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Indi Club Podcast is a series of conversations with experienced freelancers, entrepreneurs and self-starters we had a pleasure of meeting via our community. It grew from the original Freelancer Talks series started by Tom Kozacinski a few years ago.

If you're tired of regular 9-5 and want to learn more about starting your own business, going freelance, or work and travel. These episodes are for you.

Learn more at www.indie-club.uk/podcast

Indie Club Podcast with Tom Kozacinski Tom Kozacinski Indie Club

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Indi Club Podcast is a series of conversations with experienced freelancers, entrepreneurs and self-starters we had a pleasure of meeting via our community. It grew from the original Freelancer Talks series started by Tom Kozacinski a few years ago.

If you're tired of regular 9-5 and want to learn more about starting your own business, going freelance, or work and travel. These episodes are for you.

Learn more at www.indie-club.uk/podcast

    #14 From humble beginnings to building sales consultancy in London with Alberto Ares

    #14 From humble beginnings to building sales consultancy in London with Alberto Ares

    Podcast by Tom "Sir FreeLance-A-Lot" Kozacinski, co-founder of Indie Club UK. The podcast focuses on topics of Freelancing, entrepreneurship, careers, business advice, work-life balance, remote work, and various other topics related to self-employed lifestyle and life in general.

    Episode guest - Alberto Ares

    Alberto began his career in technology sales in his early twenties to fund his university degree in Economics. Before founding Rev-Engine, Alberto held various sales and strategy roles for various organisations in the IT industry, including world-class advisory and research firm Gartner, where he focused exclusively on helping CEOs of emerging tech providers grow, Alberto also has worked for high growth technology startups and leading cloud businesses and holds a track record of success as well as numerous promotions in sales.

    LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alberto-ares-43594435/
    WEB: https://www.rev-engine.co.uk

    Alberto writes about all aspects of selling. Sign up for the newsletter: Visit https://blog.rev-engine.co.uk

    ABOUT THE INDIE CLUB COMMUNITY: Indie Club - https://www.indie-club.uk/Is a community founded by Tom Kozacinski and David Odier for independent business owners, bootstrappers and freelancers. We’ve decided not to follow the classic society framework, roughly named “commuting, working, sleeping”. We have decided to create our own business. And in our own way.

    Join our Slack channel, engage the community and continue the conversation: Slack channel: http://bit.ly/slackAplicationuk1Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/indieclubuk/

    Connect with Tom on Social Networks:

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/universeceo/

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/universeceo

    About Tom: Tomislav Kozacinski, or Tom for friends. London based Product Design Consultant, speaker, Techstars mentor and stand-up comedian with over 14 years of experience across the digital and organisational landscape. Tom is a founder of Indie Club and is a strong advocate of Freelancing and Remote work, also, Creative Entrepreneur, World Traveller, Biker, Gamer, sharing stories from his experience and other people on a similar journey. He fancies himself to be a well-organised problem solver and a storyteller.

    You can find out more on his website: https://www.kozacinski.com/

    CREDITS & THANKS:

    Stuart De Ville - Background music, Nikola Silic - Intro & Outro Animation, David Odier - for the best support one can ask in a co-founder!

    • 44 min
    #13 Power of building a community with Sebastian Monadjemzadeh from cFinder

    #13 Power of building a community with Sebastian Monadjemzadeh from cFinder

    Podcast by Tom "Sir FreeLance-A-Lot" Kozacinski, co-founder of Indie Club UK. The podcast focuses on topics of Freelancing, entrepreneurship, careers, business advice, work-life balance, remote work, and various other topics related to self-employed lifestyle and life in general.

    Episode guest - Sebastian Monadjemzadeh

    Sebastian has the standard background of modern western society. Two parents that immigrated to Sweden from completely different countries; mother from Finland and a Persian father, he was born with three passports and an identity crisis. He is coping with all this by constantly trying to challenge his intellect and finding fun new sparring partners to discuss politics, philosophy and the latest Ricky Gervais show. Sebastian has a problem with corporate BS so naturally, he is now working with a start-up called cfinder. A community and marketplace for freelancers in tech.

    LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastian-monadjemzadeh-73562a57/
    WEB: https://cfinder.com/

    ABOUT THE INDIE CLUB COMMUNITY: Indie Club - https://www.indie-club.uk/Is a community founded by Tom Kozacinski and David Odier for independent business owners, bootstrappers and freelancers. We’ve decided not to follow the classic society framework, roughly named “commuting, working, sleeping”. We have decided to create our own business. And in our own way.

