When I went full time freelance, I was petrified I wouldn’t make enough money… that I would fail.

I had been working in a design studio, making a comfortable amount of money each week, but it was time to make the leap. I was scared.

I wanted to succeed as a freelancer, I didn’t want to come crawling back once I said I would make it as a freelancer. I wanted to lifestyle of a freelancer, to choose my own hours, my own clients, and charge what I wanted to charge.

But that little voice in my head kept asking “But what if you don’t make enough to cover your bills? Then what?”

This is where Ramen Profitability can make a massive difference to the way you start as a freelancer.

Ramen Profitability, common in the start up space, is the idea that you need to make enough money to cover your expenses at the end of the week and have a little left over for ramen. This may sound weird at first, but it is super important to make sure you cover your expenses, otherwise you just have another expensive hobby.

I had enough expensive hobbies, I needed to make freelancing work.

When I first launched into full time freelance, I ran these numbers for myself and my own business.

I had just come out of a short contract working for Rolex and we were renting a little apartment in Kensington. I also had a small studio space and a few clients I had gained along the way. At that point, I felt scared that I would never make enough to make going freelance worth it.

So I took my expenses, my rent, my studio costs, the bills that come in, and I think it was around $600 a week.

So that gave me my Ramen Profitability Number and peace of mind.

I just needed to make $600 a week to live.

This is the sentence I kept repeating to myself day in day out to calm my mind and help me reframe and kill overwhelm. From there, I was able to work out how many hours or how many projects I needed to fill with billable client work. My hourly rate at that point was I think $75/hr…

Ramen Profitability doesn’t have to leave you hungry and covered in flavouring…

Introducing my

Ramen Profitability Bundle

Your starter meal-kit to working out your base rates so you can build your pricing from the ground up.

Nailing the onboarding experience can:

  • Access to my Ramen Rate Calculator so you don’t have to do the math alone

  • The Ramen Profitability Workbook that breaks down all the ingredients and why they matter.
  • BONUS Video explaining Ramen Profitability and why it’s important

Grab this bundle if you are hungry for more than just noodles in your creative business.