Why Vulnerability Can Help You Create — Brit Morin

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When’s the last time you expressed vulnerability through your creativity? For Brit Morin, my guest on this week’s episode, it’s part of her every day life. Brit founded her lifestyle and online learning platform, Brit + Co, to help women connect with and express their creative spirit. With an engaged community of 125+ million women and over 200,000 online class enrollments, Brit + Co is the leading destination for learning and discovery among female millennials. She launched her business at the age of 25, and learned how to balance motherhood alongside her career as a creative entrepreneur. In this episode, Brit discusses how to empower and equip your employees by letting go of control, and how she brings her authentic self into her brand. She shares the power of believing in yourself and your creativity, even in the face of criticism. Trying new, creative things feels vulnerable and scary, because we’re afraid to fail. Brit shows us that, while we may fail and everything won’t be perfect, we can learn how to be resilient and keep creating anyway. Show Notes - How Brit saw her inner creativity evolve through childhood and adolescence. - Why she decided to leave her job at Google to launch Brit + Co at 25. - What it was like for Brit meeting her husband at 19. - Brit’s highs and lows with Brit + Co. - What is was like to have to lay off members of her team after Facebook algorithm changes. - Having a decentralized team means Brit + Co hasn’t taken a hit during quarantine. - Letting go of control and finding balance as an entrepreneur. - Brit’s ‘North Star’ when her motivation is low. - How creativity can equate to courage. - Ways that Brit pushed through some of her own insecurities. - The Private/Public Divide and how Brit decides where the boundaries are. - Dealing with criticism and juggling motherhood and career. - How Brit has managed to lessen some of the demand that she puts on herself. - What Brit is reclaiming for herself in her journey of personal growth. References Brit + Co - https://www.brit.co Brit Morin on Twitter - https://twitter.com/brit Brit Morin on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/brit Brit + Co on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/BritandCo Teach Me Something New with Brit Morin - https://www.brit.co/teach-me-something-new-podcast

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