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The Modern Editor Podcast: Cultivating Financial Well-Being for Freelance Editors
February 4, 2026February 5, 2026Podcast

Cultivating Financial Well-Being for Freelance Editors

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The Modern Editor Podcast: Taking Care of Your Physical and Environmental Health as a Freelance Editor
January 21, 2026February 5, 2026Podcast

Taking Care of Your Physical and Environmental Health as a Freelance Editor

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The Modern Editor Podcast: Seven Writing Prompts to Help You Ease into the New Year
January 7, 2026February 5, 2026Podcast

Seven Writing Prompts to Help You Ease Into the New Year

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The Modern Podcast Editor: The Top Six Lessons I Learned in 2025
December 24, 2025February 4, 2026Podcast

The Top Six Lessons I Learned in 2025

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The Modern Editor Podcast: Why You Need Friction in Your Editing Business
November 26, 2025December 18, 2025Podcast

Why You Need Friction in Your Editing Business

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The Modern Editor Podcast: Does Your Editing Business Need a Newsletter?
November 12, 2025November 19, 2025Podcast

Does Your Editing Business Need a Newsletter?

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The Modern Editor Podcast: The Receipts: Here's What Happened In My Business Without Social Media
October 29, 2025November 7, 2025Podcast

The Receipts: Here’s What Happened In My Business Without Social Media

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The Modern Editor Podcast: Marketing Your Editor Business Without Social Media with Amelia Hruby
October 15, 2025November 7, 2025Podcast

Marketing Your Editing Business Without Social Media with Amelia Hruby

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The Modern Editor Podcast: Should You Use Social Media to Market Your Editing Business?
October 1, 2025November 7, 2025Podcast

Should You Use Social Media to Market Your Editing Business?

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The Modern Editors Podcast: Editors Beware: Client Red Flags to Watch For
September 17, 2025November 7, 2025Podcast

Editor Beware: Client Red Flags to Watch For

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The Modern Editor Podcast: Six Ways to Refresh Your Business
September 3, 2025September 3, 2025Podcast

Six Ways to Refresh Your Business

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The Modern Editor Podcast: Launch Before It's Perfect: A BTS Look at the Freelance Editors Club
August 20, 2025August 20, 2025Podcast

Launch Before It’s Perfect: A BTS Look at the Freelance Editors Club

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The Modern Editor Podcast: Tapping, Typing, and Turning Pages: Exploring the Soothing Side of ASMR
August 6, 2025August 15, 2025Podcast

Tapping, Typing, and Turning Pages: Exploring the Soothing Side of ASMR 

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The Modern Editor Podcast: Ten Copyediting Tips For Book Editors
July 23, 2025August 15, 2025Podcast

Ten Copyediting Tips For Book Editors

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The Modern Editor Podcast: How to Use PerfectIt to Enhance Your Editing Workflow with Daniel Heuman
July 9, 2025July 15, 2025Podcast

How to Use PerfectIt to Enhance Your Editing Workflow with Daniel Heuman

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The Modern Editor Podcast: How to Harness the Power of Consistency and Storytelling for Your Freelance Editing Business
June 25, 2025July 15, 2025Podcast

How to Harness the Power of Consistency and Storytelling for Your Freelance Editing Business

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The Modern Editor Podcast: Why is Coming Back from a Break So Hard?
June 11, 2025July 15, 2025Podcast

Why is Coming Back From a Break So Hard?

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May 28, 2025July 15, 2025Podcast

Behind-the-Scenes of Becoming a First-Time Author With Sam Vander Wielen

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The Modern Editor Podcast: Celebrating 50 Episodes by the Numbers
May 14, 2025June 11, 2025Podcast

Celebrating Fifty Episodes By the Numbers 

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The Modern Editor Podcast: Borrow the Mic! How Podcast Guesting Can Grow Your Editing Business with Haylee Gaffin
April 30, 2025May 27, 2025Podcast

Borrow the Mic: How Podcast Guesting Can Grow Your Editing Business with Haylee Gaffin

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The Modern Editor Podcast: How Tariffs Could Affect Your Editing Business
April 16, 2025April 16, 2025Podcast

How Tariffs Could Affect Your Editing Business

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The Modern Editor Podcast: Editor Self Care - How to Use Affirmations in Your Business
April 2, 2025April 10, 2025Podcast

Editor Self-Care: How to Use Affirmations in Your Business

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The Modern Editor Podcast: What the Heck is an Editing Macro?
March 19, 2025April 10, 2025Podcast

What the Heck is an Editing Macro?

