Inc Magazine Contributing Editor Jeff Haden on Freelance Writing (on the Side), Becoming a Ghostwriter, and Discovering Tim Ferriss

In today’s episode, we’re talking to Jeff Haden, a contributing editor at Inc Magazine, ghostwriter to some of the world’s top CEOs & entrepreneurs, speaker, and author of his own upcoming business book… This interview was very special to me—Jeff was the first person to publish my work somewhere other than just my own blog & the blogs of startups I knew… he took an article I wrote for the Buffer Blog and published it to his column on Inc Magazine, which served as the catalyst for me being able to get columns on all the other major publications afterwards. In many ways, Jeff is where my journey into writing turned up a notch. Jeff’s story is also very unique… after spending more than 20 years rising up through management at a book manufacturing plant, he started to get bored with his work—and wanted something more meaningful. Jeff began freelance writing on the side of his day job. After a few years of stoking the fire with this side hustle, his writing career began to take off… he’d go on to become a highly sought-after ghostwriter to some of the world’s most recognizable CEO’s and business leaders who wanted to write books. Jeff built relationships with editors at several online publications and eventually found himself being a contributing editor to Inc Magazine…