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064 - These weird things help us run our businesses
Growing Steady | Intentional Creative Business Podcast - November 12, 2020 14:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsWhen it comes to making our work more enjoyable, we are always on the lookout for helpful or weird things. In this episode, we share 10 things (5 for each of us) that help us run our businesses and enjoy our daily work. They cover a wide range, from productivity apps to microphone sta...
063 - Should you push through or pull back?
Growing Steady | Intentional Creative Business Podcast - November 05, 2020 14:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsOne of the toughest decisions, when you work for yourself, is deciding when you should PUSH THROUGH and when you should PULL BACK. In this episode, we share our experiences of times when we had to push a bit harder to meet a deadline or finish a project. We also share times when we pu...
062 - A subtle reframing that's helped us a ton
Growing Steady | Intentional Creative Business Podcast - October 30, 2020 20:29 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsWe are conditioned to get as much done as quickly as possible in life and business, but is that the best way to do things? And how can we enjoy more of the mundane tasks in life? In this episode, we share a subtle reframing that helped us go from: How fast can I get this done to How ca...
061 - What to do when future plans fall apart
Growing Steady | Intentional Creative Business Podcast - October 22, 2020 13:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsIf you’re anything like us, 2020 has really thrown your future plans for a loop. We had some pretty big goals to move to Europe in 2021 and live abroad for a year. That isn’t going to happen. So, what the heck do we do now? Do we just eat our feelings in cinnamon rolls? Do we give up c...
060 - How we work together
Growing Steady | Intentional Creative Business Podcast - October 14, 2020 14:31 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsWe've worked together in some capacity for nearly 10 years 😱. It hasn't been all sunshine, rainbows, and gumdrops, but for the most part, we have a really great working partnership! So, how do we do it? How do we work together and make it through the inevitable tough days/weeks/months ...
059 - "Calm businesses"
Growing Steady | Intentional Creative Business Podcast - October 08, 2020 13:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsFor years we've been trying to get off the treadmill of "running our businesses" and trying to focus on slowing down, having less stress, and running... calm businesses. The idea of a calm business is to ask our recurring question, what is it all for? What are all the long hours and la...
058 - 3 reasons your business isn't making money
Growing Steady | Intentional Creative Business Podcast - October 03, 2020 13:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsYou have a business and it's not making money... let us tell you why (from our own experience, obviously). The three reasons your biz might not be making money aren't the ONLY reasons but they are the mistakes we've made in the past and ones we see ALL. THE. TIME. Stop making these ...
057 - The 5-step business process we use all the time
Growing Steady | Intentional Creative Business Podcast - September 24, 2020 13:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsFor years we didn't have a process to help us understand the most important things to focus on in our businesses. We would jump from working on the product, to marketing, then to our ideal customer avatar, then think about our email content strategy, and it was just a hot mess (maybe yo...
056 - Shit sandwiches
Growing Steady | Intentional Creative Business Podcast - September 17, 2020 13:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsMark Manson wrote a quote that we learned about from Liz Gilbert in her book, Big Magic. The quote is, “everything sucks, some of the time. You just have to decide what sort of suckage you’re willing to deal with. The question is not so much “what are you passionate about?” The real que...
055 - What brings you purpose every day?
Growing Steady | Intentional Creative Business Podcast - September 10, 2020 13:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsIf you're like us, you can find yourself feeling stuck in the daily slog of work. But what if you reframed the work you were doing? What if you asked yourself during every task... what is it all for? Could the majority of the work you do become less of a burden and more of a purpose in ...
054 - How have our fears changed over time?
Growing Steady | Intentional Creative Business Podcast - September 03, 2020 13:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsFrom working with clients, to selling our first digital products, to running software companies, and then building a membership community, we've experienced all sorts of fears along the way. This week, we wanted to share our fears with you in case you're on a similar part of your journe...
053 - Should you switch from product launches to a membership?
Growing Steady | Intentional Creative Business Podcast - August 27, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsAs online business owners, we tend to think the grass is always greener. Specifically for this episode, we want to talk about the green-ness of the grass when it comes to product launches (online courses, ebooks, etc) versus running a membership program (a community with monthly payment...
Do we need social media?
Growing Steady | Intentional Creative Business Podcast - August 20, 2020 13:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsWe've been heavy social media users since Jason ran his IWearYourShirt project all the way back in 2008 (which is basically an entirely different millennium in the Internet age). Since that time we've realized the negative toll being on social media can take. In this episode, we explo...
052 - Do we need social media?
Growing Steady | Intentional Creative Business Podcast - August 20, 2020 13:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsWe've been heavy social media users since Jason ran his IWearYourShirt project all the way back in 2008 (which is basically an entirely different millennium in the Internet age). Since that time we've realized the negative toll being on social media can take. In this episode, we explo...
051 - Announcing: What is it all for? (new show name!)
Growing Steady | Intentional Creative Business Podcast - August 12, 2020 22:58 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsAfter two years of recording our podcast as "Wandering Aimfully: The Show" we've decided to switch gears a bit on the name and the focus. In this episode, we share our journey with this podcast and discuss what the new name (What is it all for?) means. Every week on Thursdays we hope...
Announcing: What is it all for? (new show name!)
Growing Steady | Intentional Creative Business Podcast - August 12, 2020 22:58 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsAfter two years of recording our podcast as "Wandering Aimfully: The Show" we've decided to switch gears a bit on the name and the focus. In this episode, we share our journey with this podcast and discuss what the new name (What is it all for?) means. Every week on Thursdays we hope...