    Join our Slack channel, engage the community and continue the conversation: Slack channel: http://bit.ly/slackAplicationuk1Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/indieclubuk/

    Connect with Tom on Social Networks: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/universeceo/Twitter: https://twitter.com/universeceo

    About Tom: Tomislav Kozacinski, or Tom for friends. London based Product Design Consultant, speaker, Techstars mentor and stand-up comedian with over 14 years of experience across the digital and organisational landscape. Tom is a founder of Indie Club and is a strong advocate of Freelancing and Remote work, also, Creative Entrepreneur, World Traveller, Biker, Gamer, sharing stories from his experience and other people on a similar journey. He fancies himself to be a well-organised problem solver and a storyteller.

    You can find out more on his website: https://www.kozacinski.com/

    CREDITS & THANKS:

    Stuart De Ville - Background music, Nikola Silic - Intro & Outro Animation, David Odier - for the best support one can ask in a co-founder!

    • 1 hr 5 min
    #12 SaaS Marketer Extraordinaire with Tom Hunt from bCast

    #12 SaaS Marketer Extraordinaire with Tom Hunt from bCast

    Podcast by Tom "Sir FreeLance-A-Lot" Kozacinski, co-founder of Indie Club UK. The podcast focuses on topics of Freelancing, entrepreneurship, careers, business advice, work-life balance, remote work, and various other topics related to self-employed lifestyle and life in general.

    Episode guest - Tom Hunt

    Tom is the founder of SaaS Marketer and bCast. He loves tequila, the internet and his puppy Bear.  

    LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomhuntio/ 

    WEB: https://saasmarketer.io/ 

    WEB: http://bcast.fm/

    ABOUT THE INDIE CLUB COMMUNITY: Indie Club - https://www.indie-club.uk/Is a community founded by Tom Kozacinski and David Odier for independent business owners, bootstrappers and freelancers. We’ve decided not to follow the classic society framework, roughly named “commuting, working, sleeping”. We have decided to create our own business. And in our own way.

    Join our Slack channel, engage the community and continue the conversation: Slack channel: http://bit.ly/slackAplicationuk1Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/indieclubuk/

    Connect with Tom on Social Networks: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/universeceo/Twitter: https://twitter.com/universeceo

    About Tom: Tomislav Kozacinski, or Tom for friends. London based Product Design Consultant, speaker, Techstars mentor and stand-up comedian with over 14 years of experience across the digital and organisational landscape. Tom is a founder of Indie Club and is a strong advocate of Freelancing and Remote work, also, Creative Entrepreneur, World Traveller, Biker, Gamer, sharing stories from his experience and other people on a similar journey. He fancies himself to be a well-organised problem solver and a storyteller.

    You can find out more on his website: https://www.kozacinski.com/

    CREDITS & THANKS:

    Stuart De Ville - Background music, Nikola Silic - Intro & Outro Animation, David Odier - for the best support one can ask in a co-founder!

    • 32 min
    #11 Building community that supports the mental health of freelancers with Matthew Knight from Leapers

    #11 Building community that supports the mental health of freelancers with Matthew Knight from Leapers

    Podcast by Tom "Sir FreeLance-A-Lot" Kozacinski, co-founder of Indie Club UK. The podcast focuses on topics of Freelancing, entrepreneurship, careers, business advice, work-life balance, remote work, and various other topics related to self-employed lifestyle and life in general.

    Episode guest - Matthew Knight

    Matt is a creative strategist and innovator, with over 25 years of experience in creative, technology, brand and product, and running teams which deliver progressive and impactful work. He is also the founder of Leapers.co - a community for freelancers, with the aim to create awareness, discussion, prioritisation and adoption of positive behaviours to support your mental health at work when you’re self-employed.

    LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thinkplaymake/
    TW: https://twitter.com/thinkplaymake
    WEB: https://www.leapers.co/

    ABOUT THE INDIE CLUB COMMUNITY: Indie Club - https://www.indie-club.uk/Is a community founded by Tom Kozacinski and David Odier for independent business owners, bootstrappers and freelancers. We’ve decided not to follow the classic society framework, roughly named “commuting, working, sleeping”. We have decided to create our own business. And in our own way.

    Join our Slack channel, engage the community and continue the conversation:
    Slack channel: http://bit.ly/slackAplicationuk1
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/indieclubuk/

    Connect with Tom on Social Networks: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/universeceo/Twitter: https://twitter.com/universeceo

    About Tom: Tomislav Kozacinski, or Tom for friends. London based Product Design Consultant, speaker, Techstars mentor and stand-up comedian with over 14 years of experience across the digital and organisational landscape. Tom is a founder of Indie Club and is a strong advocate of Freelancing and Remote work, also, Creative Entrepreneur, World Traveller, Biker, Gamer, sharing stories from his experience and other people on a similar journey. He fancies himself to be a well-organised problem solver and a storyteller.

    You can find out more on his website: https://www.kozacinski.com/

    CREDITS & THANKS:

    Stuart De Ville - Background music, Nikola Silic - Intro & Outro Animation, David Odier - for the best support one can ask in a co-founder!

