How to Nurture Your Creativity | Ep 79

Here's the breakdown of common practices I'm seeing people slip into on Instagram that's hurting your marketing reach. We all take a short cut or two. It's natural. But sometimes, those shortcuts end up lowering the bar we set for our business and if we're doing less than where the bar is set for the bare minimum, then we're going to be at a decline with our marketing efforts. Because it's not obvious today, but it will be obvious in 6 months time, and even more obvious in 12 months time. Enjoyed this episode? Don't forget to leave me a review.You can also follow me on the socials: @joshjay.co 

Shifting your mentality to ownership mentality with money, resources, time and energy is going to change the way you run your business and your life. Consumers see spending money as an expense. Business owners see it as an investment, but which one is right? Opportunity and Cost are how business owners make decisions that move them forward. It's the cost of inaction that costs us way more in the future compared to the price we have to pay down today.  Enjoyed this episode? Don't forget to leave me a review.You can also follow me on the socials: @joshjay.co 

People with highly creative brains run on a different operating system. The first challenge is figuring out how to changing the way you do things compared what the conventional way of being productive is for your business. These are 2 things in order from waking up to getting on top of tasks that I help my creative clinets work through so they can be in the best shape to tackle their creative and prouctive tasks as business owners.Enjoyed this episode? Don't forget to leave me a review.You can also follow me on the socials: @joshjay.co 

At the heart of what every single creative wants is a combination of these Five Freedoms and I'm breaking them down and why I decided to spend my 30s building towards this and why it's at the core of what I do as a business coach to creative business owners.Enjoyed this episode? Don't forget to leave me a review.You can also follow me on the socials: @joshjay.co 

After 19 years of running businesses, I've learned that keeping your creative spark alive takes deliberate effort. In this episode, I walk through the seven things I lean on to stay creative while running a business: novelty, spontaneity, story, walking, listening, feeling, and challenging yourself. You don't need to do all of them. Pick one, try it this week, and see what happens.Enjoyed this episode? Don't forget to leave me a review.You can also follow me on the socials: @joshjay.co 

My golden rule is that Input ALWAYS equals Output.But... What does "input" mean?People don't always know how to measure input properly, which is why their expectation of what the output looks is also wrong, and probably why it feels so frustrating to put in the time and effort to see little result.When you can clearly define what input it is, you'll fast-track your output results too.Enjoyed this episode? Don't forget to leave me a review.You can also follow me on the socials: @joshjay.co 

Does overwhelm ever go away? Does it get easier? I reflected on a conversation I've had with a friend recently about being a parent and how I found some similarity with running a business and sharing what it's been like ot navigate overwhelm for the past 19 years being a creative entrepreneur. Overwhelm doesn't go away, and business doesn't necessarily get 'easier' with time; you just learn to endure it without crumbling all the time and learn to put one foot forward after another despite feeling so.Enjoyed this episode? Don't forget to leave me a review.You can also follow me on the socials: @joshjay.co 

Rediscovering the fun of running a business again. We're so often too stuck in the ups and downs that we forget that doing what we love and being able to grow a business that gives us that opportunity should be fun. A story of how I'm rediscovering this for myself and what I want people to know when it comes to being able to keep things fun in business while we grow and scale it.Enjoyed this episode? Don't forget to leave me a review.You can also follow me on the socials: @joshjay.co 

If you can't make a dollar, how can you make a difference?In this episode I unpack why money is the most tangible way to create impact, and why your relationship with it matters just as much as your ability to earn it. I get into growing up around lost wealth, what clicked for me in Thailand, and why more money will only ever amplify who you already are.If this one feels confronting, that's probably a good sign.Enjoyed this episode? Don't forget to leave me a review.You can also follow me on the socials: @joshjay.co 

Charlotte Fraser more than tripled her previous financial year revenue working with me.She's surpassed her limits and goals multiple times in the last 12 months, and I got to have a conversation with her unpacking her journey with growing her business and what it was like for her to finally pull the trigger after being afraid of taking the risk to invest in herself. Shes a great value of a human being, and if you're someone who operates from constant fear and overthinking, you'll get a lot out of this episode.Enjoyed this episode? Don't forget to leave me a review.You can also follow me on the socials: @joshjay.co