EP16 – The Behind the Scenes Truth of Starting and Growing a Creative Business with Hello!Lucky
Release Date: 05/11/2020
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Have you let someone’s negative opinion of your work hold you back? Do you have dreams of what you would like to put into the world but feel discouraged? Today's guest Andrea Pippins, an illustrator and author, whose vision is to empower women and girls of color as well as people in under-served communities, shares her story of how she broke through these two questions and went after what she wanted for her life in order to make her dreams happen.
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Do you feel like you are living small? Do you have ideas of what it is you want to do, but are afraid to take that step? Today, Meagan Morrison shares how she boldly defined what she wanted her life to look like and made it happen. You will leave feeling inspired and hopeful for your own path.
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Do you feel like you are on a roller coaster in your creative business? Are you struggling to figure out your business's purpose and the north star? Today's sister duo Eunice and Sabrina of Hello!Lucky, an award-winning letterpress greeting card and design studio, pull back the curtains and share how they started and grew their business and let their passion and purpose guide them throughout the journey.
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This episode focuses on host Josephine Kimberling's Top 5 Tools for Greater Self-Discovery and also shares with you the future of the Highlight REAL podcast.
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Meera Lee Patel is self-taught artist and writer who believes that anything is possible. She is the author of My Friend Fear: Finding Magic in the Unknown a beautiful meditation on fear and how it can help us become who we really are--if we let it. She is also the author of two journals: “Made Out of Stars, a journal for self-realization” and “Start Where You Are”.
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Lisa Congdon is an Illustrator and author who is best known for her colorful, graphic drawings and hand lettering.
info_outlineDo you feel like you are on a roller coaster in your creative business? Are you struggling to figure out your business's purpose and the north star? Today's sister duo Eunice and Sabrina of Hello!Lucky, an award-winning letterpress greeting card and design studio, pull back the curtains and share how they started and grew their business and let their passion and purpose guide them throughout the journey.
TODAY YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO
- Ride the ups and downs of a creative business
- Define your businesses north star
- Use your purpose to add meaning to others lives
- Use the skills you have to make a difference
- Figure out which of your clients to focus on most
- Stand up for yourself and say no when something is not a good fit
FIND HELLO!LUCKY HERE:
- Hello!Lucky’s Website
- Hello!Lucky on Instagram
- Hello!Lucky’s Info for Small Business Owners
- Hello!Lucky at Paperless Post
FOR MORE OF HIGHLIGHT REAL:
- Visit JOSEPHINEKIMBERLING.COM/HIGHLIGHT-REAL-PODCAST for the show notes for each guest
- Follow @letshighlightreal on Instagram
MORE ABOUT HELLO!LUCKY
Hello!Lucky is an award-winning letterpress greeting card and design studio. It officially came into being in 2003 when Eunice, a gifted illustrator, got obsessed with the craft of letterpress, which creates beautiful, tactile prints that offer a humanizing counterpoint to our fast-paced digital world. Sabrina, a creative entrepreneur, dove in to get Hello!Lucky off the ground with its first collection of letterpress printed greeting cards, which pushed the envelope with exuberant illustrations and fun puns.
Now, years later, Hello!Lucky is an award-winning design studio working with dozens of partners to design products ranging from best-selling children’s books to bedding, ceramics, socks, stationery, custom photo albums and more.
Hello!Lucky is founded in the belief that creativity, positivity, humor, and kindness are the key ingredients to a life well-lived. They believe in bringing playful exuberance to everything they make, and to creating products that deepen connections between people and their loved ones. They also believe that everyone deserves the opportunity to express themselves and to live in a world that affirms beauty, diverse experiences, and kindness.