Drashti Shah is a freelance writer from India who now lives in Italy. She joins us in Episode 7 to talk about how to build a successful global freelance writing business as a non-native English speaker.

What does she share?
-An overview of where her business is now
-Resistance she ran into because she's a non-native English speaker
-How she overcame that resistance
-Final advice for other writers who are non-native English speaker
-What she's been up to lately with her business
-How to stay in touch with her

More about Drashti:
Drashti aims to use her skills and combined experience over the years as a writer, designer, and entrepreneur with a business degree to help small business owners, creatives, coaches, and freelancers create content that speaks to their audience, inspires them, drives leads, and generates sales. Efficiency, creativity, and honest hard work are the three mantras she lives by. When not writing or traveling, you can find her with her nose in a book or elbow deep in her latest DIY project.

You can find her on:
Her Website
Instagram
LinkedIn

In this episode, we chat with Lia Stoll, a freelance disability writer and the co-founder of Lara Guide Dog School.

Lia has an incredible story. At a young age, she witnessed something that started her on a path she would follow all the way until today — a path that aims to help people with disabilities to live as independently as possible.

She shares what that experience was along with how it led to starting a guide dog school, becoming a freelance disability writer, and being an overall advocate for disability inclusion.

Additionally, she shares helpful advice for writers, business owners, and really just people in general about how to speak about and to people with disabilities.

You won't want to miss this one!

Get in touch with Lia:
Lia's blog
LinkedIn

In this episode, we chat with freelance writer and cold pitch coach, Maya Capasso.

Like many of us, Maya had a rough start with cold pitching. She was uncomfortable with it because she didn't want to blindly cold pitch a huge list of contacts. However, she soon figured out a personalized approach that helped her to start closing deals. 

Now she's fine-tuned her approach, helps other writers with it, and is spilling all the details with us!

Listen to learn:

• About her journey with cold pitching
• An example of a cold pitch that landed her a deal
• How long it should take to research prospects
• How to identify with prospects to pitch
• The components of a cold pitch
• Mistakes to avoid
• Overcoming mental obstacles
• Following up on pitches

If you'd like to learn more from Maya or get in touch with her, you can find her at:
Website: mayacapswrites.com
Instagram: @mayacapswrites
Twitter: @mayawriting

Also, here's the link to the FB group where Maya and I met that is super awesome!
Female Freelance Writers