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The Creative Entrepreneur Blueprint
by Nathan Freitas
This podcast is for artists and creative entrepreneurs who are looking for help figuring out how to run the business behind their artist work.Follow me each week as I unpack what it takes to build and run my own creative business. We answer the most common questions creative entrepreneurs try to solve such as;How to make money yet still have time to create as an artist, Entrepreneur?How do I run a business if my mind doesn’t think that way?How can I create a future that Isn’t dependent on me trading my time for money?Hosted by Nathan Freitas, a 20 year hi-tech marketing and sales veteran who left it all to build his own creative business. The Creative Entrepreneur Blueprint demystifies running a profitable business with a focus on empowering 1000s of other creative entrepreneurs to make money doing what they’re meant to do, and impact the world in the process.
Episodes
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Learn how to create more by leveraging your natural abilities w -Novus Global - Part 1 of 2
Bestselling book author, Jason Jaggard, and two of his colleagues/elite coaches (Janet Breitenbach and David Gerber) from Novus Global joined me in this first of a two episodes! The overall message, going BEYOND high performance. Which for me was actually a phrase that trigged my overwhelmed and...
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Here's how you can cold call your dream customer WITHOUT stress
As creatives it's hard to "sell" or "market" what we do. In fact most creatives focus on the creation process because the idea of cold calling someone is stressful. I remove that blocker by sharing with you my tried and true process for calling ANYONE you want to work with and getting their time.
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Spending 30 mins a day doing this one thing will help you build your business with ease!
I break down my twenty years of sales strategy into a couple quick tips that you can use, daily, to help you build your business and uncover more revenue.
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The Shadow Side of Success and Building a Business w/Josh Ellis - Founder of WithCo Cocktails
Josh Ellis, Founder of WithCo Cocktails, sat down to talk about his journey to building he successful company and how he learned some hard lessons about the shadow side of success along the journey. You'll hear how he managed to survive the complete collapse of his family's business, his divorce,...
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What The F*ck is Real Anymore and Why You Should Care About AI
After a dinner conversation went down a rabbit hole of AI generated images and how they can impact the news and what we know to be true... I started to really ponder this question, "What the F*ck is real anymore??" I explore this question through the lens of our brains, and recent advancements in...
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How I'm building my business without selling or posting to social media
All about the way I've been building my business with out doing all the things you're told to do. No social media posting... no awkward sales calls. It's not rocket science and I share with you exactly how I've been doing it.
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How I'm dealing with the recent mass shooting in Nashville
I wanted to share this episode from the heart. It's not an episode about anger or division, rather one of inclusiveness. To hold space for the humans that lost their lives recently. To also share some ideas on how to help maybe even prevent things like this from happening. This recent tragedy in...
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Things changed drastically when I started not being who people thought I SHOULD be
Jim Carrey said in his commencement speech to a group of graduating students back in 2014, "..my search for identity deepened. I wondered who I’d be without my fame. Who would I be if I said things that people didn’t want to hear, or if I defied their expectations of me?" Those words have stuck...
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The immediate and powerful benefits of fasting and silent retreats
After a tempting offer to adventure in Portugal with a beautiful woman, I listened to my body which told me to stay in Nashville and do a week long fast and silent retreat. The results... so much deep self love, focus, and confidence. It shocked me actually how amazing it was. I share the...
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Why I left my $300k/yr job to pursue my dream
The biggest regret I'd have in my life is if I didn't listen to my heart and take a chance on building my own creative business. So I left my cushy, $300k/yr salary job to do just that, to build a video production company that I'm proud of. I share with you exactly how I came to the realization…
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I'm Back! New energy, new podcast, new job!
I left my $300k/year job to FINALLY build my own creative business. After years of the side hustle... I'm going all in. Follow me each week as I share with you exactly how I'm doing it. I'll also continue to interview other successful creatives and dive into exactly how they run their business....
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A New York Times bestselling author taught me something about myself!
In this episode we explore what it's like living life from a place of force and will compared flow and ease. I was humbled by a successful author at a party recently and it really reminded me of how I can choose to live my life a different way.
