Launching My Creative Studio: Recent Episodes
Alejandro Calderón
Think about a creative agency or studio you admire. Imagine if they had documented their whole launch process in a podcast. Image all the lessons you could have learned from their failures and wins! All the processes and frameworks you could have taken from them! Well, that’s exactly what we will be doing here. Welcome to Launching My Creative Studio Podcast, where every Friday we’ll bring an update on how we are making progress, our challenges, and our wins. We’ll also bring successful creative entrepreneurs so they can share their advice on how they launched their businesses.
In this episode, host Alejandro talks with brand designer Ankit Sherke about the power of brand identity and the process of creating a unique brand identity that speaks to your audience. Ankit shares his experience working with clients to develop brand identities that connect with their target market, and the importance of understanding your audience and your own brand values in the process. They also discuss the challenges of networking as a designer and the importance of reaching out to online communities. Join us for an insightful conversation on branding and design.
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I want to start incorporating guests into this podcast so they can share their experience in launching a creative studio or agency. This week we have a very special guest, none other than my business partner and one of my best friends Eugenio Elizondo. In this episode, we share our story of how we started to work together, the tenets we created to keep a strong relationship, and the plans for the future. I hope you enjoy it!
This is an episode that I almost don’t upload. During the time that I had planned for the shooting, it start raining super hard. If you watch the YouTube video you will see me struggling to keep my sanity. But in the end, I overcame my perfectionism and decided to leave those parts, after all, I promised an honest approach. In this episode, I share the meeting structure that we are currently testing with our team to make it more participative. Also, I talk about the new book I’m starting to read “Never Split the Difference” by Chris Voss y Tahl Raz.
This week on The Weekly Report:
Highlights
- Launch of this podcast
- Uploading videos to YouTube
- We are creating reels, that we are repurposing in Tiktok and YT
- We had a great response to this honest approach
- We have a great team where we are promoting a good culture of personal development, keep always learning, co-creating and collaborating
- We are working with a great editor from Costa Rica
Challenges
- The launch of this podcast is taking more time than expected
- Other tasks that we were planning are being pushed
- A bank from Mexico just signed with us and we going to have less time to work on our launch plan
On The Toolbox:
- How we are planning our launch using FigJam and Notion
On The Walking Thoughts, here are a couple of random thoughts that I think are worth sharing with you:
- Patience as a competitive advantage
- Building a solid foundation first
- Avoid social pressure
In this episode, I talk a little bit about who I am and what is the idea of this podcast.