Friday Feelgood 28th March 2025

It's time to feel good this Friday and share with me your #FridayFeelgood?

What's been great about your week, any small wins or BIG ones for that matter?

This week I'm feeling good about something a little more serious than my regular output and that's knowing my worth.

What does ‘knowing your worth’ mean to you?

In the last few months I’ve seen a lot of freelancers like myself have conversations about rates, getting paid for our experience or expertise and the fact that it’s not getting any easier.

I saw an alarming post the other day from someone (who was new to me at the time) who said that ‘we’ need to be realistic and stop expecting to get rates that we have been getting for years. It certainly had a diverse response from those that thought the writer was correct and those that thought they were way out of line. For the record I’m with the folk in the latter camp.

It’s also recently been brought to my attention that there are people posing as ‘agents’ or ‘talent wranglers’ and they’re sifting though jobs on the internet with no real knowledge of how the industry works and luring unsuspecting or uncaring voiceover individuals into believing that they deserve 20% less than what is already a rate with agency fees included.

I can appreciate that when you’re only starting out, the difference between say £50 (for what those unscrupulous will say is "just a few minutes") and £250 is a lot but if you could appreciate the bigger picture and learn to know your worth then you could see that by doing so we will all be better off in the long run!

To really get into my Friday Feelgood, I have to say thanks once again to the unstoppable force that is Jan Todd who's really helped me know my worth with her fantastic mentoring and helping me to make the most out of my website!

Let me know what's been great in your week!

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A Northern Irish professional female voiceover that knows her worth! Drop me a line at my revamped website www.oonaghoflaherty.com