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In this episode we are exploring all things additional revenue streams specifically for makers of handmade goods. What they are, why you want them, and which ones would work best for you. If you want to grow your handmade business, or you want the safety of adding another revenue stream, then this episode is for you.FREE 4-PART MINI-COURSEI invite you to join me from the 1st to the 7th of February for an all new mini-course that I’ve been working on. It’s called YOUR HANDMADE BIZ 101: The Best Kept Secrets for Success with your handmade business. There are four free lessons, plus a live Q+A sessions, and it’s going to be a lot of fun! You can find all of the details HERE. Subscribe / Leave a ReviewHave you subscribed to my podcast? If not, I’d recommend you do it now so you don’t miss an episode. The line-up for the coming year looks amazing and without subscribing you’ll likely miss out on them. Subscribe on itunes here. Want to share a little love for the Podcast? That would certainly make my day. Please leave a review on itunes. These reviews help other makers and creative folks find and connect with the podcast plus they are just wonderful for me to read. Click here to review, then select Ratings and Reviews, and then select Write a Review and share what you love about the podcast. Thank you SO much.

Susannah Bleasby is a colour-loving, prolific Canadian painter. I came across her work years ago and it’s the kind of thing that leaves an imprint on you. Susannah is best known for her vibrant landscapes, her floral work, and abstract paintings. She paints… a lot. In this episode we talk about what happens when things just don’t flow as easy as they normally do. We’re talking about being creatively blocked or stuck, and Susannah shares some ideas about what you can do to work through these periods. FREE 4-PART MINI-COURSEI invite you to join me from the 1st to the 7th of February for an all new mini-course that I’ve been working on. It’s called YOUR HANDMADE BIZ 101: The Best Kept Secrets for Success with your handmade business. There are four free lessons, plus a live Q+A sessions, and it’s going to be a lot of fun! You can find all of the details HERE. Subscribe / Leave a ReviewHave you subscribed to my podcast? If not, I’d recommend you do it now so you don’t miss an episode. The line-up for the coming year looks amazing and without subscribing you’ll likely miss out on them. Subscribe on itunes here. Want to share a little love for the Podcast? That would certainly make my day. Please leave a review on itunes. These reviews help other makers and creative folks find and connect with the podcast plus they are just wonderful for me to read. Click here to review, then select Ratings and Reviews, and then select Write a Review and share what you love about the podcast. Thank you SO much.

This episode is inspired by a series of newsletters I wrote about how I was struggling to take time to rest, and I was kinda blown away by the number of replies I received from these emails.. It seems that I wasn’t the only one who was resistant to resting. In this episode we are going to talk about what rest is, why it’s important, and why it can feel hard to prioritize taking time to rest. +++++++++++++++++++++I wanted to share a bit of exciting news with you. I have I started a brand new Instagram account where I share all my handmade business tips with it’s also the home of my creative business education offerings. I’ll give a behind the scenes look into the Modern Maker Method, my signature business course for creatives, as well as my membership for makers - Compass the society of makers and dreamers, and some new workshops that are coming up in 2023. I’d love it if you join me on Instagram, it’s called School for Modern Makers. Shoot me a direct message, or comment that you listened to this episode! ++++Subscribe / Leave a ReviewHave you subscribed to my podcast? If not, I’d recommend you do it now so you don’t miss an episode. The line-up for the coming year looks amazing and without subscribing you’ll likely miss out on them. Subscribe on itunes here. Want to share a little love for the Podcast? That would certainly make my day. Please leave a review on itunes. These reviews help other makers and creative folks find and connect with the podcast plus they are just wonderful for me to read. Click here to review, then select Ratings and Reviews, and then select Write a Review and share what you love about the podcast. Thank you SO much.

On this episode I’m thrilled to welcome the absolutely lovely back Kiley Bennett to the podcast. Kiley is an artist, educator, and author from Kentucky. Kiley joins me in this episode to chat about the journey that we go on as a creative entrepreneurs, about how our ideas about our businesses can evolve, and how our success is something only we can determine.Kiley has been running her own business since 2016 and is best known for her array of brilliant courses on Skillshare that range from teaching about hand lettering to creating polymer clay earrings. She also teaches Crafting Online Courses, a fantastic course that yes, teaches you the ins and outs of crafting an outstanding online course (I took and can honestly say - it’s REALLY great!) +++++++++++++++++++++The Modern Maker Method is open for enrollment right now - and  for just a few more days. This LIVE comprehensive 8-week business course is specifically designed for creatives, for all of the beautiful makers and artists out there that want to build a business doing something they love. The course will support makers to create a vision for their lives and businesses, how to market their work in a way that feels good, and how to get over all of the aspects of running a business that seem really daunting and instead, learn how to tackle them and build a thriving career. I’ve taken six years of learning and wrapped it up into an 8- week truly life-changing, and fun, course. ++++Subscribe / Leave a ReviewHave you subscribed to my podcast? If not, I’d recommend you do it now so you don’t miss an episode. The line-up for the coming year looks amazing and without subscribing you’ll likely miss out on them. Subscribe on itunes here. Want to share a little love for the Podcast? That would certainly make my day. Please leave a review on itunes. These reviews help other makers and creative folks find and connect with the podcast plus they are just wonderful for me to read. Click here to review, then select Ratings and Reviews, and then select Write a Review and share what you love about the podcast. Thank you SO much.

