Latest Craftcation Podcast Episodes
153: Winter Break
Dear Handmade Life - December 06, 2022 14:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 174 ratingsNicole shares a special announcement, a thank you gift for all of you and closes out the season before our podcast goes on winter break. We'll see you all again in January 2023 for a new season.
152: How to Create a Soul-aligned Instagram
Dear Handmade Life - November 29, 2022 23:38 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 174 ratingsNicole chats with Instagram branding strategist Kat Coroy about how to create an authentic brand on Instagram that attracts your ideal customers, ways to create content without feeling overwhelmed, a mindset shift to help you feel more confident on social media, how to deal with negativity onlin...
151: Intuitive Finances
Dear Handmade Life - November 15, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 174 ratingsWhat does a visionary relationship with your finances look like? Nicole talks with Jessie Susannah Karnatz aka the Money Witch about healing your relationship with money, creating change in your financial life, how to determine who your big financial goal is, the real reasons behind your money i...
150: Radical Authenticity in Your Life & Creative Business
Dear Handmade Life - November 01, 2022 13:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 174 ratingsHow are radical authenticity and self-acceptance drivers in the growth of creativity and business? Healer, Licensed Therapist, Ritualist, Yoga Instructor Shirley Johnson joins Nicole for a conversation about how if you’re not growing and moving towards being your true self, you won’t be able to ...
149: Making a Living From Your Art
Dear Handmade Life - October 18, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 174 ratingsWhat sets doers apart from dreamers? How do you know if you should take the leap and turn your artistic passion into a business? Ilana Griffo & Katie Johnson, artists, published authors and co-owners behind Goodtype join Nicole for a conversation all about what it takes to make a living from you...
148: Clarifying and Sharing Your Brand Story
Dear Handmade Life - October 04, 2022 13:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 174 ratingsWhat is your brand story? How do you clarify your vision and create branded purposeful content that supports it? Brand, Content Marketing Strategist and avid storyteller Vivienne Okafor joins Nicole to answer these questions as well as talk about how to keep with the changes on social media, the...
147: Crafting a Life You Love
Dear Handmade Life - September 20, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 174 ratingsHow does gratitude play a role in goal-getting? How can realizing that as Jack Canfield said, “there are only three things you can control: what you think, what you visualize, and what you do” change your life? What does success look like? How can you fully embrace the good things in your life a...
146: 6 steps to handle your inner critic
Dear Handmade Life - September 06, 2022 13:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 174 ratingsWhats's the biggest thing that’s holding you back in your creativity and business? It's actually YOU or more specifically your mindset. Your mindset can limit you and keep you in your comfort zone where everything is known and relatively safe, there's no risk of failure or making mistakes but th...
145: Get Unstuck & Find Your Flow
Dear Handmade Life - August 23, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 174 ratingsHow can practices like breathwork, human design, EFT and the law of attraction help you find the flow and get unstuck in your life, creativity and business? That’s what we talk about with author and instructor Kerry Burki in today’s episode. Even if you’re more practical than woo-woo I urge you ...
144: Passion to Product to Profit
Dear Handmade Life - July 12, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 174 ratingsIf you’re a maker who is just starting your business, this episode is for you. Business owner, podcast host, educator and bestselling author Sue Monhait shares insights from her 30+ years in business to help early stage creative business owners shorten the learning curve to having a successful b...
143: Common Mindset Spirals & How to Crush Them
Dear Handmade Life - June 28, 2022 13:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 174 ratingsEven the most successful business owners deal with impostor syndrome, negative beliefs, limiting mindsets and other underlying issues that can sabotage their path from where they are to where they want to be. On today’s podcast we talk with Topsie VandenBosch a Mindset & Emotional Intelligence C...
142: Wealth, Living Authentically and Spirituality
Dear Handmade Life - June 14, 2022 13:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 174 ratingsWhat does a happy and abundant life look like? How do you know if you’re wealthy? What does it mean to be semi-retired? How can you plug the plug leaks of time, money and energy? These are some of things Nicole and life and wealth coach Alyssa Blackwell-Hammond talk about during this episode. Thi...
141: Being Authentic & Impactful on Instagram
Dear Handmade Life - May 31, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 174 ratingsHow can you be authentic and impactful on Instagram for your creative business without spending all your time planning content, mastering every new feature and feeling overwhelmed? KatieMac our online operations director joins Nicole for this special episode where they sit down with Instagram st...
140: Transitions in Business & Art
Dear Handmade Life - May 17, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 174 ratingsCreative and entrepreneur, Margo Tantau and Nicole talk about the lifecycle of trends, forecast what’s next in design trends, how creatives can determine where to focus, when it’s time to push and when it’s time to rest, how to define what you do, what the creatives who meet their goals have in c...
139: Showing Up as Your Unapologetic Self Online
Dear Handmade Life - May 03, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 174 ratingsIf you've ever wondered how some people seem to have this fearless authenticity online, this episode is for you. Nicole talks with business mentor Erica Reitman about how to live a life that’s true to yourself, Erica’s evolution from interior designer to coach, how creatives can uncover and embra...
