How to Go Freelance

Nobody Panic

Plosive, Tessa Coates and Stevie Martin

Education, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 933 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Wanting to take the plunge? Stevie went freelance and Tessa’s never technically been employed - they look at the pitfalls and difficulties of being your own boss, as well as how you can make the transition from PAYE as pain free as possible (get an accountant).

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to Nobody Panic. It's a podcast.
0:16.0	Certainly a podcast. You can't say it's not.
0:19.0	It's 100% of podcast. We do how-tos. I'm Stev Stevie Martin Tessa Coates.
0:24.6	Hello coming to you live from the studio.
0:27.4	Crucially not live not live who's in the studio piper is in the studio
0:32.1	piper's in the studio. Piper's the dog.
0:33.0	Because we do multiple recordings of this podcast in one day.
0:38.0	And the last podcast episode we recorded was about massaging and I got so stressed about it that she came and sat on my lap.
0:48.0	Yeah to protect you like an ancient wolf. Like an ancient wolf.
0:51.1	I was greeted by both Piper and the other offers dog toast this morning and they were so
0:56.8	delighted to see me that I almost wept. Yes they were. Like it was so nice to be good with such pure joy even though I've got nothing for them and they
1:04.3	ultimately lost interest in me very quickly it is joy it's joy that you've joined the
1:08.0	gang I'm in the gang yeah that's what it is I'm in the gang and they were just and I was like
1:11.3	yeah this is the this is the gang you know what else feels like
1:15.2	joining the gang yeah when you join the freelance gang yeah and you know what it can feel
1:19.8	so lonely like you've left the gang the gang. But you will find other people out there and you can all form a gang much like dogs.
1:28.0	Okay, welcome to the podcast. This one...
1:31.0	Please. We have been asked about this to do this. Is there a specific email that you've
1:35.8	not? I think there's just a body of work, a collection over the years of people, people
1:40.8	asking us about going freelance.
1:43.0	It's a constant question and I've went for an answer maybe in 2015.
1:47.0	When did you go freelance for the first time when you like weren't on PAYA?
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