Join me in this episode to chat all things Instagram with the oh-so-lovely Elise Darma. Elise is a an online marketing specialist who specializes is teaching people how to utilize social media best reach their customers She teachers numerous courses and has been featured by Amy Porterfield, Forbes, and Entrepreneur. +++++++++++++++++++++Coming up next week I am running a totally free and totally awesome four-part mini-course called Creating a Career Selling Your Handmade Goods - and - I would absolutely love it if you could join us. You’ll learn the key elements to building a successful handmade business,  how to avoid overwhelm and focus on what matters most, and how to create products that are really going to wow your customers. You’re going to want to grab your creative bestie and save your seat for this fun week. It’s kicks off on March first and you can sign up HERE. Subscribe / Leave a ReviewHave you subscribed to my podcast? If not, I’d recommend you do it now so you don’t miss an episode. The line-up for the coming year looks amazing and without subscribing you’ll likely miss out on them. Subscribe on itunes here. Want to share a little love for the Podcast? That would certainly make my day. Please leave a review on itunes. These reviews help other makers and creative folks find and connect with the podcast plus they are just wonderful for me to read. Click here to review, then select Ratings and Reviews, and then select Write a Review and share what you love about the podcast. Thank you SO much.

Join me in this episode where we walk through one the biggest myths in the art and maker world: the idea that in order to be successful you need to have talent. Yep, we’re talking all about talent in this episode. What it is, how it can help - or hinder - your career as a maker, and what to do when you just don’t have any (top tip: don’t give up!). Are you interested in building your creative business? You’ll want to check out my upcoming course, the Modern Maker Method which launches on March 8th. This 8-week intensive, inspiring, and downright amazing course will be like pressing fast-forward on your creative business! Learn more HERE. Subscribe / Leave a ReviewHave you subscribed to my podcast? If not, I’d recommend you do it now so you don’t miss an episode. The line-up for the coming year looks amazing and without subscribing you’ll likely miss out on them. Subscribe on itunes here. Want to share a little love for the Podcast? That would certainly make my day. Please leave a review on itunes. These reviews help other makers and creative folks find and connect with the podcast plus they are just wonderful for me to read. Click here to review, then select Ratings and Reviews, and then select Write a Review and share what you love about the podcast. Thank you SO much.

Join me in this episode where we walk through the fourth and final part of creating an annual plan for your creative business. Today we are going to be focussing on creating your plan for 2022. You’ve done all of the hard work, collecting the number, reflection, figuring out what you want more of this year, and setting yourself some strong goals for the year. Today we are going to make the plan to make it happen.In this four-part series I am going to walk you through the process I use to do my annual planning. Sign up HERE to receive the workbooks that accompany this series. Subscribe / Leave a ReviewHave you subscribed to my podcast? If not, I’d recommend you do it now so you don’t miss an episode. The line-up for the coming year looks amazing and without subscribing you’ll likely miss out on them. Subscribe on itunes here. Want to share a little love for the Podcast? That would certainly make my day. Please leave a review on itunes. These reviews help other makers and creative folks find and connect with the podcast plus they are just wonderful for me to read. Click here to review, then select Ratings and Reviews, and then select Write a Review and share what you love about the podcast. Thank you SO much.

Join me in this episode where we walk through the third part of creating an annual plan for your creative business. Today we are going to be dreaming all the dreams and setting some goals for 2022. We’re going to use the information we gathered in parts one and two to now look ahead and set some goals and make plans for a brilliant year. I’m so glad you’re here because this is going to be exciting. In this four-part series I am going to walk you through the process I use to do my annual planning. Sign up HERE to receive the workbooks that accompany this series. Subscribe / Leave a ReviewHave you subscribed to my podcast? If not, I’d recommend you do it now so you don’t miss an episode. The line-up for the coming year looks amazing and without subscribing you’ll likely miss out on them. Subscribe on itunes here. Want to share a little love for the Podcast? That would certainly make my day. Please leave a review on itunes. These reviews help other makers and creative folks find and connect with the podcast plus they are just wonderful for me to read. Click here to review, then select Ratings and Reviews, and then select Write a Review and share what you love about the podcast. Thank you SO much.

In part two of this four-part series all about annual planning, we are digging into all everything FEELINGS related. We’re going to do some reflecting on the past year to see where we felt joy, stress, what went wrong, what went right, and what lessons we learned along the way. In this four-part series I am going to walk you through the process I use to do my annual planning. Sign up HERE to receive the workbooks that accompany this series. Subscribe / Leave a ReviewHave you subscribed to my podcast? If not, I’d recommend you do it now so you don’t miss an episode. The line-up for the coming year looks amazing and without subscribing you’ll likely miss out on them. Subscribe on itunes here. Want to share a little love for the Podcast? That would certainly make my day. Please leave a review on itunes. These reviews help other makers and creative folks find and connect with the podcast plus they are just wonderful for me to read. Click here to review, then select Ratings and Reviews, and then select Write a Review and share what you love about the podcast. Thank you SO much.

Back when I was an elementary teacher, annual planning was a huge and important part of my classroom curriculum each year. A strong plan for the year meant I could easily focus on the things I needed to get ready for each week, and would keep me on task to achieve and teach everything I wanted to cover. It’s funny then that the first few years of focussing on my full-time art career that i shied away from annual planning. I think part of it was that I was unusual about where I was headed. However, once I sat down and got into annual planing for my maker business magical things started to happen. I started to get so much more done and felt a lot better about the day-to-day running of my business. In this four-part series I am going to walk you through the process I use to do my annual planning. Sign up HERE to receive the workbooks that accompany this series. Subscribe / Leave a ReviewHave you subscribed to my podcast? If not, I’d recommend you do it now so you don’t miss an episode. The line-up for the coming year looks amazing and without subscribing you’ll likely miss out on them. Subscribe on itunes here. Want to share a little love for the Podcast? That would certainly make my day. Please leave a review on itunes. These reviews help other makers and creative folks find and connect with the podcast plus they are just wonderful for me to read. Click here to review, then select Ratings and Reviews, and then select Write a Review and share what you love about the podcast. Thank you SO much.