085: How to start a side-hustle as a motion designer w/ Mary Hawkins

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nowadays it’s common for people to have more than one job or income stream.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Having a side-hustle allows you to have more freedom and control in your career as it’s not your only source of income - but how do you go about choosing one? And how do you get started?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today’s guest has a popular Etsy store selling stationery as well as a successful career in motion design. In fact, having a side-hustle allows her to be pickier over the kinds of clients she works with.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Find out how you too can start your own side-hustle to complement your motion design career.</span></p> <p><strong>About Mary Hawkins</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mary Hawkins is a freelance motion designer, animator and art director. She joined our Mograph Mastermind last year to help her to get clarity on the kinds of clients she wanted to work with and because she was suffering from a massive case of burnout.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As a result, she has gone from being an in-house freelancer to an independent freelancer and she now gets to work with clients such as charities as well as broadcast designer clients.</span></p> <p><strong>How to start a side-hustle as a motion designer</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mary has built up an extremely successful Etsy shop selling voting-themed stationery - she’s made 12,000 sales in the past 4 years.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She credits her success to having such a niche store. Mary makes products for volunteers to write postcards to voters. Writing postcards to voters was a new idea back in 2017 that has become increasingly popular, which is how Mary Likes Postcards was born.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She paid $300 to get lots of printing done back in 2017 and has been running the business ever since. She’s never had to take out a business loa