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Steven Kotler — Exponential Technologies, Achieving Flow States and The Art of Asking Great Questions
Conscious Creators — Make A Life Through Your Art Without Selling Your Soul
01/04/22 • 52 min
“Flow is an optimal state of consciousness where we feel our best and we perform our best. It has a huge amplification to all aspects, to performance, motivation, productivity, learning, creativity, innovation” — Steven Kotler
This week Sachit (@sachitgupta) chats with New York Times bestselling author, and award-winning journalist Steven Kotler (@steven_kotler). Steven is the Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective. In this conversation, they discuss the meaning of exponential technology, the future of content creators, how to ask the right questions, getting into the state of flow, and about his new upcoming book.
Find the show notes of the episode here - https://www.creators.show
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Resources mentioned:
“Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think” - Peter H. Diamonds & Steven Kotler
“A Small Furry Prayer: Dog Rescue and the Meaning of Life” - Steven Kotler
“Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World” - David Epstein
“Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't” - Jim Collins
“The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change” - Stephen R. Covey - but in a negative context
Show Notes:
00:27 - What is exponential technology?
04:48 - Disruptions in the world of entertainment
15:41 - How to think about the future as a content creator
24:59 - How to get into the flow state (22 flow triggers)
30:11 - Why devotion to craft is all that matters
33:24 - Success as a compound interest function
34:56 - Steven’s framework to learn anything
40:14 - How Steven picks what to learn and write about
42:01 - How to get better at asking questions
45:43 - #1 way to win in life and career
47:08 - How he and his co-author came up with the title of his new book
50:58 - How to find your extraordinary

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Austen Allred — Reinventing Vocational Education and Building a Vertically Integrated Software-driven School
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01/11/22 • 48 min
Schools are driven to give lectures and homework. But the reality is you actually learn by building stuff. The lecture is there but vaguely useful. You learn the exact amount as you spend fingers on the keyboard – writing code. If you’re not fingers on the keyboard writing code whatever you do is going to round to zero.
This week Sachit (@sachitgupta) chats with entrepreneur Austen Allred (@Austen). Austen is the CEO and Co-Founder of Bloom Institute of Technology (previously Lambda School). In this conversation, they discuss how Bloom’s way of approaching education is different than traditional colleges, Income Share Agreements vs Outcome-Based Loans, the thought process behind building Bloom Tech, and where they’re headed.
Find the show notes of the episode here - https://www.creators.show
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Do you want to learn how to make a living as a creator? Check out the CreatorsMBA.
Show Notes:
01:02 - Core insights that drive Bloom
03:01 - How Bloom defines student success
05:39 - Students not paying upfront and creating skin in the game
08:11 - Student Loans vs ISA vs Outcome-based Loan models
15:32 - How hiring companies make education free for the students
17:37 - The criteria for finding the right applicants
21:41 - Is there a reverse correlation between imposter syndrome and intelligence?
24:05 - Austen’s early background
27:23 - How Bloom helps students get disproportionate results
31:39 - Instructional design - not one curriculum for every student but one curriculum for each one
33:14 - The experiential learning and platform
40:32 - The seamless integration of admissions, school, and matchmaking
43:54 - The future of Bloom Tech and managing the quality while scaling

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Gina Bianchini — How to Build & Design Communities That Run Themselves and Why Community & Culture are the Future of the Creator Economy
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01/03/23 • 78 min
“There is something incredibly powerful when the design is for connection versus the design is for content. Community is designed for connection. Social media is designed for content.”
— Gina Bianchini
This week Sachit (@sachitgupta) chats with Gina Bianchini (@gbianchini / @ginab), CEO and Founder of Mighty — Where creators, entrepreneurs, and brands build digital communities and courses with cultural software. She is also the author of the new book Purpose: Design a Community and Change Your Life.
In 2019, she also launched the Community DesignTM Masterclass, where over 8,000 people have learned how to build a community so valuable you can charge for it, and so well-designed it essentially runs itself.
Before Mighty, Gina she was the CEO and co-founder of Ning, a pioneering global platform for creating social networks she started with Marc Andreessen in 2004.
