight theft: Pixsy Follow us on Instagram: @perourlastemail @weekendcreative