Hello and welcome to Being Boss episode number 81.

This episode is brought to you by Freshbooks Cloud Accounting.

Being Boss and work and life is being in it.

It's being who we are, doing the work, breaking some rules,

and even though we each have to do it on our own, being boss is knowing we're in it together.

Today we are talking to our friend and painter and fine artist Brenda Mangalore.

I want to take a second to pause and talk about charging what you're really worth.

I think that this is something that is really hard for artists and I know for myself whenever I

first started freelancing as a graphic designer early in my career it was so hard to

charge what I was worth I was constantly underselling myself. I remember at one point I was selling my

design services for $20 an hour, which again still sounds like a lot to me, but in the grand scheme of things it wasn't really

paying the bills and then I read breaking the time barrier which is by

Fresh Books Cloud Accounting founder Mike McDermott and it is all about learning how to

charge what you're really worth and this is one of the things I love about Freshbooks

cloud accounting is that they're not just about creating software

that helps you do your business better by creating seamless and professional

looking invoices and easily tracking your expenses especially if you don't have a

degree in accounting but they're constantly your breaking the time barrier. You can Google it and find it and try your free month of Fresh

Books Cloud accounting by going to Fresh Books.com slash Being Boss and enter

Being Boss in the How Did You Hear About Us section.

Brenda, welcome to our show. Thank you for joining us on Being Boss.

Thank you for having me. It's a real honor to be honest. To to be here I'm feeling really special right now

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