153: Winter Break
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Nicole shares a special announcement, a thank you gift for all of you and closes out the season before our podcast goes on winter break. We'll see you all again in January 2023 for a new season.
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152: How to Create a Soul-aligned Instagram
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Nicole chats with Instagram branding strategist Kat Coroy about how to create an authentic brand on Instagram that attracts your ideal customers, ways to create content without feeling overwhelmed, a mindset shift to help you feel more confident on social media, how to deal with negativity online and more.
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151: Intuitive Finances
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What does a visionary relationship with your finances look like? Nicole talks with Jessie Susannah Karnatz aka the Money Witch about healing your relationship with money, creating change in your financial life, how to determine who your big financial goal is, the real reasons behind your money issues and more.
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150: Radical Authenticity in Your Life & Creative Business
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How are radical authenticity and self-acceptance drivers in the growth of creativity and business? Healer, Licensed Therapist, Ritualist, Yoga Instructor Shirley Johnson joins Nicole for a conversation about how if you’re not growing and moving towards being your true self, you won’t be able to build a sustainable business and irresistible brand. They talk about how discomfort and patience are key to growth, why rough spots are transformational, what to do if you feel like there’s something bigger for you and more.
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149: Making a Living From Your Art
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What sets doers apart from dreamers? How do you know if you should take the leap and turn your artistic passion into a business? Ilana Griffo & Katie Johnson, artists, published authors and co-owners behind Goodtype join Nicole for a conversation all about what it takes to make a living from your art. They talk about how to know if it's time to quit your job, taking calculated risks, testing the market, sacrifices they had to make and more.
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148: Clarifying and Sharing Your Brand Story
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What is your brand story? How do you clarify your vision and create branded purposeful content that supports it? Brand, Content Marketing Strategist and avid storyteller Vivienne Okafor joins Nicole to answer these questions as well as talk about how to keep with the changes on social media, the importance of market research and how to do it on a budget, and they have an on-the-spot brainstorm session and create content ideas for a handmade brand to get your inspired. P.S. - You can join Nicole and Vivienne on Instagram Live on October 19, 2022 at 1pm PT for a Live content idea brainstorm...
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147: Crafting a Life You Love
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How does gratitude play a role in goal-getting? How can realizing that as Jack Canfield said, “there are only three things you can control: what you think, what you visualize, and what you do” change your life? What does success look like? How can you fully embrace the good things in your life and move towards joy? Nicole chats with her friend of 20 years, Amy Tan, a small business owner, proud mama, professional scrapbooker, and the founder of Amy Tangerine, about all of this and more.
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146: 6 steps to handle your inner critic
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Whats's the biggest thing that’s holding you back in your creativity and business? It's actually YOU or more specifically your mindset. Your mindset can limit you and keep you in your comfort zone where everything is known and relatively safe, there's no risk of failure or making mistakes but there's also no chance for bringing the brilliance that only you have into the world. And, we need your brilliance! In this episode I’m sharing a story about my own mindset struggle that affected my business and six steps to deal with your inner critic and cultivate a mindset of abundance.
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145: Get Unstuck & Find Your Flow
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How can practices like breathwork, human design, EFT and the law of attraction help you find the flow and get unstuck in your life, creativity and business? That’s what we talk about with author and instructor Kerry Burki in today’s episode. Even if you’re more practical than woo-woo I urge you to listen with an open mind as adding these tools to your creative business owner toolbox can be impactful and meaningful.
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144: Passion to Product to Profit
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If you’re a maker who is just starting your business, this episode is for you. Business owner, podcast host, educator and bestselling author Sue Monhait shares insights from her 30+ years in business to help early stage creative business owners shorten the learning curve to having a successful business. We talk about how to know if there’s a market for what you make, the common things makers miss when starting a handmade business, how to find your focus, how to know if your business is successful and more.
info_outlineDelilah and Nicole talk to Mei Pak of Tiny Hands Jewelry and Creative Hive Co. about how to pitch, preparing your business before you pitch, the do's and dont's of pitching, following up, combating the fear of rejection and more!
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