Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment

Lucas and Luna run the numbers on independent work — consulting, freelancing, self-employment — as a career path that's part hustle, part strategy, and increasingly mainstream. Each episode takes a concrete case: how a former McKinsey partner built a solo advisory firm billing $1,200 an hour, what the IRS's 2023 tax data reveals about the median solo consultant's net income ($68,000, not the Instagram fantasy), or how a software developer in Omaha replaced a $140K salary with three retainer clients. Lucas tracks the macro — Bureau of Labor Statistics data on the 64 million independent workers in the U.S., the rise of 'portfolio careers' among Gen Xers, the legal grey zones of worker classification — while Luna drills into the micro: how to price a first contract, set boundaries with a client who expects 'unlimited revisions', or build a niche so specific that competitors don't bother. They never pretend it's easy: episodes also cover cash-flow volatility, the loneliness of solo work, a