Brianne Miers: How to Build a Non-Profit Freelance Career as a Writer and Consultant

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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

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.

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