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Brianne Miers is a senior communications professional with more than 15 years of experience in brand marketing, public relations, donor communications, and content strategy. Nearly five years ago, she started her own consulting practice, Kind Communications, which focuses on helping small and mid-sized non-profit organizations.
In this podcast you will learn:
How Brianne built a career in non-profit work and how to beat big firm competitors to great clients and great projects
How Brianne navigated a tricky situation where a client owed her a few months of backpay and were in bad financial situation and what she learned from this stressful situation
Why networking is essential in launching your freelance career and how to get started in the non-profit sector
Brianne Miers on freelancing
How Brianne freed up her schedule with freelancing and used it to power her love of travel
How she uses a side project to support her love for photography and learn new skills
How Brianne built her Instagram account to over 10K followers with consistently high engagement
Why Brianne left her public relations role in Boston and chose to be her own boss
How Brianne navigated a non-compete contract while launching a freelance career
The experimentation Brianne made in the beginning of her freelance business with speaking and training before landing on project work, and how she used networking to power the start of her own business
How Brianne built a career in non-profit work and why being more affordable than big firm retainers helped her land great clients and great projects
Why pricing is tough for non-profit organizations and how they differ greatly in how much they can pay a consultant
How Brianne wrestles with her workload and structures her day
How Brianne navigated a tricky situation where a client owed her a few months of backpay and were in bad financial situation and what she learned from this stressful situation
Brianne’s advice for new freelancers and her shock on the kind of work that doesn’t make you money
Brianne Miers on writing
How Brianne writes daily and what she spends her time on to increase her craft
Brianne’s writing habits and why she needs to remove clutter
How Brianne has shifted her writing for evenings and the effect that has on her work
Why Brianne loves writing humorous content and why she believes it’s her speciality
Why Brianne is consistently taking notes by hand and why it’s her go-to productivity tool
Brianne loves white noise to accompany her writing but can’t work with direct music through headphones
Brianne has been a writer her whole life and spent time penning anything from short stories, to poems, to notes in her notebook
Brianne’s views on writer’s block, why she experiences friction, and the systems she uses to get past it
Tools, people, and resources
Two volunteer non-profits: The Shanthi Project - mindfulness and yoga, The Coseboc - coalition of schools educating boys of colour
Freelancer’s Union for templates on contracts and taxes
Brianne’s mentor Zamawa Arenas, founder of Flowetik and previously Principal of Argus
Where Brianne goes for community help: Nonprofit consultants network in Boston, and Nonprofit consultants happy hour Facebook group
Recommended resource to become a better writer: Writers on Writing podcast
Brianne’s favorite travel writer, Bill Bryson
About our guest, Brianne Miers
Brianne Miers is a senior communications professional with more than 15 years of experience in brand marketing, public relations, donor communications, and content strategy. Nearly five years ago, she started her own consulting practice, Kind Communications, focused on helping small and mid-sized non-profit organizations, social enterprises and small businesses get the most out of their limited communications budgets. More than two years ago, she launched a travel blog, A Traveling Life, and has since partnered with numerous brands and destinations in the U.S. and around the world.
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About our host, Adam Rogers
Adam Rogers is the host and producer of the Boston Content Podcast. By day, he is a content marketer at Shopify, the ecommerce platform. By night, he is still Adam Rogers but it's nighttime. He loves writing, but he's sure it hates him. He's a lover of books, music, guitars, and his wife Lacey.
Find Adam on:
Twitter: @AdamRogersUK