#7: Building a Successful Global Freelance Writing Business as a Non-Native English Speaker

Drashti Shah is a freelance writer from India who now lives in Italy. She joins us in Episode 7 to talk about how to build a successful global freelance writing business as a non-native English speaker.

What does she share?
-An overview of where her business is now
-Resistance she ran into because she's a non-native English speaker
-How she overcame that resistance
-Final advice for other writers who are non-native English speaker
-What she's been up to lately with her business
-How to stay in touch with her

More about Drashti:
Drashti aims to use her skills and combined experience over the years as a writer, designer, and entrepreneur with a business degree to help small business owners, creatives, coaches, and freelancers create content that speaks to their audience, inspires them, drives leads, and generates sales. Efficiency, creativity, and honest hard work are the three mantras she lives by. When not writing or traveling, you can find her with her nose in a book or elbow deep in her latest DIY project.

You can find her on:
Her Website
Instagram
LinkedIn

Chapters

• 1:15 About Drashti's Freelance Writing Business
• 3:12 What challenges have you faced building your business because you're a non-native English speaker?
• 5:31 What did that resistance from clients sound like?
• 6:57 How did that resistance impact Drashti and her efforts to build a writing business?
• 7:56 How did you overcome the resistance?
• 10:23 Writing apps
• 12:01 Drive inbound clients
• 12:45 Final takeaways for non-native English speaking writers
• 16:13 Imposter syndrome
• 19:01 Drashti's latest projects
• 22:32 How to connect with Drashti