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Resources Mentioned:
The Art Of Asking A Great Question | The Secret to Community Engagement
1,000 Creators Predict 2023 | From Mighty
(02:35) - What role “purpose” plays in culture
(07:59) - How she refocuses a community to think about the depth, rather than expanding, while building a business
(13:57) - How she knew years before that the market would need a software like Mighty Networks
(16:18) - How she learned the ideas of community
(19:06) - Second-order effects that come up with thinking about community, from a cultural perspective
(22:55) - Why she’s confident that anyone can become a creator
(28:47) - The revelation that the biggest revenue earners on Mighty Networks had an average of 8,500 social media followers
(30:32) - Difference between audience and community
(33:52) - Compounding results in a community
(43:25) - “I am an introvert, I don’t know if I should build a community” — How she handles these statements
(46:19) - What to do in the first few days and weeks of building a community
(53:58) - What a 5-star community looks like
(59:02) - How to create loyalty within the community
(01:03:38) - What it looks like to manage a community at scale
(01:05:25) - How her thinking about business has evolved since she started
(01:08:10) - How she became so well connected in Silicon Valley
(01:09:17) - Did she face imposter syndrome?
(01:14:18) - Community leaders that inspire her
(01:16:32) - What she’s excited about in the upcoming years and Mighty Network’s future

The Value of Distributing Power and Authority Throughout an Organization | Brian Robertson
Conscious Creators — Make A Life Through Your Art Without Selling Your Soul
04/18/23 • 80 min
“I want self-managed people, especially for Halocracy. It's a self-managing environment, that needs people that are capable of individual self-management to be part of a team that is self-managing.”
— Brian Robertson
On this week's episode, Sachit (@sachitgupta) sits down with Brian Robertson (@h1brian) to discuss a management framework designed to get things done using a system of agile, self-organizing networks.
Brian is an entrepreneur, organization-builder, recovering CEO, and the Pioneer of Holacracy - an exciting and revolutionary management philosophy that turns everyone into a leader. The philosophy distributes authority and decision-making throughout an organization, and defines people not by hierarchy and titles, but by roles.
Tune in to hear Brian explain how the Holacracy method can help you create structures and ways of making decisions that empower everyone in the organization. Make sure you have your notebooks ready because this one's a cracker!
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(00:00) - Introduction (02:03) - The main idea behind Holacracy (06:50) - How Brian discovered and built Holacracy (08:41) - To create clarity, ask these essential questions (11:30) - The one thing people misunderstand about Holacracy (13:13) - The modern management hierarchy (17:04) - Where to start when implementing Holacracy (20:08) - Power and ownership under a Holacracy (23:17) - How to distribute power throughout an organization (25:45) - Support and mentorship in a Holacracy (28:35) - Imagine having the best firing system in the world (34:15) - Key steps to ensure you’re hiring the right people (37:18) - Patterns that inform great hiring (44:10) - Pitfalls to look out for when implementing Holacracy (47:30) - How to avoid slipping back into old management habits (50:19) - How long it takes from implementation to success with Holacracy (57:10) - Ways Holacracy creates order, structure, and alignment in an organization (01:01:02) - How to properly manage remote teams (01:03:04) - Tips for running better meetings (01:07:05) - How Holacracy drives creativity in teams (01:11:02) - The story of Medium and Zappos using Holacracy (01:15:33) - The types of companies currently having success with Holacracy (01:18:45) - Brian’s definition of a conscious creator (01:19:57) - Parting thoughts

Alexis Grant — How to Build Content Operations Teams to Scale and Sell
Conscious Creators — Make A Life Through Your Art Without Selling Your Soul
01/17/23 • 70 min
“More than half of the people I talk to are burned out and that's why they want to sell. And if you're burned out, it's not too late because you can still sell the business, but it's not the optimal time.”
— Alexis Grant
This week Sachit (@sachitgupta) chats with Alexis Grant (@alexiskgrant) Founder & CEO of They Got Acquired — a media company that features acquisitions of online businesses and the founders behind them.
Previously, she was EVP of Content at The Penny Hoarder, a personal finance media brand, where she worked alongside the founder as the third employee to scale the company’s content operations. She also founded The Write Life, an online community for writers she sold in 2021.
