The ND Agency // Freelance Mentorship // For you

A twelve-week mentorship whose product is your first invoice.

You are 18 to 23, done with school, at home and not yet earning, and there is something you will do for hours. 18 to 23 is a guide, not a cut-off: nobody is turned away because of age.

Ask Bryce a question

The young adult in green coming in through the door, a bag on their shoulder, a lit laptop waiting at the nearest desk.

There is a page for your parents too The page for your parents

12 weeksThe aim is two invoices, sent by you. 3 morningsA week, four hours each. 42 kindsOf paid work. Find the line that is you. 1 mentorBryce, who works in the room.

The room opens on 10 November 2026. After that, people start one at a time, all year. At most six trainee freelancers are in the room at once.

Where you are now

Very good at one thing

Video, code, drawing, sound. You have years in it.

You at a desk at home, the screen lit. The wall above the desk is covered with sheets of your own work, pinned up in rows.

Or steady and exact

Lists, sorting, checking. You get every entry right.

You at a desk at home, the screen lit with a grid of even rows. On the wall above the desk, one tall sheet of even rows is pinned up.

Lost track of time. Again.

Once you start, the clock stops registering.

The same desk at night: stars in the window, the screen still lit, you still at it.

You need to be able to read, and you need your own computer. Matric is not needed. 18 to 23 is a guide, not a cut-off: nobody is turned away because of age.

What Freelance Mentorship is

You come in three mornings a week, four hours each. You have a desk. The work at the desk is turning the thing you are already good at into something a stranger pays for. Here you are a trainee freelancer. The clients, the invoices and the bank account are yours.

The Salt River room, head-on, in four parts: the front door standing open; Bryce at his own desk; you at a desk under a board of task cards in order, the first three taken down and shown as outlines; two others at a shared desk.

There is a mentor

Bryce has done this on Upwork and other platforms, and works in the room. He does not find clients for you. He shows you where he found his, what he wrote and what he charged. He also helps you pick a niche from what you already like, and points you to online courses he trusts.

Two desks side by side, screens lit: the mentor in white with an orange lanyard at the left desk, the young adult in green at the right, a board of orange notes above the mentor.

There is a kit

A sequence of small tasks, one at a time. Name the skill. Write it in three sentences. Price one job. Set up one platform. Send ten proposals. Deliver one thing. Send one invoice. Then do it again.

A desk with one sheet standing on it, a pencil, and two hands at the page; above it a track of five stops with the second one orange.

There are others

Others your age, on the same days, doing the same thing.

Three desks in a row, three screens lit, three people from behind; the one in the middle in green.

What you do now. What a client pays for.

Forty-two kinds of paid work, on Upwork, Fiverr and other platforms. Find the line that is you.

One room, head-on, with empty wall in the middle. On the left, you at a desk at home under a wall of your own sheets, one of them orange. On the right, another person at a second desk, the same orange sheet on their screen and a bill pinned up beside it.

Video and streaming

What you do now	What a client pays for	Where
Cutting gaming clips for fun	Short-form video editor for Shorts, Reels and TikTok	Upwork, Fiverr
Watching long YouTube videos and knowing what keeps people watching	Long-form YouTube editor	Upwork, Fiverr
Cutting the funny moments out of long recordings	Podcast episode editing with clips	Upwork, Fiverr
Adding captions to your own videos	Subtitles and captions	Upwork, Fiverr
Recording and narrating gameplay	Game trailers, game recordings and guides	Fiverr
Making animated intros or overlays	Motion graphics, animation for streamers	Upwork, Fiverr
Playing with AI video tools	AI video generation and editing	Upwork

Drawing and design

What you do now	What a client pays for	Where
Drawing characters all day	Illustration, character art for games	Upwork, Fiverr
Drawing worlds, maps and objects	Game backgrounds, environments and props	Fiverr
Making emotes, badges and banners for friends' channels	Graphics for streamers	Fiverr
Making logos and posters	Logo design, graphic design, Canva design	Upwork, Fiverr
Tidying and retouching photos	Photo and image editing	Upwork, Fiverr
Making neat slides	Presentation design	Upwork
Building models in Blender	3D modelling, 3D animation	Upwork, Fiverr
Making pixel art or tile sets	Asset packs sold to game makers	itch.io