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What could your life and business look like without letting fear run it
Seriously...if you didn't feel fear as much as you do. If we weren't afraid of being successful, of what people think, of doing things the right way. If you didn't let those fears seep into your thinking, what kind of life would you be living? That's the question I explore today after meditating…
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Why storytelling is king.. not content - Carson Tiejten
My guest told me that one of his top three priorities, outside of God and his family, is storytelling and that's what this episode is all about! We dig into the power of storytelling in your business, and how you can go about getting better at telling one. So grateful to Carson for helping create...
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I'm yearning for deeper human connection and tired of the business talk
A candid share and call to action for those of us that are just so tired of the business talk or facade we see when influencers, leaders, or just everyday people throw up. I believe we have an opportunity to really change the way we speak to each other. And in the process of doing that, find…
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The Unexpected Wisdom of Jim Carrey
Listening to Jim Carrey's commencement speech to the Maharishi University of Management was such a moving experience. I found myself floored by the wisdom Jim shared and had to break down my most memorable segments for you. From learning how to manifest your visions, to just trusting in yourself...
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How a Year of Following My Intuition Changed My Life and Business
How a year of stopping the constant going... and listening to my intuition brought be behind my camera in new ways and traveling around the world shooting compelling stories for amazing humans.
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The Power Of Listening To Your Intuition With D'Arcy Benincosa
A deep dive into the power of asking yourself first before going outward for guidance. D'Arcy Benincosa, Success Coach, Brand Brainiac & Marketing Ninja to Ambitious Entrepreneurs, walks Nathan through the simple path of just listening to yourself and why it's the most important thing for you to...
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You're Running On Autopilot... Is It The Right One?
This is an episode focused on sharing with you the 3-Step framework for recognizing, working through, and rewriting your stories that fuel your "autopilot program" of your life and all the negative emotions tied to them. Nathan talks about how he has used this framework to help address some deep...
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How Slowing Down To Spend Time With Yourself Can Help You Do More In Less Time
This episode is all about me sharing some breakthroughs I've had this year so far. How I've learned to go inward first, before I attempt to go outward. You'll learn three tools my community and myself have been using to achieve some pretty amazing personal results. 1. How to set goals tied to...
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How Stories Help You Attract More Clients, Charge More, and Quiet The Competition
This episode is all about learning how to create your own brand script. The same brand script taught by Donald Miller in his bestselling book, Building a Story Brand. I walk through each step in detail and use an actual brand, my own, to showcase how you can do the same thing for your business…
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Learn The Three Simple Things That Can Guarantee You Stand Out From The Competition
What's going on? Hey, it's me, Nathan with the Creative Entrepreneur Blueprint. I am so pumped to be back and sharing this episode with you. It is all about helping you as an entrepreneur stand out in a sea of look alikes. So I'm actually focusing today specifically on you real estate agents, but...
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Conversation with Jennifer Neal (Part 2)- Automate Your Social Media and Build an Engaging Following
Hey, Hey, it's me. Nathan with the creative entrepreneur blueprint. This is part two of an episode that was recorded live at funnel hacking live and it is really powerful because we go through a five step framework called the social content machine that Jennifer Neal created for a lot of her...
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Conversation with Jennifer Neal - Automate Your Social Media and Build an Engaging Following
I recently finished recording a podcast episode with Jennifer Neal, which kind of blew my mind. It's a five-step framework that she's created, leveraging what some of the best influencers on social media are doing, the systems they use to amplify their brands. The reason I think this episode is…
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Jeff Carpenter - How Educational Products Help You Set Your Own Prices
The thing that excited me the most about this episode was going into it, I knew that Jeff had done an amazing job of educating folks via his Instagram handle. But what came out from the episode was he makes a lot of his money through the work that he doesn't post, and that's through his…
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Kara Marie Trombetta -You Can’t Deposit Instagram Likes into your Bank Account - The Power of Listening and the Customer Experience
I wanted to explain why I'm so excited about yet another amazing photographer on the podcast. I came across this woman's website after looking for award winning go-getters. Photographers that were doing something I thought would be great to share on this podcast, and I came across Kara Trombetta,...
