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It's Part of the Process
by It's Part of the Process
With over 20 years of experience running creative businesses, your host, Nicole Stevenson knows the joy and the struggles of being your own boss. Join her and her guests for business insights, life lessons and the stories behind their successes and lessons of their missteps so you can work smart, get creative inspiration, live joyfully and feel connected. Nicole is the CEO and Creative Director of Dear Handmade Life which produces Patchwork Show: Makers Festival and Craftcation Conference as well as a blog, online learning and this podcast.If you're a creative misfit or a passionate small business owner, grab a drink and take a seat because you're exactly where you need to be!
Episodes
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153: Winter Break
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
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...
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151: Intuitive Finances
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...
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150: Radical Authenticity in Your Life & Creative Business
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...
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149: Making a Living From Your Art
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...
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148: Clarifying and Sharing Your Brand Story
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...
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147: Crafting a Life You Love
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…
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146: 6 steps to handle your inner critic
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...
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145: Get Unstuck & Find Your Flow
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…
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144: Passion to Product to Profit
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...
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143: Common Mindset Spirals & How to Crush Them
Even the most successful business owners deal with impostor syndrome, negative beliefs, limiting mindsets and other underlying issues that can sabotage their path from where they are to where they want to be. On today's podcast we talk with Topsie VandenBosch a Mindset & Emotional Intelligence...
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142: Wealth, Living Authentically and Spirituality
What does a happy and abundant life look like? How do you know if you're wealthy? What does it mean to be semi-retired? How can you plug the plug leaks of time, money and energy? These are some of things Nicole and life and wealth coach Alyssa Blackwell-Hammond talk about during this episode.…
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141: Being Authentic & Impactful on Instagram
How can you be authentic and impactful on Instagram for your creative business without spending all your time planning content, mastering every new feature and feeling overwhelmed? KatieMac our online operations director joins Nicole for this special episode where they sit down with Instagram...
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140: Transitions in Business & Art
Creative and entrepreneur, Margo Tantau and Nicole talk about the lifecycle of trends, forecast what's next in design trends, how creatives can determine where to focus, when it's time to push and when it's time to rest, how to define what you do, what the creatives who meet their goals have in...
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139: Showing Up as Your Unapologetic Self Online
If you've ever wondered how some people seem to have this fearless authenticity online, this episode is for you. Nicole talks with business mentor Erica Reitman about how to live a life that's true to yourself, Erica's evolution from interior designer to coach, how creatives can uncover and…
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138: Brand-aligned Content
What if instead of thinking of social media as an obligation, you thought of it as an opportunity that allowed you to connect with your ideal customer and have fun? It's possible! In today's episode Content Strategist & Creative Director Gabriella Layne-Avery shares the techniques, mindset and...
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137: Being Here, *For Now
Despite the fact that I ended up only asking designer, artist, and speaker, Adam J. Kurtz (aka Adam JK) only one of my official interview questions since the conversation flowed on its own, we actually covered many of the topics I wanted to touch on like admitting you don't know what you're…
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136: Uncovering Your Brand Story
Uncovering Your Brand Story with brand expert Marina Girgis. Marina and I talk about finding what lights you up, vision mapping, finding your own idea of success, creating a lasting brand, discovering your brand's mission and values and how you don't have to wait for someone to give you the life...
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135: Financial Planning for Creatives
Financial planner Lauren Estes shares her insights for creatives to get their financial ducks in a row. Nicole and Lauren talk about money mindset issues, saving when you're self-employed, the big mistakes she sees clients make and more.
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134: How to Bust Through Your Goal-Getting Roadblocks
Nicole helps you go from dream to done as she guides you through three key things you need to do to get your goals. Have you ever started going after something and found yourself losing steam? Or maybe you felt stuck during the process? Or you didn't start because you weren't sure what to do or...
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133: Find Your Focus, Goal-Get & Grow Your Business
It's a new year and that means a fresh start, not just for you but also for your business. What do you want to do differently for your business this year? Join Nicole for this solo episode where she shares why proactive work is key to getting your goals and guides you through breaking down your…
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132: Level Up & Stand Out
Leveling up and standing out with Lauren Keplinger, small business owner, Etsy shop consultant and mom of four. Lauren and I talk about analyzing and streamlining your business to increase profits and decrease your working hours, outsourcing, how to stand out in crowded market, mistakes she made...
