If you’re thinking about freelancing, grab a chair. We need to talk.

I’ve survived 14 years as a freelancer and I can help you skip some very expensive steps

If you’re anything like me, you don’t secretly dream of becoming an Instagram influencer or a LinkedIn thought leader just to pay your bills.

You just want to make decent money without selling your soul, your weekends, and your personality to an algorithm.

So here’s my unpopular opinion: freelancing platforms are not the enemy.

Yes, you’ve heard all the myths:

• “It’s a race to the bottom.”
• “Only $5 clients.”
• “Full of scammers.”

And sure, a lot of people do race to the bottom. They underprice, overdeliver, panic at every bad review and then decide the platform is broken.

That’s not a platform problem. That’s a positioning problem.

Which is actually good news. Because it means that if you’re willing to price properly, build real offers, and stand your ground, you suddenly stop competing with everyone.

Fun fact: it took me ten years to cross my first $24k year.
And when I finally did, I didn’t crawl to $30k. I jumped straight to $100k. (Full story here).

That jump had nothing to do with being “better at my craft”. It was a mindset shift — the moment I stopped behaving like a grateful employee and started acting like a business owner.

And then something even stranger happened: I chose to slow down. For the last five years I’ve comfortably sat around $50k–60k.

Not because I can’t earn more. But because I don’t want my identity glued to my career. I want a life worth living, not a job I brag about at dinner parties. So yes, I’d happily trade a $100k full-time grind for a calm $60k part-time rhythm that leaves room for hobbies, family, friends… and even a little boredom.

I’m not here to sell you overnight $10k months. I’m here for something better: consistent, low-drama gigs, with global clients, that don’t turn you into a zombie in your real life.

If that sounds like your kind of ambition, you’re in the right place.

Here I’ll share what’s actually happening behind the scenes of my freelance business — the money, the mistakes, the uncomfortable decisions, the mindset shifts — so you can decide for yourself what kind of freelancer human you want to become.

Expect profile reviews, monthly strategies, income stories, private Q&As, tools and frameworks — everything I wish I had when I was quietly panicking at $10k years while telling myself “at least I’m not an employee.”

I’m honestly surprised I didn’t quit during those first ten years.

So please, don’t give up on freelancing before you try this with me.

I trust you can make this work,
Adriana 🤍