Sound and music

What you do now	What a client pays for	Where
Making beats or tracks	Music production, jingles and intros, DJ drops	Fiverr
Cleaning up bad audio	Audio editing, mixing and mastering, podcast production	Upwork, Fiverr
Collecting and making sounds	Sound design, custom patches and samples	Fiverr
Doing voices and accents	Voice over, voice acting, narration	Upwork, Fiverr
Working out songs by ear	Music transcription	Fiverr

Code and games

What you do now	What a client pays for	Where
Building Roblox games	Roblox development for other creators	Fiverr
Running or modding a GTA roleplay server	FiveM development	Fiverr
Making things in Unity or Unreal	Unity or Unreal Engine development	Upwork, Fiverr
Finishing small games	Selling your own games	itch.io
Writing tabletop adventures and rules	Tabletop role-playing content	itch.io
Building websites for fun	Web design, WordPress, Shopify, front-end development	Upwork, Fiverr
Writing scripts to save yourself time	Scripting and automation	Upwork
Finding every bug and glitch	Testing websites, apps and games	Upwork, Testbirds, PlaytestCloud
Building chatbots	AI chatbot development	Upwork

Words and languages

What you do now	What a client pays for	Where
Correcting everyone's spelling	Proofreading, editing AI-written text	Upwork, Fiverr
Writing stories or fan fiction	Creative writing, game writing, scriptwriting	Upwork, Fiverr
Reading everything and having opinions	Beta reading	Fiverr
Speaking Afrikaans, isiXhosa or another language as well as English	Translation, localisation, subtitle translation	Upwork, Fiverr
Explaining how things work, step by step	Technical writing	Upwork, Fiverr

Careful, steady work with information

What you do now	What a client pays for	Where
Keeping spreadsheets and lists	Data entry: product catalogues, customer records, PDF to spreadsheet	Upwork, Fiverr
Sorting and labelling photos or collections	Labelling data for AI	Upwork, Remotasks, Appen, Clickworker
Looking things up until you are sure	Web research, market research	Upwork
Spotting the mistake in a transcript	Correcting AI transcripts against the audio	Upwork
Being good with Excel	Excel work, data cleaning and formatting	Upwork, Fiverr
Keeping an online shop's listings tidy	E-commerce listing work and store management	Upwork
Answering messages reliably	Chat and email support, virtual assistant	Upwork
Checking whether an answer is right	Rating search results and AI answers	Appen, Upwork

If your thing is not on the list, working out where it fits is the first task.

The morning

The same shape every morning: 45 minutes of setup with everyone, one task at your desk, and two lines before you leave.

Setup

Everyone, together

Your task

On your desk

What got done

Two lines

Start

After setup

End of the morning

The twelve weeks

Weeks 1 to 4
The skill, written down and priced

You and Bryce
Weeks 5 to 8
The first job: found, done, invoiced

You and Bryce
Weeks 9 to 12
The second job

You, with Bryce less in it

Twelve weeks. Up to two more at no cost if your second invoice has not gone out by then.

Second invoice: the aim

Their part

Your parents

They have their own page. It covers the two meetings they are asked to, and the payment.

The page for your parents →

The same desk, now simply yours. You stand at the board and pin up a third bill beside the first two.

After the twelve weeks

A desk in the same building.

On your own account, on the same terms as everyone else. Not a graduation, and nobody hands you clients. The same desk, the same door, and the invoices are yours.

The front of the building on a weekday morning. The front door stands open with the light on inside. You, a bag in one hand, are arriving.

Ask a question, or leave your email.

The room opens on 10 November 2026. After that, people start one at a time, all year.

Ask Bryce a question

Bryce replies by email within two working days. Asking costs nothing and commits you to nothing.

Or leave your email only

You get one email, when Freelance Mentorship opens on 10 November 2026. Nothing is booked, paid or signed.

You can also email Bryce directly at hello@showup.courses. Or print this page.

A twelve-week mentorship whose product is your first invoice.

Where you are now

Very good at one thing

Or steady and exact

Lost track of time. Again.

What Freelance Mentorship is

There is a mentor

There is a kit

There are others

What you do now. What a client pays for.

The morning

Setup

Your task

What got done

The twelve weeks

The skill, written down and priced

The first job: found, done, invoiced

The second job

Your parents

Ask a question, or leave your email.

Ask Bryce a question

Or leave your email only