Friday Fundamentals for Creative Entrepreneurs: Recent Episodes
The Colour Company
A one stop show for everything entrepreneurship related, for creative professionals! You could be in visual arts, performing arts or literary arts. You could be a solopreneur, a mompreneur, a freelancer, a gig artist. This is for anybody who is looking to create a business out of a creative skill they possess!
This will air on two Fridays a month on a host of topics that creative entrepreneurs will relate to. Apart from insights from our own journey with The Colour Company, you can also expect several tips from guests, who are accomplished creative entrepreneurs themselves!
In this episode, we meet star calligrapher Sanjana Chatlani of The Bombay Lettering Company. She has built a business around a very niche area - pointed pen calligraphy. Not only is her business thriving, she has built a community of passionate calligraphers around the country. She talks about how she manages the dual roles of being an artist and an entrepreneur at a stage when she is pretty much handling everything herself! Her impressive client list (listen to the episode to find out all the inside stories on how she landed these celebrity clients!). Sanjana shows us that being a solopreneur / small entrepreneur in the creative space and building scale can absolutely co exist!
In this episode, listen to an in depth, no holds barred interview with the fabulous entrepreneur couple that runs the popular linen an home decor brand - The Yellow Dwelling! The way their brand has grown is nothing short of admirable.
This episode is all about taking the plunge into entrepreneurship. Abhinaya and Nandakumar talk about exactly that. This is the first time they are talking about their journey, the different things they had to consider before taking the decision to let go of full time jobs and dive head on into their entrepreneurial venture. They also talk about the several challenges they faced in this journey, and also give us a sneak peek into what lies ahead for them!
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What is the reason that people want to be entrepreneurs? Are these reasons intrinsic or extrinsic? What works and what doesn't? Find the answers to all of these questions in this episode. With lockdowns issued across several places across the world, this is a great time to take notes from this episode, look inwards and find answers to these basic questions before setting off on the journey of entrepreneurship!
We have a prolific author, a creative entrepreneur herself, a TEDx speaker, an author - Swati Jena as a guest on this episode. Check out her profile on https://www.linkedin.com/in/swatijena/
We draw several references from her book - The Entrepreneur's Soulbook through this episode. You can find the book here: https://www.amazon.in/dp/1645872289/ref=cm_sw_r_wa_apa_i_rflFEbW7DR2E9
Welcome to the very first episode of Friday Fundamentals for Creative Entrepreneurs! In this short episode, you will learn about me, your host, Aarthi Sivaramakrishnan, how and why I decided to start this podcast, and a little bit about how the following episodes on this channel will be structured!