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  • Lunch and Learn: Do you need an accountability partner?

    Accountability partners give each other feedback and encouragement on freelance goals and hold each other accountable for taking the next steps. During this discussion, we’ll share our freelance challenges, such as battling procrastination, re-pitching when a pitch is rejected, shifting to different outlets and increasing productivity. We’ll also offer tips for finding and keeping an

  • Lunch and Learn: Jump start your freelance biz into 2025

    Virtual

    The new year is the perfect time to reassess your freelance business. Some freelancers formally do this — even holding a solo business retreat at a hotel or other venue, where they can review their past work, evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of their freelance business and consider other paths forward. We’ll hear from freelancers

  • Lunch and Learn: Tips and tools to meet your goals

    At AHCJ’s Lunch and Learns, freelancer members chat about a designated topic over Zoom every third Thursday of the month at 1 p.m. Eastern Time. The Zoom link is always the same.

  • Lunch and Learn: Freelancer free-for-all

    At AHCJ’s Lunch and Learns, freelancer members chat about a designated topic over Zoom every third Thursday of the month at 1 p.m. Eastern Time. The Zoom link is new for 2025. For

  • Lunch and Learn: Pitching your ideal publication

    At AHCJ’s Lunch and Learns, freelancer members chat about a designated topic over Zoom every third Thursday of the month at 1 p.m. Eastern Time. The Zoom link is new for 2025.

  • Lunch and Learn: What’s in your contract?

    At AHCJ’s Lunch and Learns, freelancer members chat about a designated topic over Zoom every third Thursday of the month at 1 p.m. Eastern Time. The Zoom link is new for 2025. For April, we’ll talk about freelance contracts; understanding terms, negotiating terms and new issues for the current times.

  • Lunch and Learn: Need Advice? Ask a Freelancer!

    At AHCJ’s Lunch and Learns, freelancer members chat about a designated topic over Zoom every third Thursday of the month at 1 p.m. ET. For April, we’ll crowdsource advice to your freelance challenges, such as how to handle being ghosted by an editor, having “scope creep” in your assignment, and finding a home for a

  • Lunch and Learn: What’s in your contract?

    Update: This session has been moved from April to May. Find the April Lunch and Learn here. At AHCJ’s Lunch and Learns, freelancer members chat about a designated topic over Zoom every third Thursday of the month at 1 p.m. Eastern Time. The Zoom link is new for 2025. For May, we’ll talk about freelance contracts; understanding terms,