Build Your Copywriting Business26 Nov 2025

Copywriter Holiday Dinner Survival [Rewind]

Raise your hand if you’ve ever told someone you’re a “copywriter” and 5 minutes later you realize they think you’re a copyrighter. 🙋🙋‍♂️🙋‍♀️

We want to help you avoid that situation and ALL the others like it. That’s why Kate and I had the brilliant-beyond-brilliant idea to put together not one podcast episode this week but five super-short episodes that answer the most common questions copywriters get asked.

These are questions, frankly, you may get asked not just around the holidays (though there’s a higher probability!), but really *any* time you’re interacting with family and friends who don’t know what you do.

So, take a listen while you’re driving to holiday dinner, running a turkey trot, or walking around on a Tuesday in July (hey, if you’re like me you save a lot of episodes to come back to later!). You’ll have ready-to-go responses to scenarios like:

👨What do you say when Uncle Phil asks, “what even is copywriting?”

🧑‍🦰What do you say when sister-in-law Kelsey shouts, “OMG isn’t freelancing is so risky?”

👴 How do you respond when Grandpa Stan asks, “Can you even make money as a writer?”

👶 What do you say when your nephew Tyler says, “Isn’t AI destroying copywriting?”

👩‍🦳 How do you navigate cousin Diane asking, “Can you look over my resume?”

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