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The Forever Freelancer
Design a Career Purpose-Built for Your Life
For millennial women, parents, and caregivers ready to trade 9–5 burnout for autonomy, flexibility, and unlimited earning potential.
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You Did Everything Right. So Why Does Work Still Feel Wrong?
You were told to go to college, get a good job, work hard, and you’d be secure. Instead, you ended up with:
Thousands of dollars in student loan debt
Workplaces that demand more of you, while offering less
Self-care and family time squeezed into early mornings, late nights, and jam-packed weekends
Millennial women are bone-tired of this loop. And they’re looking for an out.
Freelancing Isn’t Transitional. It’s a Viable, Long-Term Career.
Freelancing is often framed as temporary, too risky, or a stopgap in between “real” jobs. In reality, it offers more control, flexibility, diversified income, and long-term financial resilience than traditional employment.
“Freelancing is the most secure job I’ve ever had.” - Satta Sarmah Hightower, author of The Forever Freelancer
The Forever Freelancer Is Not a “Girl Boss” Manifesto
An honest, transparent, step-by-step roadmap for full-time freelancing
Part business memoir, part how-to guide
Grounded in:
Interviews with female freelancers and experts
External research
Satta’s 12 years of experience as a full-time freelancer running a solo business that has generated multi-seven figures in earnings
What This Book Is:
What This Book Is Not:
❌ Hustle culture propaganda
❌ “Rise and grind” advice
❌ Overnight success promises
This is about building a boutique creative business that fits your life, and empowers you to be more present in it.
Transition into full-time freelancing with intention
Build a sustainable solo creative business
Replace “job security” with real financial resilience
Design work around caregiving, motherhood, and real life
Trade the myth of work-life balance for something more realistic: work-life integration
Create flexibility without sacrificing income or ambition
Inside The Forever Freelancer, You’ll Learn How To
Download 25 Essential Tools for Freelance Creatives
You’re a millennial or Gen Xer questioning traditional career paths
You’re a mom or caregiver craving more autonomy
You want flexibility and financial growth
You want to define success on your own terms
You believe work should support your life — not consume it
This Book Is for You If…
The Forever Freelancer sits at the intersection of career, money, and creative entrepreneurship
If You Loved These Books, You’ll Love The Forever Freelancer
The Simple Path to Wealth, by JL Collins
The Financial Feminist, by Tori Dunlap
I Know How She Does It, by Laura Vanderkam
Write for Money and Power, by Amy Suto
Rewrite Your Rules, by Morgan DeBaun
Meet the Author
Hi. I’m Satta Sarmah Hightower, a former journalist turned freelance writer and content marketer.
Over the last 12 years, I’ve built a multi 7-figure solo business, using the storytelling skills I cultivated as a journalist to produce content for corporate clients and national publications.
I always tell people I became a freelancer by accident, but I’m now a freelancer by choice. I fell into freelancing in 2014 after back-to-back layoffs, while saddled with $55,000 in student loan debt and persistent doubts about why I had chosen a path with such career and financial instability.
More than a decade later, that “accident” has led to more time freedom, flexibility for my family, and opened the door to financial freedom.
I wrote The Forever Freelancer as a guide for those who are looking for an off-ramp from rise-and-grind culture, institutional policies, and cultural narratives that implicitly and explicitly tell us career success and happy, thriving families can’t coexist.
This book exists because I wholeheartedly believe women have the power to craft careers that better align with what they value — and what they’re worth.
Stop Waiting for Permission to Build a Different Career. The Forever Freelancer Gives You a Game Plan.
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