Lexi began her career as a reporter at the Houston Chronicle and U.S. News & World Report, before growing a boutique content marketing agency, which was acquired by The Penny Hoarder in 2015. She lives with husband and two young kids in Harpers Ferry, WV.
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(02:49) - Experience and highlights from building content teams
(04:41) - How big the content side of Penny hoarder got
(05:24) - Is the company a media company?
(06:40) - Ways to monetize before advertising
(09:07) - Her fav content niches / companies that got acquired
(11:22) - Elements to think about when determining how to position or frame a media site — How to monetize or set up to sell
(12:49) - Lessons from research she did on how media companies can be sold
(14:56) - How much a content site would sell for
(17:37) - What should creators do to monetize their audience and content, properly?
(20:28) - How creators can sell their businesses
(22:23) - The process from buyers reaching out, to finally selling the company
(23:57) - At what point should you hire lawyers, agents and other people?
(26:13) - The most common mistakes everyone was making, in terms of selling their business
(28:34) - Things you should have in order before going down the path to sell
(34:32) - Is it possible to sell some of the pieces of business that are burning out the owners?
(39:01) - Other things creators should be thinking about during the process of selling the business
(40:10) - Will increasing revenue using services, increase the multiple?
(44:39) - How does one start building a team?
(46:59) - What Lexi’s team looks like
(49:04) - At scale version, what does the team look like?
(51:42) - What do editors do?
(53:29) - Principles creators should know about while building a team
(56:14) - Commonalities in great hires
(58:54) - Tips on training and managing creative talent
(1:00:28) - Things they have taken from writing, to podcasting
(1:02:46) - How much of an investment it takes to grow from good to great, in terms of podcasting and content
(1:03:08) - AI-generated content and where it’s going to go
(01:05:06) - Finding the voice for your writing and newsletter
(01:06:51) - Alexis’s three favorite creators
(01:08:29) - What it means to be a conscious creator
(01:09:09) - What she is most excited about in the next 5-10 years

Robbie Bent — Going Inward and Using Your Breath to Unleash Your Creative Side
Conscious Creators — Make A Life Through Your Art Without Selling Your Soul
09/27/22 • 85 min
When was the last time you'd been bored? So there's this new problem that's been created that we need to be online. It's more important, but at the same time, our time spent in the real world now has to be much more effective than it was before.”
— Robbie Bent
This week Sachit (@sachitgupta) chats with entrepreneur Robbie Bent. Robbie is the CEO and Founder of Othership which is a platform that includes physical spaces, a mobile app, a concert tour and a global community. They also run live breathwork concerts in NYC, LA, Miami and Austin. Prior to Othership, Robbie was an early employee at the Ethereum Foundation
Find the show notes of the episode here - https://www.creators.show
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(01:02) - Genesis and inspiration behind Othership
(02:34) - Robbie’s perspective on the direction of the world that is moving towards more and more time spent on screens
(05:17) - How humans operate differently in a virtual world Vs real world
(08:24) - Why he took the leap to make physical spaces instead of focusing on crypto
(18:20) - Robbie’s approach to designing spaces
(24:36) - When do they know when to stop in terms of creating the best
(27:00) - How do they apply reverse engineering during the design process
(28:37) - How to facilitate more connections in online courses and communities
(33:59) - Stories that fuel the inspiration and delight during his travels
(36:10) - Robbie's history of dealing with addiction and visiting Iran
(41:24) - What do most people don’t understand about going through addictions
(46:18) - Meditation Vs Breathwork
(52:37) - How to unleash your creativity and bring that child-like wonder back
(59:04) - How the name Othership came into the picture
(01:04:45) - Bootstrapping Vs Venture-backed
(01:14:52) - One person he is thankful to
(01:19:82) - His definition of being a conscious creator
(01:21:05) - What is he most excited about in the next 5-10 years

Tessa Arias — How to Create Engaging Content, Work With Sponsors, Become a Published Author and Find Fulfillment as a Social Influencer
Conscious Creators — Make A Life Through Your Art Without Selling Your Soul
11/10/21 • 73 min
“I came to realize that as the influencer, you’re your own best marketer, you’re your own best advocate, you know your audience best, you know your content best, and people want to hear from you anyway.” – Tessa Arias
Welcome to the Conscious Creators Show; where through intimate and insightful interviews with authors, actors, musicians, entrepreneurs and other podcasters, you'll learn tools and tactics to 10x your creativity and strategies to grow and monetize your audience.