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131: Running Your Business Like a CEO
Running Your Business Like a CEO with Agency+Team Operations Coach Tatiana O'Hara. Tatiana and I discuss what first steps you can take right now to begin to be the CEO of your business, the roadblocks that may be standing in your way, how to start assessing your business using KPI's, how to give...
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130: Making a Life
Make a Life with Melanie Falick, independent writer, editor, and creative director—and a lifelong maker. Melanie and Nicole talk about Melanie's career in publishing, why making is so vital and valuable in the modern world, slowing down and making for the sake of making rather than selling or...
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129: Authenticity & Seeking What Makes You Come Alive
Authenticty & following what makes you come alive with musician, director and educator Kathryn Lounsbery. Kathryn and I talk about that that painful but necessary space between what we want to make and what we're capable of making, being authentic, life as a c, bad-assery and more.
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128: Marketing for Creatives
Marketing for Creatives with Christina Loff, a marketing strategist. Christina and Nicole talk about Christina's big leap to starting her own business after working at big brands like CreativeLive, Minted and Chronicle Books, content strategy, the current social media climate, uncovering your...
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127: Time Management, Trauma & Productivity
Time management, Trauma & Productivity with Naché Snow, a podcaster, online educator, and maker. Naché and Nicole talk about the accident that led Naché to stop caring about what other people thought of her and to go after her dreams, their favorite tools, tips, platforms and strategies for time...
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126: The Genius Zone and The Big Leap
"The Genius Zone with Gay Hendricks, psychologist, author and a leader in the fields of relationship transformation and bodymind transformation for more than 45 years. Gay and Nicole talk about how let go of things you can't control, bring more joy into your life, fail forward, access all the…
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125: Discover Your Purpose
Creating your purpose with Quinn Tempest, a color-loving business mentor & brand strategist. Quinn and Nicole talk about the distinction between finding and creating your purpose, how to analyze opportunities to make sure they align with your "why", the first steps to uncovering your purpose, how...
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124: Healing Your Way to a Purposeful Life
Healing your way to a purposeful life with Nakeia Homer, a well-being educator, mental wellness advocate, and author. Nakeia and Nicole talk about Nakeia's powerful story of healing, how trauma that you don't deal with holds you back from your highest self, mindset work, the first steps to begin…
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123: Creativity as a way Through
Creativity as a Way Through with Lisa Bardot. Lisa and I talk about how drawing helped her through a difficult time, the importance of expressing yourself through creativity, the effect the pandemic and its trauma had on making, how to get started tapping into your creativity or a daily practice,...
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122: Building an Engaged Audience
Building an engaged audience with writer and artist Nica Tanaka of Kwento by Nica. Nica and I talk about creating an emotional connection with your audience, figuring out your ideal of successful growth and engagement, how your worth is not your work and she shares tips and secrets she's used to...
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121: Three Business-Building Musts
There's so much I had to learn the hard way because the resources that we have now just didn't exist when I started. I want you to learn the easy way, gleaning lessons from my missteps and success. That's why in today's episode, I'm sharing three things that were instrumental in helping me build...
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120: Thinking like a CEO
Thinking like a CEO with Mentor Mama Bear and Creative Strategist Ana Manzano of Go Forth and Hustle. Ana and I chat about scaling up your business, the grant she won that changed her business, delegating, working towards a growth mindset and more. P.S. - Ana is teaching a class on scaling your...
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119: How to Make Meaningful Connections at an Online Event & Camp DHL Registration is Open
With our Camp Dear Handmade Life around the corner, I wanted to share some tips for you to make meaningful connections at virtual events. While we do everything we can to help you grow your community at Camp DHL, we can't do everything, so here's my advice to get you from "what if there's an...
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118: Discovering & Loving Your Style
Discovering and loving your style with painter and sewist Katie Kortman. Katie and I chat about discovering and embracing your style, dealing with criticism, sourcing inspiration without copying, motherhood, how to be an example of self-love for your children and her mother's mantra, "Weird is...
