Overcoming Mental Health Challenges & Keeping Your Freedom as a Freelancer with Eileen

Kat’s Podcast – Episode no. 4

“This really has benefited my health: that I can decide now when I wanna work and on what topics I wanna work. This freedom has really helped me get better.”

My guest on the show today is Eileen, a freelance consultant and travel lover from Germany. 

Eileen has overcome mental health issues, that stemmed from her physical environment as well as her work environment  in India, and built up a new life of freedom and balance. 

Our conversation is straight-forward and packed with practical tips – whether you’re contemplating that move from your 9-to-5 towards self-employment or whether you’re looking for ways to better deal with the stressors in your permanent job or as a freelancer. Despite the straight-forwardness, however, we won’t skip the yoga – because, it seems, this ancient lifestyle does play a major role in creating balance and setting yourself up for a freedom lifestyle!

We talk about:

• Eileen’s time in India & the mental health issues she’s overcome (3:00)
• The crucial part breath work has played in creating health &balance (9:30)
• Tips for you on how to calm down & center yourself (14:40)
• Tips on how to make that shift from 9-to-5 to a freer job & life (16:15)
• How to keep your balance while traveling (18:25)
• The “happy” shifts coming with living a freedom lifestyle (22:15)
• Eileen’s rediscovered longing for nature (24:22)
• Finances: How to sustain yourself when living a freedom lifestyle (27:55)
• Working efficiently so you can go back to your freedom faster (30:10)
• The “illusion” a lot of companies are still operating in (34:10)

Episode resources:

• Connect with Eileen on Instagram
• Eileen’s freedom song: Phosphorescent – “Song for Zula”
• Music (Intro/Outro): Thanks to Analog By Nature. Credits:
  cdk – Sunday by Analog By Nature (c) copyright 2016 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.

• Kat’s Instagram if you wanna give feedback or follow along over there

Thank you so much for listening! Let us know: Which was your favourite tip and how did it work for you? Also: what would you like to hear more of? What topic shall I make a show on?

Love, Kat