In today’s episode, Tessa Arias, founder of Handle the Heat, shares her experience going from a hobby-blogger to published author and social influencer. What I love about Tessa’s background is she’s grown a platform online mostly organically, reaching audience numbers that a lot of my friends who spend a ton on paid ads aren’t even able to reach.
We also get super tactical into her experience working with sponsors and partnerships and how Tessa now acts as an advisor for companies wanting to work with influencers. We close with her experience going back into the world of publishing and why she’s self-publishing her next cookbook.
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Episode Highlights:
- Tessa began as a hobby blogger with no expectations of making money, until she was offered a book deal in 2012.
- Even though she was making money from her website, she didn’t feel like it was a real business, so she started attending Masterminds to learn more.
- Tessa found she needed the emotional support of having a team of like-minded people around her.
- Someone can have a six or seven-figure business, but hate their business and not feel fulfilled by their life.
- Find groups and resources where you’re actually getting advice and tools that you can implement.
- Surround yourself with people who understand and respect that you are the one who knows your business and yourself the best.
- Bringing someone else into your business forces you to operate at a higher level.
- You don’t need to post on major job sites; look within your own community first. For example, Tessa hired through Instagram at first.
- When hiring, Tessa suggests you ask them to tell a story about a time they overcame a challenge, and ask them their opinion about something trivial to see that they can make a commitment and not be a yes-person.
- Tessa realized she was approaching burnout when she stopped feeling excited about her work.
- Growing your business depends on being flexible and adapting to the changing online landscape.
- Tessa challenged herself to post something every quarter that is more controversial or more personal and that scares her.
- If you buy a course online, make sure you have an accountability buddy to do it.
- Her past experiences with sponsored posts were formulaic and based on how other food bloggers did it, but she learned from Sachit and others how to build larger partnerships and create relationships from sponsorships.
- Through her success with building partnership relationships, Tessa has become a case study and an advisor for how brands should work with influencers.
- Tessa learned to ask open-ended questions of her sponsors to understand how their organizations work so she learns what would work best for both of them.
- No one opens Instagram excited to see sponsored content, so you should prioritize sponsorships that work with content you already post organically and that you care about and whose products you use.
- Question your assumptions that something has to be done a certain way.
- Sell your own content to your audience and remind them of the work that goes into it.
- The most important fundamental skills you need to be a successful published author are marketing and sales.
- Tessa is writing a second cookbook but is self-publishing it.
- The hardest part is marketing the book for pre-sale while creating it in order to fund it at the same time.
- Don’t do something you don’t like just to see if it’ll be successful, because if it is successful, you’ll have to continue doing something you hate.
- If you’re bored ...

JeVon McCormick — How the CEO of a 9-Figure Publishing Company Became the Leader He Was Meant to Be
Conscious Creators — Make A Life Through Your Art Without Selling Your Soul
10/11/22 • 81 min
“Privilege is only negative if you don't use your privilege to elevate others. That's when it's negative. So for me, I express to people I have a deep privilege and a deep responsibility given my upbringing to give back.” — JeVon McCormick
This week Sachit (@sachitgupta) chats with JeVon McCormick (@JeVon McCormick), the CEO of Scribe Media, a multi-million dollar publishing company that was recently ranked the #1 Top Company Culture in America by Entrepreneur Magazine. JeVon’s experiences shaped a mindset for modern leadership that now guides his service as the CEO of a massively successful company that’s redefining the world of publishing.
