The Diary of a Creative: Recent Episodes
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Welcome to the Lounge, where a listen leaves you grounded, on point, sharper and better. We are all about making you an all rounded creative. The best creative, entrepreneur and with the greatest personality.
Discussions in this podcast will challenge your thinking, confront mentalities, and change so many things inside us and you will love it.
Truths will be brutal but they are sincerely to help us grow and be better until we are GROUNDED
As long as you are in business, money will be in many conversations and you will need to be comfortable with it.
However, its becomes a difficult topic because of alot of factors which includes:-
- Culture and upringing
- Mindset and exposure
and more...
This podcast breaks down how to handle some money conversations and gain confidence
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In this Episode, we look at:-
- Origin of Work
- Misconceptions about work
- Why we must work
- How to get fulfilled at work
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The success of an entrepreneur is in the ability to be healthy all around. In relationships, mental health, confidence, wisdom, decisiveness, entrepreneurship, and many more.I want you to be a seasoned Entrepreneur in all aspects; and that is a real success.
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The topic of growth has been close to my mouth, ready to speak out. But, it was waiting for a shift in my life that would make this conversation more impactful.
This is my journey and how growth flipped me upside down... but for the better.
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What it takes to make a successful creative
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We are back with a high energy and thrilling season. And this is why!
This season will provoke you to changing your mentality on how you approach life, business, relationships and money.
All this to make you a Seasoned Creative
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Storytelling beats any form of marketing you can do. This is why
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Why Im I telling you to slow down I such a fast paced world?
Its quite interesting. You become more mindful and intentional of how you life your mind.
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When I understood the happiness is a way/path not the destination, the way I approch life changes and I am more happier
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Thoughts are good, but the thing you think about will never manifest to impack your life or the life of others unless backed up by an ACTION
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We cannot have everything figured our everytime. We will be lying to ourselves. Even the 1% of the society feel lost and not sure about themsekves sometimes.
It's okay to feel lost
It's okay to have doubt
It's okay to acknowledge that truth
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In this episode we give a story of a professor, giving a life lesson using the glass of water analogy.
Have a listen and have a SELAH moment and think about it
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Getting angry is normal, but the action and words you say when angry are what we need to be careful about.
They can hurt and great damage to people around you. In this episode, I give a story and illustrate how action in anger can have consequences
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Every Friday we have a new Episode ready for your to learn
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Your clients buy you before they buy your creative services.
As photographers, filmmakers and creatives, our service is attached to our personality and character that we cant ignore the creative. The dat I understood that I am part of the product or service offering, is the day my clients appreciated me more.
In this episode I have given you some examples and steps on how to make you a pleasing part of your product. Once a client buys you, he or she can buy anything you offer to them
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One way to increase income in your creative business is increasing your offering. This means increasing the number of services you offer to your customers.
In this episode we have given you some examples on how to structure your services and increase what you offer to increase the services your clients can buy.
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Our Podcast is for you, Yes You!
The creative that wants to build a booming career and make money doing what you love. We have more resources for you to grow as a creative:-
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Building a business is work and you need a lot of knowledge and wisdom.
We have put together 8 tips that will help you grow your business. These tips have made my business grow and still growing.
Watch the video and learn from it...
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How many times do you wait for a client to send you a dm on social media and give you a job?
Does it work?
And if it works, is it enough to sustain and grow your business?
Did you know there is a better way to have a predictable source of income for your business?
This is by:-
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Prospecting
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Understanding needs
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Crafting a solution
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Pitching
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Negotiating
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Making an order
Go grab that opportunity...
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Do you know where you are going, or where you are taking people that follow you?
As a creative entrepreneur, who wants to build a business and have people work in it, it's a disservice if you don't have a vision.
Knowing where you are going is more important than a lot of activities without a goal.
So, how do you craft your vision, mission and goals? Here is the video for you:-
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If you want to run faster, go alone. If you want to go further, have company.
Creating a team is the first step of scaling a business. There are several ways of creating a team:-
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Partnering
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Employing
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Collaborating
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Freelance Matrix Program
In this video we talk about how to create a team as a creative business
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What is your process of getting clients?
One mistake that we make is not understanding the client's needs and desires and then presenting your services as a solution.
How do you get to know that? By having a prior meeting before giving an offer, it's called a Discovery Session.
So, how do you go about a discovery session?
Watch how we do it...
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There are lessons that we have learnt over the years and they will be of great help this year.
Make sure that you get these lessons and implement them and you will see the change. There are 8 lessons We are sharing with you.
Watch the video and comment on which you will implement first. Which one is it?
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We are in the era of the internet and part of the internet is social media.
As creatives, we need to learn how to use social media to grow our business and increase our clients.
In this video we look at ways to use social media for business especially for us creatives
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Let's talk about work today!
There is a lot of work to be done as a photographer and filmmaker. This needs us to be at the highest level of productivity. To be productive we need to understand the Parkinson's Law of work
Work distributed itself to time allocated:-
See how you apply that to your career by watching the video.
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We are not always creative,
However, we need to train our brain to be creative and this is by training our creative juices to flow when we need them to...
How do we do that?
Creating more than we consume. Watch the video to understand more...
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We are not always creative,
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Creating more than we consume. Watch the video to understand more...
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The creative economy in Kenya is among the top three contributors to the GDP of the country. This includes musicians, photographers, filmmakers, artists, name them
In this episode we understand what is the value of the creative economy, the potentia it has and how you can position yourself to grow and benefit from this economy
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In this episode we talk about 5 ways to increase priductivity as a creative:
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Have a task list and a schedule
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Start from the hardest
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Put away destructions
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Take breaks
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Stay healthy to stay alert
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Another mistake that I did was to take my team forgranted. I did not think about their well being and comfort and it really had an effect of our career. This episode is a life experience of how my team suffered from a clients irresponsibility but did not take charge and they did not have a good time. Have a listen.
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One of the reasons why i messed up in a wedding is because of surprises.
In one of the wedding, I got surprising information on the morning of the wedding that made me get on bad books with the client.
That could have been solved by getting all the information before the day of the wedding and having propoer plan. Listen to this episode and hope you learn.
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Imagine this!
I messed a couples wedding because I did not have any experience in anything to do with wedding photography and videography. This should be a lesson to you.
Never book a gig is you don't have a good experience on what you shooting. You don't want to mess your career.
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In this Episode, we talk real experience.
How I ruined my first 2 years of my career due to being desperate.
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The activity, success and profit of your creative business revolves around your product. That is what brings client to your business and that is what they pay for. If your product is not good enough or impressing or does not solve a clients problem, you will never grow and scale your business.
In this episode we talk about product development for a creative business which includes; photographers. filmmakers. graphic designers, developers, make up artists and similar businesses. As a spoiler, the key point here is, your service is 10% of your product, what is the 90%?
Listen to find out...
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We have started a 7 episode series on how to build a successful. In each episode we talk about w specific building block that plays a big role in building a great business.
In this Episode, We introduce the 7 Stages on this journey and to make it better we talk about the first and the most important step and that is HAVING A VISION, MISSION and GOALS
Have a listen as our host JONATHAN JAMES breaks down the 7 stages starting with this first one
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The more we continue seeking perfection so that we can start doing what we have always dreamt, its the more we are disabling ourselves from achieving it. When you understand that you cannot be perfect and that failure is a part of life, then you will pick up your stuff and just do what you have desired to do. In fact, seek for excellence not perfection. In this episode we expound on killing perfection and having an excellence mentality
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