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117: My Goal-Getting Secrets (Bonus episode)
In this solo episode I'm sharing four secrets to goal-getting that have helped me make big and small but meaningful transformations in my life and business. I'm also sharing about some highlights of Camp Dear Handmade Life, our six-week at-home craft, business, goal-getting and community-building...
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116: Embracing Fear
Embracing fear with artist and author Meera Lee Patel. Meera and I talk about using fear as a tool & teacher and embracing it, what it's like to be a first-time mama, living with anxiety and OCD, how to push past fear in your creativity and business and more.
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115: The Secret I've Been Keeping & 5 Ways to Build Your Brand Through Events (Bonus episode)
The Secret I've Been Keeping & 5 Ways to Build Your Brand Through Events (Bonus episode) In this solo episode I'm sharing about the how attending events has impacted my life and business and been my biggest growth accelerator. I'm also letting you in on a secret.. our new event, Camp Dear…
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114: Diversity & Cultural Transformation in the Maker Community
Diversity & Cultural Transformation in the Maker Community with Monica Tetteh of Black makers Matter and That's Sew Monica. Monica and I talk about her journey as a creative, inclusion in the sewing and craft communities, how small business owners can authentically embody diversity, the…
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113: Marketing for makers: Starting from square one
Veering off from our usual interview format, this unique episode is a LIVE unscripted coaching session. I brought our operations manager Spaulding in to join me on the podcast so I could answer her questions as she embarks on starting her handmade business, Hot for Color. I learned how to run my...
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112: Uncovering Your Brand Story & Expertise
Uncovering Your Brand Story & Expertise with personal branding strategist Maya Elious. I talk with Maya about discovering your impact zone where your natural abilities converge with your purpose, passion and profession, how uncovering and sharing your brand story is key to success, the concept of...
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111: Money Mindset & Management
Have you ever felt the starving artist mentality? Do you feel like your finances are in order? Today on our podcast, I'm chatting with bookkeeper and financial coach Ean of Moxie Bookkeeping about money mindset shifts and financial management techniques and actions we can take right now to…
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110: Marketing & Community
Marketing & Community with marketing expert Pete Davis of Ampjar. Pete shares his biggest marketing tip for makers and how Ampjar helps brands grow authentically by focusing on community and karmic marketing, plus we explore our mutual love for marketing and chat about what to say in your…
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109: Podcast Staycation
We're taking a break from the podcast for a bit to do some behind the scenes work here at Dear Handmade Life as well as get some quality time in with family including our new baby Luca! Check out our archives for over 100 episodes and we'll see you soon!
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108: Time Management
Time management with writer, artist and art book editor Bridget Watson Payne. We talk about how to find hidden pockets of time, time management from a cultural perspective, aligning your to-do list with your values and ethics, techniques to tackle your inbox, priorities, her book How Time is On...
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107: Embracing Balance not Busyness
This week on the Dear Handmade Life podcast I'm chatting about Embracing Balance not Busyness with Ciji Tatum Townsend. We talk about our personal histories with familial busyness, how to discover break down your balance barriers, how to begin to unbusy your life, making time for wellness and more.
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106: Instagram Insights
Instagram insights with illustrator Becky Helms of The Pink Samurai. Becky and I chat about dealing with social media overwhelm, creating content for Instagram, batching your work, growing your following organically, the importance of determining your Instagram goals and more.
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105: Parenting and Creative Business
Parenting and Creative Business with self-taught oil painter Erika Lee Sears. Erika and I chat about trying to be a good parent instead of a perfect one, what her schedule looks like (aka how she squeezes everything in), her daily art practice, the benefits of making time to fill yourself up and...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
With over 20 years of experience running creative businesses, your host, Nicole Stevenson knows the joy and the struggles of being your own boss. Join her and her guests for business insights, life lessons and the stories behind their successes and lessons of their missteps so you can work smart, get creative inspiration, live joyfully and feel connected. Nicole is the CEO and Creative Director of Dear Handmade Life which produces Patchwork Show: Makers Festival and Craftcation Conference as well as a blog, online learning and this podcast.If you're a creative misfit or a passionate small business owner, grab a drink and take a seat because you're exactly where you need to be!
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