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Eric Thayne: How to Attract All The Right Leads on Autopilot
I have to share with you just a quick little story about why this episode is so exciting. I have thought, for many years, to be an artist you have to go out and hustle and find clients. Eric Thayne who is the CEO and founder of an info course called Cinema Mastery, he really busted through that...
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Felix Kunze: Focus on Delivering Massive Value And Your Customers Will Come Knocking Down Your Door
I was honored to have Felix Kunze on, and I thought I'd share with you why I was so excited to have him on the show. I originally reached out to him because I loved his work. I loved his lighting course that he was selling online and felt it was filled with an immense amount of value for the…
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Kirk Mastin: $20K in 2 hours - The Power of a Digital Product
I was able to host Kirk Mastin and the CEO of Mastin Labs. And in this part two of two, we dig into how he's built an incredibly successful worldwide business by selling a digital product. He talks about how to stay lean, how to automate, and how by doing so, you're able to weather most, if not…
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Kirk Mastin: How Challenging Times Can Lead to Incredible Things (Part 1 of 2)
I have, my entire adult life, really been attracted to people who are running successful businesses and making it seem easy. For the past eight years I have watched Kirk weather economic, weather personal storms and still have this seemingly thriving business and I wanted to understand how. So…
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Morning Minutes - The Ultimate Power of Doing Less
In this episode I share some tactics from Trevor Moawad and Michael Hyatt about the power of doing less. Want more energy... do less. Want to accomplish more at work and in your career... do less. Want more positive thoughts.... Speak less negative ones. In our culture of DO MORE, this episode is...
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Morning Minutes - Change Your Customer, Change Your Business
This episode is all about going back to the basics of your business. As entrepreneurs we fall in love with our product or service. Ways of making it better, more innovative, additional features, etc. But we forget about the most important part of our product or service which is the customer...
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Morning Minutes - Channeling Anger Into UNSTOPPABLE
Super intense and loving episode where I dig into the feeling of anger. I share how I've been using it recently to get into a warrior mindset instead of letting it take me down into a victim path of not having control. We should feel our anger, we should let it flow in and out of use but in the...
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How I Made Over $25K In 4 Days - Part 2 Of 2
In this episode I focus on sharing insights about how to hire and why to hire a team so you're able to stay in your zone of genius. I also share the details around the offer I created that started to generate reoccurring revenue and over $25k in 4 days. Tune in, this is a great finish to a really...
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How I Made Over $25K In 4 Days - Part 1 Of 2
This is it!! I had been hoping to record this episode, to be able to stand up and say, "I did it!" Just over 3 months ago I had an idea spark within me. It was an idea to create an offer around a portrait photography session. To show how applying the digital marketing tactics to photography could...
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Morning Minutes - Learn This One Tactic That Will Help You Double Your Sales (Part 2)
Yo! This is the second part of the series where I'm talking about the Dream 100. A simple, yet powerful tactic originally taught by Chet Holmes in his book, The Ultimate Sales Machine. We're moving from building relationships in the first phase of the Dream 100 to Promotion. I break down some...
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Morning Minutes - Learn This One Tactic That Will Help You Double Your Sales (Part 1)
I'm talking about the Dream 100. A simple, yet powerful tactic originally taught by Chet Holmes in his book, The Ultimate Sales Machine. Many entrepreneurs have used to drastically shift their influence, build massive relationships across industries and as a result make money through selling…
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Morning Minutes - Part 4 (Energy) Win Your Customers by Becoming Your Attractive Character
I continue to share the teachings of Russell Brunson, CEO of ClickFunnels, who has built a net worth of over $35 million and led his privately held company to over $360 Million a year in revenue without taking outside funding or investment. One of the things he's used to do that is by mastered…
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Morning Minutes - Part 3 (Storyline) - Win Your Customers by Becoming The Attractive Character
I continue to share the teachings of Russell Brunson, CEO of ClickFunnels, who has built a net worth of over $35 million and led his privately held company to over $360 Million a year in revenue without taking outside funding or investment. One of the things he's used to do that is by mastered…
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Morning Minutes - Part 2 (Identity) - Becoming Your Attractive Character
I continue to share the teachings of Russell Brunson, CEO of ClickFunnels, who has built a net worth of over $35 million and led his privately held company to over $360 Million a year in revenue without taking outside funding or investment. One of the things he's used to do that is by mastered…
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Morning Minutes - Part 1 - Win Your Market and Your Customers by Mastering Becoming an Attractive Character
Russell Brunson, CEO of ClickFunnels, has built a net worth of over $35 million and led his privately held company to over $360 Million a year in revenue without taking outside funding or investment. I'd argue that what enabled him to do that, outside of great leadership, is he mastered this…
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Morning Minutes - 10 Ways of Dealing With and Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
10 ways to overcome or reduce imposter syndrome. That's what today is all about and I share some candid examples of how I've been working through this thought pattern that fills me with anxiety and doubt if left to it's own free will. Take a listen and learn now to move through it with me.
