Episode - 6 ‘From a Full time Job to Freelancing' with Hrishikesh Somani‪.‬ Literally Ayush Podcast

02:05 – Starting with freelancing

06:05 – Risk of quitting from a fulltime job

08:00 – Identifying your strengths.

09:00 – Glorification of a freelancing life

10:17 – Pros of Freelancing

11:50 – Cons of Freelancing

13:40 – Freelancing needs a Routine

14:40- What is Mindset? Importance of Mindset!

16:21 –What are some good Mind-set Practices?

17:10 –How to feel that drive every day.

18:32 – What are some of the lifestyle changes?

22:50 – Can somebody be a freelancer for life?

23:28 – Family and Freelancing

25:20- Facing rejection and failing at Pitches

26:11- Business development in freelancing

29:30- Is Freelancing for me?

32:48 – Myths around Freelancing!

Hrishikesh is a corporate guy turned freelancer turned entrepreneur, who runs 2 startups right now. He has switched careers at least 5 times in the last 10 years, going from wanting to study astrophysics to studying journalism to then studying International Affairs, then working as a business analyst and finally becoming a Digital Marketing freelancer and now an entrepreneur selling healthy snacks in one of his 2 ventures.

He’s here today to help us understand more about how he successfully made a switch from a well paid corporate job to freelancing full time, and what tools and tactics really helped him achieve the kind of life he wanted to build for himself.