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Thank you for having me.

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So I have been freelance writing for over seven years now.

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I started doing it back in 2015, not knowing it would become as sought after or popular

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as it is today.

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I had no idea a pandemic, the great resignation, everything was incoming.

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I just quit my job in 2015.

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I was 22.

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I hated it so much.

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Quit it.

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I love freelance writing.

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I tried a bunch of other things, but freelancing is really what took off for me.

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And I had a lot of success with it after a few years.

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I worked really hard at it though, but I started to make really good money on Fiverr and news

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channels, papers started to write about it.

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And it kind of all this press put me in a position where I'm almost like a freelancing

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influencer now, in addition to being a freelance writer.

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And I love it because I like the change and everything.

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So you kind of catch me today as a freelancing mentor, writer, podcast host, crazy person.

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That's awesome though, because it sounds like you've taken what was like kind of a mainstream

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thing and you've diversified it into multiple avenues.

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And so I'm curious, why did you start a podcast though?

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I started a podcast in February of this year.

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It's actually brand new because all the people who follow me kept begging me to do it.

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So I was like, okay, okay, I'll do it.

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And I'm happy I did it because I have in the first season, so much free information there.

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Now if anyone asks me any question, I just say, listen to the podcast, listen to the

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podcast.

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Like, it's just go do that.

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That's awesome.

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So it basically became not only a way for you to give value back to your audience, but

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also to answer all their frequently asked questions, it sounds like.

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Yes, it's almost exactly like my FAQ.

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Although my second season now I'm having guests on and it's pretty much just me bringing people

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on who I want to be friend.

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It's just like my Alex friend club that I'm all these people I love online who I admire

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on Tik Tok.

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I'm like, come on my podcast so I can be your friend.

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That's awesome.

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That's actually where I started my own podcast.

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My podcast is called the bloggy friend show and it started because I wanted people to

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be my blogging friends.

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That's it, right?

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Like it's, it's the best networking tool.

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I say that to people.

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If, if not for anything, you, you network with people.

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Absolutely.

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And it also prevents all of the brain pickers.

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Yeah.

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I'm sure you get a lot of people that are like, Oh, can I take you to coffee and pick

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your brain?

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You know, Oh my God.

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When people text me that they want to get coffee, I always want to write back to them.

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Do you think I got where I am today by going to coffee with people?

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That is a no.

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Like I appreciate it, but I just kindly say to them, Hey, I have like 5,000 hours of free

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content online instead.

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It's just there for you.

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Yeah.