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17: How to Deal With Losing a Creative Client

17: How to Deal With Losing a Creative Client

Update: 2021-01-20

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I lost my biggest creative client, one that had given me a substantial portion of my monthly income for the last 8 or so months. Gone. Poof.

I'm also about to go on maternity leave as a freelancer, and I had been planning to return to working for them. Now I'll have to start from scratch.

This is disappointing, but it also might be a blessing in disguise. Listen in for tips on finding the silver lining in the problems with living a creative life that seem too huge to tackle — but really aren't.

Up in two weeks: How I failed to track my business finances for an entire year, and what I learned. Stay tuned. It's a wild one.

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17: How to Deal With Losing a Creative Client

17: How to Deal With Losing a Creative Client

Tiffany Verbeck