Changes are afoot...
Growing Steady | Intentional Creative Business Podcast - July 29, 2020 16:12 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsWe've thoroughly enjoyed wandering aimfully through the past 50 episodes of this podcast. There was no real plan with our show other than to share how we bumped into the walls of business and life. After two years, we're excited for a NEW chapter of our podcast! While, the crux of the...
We scrapped part of our big launch...
Growing Steady | Intentional Creative Business Podcast - May 28, 2020 13:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsWhenever you're doing a launch for a product you typically have multiple ideas and plans. For us, we had ONE specific plan that involved something way more hands-on and a ton of extra effort (YouTube Live, promotion, etc). We decided to completely scrap 🙅🏻♀️🙅🏻♂️ that part of our launc...
If you're not ENJOYING your business, switch it up!
Growing Steady | Intentional Creative Business Podcast - May 21, 2020 13:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsIf you're feeling in a bit of a rut or you haven't seen much movement with your biz lately, maybe it's time to SWITCH 👀 IT 👀 UP 👀. Doing something new can reinvigorate you and whatever part of your business you're working on. Yes, we ALLLL want success to come to us faster but it doe...
You have to be willing to do ENOUGH selling (one week from launch)
Growing Steady | Intentional Creative Business Podcast - May 14, 2020 13:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsWe're getting really close to the final launch of our (un-boring) coaching program for 2020. In this week's episode of The Uncertain Times, we share what last-minute tasks and to-dos we're working on plus some mindset tips on doing ENOUGH selling. More important than the tasks and the ...
How do we manage a BIG project (tasks, to-dos, priorities, and mindset), The Uncertain Times - Ep 7
Growing Steady | Intentional Creative Business Podcast - May 07, 2020 13:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsLet's get into the nitty-gritty of how we manage a big project (like our upcoming 2-week launch for our coaching program). We share the details of how we break down a big project into bite-sized pieces and how we stay sane throughout! If you've ever launched anything before you know it...
What we're doing to lead up to our FINAL launch, The Uncertain Times - Ep 6
Growing Steady | Intentional Creative Business Podcast - April 30, 2020 22:13 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsOne of the biggest things that are helping us navigate getting ready to do a launch of our Un-Boring Group Coaching program (this will be our FINAL enrollment for the year) is the subtle mindset shift of "we're pushing our launch on someone" to "we're offering our launch to the right pe...
Dealing with the ups and downs during COVID-19, The Uncertain Times - Ep 5
Growing Steady | Intentional Creative Business Podcast - April 23, 2020 14:24 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsThis past week we embarked on a new idea 💡 to give back to our online biz owner community while also trying to do something interesting leading up to the launch of our coaching program. In usual Zook-fashion, we bit off more than we could chew with this new idea and it led to a small "b...
What 5 movie characters would you want to be quarantined with? The Uncertain Times - Ep 4
Growing Steady | Intentional Creative Business Podcast - April 16, 2020 12:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsThis week we (obviously) shared our “Quarantine Five” but before that, we went over a few housekeeping items. We reflected on our overall mindset and how we’re managing each day as it comes. Some days are great, productive, and our outlook is positive. Some days are the complete opposi...
Is baking sourdough bread everyone's new normal?? The Uncertain Times - Ep 3
Growing Steady | Intentional Creative Business Podcast - April 05, 2020 15:39 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsWe share with you how we're settling into new routines and taking each day one step at a time. We also talk about how running any type of business is hard (be it a client-service business, a digital products business, or a software business). They all have their "shit sandwiches" you ha...
This is our first pandemic, The Uncertain Times - Ep 2
Growing Steady | Intentional Creative Business Podcast - March 29, 2020 12:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsWe're navigating COVID-19 the best way we can but that way may not be the right way for you (and that's OKAY). 👋 Our hope in sharing this series is that it a) makes YOU feel a little less alone in the worries or questions you have through all of this and b) it gives you some ideas or ...
How we're working through coronavirus, The Uncertain Times - Ep 1
Growing Steady | Intentional Creative Business Podcast - March 22, 2020 23:28 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsWhat questions are we asking ourselves? How are our priorities shifting? How are we staying sane and hopeful through a trying time? Our only hope in sharing this series is that it a) makes YOU feel a little less alone in the worries or questions you have through all of this and b) it ...
10 key decisions that doubled our business growth during our toughest year
Growing Steady | Intentional Creative Business Podcast - December 15, 2019 18:50 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsIn January, Caroline 👩🏻🦰 came down with the most debilitating season of anxiety she'd ever experienced. She dealt with symptoms she'd never had before with such severity, things like depersonalization, acute tension headaches, vertigo, extreme sensitivity to light and sensations, and a...
FaceApp old age photos, societal stigmas, and our coffee shop grudge match
Growing Steady | Intentional Creative Business Podcast - July 24, 2019 10:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsWhat are the implications of uploading our photos to a random app and should we be concerned about the privacy implications? 👴🏻 You can view Jason as an old man here: https://twitter.com/jasondoesstuff/status/1151246452368142336 What about the societal norms of men and women when it c...
FaceApp old age photos, societal stigmas, and our coffee shop grudge match
Growing Steady | Intentional Creative Business Podcast - July 24, 2019 10:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsWhat are the implications of uploading our photos to a random app and should we be concerned about the privacy implications? 👴🏻 You can view Jason as an old man here: https://twitter.com/jasondoesstuff/status/1151246452368142336 What about the societal norms of men and women when it c...
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