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The Modern Editor Podcast: How Editors Can Create Habits That Stick
March 5, 2025March 7, 2025Podcast

How Editors Can Create Habits That Stick

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The Modern Editor Podcast: An Introvert's Guide to Attending Conferences
February 19, 2025February 24, 2025Podcast

An Introvert’s Guide to Attending Conferences

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The Modern Editor Podcast: My 5 Favorite Rules to Reference in CMOS
February 5, 2025February 24, 2025Podcast

My 5 Favorite Rules to Reference in CMOS

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The Modern Editor Podcast: Why Is It So Tough to Take Breaks?
January 22, 2025February 24, 2025Podcast

Why Is It So Tough to Take Breaks?

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The Modern Editor Podcast: 5 Reasons to Join a Book Club
November 20, 2024January 22, 2025Podcast

5 Reasons to Join a Book Club

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The Modern Editor Podcast: Elevate Your Business Processes with Akua Konadu ft. HoneyBook’s 2025 Growth Guide
November 6, 2024November 25, 2024Podcast

Elevate Your Business Processes with Akua Konadu ft. HoneyBook’s 2025 Growth Guide

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The Modern Editor Podcast: How to Add a New Product or Service to Your Editing Business
October 23, 2024November 25, 2024Podcast

How to Add a New Product or Service to Your Editing Business

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The Modern Editor Podcast: Four Ways to Get Unstuck in Your Business
October 9, 2024October 24, 2024Podcast

Four Ways to Get Unstuck in Your Business

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The Modern Editor Podcast: Professional Boundaries: How to Protect Your Editing Business with Contracts
September 25, 2024October 3, 2024Podcast

Professional Boundaries: How to Protect Your Editing Business with Contracts

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The Modern Editor Podcast: Why I No Longer Review Books as an Editor
August 28, 2024September 25, 2024Podcast

Why I No Longer Review Books as an Editor

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The Modern Editor Podcast: Author Chat: Writing an Identity Not Your Own With Alex Temblador
August 14, 2024September 2, 2024Podcast

Author Chat: Writing an Identity Not Your Own With Alex Temblador

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The Modern Editor Podcast: 5 Things My Kids Have Taught Me About Running My Editing Business
July 31, 2024September 2, 2024Podcast

Five Things My Kids Have Taught Me About Running My Editing Business

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The Modern Editor Podcast - How to Take Time Off as a Freelancer
July 17, 2024July 20, 2024Podcast

How to Take Time Off as a Freelancer

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The Modern Editor Podcast - When Comparison Helps and When It Hurts
July 3, 2024July 23, 2024Podcast

When Comparison Helps and When It Hurts

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June 19, 2024July 23, 2024Podcast

Seven New Books For Freelance Editors

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The Modern Editor Podcast - How to Ask for Help In Your Business
June 11, 2024June 13, 2024Podcast

How to Ask for Help In Your Business

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The Modern Editor Podcast - Running a Business During Tough Times
November 1, 2023June 13, 2024Podcast

Running a Business During Tough Times

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The Modern Editor Podcast - How Many Hours a Day Can You Edit?
September 27, 2023June 13, 2024Podcast

How Many Hours a Day Can You Edit?

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The Modern Editor Podcast - What Does Booked Out Really Mean?
August 23, 2023June 20, 2024Podcast

What Does “Booked Out” Really Mean?

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The Modern Editor Podcast - How to Avoid (or Recover From) Burnout
August 9, 2023June 20, 2024Podcast

How to Avoid (or Recover From) Burnout

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The Modern Editor Podcast - How to Find Time to Get Things Done
April 12, 2023June 20, 2024Podcast

How to Find Time to Get Things Done

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The Modern Editor Podcast - How to Review and Reset Your Editorial Business Every Month
March 29, 2023June 20, 2024Podcast

How to Review and Reset Your Editorial Business Every Month

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The Modern Editor Podcast - Common Business Expenses for Freelance Editors
March 15, 2023June 20, 2024Podcast

Common Business Expenses for Freelance Editors

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The Modern Editor Podcast - A Behind-the-Scenes Look at My Copyediting Process
March 1, 2023June 20, 2024Podcast

A Behind-the-Scenes Look at My Copyediting Process

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The Modern Editor Podcast - Will ChatGPT Replace Editors and Authors?
February 15, 2023June 20, 2024Podcast

Will ChatGPT Replace Editors and Authors?

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The Modern Editor Podcast - Goal-Setting Part 2: Strategy and Process
February 1, 2023June 20, 2024Podcast

Goal-Setting Part 2: Strategy and Process

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The Modern Editor Podcast - 2023 Predictions for the Freelance Editing Industry
January 11, 2023June 20, 2024Podcast

2023 Predictions for the Freelance Editing Industry

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The Modern Editor Podcast - How Choosing a Word of the Year Can Help Your Business
January 4, 2023June 20, 2024Podcast

How Choosing a Word of the Year Can Help Your Business

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The Modern Editor Podcast - Goal-Setting Part 1: Reflection
December 21, 2022June 20, 2024Podcast

Goal-Setting Part 1: Reflection

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The Modern Editor Podcast - How to Simplify Your Decision Making Process
November 29, 2022June 20, 2024Podcast

How to Simplify Your Decision-Making Process

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The Modern Editor Podcast - The Power of Why
November 15, 2022June 20, 2024Podcast

The Power of “Why?”

