While everyone is talking about raising our rates; negotiating bigger gigs and releasing amazing products and “owning” their lives something gets overlooked. Our personal well-being, physically and emotionally. I want to speak on something that is overlooked and that’s how we deal with stress, feelings of inadequacy and more. I burned out last year and I’d say I’m still recovering a bit from it; it’s not easy doing the freelance thing, but I’m happy I do it and would like to talk about how one gets into the valley of doubt and depression to come out on the other side wiser, happier a better business person/freelancer overall.