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🗓️ 27 September 2025
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Feast-or-famine income doesn’t have to mean feast-or-famine life. Today we build a simple three-bucket system that turns lumpy freelance revenue into a steady, predictable paycheck.
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| 0:00.0 | business owners are built differently and there's nothing more satisfying than your business keeping up with you. |
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| 0:51.1 | How can a freelancer pay herself a stable salary? Feast or famine income doesn't have to mean |
| 1:01.9 | feast or famine life. We're going to talk today about a simple system that turns lumpy freelance |
| 1:08.1 | revenue into a more predictable paycheck. And this is a big issue for new |
| 1:12.5 | freelancers in particular. You get into freelancing because it offers freedom. And that sounds great. |
| 1:18.7 | You're setting your own schedule. You're going out and attracting the clients you want. And all |
| 1:22.6 | of that is fine and well until the calendar turns into cliffhanger months, nail-biter invoices, and a plot twist called |
| 1:29.8 | quarterly taxes. So today we've got a listener who is, I believe she is a designer. Her income |
| 1:36.5 | swings quite a bit. She makes $8,000 some months. Other months, she makes a bit more than $1,000. |
| 1:43.0 | So, you know, quite a range here. |
| 1:45.3 | She doesn't want a complicated corporate payroll. |
| 1:47.6 | She just wants rent money that shows up on time every month. |
| 1:50.8 | So let's talk about that system, that three bucket system that can help you have more |
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