Supermaker: Crafting Business on Your Own Terms

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Still, I’ve got bills. And a family. And responsibilities. And no survival skills or knowledge about subsistence farming. So I can’t just tap out. What I can do, though, is try to recharge. Influencers feel exhausted by the platform but are also inspired, which is a very weird relationship to have. You want to communicate with your audience, but you have to find the right balance so you’re not too curated. Point is: I haven’t been especially productive. And I feel like I’ve really done some good work. I’m not only talking about the piano, either. I fit some “real” work in as well, and I did a much better job with it after goofing around for a couple days. It’s like that dad joke in reverse: hardly working let me actually work hard. Kate was about a year into her freelance career before she was introduced to Binders Full of Women Writers, a private Facebook group set up in 2014 that serves as a space for women and non-binary writers to share job opportunities and discuss professional struggles. Today it has over 46,000 members and has spawned various subgroups catering to different focus areas and identities. That first year was rough,” Kate recalls. “I made very little money and I cried a lot. I didn’t have any of these resources and I was brand new to the idea that this is how people work. The utter aloneness of it was really hard.”

With our real lives at a standstill (for good reason: we need to flatten the curve), our digital lives are on fire. Internet usage is up, as the pandemic gives a whole new meaning to aimless scrolling. Whether we realize it or not, we’re constantly being fed messages that tell us inactivity is unacceptable. Because the worst someone could do is spend all this time at home doing nothing, right? As a leader of a company so deeply intertwined with the finances of so many businesses across the country, and as the husband of a small business owner, I am personally focused on solutions,” Ferrand wrote. “We are hearing the challenges you’re all facing firsthand, and taking action to help.” Hosted in the lovely new Remote.ly building with views of the Willamette River and downtown Portland, programming will be followed by a community networking reception, with complimentary low-proof drinks and a surprise creative experience for all attendees. The best soup makers blend and cook tasty soup at the perfect temperature (around 75°C), without keeping you waiting too long. Whether you're keen to try out new recipes or to whizz up old favourites, we've tested popular soup makers from Morphy Richards, Ninja, Tefal, Tower and more.We found two that excelled enough for us to feel confident naming them Which? Best Buys, as well as a couple of Great Value soup makers that show you don't have to spend a fortune for delicious homemade soup. The best soup makers During a recent group video chat, where my friends and I gathered to virtually celebrate my birthday since we couldn’t be together in person, we discussed the sudden normalization of remote work. The majority of my friends who don’t work in essential fields, like medicine or food retail, now work from home. Though I felt grateful that some employers are taking this pandemic seriously, I also felt frustrated that, in the past, when asking employers to work remotely as an accommodation for Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and autism, I have been refused. We discovered that all soup makers we tested make a decent, tasty bowl of soup. However, the best soup makers made soup at a ready-to-serve temperature, were easy to use and weren't too difficult to clean. At this moment, we are all in uncharted territory—and this also includes companies. “Leadership doesn't know how to effectively measure employee performance from a distance,” says Musselman. “I have clients complaining that half their day is spent doing their work, and the other half is documenting and reporting how much work they've completed.” With many companies losing money by the minute due to the economic impacts of COVID-19, the pressure for workers to prove their worth is intensifying and will likely grow the longer this situation continues. For more ways to make soup see the best multi cookers, best slow cookers, best pressure cookers and best saucepans.

Themes will focus on 1) channeling your center—your core, intuitive energy as an entrepreneur and creative—and 2) learning to rise above adversity so you can achieve success on your own terms and build impactful brands. One way to incorporate meat into your soup recipes is to use leftover cooked meat from other meals, such as roasts. Is it worth buying a soup maker?Freelancing is this really singular thing. You’re doing this work, it’s really individual and you’re doing it alone—probably in sweatpants on your couch. But you still need colleagues,” Kate says, reflecting on five years spent working for herself. “That’s how I think about Study Hall. It sounds cheesy, but I think about these people like my colleagues.”

The Ninja Foodi Blender and Soup Maker is one of the few soup makers that allow you to add raw meat safely. And I’m also a little bit resentful. Maybe even angry. Not to go all Karen or anything, but I feel like we were told by Apple Care that if we did what we were supposed to do—if we put in the hours, if we put in the time, if we did the work—we’d be, maybe not rich, but at least… fine? Or, at least… stable? And now it just feels silly to keep putting in the hours, to keep putting in the time, to keep doing the work, when the world hasn’t kept up its end of the bargain. Ultimately, corporate cards may not be top-of-mind for everyone in this current climate, but there are options out there that can potentially alleviate stress and help startups better manage their finances. In good times and uncertain ones, Brex certainly seems to be in the business of making access to capital easy, smooth, and clear-cut. It’s natural to feel a lot of things right now. Or even to feel nothing at all. The bottom line is: whatever you feel is 100 percent okay. This is not a normal situation and it’s of utmost importance to practice compassion and give yourself permission to not be productive.

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For those without access to these invite-only groups, alternatives are available, often in the form of newsletters that provide professional advice. Some, like Freelance Writing Jobs by UK writer Sian Meades, or Sonia Weiser’s Opportunities of the Week, ask readers to tip if they enjoy reading (or land a job), while others offer paid tiers for more regular content and access to group discussions such as The Professional Freelancer, which has also organized co-working days for freelancers in London. Some are more explicit about their goal of providing emotional support, too, such as Freelance Feels, set up by Jenny Stallard last summer, with the goal of bringing “honest dialogue about freelance mental health to the fore.” Anna Toshach, an asset manager in New York City, met Adeigbo through Pipeline Angels, a network of investors that creates capital for women and non-binary femme social entrepreneurs, of which Adeigbo’s brand is a portfolio company. Toshach personally invested in Adeigbo’s brand and owns several pieces, crediting the designer for livening up her wardrobe and being “a catalyst for my own better understanding of the need to be a conscious clothing shopper.” But instead of suffering in silence, freelancers are starting to band together, creating their own networks and organizing to support the mental health of their community. Need to know Keep-warm setting; self-clean function; 116cm power cable; recipes included; two-year guarantee

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In a recent statement, Brex COO Paul-Henri Ferrand relayed the company’s commitment to their customers, adding that cardholders and new customers can now opt into a new remote rewards program and expansion of discounts on key remote work services. Brex’s customer support team is active during regular business hours, and Ferrand promised more updates in the coming weeks.