Episode 29: Handling the Winter Holidays: A Special Episode With Speaking of Translation
We are excited to announce this special joint episode with our colleagues, friends, and superstar-podcasters Corinne McKay and Eve Bodeux!
Corinne and Eve are co-hosts of the popular podcast, Speaking of Translation, which we have both been enjoying since before we even thought about launching our own.
In keeping with our theme of smart habits for translators, they both have a lot to share on this topic. Corinne was our guest in Episode 20 and shared about creating professional partnerships. Eve will be our guest in an upcoming episode about maintaining your second language—stay tuned for that! And Madalena was a special guest on Corinne and Eve’s podcast earlier this year, when they discussed diversifying your freelance business.
When Corinne and Eve asked if we would like to record a collaborative episode together, we didn't even hesitate to say yes. These ladies are wonderful to talk to, and we highly recommend that you subscribe to their podcast!
Since we only have a few weeks left until the end of the year, we thought it would be a good idea to discuss a topic that is, or soon will be, on all of our minds: how to handle the winter holidays as a freelancer.
Here’s what we talked about:
How we usually handle the end-of-year holidays, specifically Christmas and New Year’s Eve
What ideas we have for beginning freelance translators and how they might use the holidays to their advantage
How we determine when we need to take some time off and how we make sure we don’t sneak off to work a little bit now and then
What we send clients and colleagues as holiday gifts
How we let our clients and colleagues know about our time off and what we do to prepare for this break
What ideas we have for post-holiday marketing
How we like to wrap up the year and get ready for the new one
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