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Morning Minutes - 2020 Planning (Part 4 of 4) - Schedule the Damn Things!
This is the final episode that wraps everything we've learned in the previous three episodes together into an excited bow. The most important step of all planning.... putting it into your calendar to ensure it happens! Goals aren't real until they have been placed into your calendar and for some...
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Morning Minutes - 2020 Planning (Part 3 of 4) - Getting Clear on Your Goals
Today is about taking those SMARTER goals that you learned about yesterday and writing them down. Getting focused on what you want to do and aligning that with the areas of your life that need assistance or improvement. I share how I use a free tool called the Lifescore Assessment by Michael…
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Morning Minutes - 2020 Planning - Visualization and Goal Setting (Part 2 of 4)
This morning is all about continuing to plan for 2020. I share tactics I'm using to plan my life using Michael Hyatt's SMARTER goal setting strategy. I also walk you through visualizing your ideal day (12 hours) and how to use that strong visualization as the foundation for the goals you're…
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Morning Minutes - How Much Impact Can $3.48 Have on a Life? The Power of Compassion
In this episode I share a story of a women and a homeless man that left me crying. It's a reminder of what compassion can do for not only you, but for others. After hearing this story, I was left with a question for myself which is, "How can I today show more compassion for myself and for…
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Morning Minutes - Get a Coach! The Power of Leaning on Someone to Help You Accomplish More and Succeed
In this episode I open up about how I use business coaches to help me succeed and accomplish goals. It's about leveraging the experience and wisdom of someone that has done it before, who is willing to provide guidance to you AND hold you accountable. You see, the accountability is key and one of...
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Morning Minutes - I'm Off My Game Today And Share How I Get Back On It
Woke up this morning and just felt off my game so thought I'd share candidly how I was feeling and dealing with the challenge of the morning. Not moving through force, not judging, just recognizing how I felt and going from there. Simple tactics but when used consistently, they've helped me in…
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Morning Minutes - 2020 Planning - Focus on Ideal Feelings (Part 1 of 4)
It's almost the end of the year. People are wrapping up crazy work years and getting ready to relax, and party, with friends through the holidays and new year. But instead of waiting till January to plan my goals, I start now, before the distractions hit. Before I feel less energetic from the…
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Morning Minutes - See How I Use Leverage Points to Make Things Happen and Reduce Stress
Every feel the stress of ALL you have to do?? Heck yeah, I do all the time. Today I walk through the tactics I use to reduce that stress and get clarity. It all starts with what I call Leverage Points. These are points in time that you put on the calendar, that you preemptively assign time and...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
This podcast is for artists and creative entrepreneurs who are looking for help figuring out how to run the business behind their artist work.Follow me each week as I unpack what it takes to build and run my own creative business. We answer the most common questions creative entrepreneurs try to solve such as;How to make money yet still have time to create as an artist, Entrepreneur?How do I run a business if my mind doesn’t think that way?How can I create a future that Isn’t dependent on me trading my time for money?Hosted by Nathan Freitas, a 20 year hi-tech marketing and sales veteran who left it all to build his own creative business. The Creative Entrepreneur Blueprint demystifies running a profitable business with a focus on empowering 1000s of other creative entrepreneurs to make money doing what they’re meant to do, and impact the world in the process.
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