A real plan to replace your 9–5 income in 2026
 
 
 
Hey Anna,
 
You ever have one of those days where your browser has 24 tabs open; 5 of which are for your day job, and the other 19 are for client work you're sneaking in before your 10am meeting?
 
Slack open, Illustrator open, your lunch is getting cold, and your brain is in two places at once.
 
Because yeah, technically you have one job...
 
But actually? You have two.
 
The one that drains you (hi, paycheck)
And the one that lights you up (hi, design clients)
 
Because as much as you love your design business, right now it's not paying like a business, sis.
 
It's covering your Adobe subscription, Canva Pro, and maybe a pair of Target sweatpants when they go on sale.
 
Meanwhile you're spending nights designing decks for $800 projects, ghosting your friends because you're “just catching up on a few quick edits,” and waking up to an inbox that's way too quiet for how hard you've been working.
 
You want to wake up to new inquiries.
DMs asking when you're next available.
Clients who found your site, binged your work, and already trust you.
 
You want to build a real pipeline full of aligned, high-budget design clients, not just hope one appears the moment you post “Now booking” on Stories.
 
So here's my question for you:
What if 2025 was the last year you had to split yourself in two?
What if you had a real, working system to actually replace your 9-5 income with a pipeline full of design clients so that you can leave your desk job and never look back and only work with dream clients at the rates you've had on your vision board for years?
 
Here's where we start: