Thank you for having me. So I have been freelance writing for over seven years now. I started doing it back in 2015, not knowing it would become as sought after or popular as it is today. I had no idea a pandemic, the great resignation, everything was incoming. I just quit my job in 2015. I was 22. I hated it so much. Quit it. I love freelance writing. I tried a bunch of other things, but freelancing is really what took off for me. And I had a lot of success with it after a few years.
I worked really hard at it though, but I started to make really good money on Fiverr and news channels, papers started to write about it. And it kind of all this press put me in a position where I'm almost like a freelancing influencer now, in addition to being a freelance writer. And I love it because I like the change and everything. So you kind of catch me today as a freelancing mentor, writer, podcast host, crazy person.
That's awesome though, because it sounds like you've taken what was like kind of a mainstream thing and you've diversified it into multiple avenues. And so I'm curious, why did you start a podcast though? I started a podcast in February of this year. It's actually brand new because all the people who follow me kept begging me to do it. So I was like, okay, okay, I'll do it. And I'm happy I did it because I have in the first season, so much free information there.
Now if anyone asks me any question, I just say, listen to the podcast, listen to the podcast. Like, it's just go do that. That's awesome. So it basically became not only a way for you to give value back to your audience, but also to answer all their frequently asked questions, it sounds like. Yes, it's almost exactly like my FAQ. Although my second season now I'm having guests on and it's pretty much just me bringing people on who I want to be friend.
It's just like my Alex friend club that I'm all these people I love online who I admire on Tik Tok. I'm like, come on my podcast so I can be your friend. That's awesome. That's actually where I started my own podcast. My podcast is called the bloggy friend show and it started because I wanted people to be my blogging friends. That's it, right? Like it's, it's the best networking tool. I say that to people. If, if not for anything, you, you network with people. Absolutely.
And it also prevents all of the brain pickers. Yeah. I'm sure you get a lot of people that are like, Oh, can I take you to coffee and pick your brain? You know, Oh my God. When people text me that they want to get coffee, I always want to write back to them. Do you think I got where I am today by going to coffee with people? That is a no. Like I appreciate it, but I just kindly say to them, Hey, I have like 5,000 hours of free content online instead. It's just there for you. Yeah.