Shalonda Mitchell is a financial strategist and former freelance creative who spent twelve years navigating the feast-or-famine cycle before building the systems that finally broke it. After a decade of seven-figure years followed by six-figure debt, she realized the problem wasn't her earning potential — it was the absence of a financial framework designed for irregular income.
She spent the next three years developing, testing, and refining the Income Averaging Method with a pilot group of over 200 freelancers across design, writing, software development, consulting, and creative services. The results were consistent: participants reported a 40–60% reduction in financial stress within ninety days, and the majority saw their effective income increase by 15–25% within the first year — not because they earned more, but because they kept more of what they earned and made better decisions about when and how to work.
Shalonda holds a certification in financial coaching from the National Association of Certified Financial Counselors and has been featured in *Forbes*, *Fast Company*, and *The Freelancer's Podcast*. She speaks regularly at conferences including the Freelance Revolution Summit and Creative South on the intersection of personal psychology and practical money systems.
She lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where she runs her coaching practice and writes about freelance finance at her website, shalondamitchell.com. When she's not helping freelancers stabilize their income, you'll find her hiking the Chattahoochee River trails, experimenting with sourdough starters, or convincing her cat that client calls are not interactive toys.
*The Freelance Income Method* is her first book