Stitches & Picks: Recent Episodes
Dave Dougherty, Kristen Juve
In many business and marketing podcasts about starting a side hustle and building it to profitability, you often hear: “I worked a day job I wasn’t happy with and I did this thing at night. Now, look at me with a 6-, 7-, or 8-figure business.”But what is that messy middle? What’s it actually like balancing a day job, family commitments, physical and mental wellbeing, and building something on the side?Join hosts, Dave Dougherty and Kristen Juve, as they leverage their experiences from graduating into the Great Recession with arts degrees, becoming marketers for Fortune 100 companies, and now starting their own websites on the side.
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In season 2, episode 1 of Stitches & Picks, hosts Dave and Kristen introduce their new format that follows Kristen's journey in launching her business, Casting Knits. The season will cover resources they've used to think about and launch their ideas, such as targeting and researching audiences, as well as giving an idea of how to go to market and get a business off the ground.
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In this episode of Stitches and Picks, Dave and Kristen reflect on the last year of podcasts, progress on their website projects, and how they go about setting goals for the next year. Kristen also makes a public commitment to her one SMART goal for 2023!
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In this episode of Stitches and Picks, Dave and Kristen check in with each other's progress on their websites for the last time in 2022 and reflect on the lessons learned in working on their side hustles over the year.
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In this episode, Dave and Kristen discuss the benefits and struggles of documenting your business' or marketing processes. How, or if, you document your processes will impact your ability to scale your content, know what's worth creating, estimate how long it will take to produce something, and set you up to be able to pass off marketing or business activities someone else could do better, or more efficiently, than you.
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In this episode, Dave surprises Kristen with whether or not she was going to launch CastingKnits.com in October 2022 like she said she was since the beginning of this podcast season!
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Are having a hard time producing content for your website, newsletter, or social media feeds? Have you thought of how the space you're in affects your productivity and creativity?
In this episode, Dave and Kristen dive into their own experiences with content creation processes and how they have tailored their spaces to support a creative and productive environment.
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In this episode of Stitches and Picks, Dave and Kristen check in with each other's progress on their websites, BeginningGuitarOnline.com and CastingKnits.com. Inevitably they fall into a discussion on content creation, managing burnout, and content planning processes.
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Filmed as part of 2022's Mental Health Awareness Month, Dave and Kristen discuss their experiences with mental health, how they've learned to cope and thrive, as well as how they've changed their mindsets throughout their careers and while beginning a side project.
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If you are struggling, or know someone who's struggling, with mental health (in the US) you can call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 or find more resources and information about mental health through the National Institute of Mental Health: https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health
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In this episode of Stitches and Picks, Dave and Kristen talk about how sometimes you find yourself working on everything other than what you thought you'd be doing when you started your side hustle or small business. What can you do when you find yourself in a similar situation?
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In this episode of the Stitches & Picks podcast, Dave and Kristen discuss their recent adventures with social media. They cover everything from creating videos and the limitations of TikTok's scheduling feature to aligning your social media channel strategy to the audience you want to target.
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In this episode of Stitches and Picks, Dave and Kristen discuss how you can go about prioritizing your time and what has to be done in order to accomplish what you've set out to do
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In this episode of Stitches and Picks, Dave and Kristen check in on each other's projects and discuss everything from social media trends and experiments to the similarities between knitting and guitar equipment, as well as how elements of their side projects impact their approaches to their anchor gigs.
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In this episode of the podcast, Kristen discusses where she is with her website CastingKnits.com and the pre-launch learnings she's had thus far. While Dave gives an overview of what it's like 9 months after launching BeginningGuitarOnline.com and the grind of content production.
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In this episode of the podcast, Dave and Kristen define and discuss the various marketing terms and business jargon you'll come across as you begin your entrepreneurial or side hustle journey.
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With the first episode of the Stitches & Picks podcast presenters, Dave Dougherty and Kristen Juve discuss their journeys from Great Recession college grads to Fortune 100 digital marketers to starting their own side projects. Join the conversation as they explore what it's like to build something while staying gainfully employed, being a parent and a spouse, and trying to keep physical and mental health in balance while you do it!
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