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Why this club

Friends in the same boat

When you go freelance, you lose the coffee machine, and the colleagues you used to tell when a client changed their mind yet again. We’ve been there: in our early days we ate lunch alone at our desks. Old friends listen, then ask when you’re planning to get a proper job.

We wanted friends we wouldn’t have to explain a day rate to. Their slog doesn’t have to be yours.

Beginners and old hands

At the same table, someone who has been invoicing for six months asks a woman who has run her company for twelve years how she set her first price.

Leaving with something

A lawyer’s name, the answer to a question that had been nagging you for a month, a coffee in the diary for the following week, or a good evening.

Why a table

At a table, with a paper tablecloth and two and a half hours ahead of you, there’s time to get past “so, what do you do?”.

Write to us

One address: bonjour@tablez-club.com. We answer emails within two working days, and to applications within seven days.

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Who runs the club

There are three of us. You won't see all three at the same dinner.

  • Milena Strzelczyk Photo M11

    Milena Strzelczyk

    Co-founder, organiser

    She puts the tables together and picks the restaurants. On Thursdays she's the one waiting at the door, list of first names in hand.

  • Julien Da Silva Photo J12

    Julien Da Silva

    Co-founder, runs the masterclass

    Twenty years of selling, at agencies and then on his own. Once a month he shows members how to set their price, and how to hold on to it.

  • Maxime Lefèvre

    CTO, the one who keeps the site running

    He looks after the website. If a button doesn't work, he's the one to tell.