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The Modern Editor Podcast - 11 Ways to Market Your Editing Business Outside of Social Media
November 8, 2022June 20, 2024Podcast

11 Ways to Market Your Editing Business Outside of Social Media

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The Modern Editor Podcast - 10 Things I've Learned After 10 Years in Business
October 25, 2022June 20, 2024Podcast

10 Things I’ve Learned After 10 Years in Business

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October 18, 2022June 20, 2024Podcast

5 Things I Wish I Had Known When I Started My Editing Business

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The Modern Editor Podcast - The Best (and Worst) Things About Freelance Editing
October 4, 2022June 20, 2024Podcast

The Best (and Worst) Things About Freelance Editing

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The Modern Editor Podcast - Are Editing Conferences Worth It?
September 27, 2022June 21, 2024Podcast

Are Editing Conferences Worth It?

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The Modern Editor Podcast - A Balancing Act: Time vs. Money
September 20, 2022June 21, 2024Podcast

A Balancing Act: Time vs. Money

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The Modern Editor Podcast - How to Embrace Your Freelancing Journey
September 13, 2022June 21, 2024Podcast

How to Embrace Your Freelancing Journey

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The Modern Editor Podcast - Why You Need Boundaries in Your Business
August 30, 2022June 21, 2024Podcast

Why You Need Boundaries in Your Business

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The Modern Editor Podcast - The Stories We Tell Ourselves
August 23, 2022June 21, 2024Podcast

The Stories We Tell Ourselves

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The Modern Editor Podcast - Working ON Your Business vs. Working IN Your Business
August 16, 2022June 21, 2024Podcast

Working ON Your Business vs. Working IN Your Business

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The Modern Editor Podcast - Say What? Words to Think Twice About Before Using
August 9, 2022June 21, 2024Podcast

Say What? Words to Think Twice About Before Using

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The Modern Editor Podcast - Why Mindset if More Than Just a Buzzword
August 2, 2022June 21, 2024Podcast

Why Mindset is More Than Just a Buzzword

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The Modern Editor Podcast - 3 Tips for Finding Editing Education
August 1, 2022June 21, 2024Podcast

3 Tips for Finding Editing Education

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The Modern Editor Podcast Episode 1 - Welcome
August 1, 2022June 21, 2024Podcast

Welcome to The Modern Editor Podcast!

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Hey there! I'm Tara. After a stint in the corporate world after college, I decided to pursue my dream of being my own boss ...and I've never looked back. Now I want to help YOU get organized and stay productive in your work-from-home business so you can crush your goals. Let's get started!
     

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“If you want to confront your relationship with mo “If you want to confront your relationship with money, start a business.”⁠
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Ever heard that saying before? Nothing makes you get up close and personal with your finances than running your own business 🙃⁠
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So to continue or self-care series, this episode of @TheModernEditorPodcast is all about our finances and money as freelancers.⁠
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We're going in the weeds on how our upbringing affects our relationship with money and how to improve our money mindset. I’m also giving you practical tips on how to run your freelance business as financially effective as possible. ⁠
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Stay tuned for future episodes covering emotional/mental well-being and more 😍⁠
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The online space can be amazing...and it can also The online space can be amazing...and it can also be full of ick.⁠
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Lately (for me at least) it's been heavy on the ick. It makes me even more grateful for the communities I'm a part of: my local mutual aid network, my daughter's school, my editing mastermind, and the Freelance Editors Club.⁠
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If you need less ick and more yay in your life, I invite you to come check out what we have in store in February:⁠
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📖 Book club pick: Deep Work by Cal Newton⁠
👩‍🏫 Workshop: How to Pitch to Publishers⁠
🧠 Self-care fun: Guided meditations⁠
💻 Coworking / body-doubling sessions⁠
➕ And more ⁠
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Your first two weeks are totally free ☺️⁠
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#FreelanceEditorsClub #EditingCommunity #FreelanceEditorCoach
It's so easy, anyone can do it 👀⁠ ⁠ Had a hard tim It's so easy, anyone can do it 👀⁠
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Had a hard time figuring out where this originated but @bookersquared is the closest I could find ❤️
If you want to run a sustainable business and be a If you want to run a sustainable business and be able to put in the work, you *have* to take care of yourself.

It’s not selfish. It’s the only way we can change things for the better.

#FreelanceEditor #BookEditor #EditorSelfCare
The #FreelanceEditorsClub is going on its sixth ye The #FreelanceEditorsClub is going on its sixth year, and we’ve read a *lot* of books as a group in that time!

Check out the full list, and stay tuned for what we’re reading in February 📚

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