    • 47 min
    #10 Creative building a Tech Startup with Dan Parry of Tectonic

    #10 Creative building a Tech Startup with Dan Parry of Tectonic

    Podcast by Tom "Sir FreeLance-A-Lot" Kozacinski, co-founder of Indie Club UK. The podcast focuses on topics of Freelancing, entrepreneurship, careers, business advice, work-life balance, remote work, and various other topics related to self-employed lifestyle and life in general.  

    Episode guest - Dan Parry  

    Dan Parry is a creative (though he hates the term). A non-technical technical person. And a Co-Founder of a customer insights business he started with his brother and friend.

    Falling in love with Nintendo at a young age, Dan decided early on that he wanted to make videogames. But after struggling with coding, he took a different direction. And now? Well, he builds businesses and helps founders overcome challenges they've navigated and overcome.

    Over the years, Dan has also come to become very interested in building apps without code. He still dabbles in a little game development, too.

    LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dkparry/
    TW: https://twitter.com/yodanparry/
    WEB: https://tectoniclondon.com/

    ABOUT THE INDIE CLUB COMMUNITY:
    Indie Club - https://www.indie-club.uk/Is a community founded by Tom Kozacinski and David Odier for independent business owners, bootstrappers and freelancers. We’ve decided not to follow the classic society framework, roughly named “commuting, working, sleeping”. We have decided to create our own business. And in our own way.

    Join our Slack channel, engage the community and continue the conversation:
    Slack channel: http://bit.ly/slackAplicationuk1
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/indieclubuk/

    Connect with Tom on Social Networks:
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/universeceo/
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/universeceo

    About Tom:
    Tomislav Kozacinski, or Tom for friends. London based Product Design Consultant, speaker, Techstars mentor and stand-up comedian with over 14 years of experience across the digital and organisational landscape. Tom is a founder of Indie Club and is a strong advocate of Freelancing and Remote work, also, Creative Entrepreneur, World Traveller, Biker, Gamer, sharing stories from his experience and other people on a similar journey. He fancies himself to be a well-organised problem solver and a storyteller.

    You can find out more on his website: https://www.kozacinski.com/

    CREDITS & THANKS:

    Stuart De Ville - Background music
    Nikola Silic - Intro & Outro Animation
    David Odier - for the best support one can ask in a co-founder!

    • 57 min
    #9 Running a freelance team, the new alternative to agencies with Adrien Montcoudiol of Mozza.io

    #9 Running a freelance team, the new alternative to agencies with Adrien Montcoudiol of Mozza.io

    Podcast by Tom "Sir FreeLance-A-Lot" Kozacinski, co-founder of Indie Club UK.

    The podcast focuses on topics of Freelancing, entrepreneurship, careers, business advice, work-life balance, remote work, and various other topics related to self-employed lifestyle and life in general.

    Episode guest - Adrien Montcoudiol

    Adrien is co-founder of Mozza, Based in Paris, collective of Product Managers and UX/UI designers, an off-shoot of Mangrove collective, he is a startup mentor and regular speaker on Marketing and Growth Strategy.

    LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrienmontcoudiol/
    TW: https://twitter.com/adrienm
    WEB: https://mozza.io/


    You can watch the video of the recording session here:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v4LRGspLo

    SHOW TOPICS:
    0:02:00 Founding Mangrove and Mozza
    0:04:00 Working alone vs. Working in a collective
    0:06:30 More companies will hire more remote workers
    0:08:00 Pricing in a team vs. freelancers vs. companies
    0:11:00 Finding space between what a client needs vs. what the client wants
    0:16:30 Remote work and finding clients
    0:22:00 Becoming Nich Super Star
    0:25:00 Scaling your personal brand
    0:28:00 Freelancing vs. 9-5



    ABOUT THE INDIE CLUB COMMUNITY:
    Indie Club - https://www.indie-club.uk/
    Is a community founded by Tom Kozacinski and David Odier for independent business owners, bootstrappers and freelancers.
    We’ve decided not to follow the classic society framework, roughly named “commuting, working, sleeping”. We have decided to create our own business. And in our own way. 

    Join our Slack channel, engage the community and continue the conversation:
    Slack channel: http://bit.ly/slackAplicationuk1
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/indieclubuk/

    Connect with Tom on Social Networks:
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/universeceo/
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/universeceo

    About Tom:
    Tomislav Kozacinski, or Tom for friends. A London based Product Design Consultant, Techstars Mentor and Stand Up Comedian who fancies himself a hyper-organised artist and a problem solver. Tom is a founder of Indie Club, also - Speaker, Entrepreneur, World Traveller, Biker, Gamer, No Bullshit Bro, and some other buzz words as well...

    You can find out more on his website: https://www.kozacinski.com/



    CREDITS & THANKS:

    Stuart De Ville - Background music
    Nikola Silic - Intro & Outro Animation
    David Odier - for the best support one can ask in a co-founder!

    • 35 min

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