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Follow Your Arrow: Pathfinder Pace Smith On Chasing Your Heart’s Calling
“Own it, grrl. The world is getting queerer and queerer, and all the big businesses that refuse to acknowledge that are in their death throes. Your time is coming. Follow your heart. Do what you love. Start now.”
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Follow Your Arrow: Photographer Michelle Davidson-Schapiro on Confidence and Caring
“It’s the kind of work that makes me look forward to eight hours on my feet holding five pounds of camera in my hands with another seven pounds slung across my back. It’s wonderful to create not just art, but art that makes people feel special and good and beautiful.”
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Follow Your Arrow: Virtual Assistant Lizzy Goddard on Entrepreneurship and Chronic Illness
“In 2013 I was too ill to work, living on disability benefits, and had just dropped out of my masters degree. I was introduced to the world of lifestyle design, which then led me to the world of online business. Here were all these people, working from home/travelling, and running fun businesses from their laptops. About 2 months in I was making more than enough to live off, had doubled my rates and was hovering around fully booked…and now I’m a full-time, accidentally permanent VA!”
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Follow Your Arrow: Plumber Hattie Hasan and Her Army of Female Tradespeople
“About half our plumbers are lesbian or bisexual, but that is by accident, not design. We think that women living outside the dominant box are probably more likely to also work outside of it.”
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Follow Your Arrow: Spiritual Coach Tieara Myers on Answering the Call
“What your clients come to you for will be a huge signal for what your focus could be. They are attracted to a certain quality within you. If you pay attention, your clients will call it out from within you. My clients were speaking to me all along. It took a while, but I listened in and came to my true focus. It takes time. Let yourself grow. It is a sacred journey.”
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Follow Your Arrow: Coffee Roaster Tara Brown on Courage, Connections and Simple Pleasures
“A-Camp was sort of a turning point for me. We were talking about building a year-round Autostraddle community and it was decided that I’d be the coffee roaster. I was like, ‘Well, guess I better get good at this coffee roasting thing.’ You can’t have mediocre coffee in a queer commune. I started actually writing a business plan the next weekend.”
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Follow Your Arrow: Web Developer Cee on This Freelance Life
Autostraddle’s webmaster Cee Webster has been a freelance web developer for 15 years. Here, she shares her thoughts on freelance working, ‘winging it’, the challenges of juggling many projects, and the perks of working when you choose.
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Follow Your Arrow: What If You Don’t Have One True Calling?
In Follow Your Arrow, we’re talking a lot about building a business out of doing what you love. But what if you don’t have just one thing? What if you have so many interests you wouldn’t know where to start creating a business? Meet Emilie Wapnick, who has built an entire community around helping people just like you!
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Follow Your Arrow: Where Finding Your Passion Meets Building a Business
Welcome to this new column featuring interviews with queer and trans women running all kinds of businesses! We’ll talk about the challenges, what drives us, tools and tips, workspaces, marketing, and realism. First up: Beth interviews herself about her business, Little Red Tarot.
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This Business of Art Fix #8: When One Thousand True Fans Isn’t Quite Enough
Topics include “the cult of Vice,” the folding of Scratch Mag, mental illness in business environments, the theory of 1,000 True Fans, Trollbusters and more!
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We Mean Business: Four Queer Women Entrepreneurs On Taking The Plunge
The panelists for our A-Camp workshop on “Turning Your Passion Into a Business” chat on the benefits, drawbacks and rewards of starting your own business.
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Business of Art Fix #7: I’ll Be Right On Top Of That, Rose
Vice is launching a women’s vertical, Ad-Blocking goes mainstream, the story behind Buffalo Exchange and other resale shops and other important business and journalism related news that you MUST READ.
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This Business Of Art Fix #1: That Awkward Moment You Realize That There Is No Businesswoman’s Lunch Special
The very first edition of a biweekly link round-up of stuff I’ve read and thought about relevant to the work we do here: online media, women in business, entrepreneurship, journalism, start-up culture, publishing, advertising, management, freelancing, literature, queer visibility, etc. LET’S TALK BUSINESS, LADIES.
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You Need Help: Employment Edition
Get a job!
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Register For The First Annual Bullish Conference And Make Your Career Dreams A Reality
Sign up for Jennifer Dziura and GetBullish’s first-annual Bullish Conference and take a vacation that helps you meet your goals in a powerful, focused, and inspiring way. We even have a discount code for you!
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Freelance Graphic Designer: The Kit
Stick it to the man and be your own boss! These are the resources and inspiration I use most often for designing and freelance.
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“Feminized” Workplace Hasn’t Fixed the Wage Gap for Creative Women
In which The Man does the damning.
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Autostraddle Storytime Roundtable: I Quit! You’re Fired! I’m Taking the Goldfish!
Our very best stories of getting fired, quitting triumphantly, and moving forward during that recession thing everyone keeps talking about.