The Financial Reality of Having a Baby and Working for Yourself (2 Years Later…) 

Aaaw thank you!! Yes I always saw so much value in it - for listeners and for myself beyond any money it could make. Absolutely loved doing it! (pun intended 😅)

I'd hope there will be ongoing attention on it and it eventually recoups your investment​@@morehannah

Same!!

Absolutely agree

yup, same! honestly, I kinda love the idea of just periodically posting a bunch of different affiliate links and being like "hey, if you've been eyeing anything from these companies lately, here's a cheeky discount code for you!" like, not *encouraging* consumerism, just a "let's all benefit" for the consumerism that is probably gonna happen anyway

I don’t always get discount codes with affiliate links but I am always more likely to share if I do because then it feels like I’m actually giving something of value to you guys too!!

I do think its good for me as long as its super genuine, if you found something you LOVE and think will genuinely improve my life I think its good and I also usually only buy stuff I already want/need to buy.

HAHAHA I mean when you see your friends/peers do something it definitely adds to the voice like “oooh see it is possible!”

That’s what I thought too😆

Yes absolutely! I felt like I didn't have the time to do much guesting on other pods the last 2 years but now I can be a podcast guest slut!

Petition to get Hannah on The Financial Confessions, I would listen to that convo immediately!

hahaha hopefully!!! and yeah I've been loving busting out the old dresses - feels like new again!

yeah it's similar to mentoring I guess and yeah career coaching is absolutely a thing! I'm not particularly interested in the life coaching part of coaching tbh

Seconded! Hannah's organizational content is massively helpful to a disorganized mess such as myself.

Oooh yeah I love YNAB. Maybe could get them to sponsor a video lollll

At least drop your referral link for YNAB if you do a video! I believe it gives you 1 month free for everyone person who buys a subscription

thanks! it's a dress! 🌵

How would someone looking for therapy (particularly privately) check if a therapist was legit? For instance, is there a particular accreditation or qualification to look for or is there some sort of 3rd party register? Patients shouldn't have to go through a trial and error approach to find someone who actually helps, especially for something like therapy and especially if they are paying for it privately. Hopefully it becomes properly regulated, like other medical professions, soon.

​@@hannahk1306 so for sex and relationship therapists they will be on the COSRT register. Foe general therapists they're usually on the BACP or UKCP register. So go onto those official websites and search their names! Hope that helps :)

Also, nice spring jumpsuit 😊 I've just spent a week gorging on seasonal colour palettes and saw the videos you made over the last year... I'd definitely love to know where your outfit came from, Ive used the links from Jessica's outfits very gladly, I don't shop alot but I value good quality fun and quirky items and small brands.. And yeah, totally appreciate your integrity around not promoting something you haven't personally used and can quality assure folks on, that's your name attatched to that, and someone has to earn the trust to be associated with it - I've learned that the hard way in real life, its not worth being generous and kind if your not 100% sure. Being true to your word is a reputation hard to rebuild if someone else breaks trust in your name.

yeah sometimes you get ads on podcasts and I get a (very small) cut of that revenue!

I have a public notion page for sex toy affiliate links that we would keep up to date although not a massive priority anymore but this is a good shout to create something similar! A lot of the coupon codes aren't permanent though - they change every campaign. Squarespace one though is the same and has never changed and seems to be always active!

@@morehannah Good to know! :)

Well I don’t earn any money from those people… lol

There’s an affiliate/discount channel in the discord server where I share stuff/people can ask for links!

Yeah coaching and consulting are very different indeed and I think I can feel myself doing a bit of both in sessions with clients which is why I want to learn more about coaching to be able to figure out where I sit/what I want to do and what qualifications I might need!

yeah because those videos are still up on RU-vid if people are watching old videos and they are playing ads then yes. Not as much as before of course because there are no new videos but still something as there is such a huge archive on that channel.

@@morehannah thank you for answering! I hope it continues to be at least something of a revenue stream for you

@sophiegavroche Apologies for the length of the comment. Hopefully it's helpful anyway. You can manually select an amount of your choice on any Patreon creator account pledge (above a minimum, which last I checked was a dollar). You don't get tier benefits higher than the amount you selected, but that just makes sense. If you follow a creator (Patreon now calls it the "free" membership, but there used to be a "follow" button to add their channel to your list and get notifications of public posts) and then go to the membership tab of the creator's page on a desktop browser, there should be an "Upgrade" button next to the creator's profile picture, as well as one that drops down at the top right once you've scrolled down a bit. Clicking that should take you to a screen that lists the membership tiers with amounts. Below those, under a divider labelled "or" is "Choose your own price" with a button labelled "Make custom pledge". Click that and you can pledge a dollar a month (I'm not sure whether that's an option if the creator only has "per creation" pledges - I haven't experimented). Note that, depending on what plan the creator has, transaction fees for a series of small pledges may be higher than for smaller numbers of larger ones. I think that Hannah may be on the Founders plan, which aggregates pledges monthly and reduces transaction fees in such a way that it doesn't make a difference, but for others who started after the eligibility for that plan, or switched to a different one, if you are pledging just to support and not for benefits, you might want to do a $12 pledge once a year instead of an ongoing $1 pledge. Also, if you pledge through a browser rather than the iOS app, more of the money goes to the creator because there aren't so many middlemen. Cheers!

I’m starting to think of it as a 3 year goal but need to figure it if it’s really what I want and a plan!! 😅

It wouldn’t be a very exciting video because my accountants do the spreadsheet and then I just simplify it for video purposes and make the pie chart! 😅😅

@@morehannah 😅 hahaha still helpful advice though - get an accountant if you are self employed and able to do so! So easy to have expectations that you have to do everything yourself 🫠