138: Brand-aligned Content
Dear Handmade Life - March 29, 2022 13:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 174 ratingsWhat if instead of thinking of social media as an obligation, you thought of it as an opportunity that allowed you to connect with your ideal customer and have fun? It’s possible! In today’s episode Content Strategist & Creative Director Gabriella Layne-Avery shares the techniques, mindset and in...
137: Being Here, *For Now
Dear Handmade Life - March 15, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 174 ratingsDespite the fact that I ended up only asking designer, artist, and speaker, Adam J. Kurtz (aka Adam JK) only one of my official interview questions since the conversation flowed on its own, we actually covered many of the topics I wanted to touch on like admitting you don’t know what you're doing...
136: Uncovering Your Brand Story
Dear Handmade Life - March 01, 2022 14:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 174 ratingsUncovering Your Brand Story with brand expert Marina Girgis. Marina and I talk about finding what lights you up, vision mapping, finding your own idea of success, creating a lasting brand, discovering your brand's mission and values and how you don't have to wait for someone to give you the life ...
136: Financial Planning for Creatives
Dear Handmade Life - February 07, 2022 22:29 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 174 ratingsFinancial planner Lauren Estes shares her insights for creatives to get their financial ducks in a row. Nicole and Lauren talk about money mindset issues, saving when you’re self-employed, the big mistakes she sees clients make and more.
135: Financial Planning for Creatives
Dear Handmade Life - February 07, 2022 22:29 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 174 ratingsFinancial planner Lauren Estes shares her insights for creatives to get their financial ducks in a row. Nicole and Lauren talk about money mindset issues, saving when you’re self-employed, the big mistakes she sees clients make and more.
134: How to Bust Through Your Goal-Getting Roadblocks
Dear Handmade Life - February 01, 2022 14:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 174 ratingsNicole helps you go from dream to done as she guides you through three key things you need to do to get your goals. Have you ever started going after something and found yourself losing steam? Or maybe you felt stuck during the process? Or you didn’t start because you weren’t sure what to do or f...
133: Find Your Focus, Goal-Get & Grow Your Business
Dear Handmade Life - January 25, 2022 04:13 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 174 ratingsIt's a new year and that means a fresh start, not just for you but also for your business. What do you want to do differently for your business this year? Join Nicole for this solo episode where she shares why proactive work is key to getting your goals and guides you through breaking down your b...
132: Level Up & Stand Out
Dear Handmade Life - December 07, 2021 14:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 174 ratingsLeveling up and standing out with Lauren Keplinger, small business owner, Etsy shop consultant and mom of four. Lauren and I talk about analyzing and streamlining your business to increase profits and decrease your working hours, outsourcing, how to stand out in crowded market, mistakes she made...
131: Running Your Business Like a CEO
Dear Handmade Life - November 23, 2021 14:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 174 ratingsRunning Your Business Like a CEO with Agency+Team Operations Coach Tatiana O'Hara. Tatiana and I discuss what first steps you can take right now to begin to be the CEO of your business, the roadblocks that may be standing in your way, how to start assessing your business using KPI’s, how to give...
130: Making a Life
Dear Handmade Life - November 09, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 174 ratingsMake a Life with Melanie Falick, independent writer, editor, and creative director—and a lifelong maker. Melanie and Nicole talk about Melanie's career in publishing, why making is so vital and valuable in the modern world, slowing down and making for the sake of making rather than selling or sh...
129: Authenticity & Seeking What Makes You Come Alive
Dear Handmade Life - October 26, 2021 04:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 174 ratingsAuthenticty & following what makes you come alive with musician, director and educator Kathryn Lounsbery. Kathryn and I talk about that that painful but necessary space between what we want to make and what we’re capable of making, being authentic, life as a c, bad-assery and more.
128: Marketing for Creatives
Dear Handmade Life - October 12, 2021 13:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 174 ratingsMarketing for Creatives with Christina Loff, a marketing strategist. Christina and Nicole talk about Christina's big leap to starting her own business after working at big brands like CreativeLive, Minted and Chronicle Books, content strategy, the current social media climate, uncovering your un...
127: Time Management, Trauma & Productivity
Dear Handmade Life - September 28, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 174 ratingsTime management, Trauma & Productivity with Naché Snow, a podcaster, online educator, and maker. Naché and Nicole talk about the accident that led Naché to stop caring about what other people thought of her and to go after her dreams, their favorite tools, tips, platforms and strategies for time...
126: The Genius Zone and The Big Leap
Dear Handmade Life - September 14, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 174 ratings"The Genius Zone with Gay Hendricks, psychologist, author and a leader in the fields of relationship transformation and bodymind transformation for more than 45 years. Gay and Nicole talk about how let go of things you can't control, bring more joy into your life, fail forward, access all the ti...
125: Discover Your Purpose
Dear Handmade Life - August 31, 2021 03:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 174 ratingsCreating your purpose with Quinn Tempest, a color-loving business mentor & brand strategist. Quinn and Nicole talk about the distinction between finding and creating your purpose, how to analyze opportunities to make sure they align with your "why", the first steps to uncovering your purpose, ho...
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