Find the show notes of the episode here - https://www.creators.show
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Show Notes:
(03:16) - Why Sachit is grateful for Jevon for writing the Modern Leader
(10:45) - What happened once he reclaimed his own name and went from JT to JeVon
(14:11) - How he built his mindset up after ending up in solitary confinement
(15:46) - His internal talk after being in juvenile prison at the age of 12
(19:13) - Taking what happened to him and turning it into doing good for others
(27:57) - His emotional growth and the impact it had on the business
(35:34) - How Tucker Max helped him recognize he’s a fast learner and how he teaches that to other people
(40:40) - Who helped him reach his greatest potential
(48:43) - How Scribe Media hires people while keeping diversity and representation in mind
(53:03) - The dichotomy of prioritizing people and profit
(56:56) - Culture: recruit and retain vs offer and provide
(58:66) - Culture: work for vs work with
(01:02:57) - How to find a JeVon for your company
(01:11:05) - Three most impactful books
(01:13:14) - Who he’s thankful to
(01:16:59) - What it means to be a conscious creator
(01:17:43) - What he’s most excited for in the next 5-10 years

Alisha Belluga — 0 to 16+ Million in Revenue in 2.5 Years: Designing Well-Loved Products, Mindset, Fear, Understanding Money, Going Against the Grain in the Creators’ Economy, and the Journey to Self-Acceptance
Conscious Creators — Make A Life Through Your Art Without Selling Your Soul
09/21/22 • 147 min
Most people don't understand that money is neutral. And like the amount of money you have is also your willingness to look at your money. So money has a lot to do with intimacy. Like I think most people are not good at taking care of money, but still, they want more. So it's not only about generating money. It's also about the ability to hold money. - Alisha
This week Sachit (@sachitgupta) chats with entrepreneur and business mentor Alisha Belluga (@alishabelluga). Alisha is the founder of IntuGrace. She is based in Germany and she helps business + lifestyle coaches, experts and trainers to create the business and business lifestyle of their wildest dreams with inner soul alignment and associated strategy.
In this episode, Alisha shares her journey from zero to now an 8-figure business, her mindset about money, what makes her an unstoppable creative machine, advice for creators and why she wanted to start a podcast, working with Sachit, and building a #1 business podcast together.
Find the show notes of the episode here - https://www.creators.show
Follow our host, Sachit Gupta on Twitter and sign up for the Creators Collective Newsletter.
Do you want to learn how to make a living as a creator? Check out the CreatorsMBA
Resources Mentioned:
The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
The Manifestation Babe Podcast
Show Notes
(01:27) - Growth IntuGrace had seen in the last few years
(03:16) - What Alisha was doing before starting IntuGrace
(04:33) - What it looked like before things started to work out
(07:03) - Her early experiences in business
(08:26) - How she builds a story for a brand
(09:42) - What she was doing in business before doing IntuGrace
(12:08) - What led to her creative destruction
(13:17) - The moment she realized what deep-rooted thoughts were running her story and what happened after
(15:07) - The transition phase and what got her to the other side
(16:27) - How manifestations and other techniques helped her to change her identity
(19:07) - How she used Chinese metaphysics to remove obstacles from her life
(21:10) - Why she didn’t talked about Chinese metaphysics earlier and what changed after
(22:41) - Having two identities and how she navigated that
(24:37) - Things she thought were a weakness earlier and now are strengths
(27:43) - Going from 100K debt to 4.5 million in revenue
(31:21) - Advice for creators on how to start building business
(33:20) - Creating a story around a product - a live walkthrough
(36:30) - The elements she added to make the products more fun and better
(38:28) - Things that worked and things that didn’t work in her storytelling course
(40:27) - Alisha’s school of product development - What will she teach?
(42:00) - This episode is brought to you by CreatorsMBA
(43:33) - Example of how she structured her courses as cinema
(47:19) - Patterns she has recognized in the outside world and using to grow her business
(49:50) - Elements she uses in her products to stand out
(51:42) - How she uses points systems to create engagement
(53:06) - How to build an engaging community and the importance of a community
(56:30) - Are communities about the connections between the audience members?
(59:14) - How does it feel to create communities where people can belong
(01:00:33) - Stories of the impact that stand out
(01:02:18) - Why do creators have a hard time accepting compliments
(01:04:42) - Going from chase to the craft
(01:05:17) - What happens after when she was earning 500K
(01:07:58) - Why she was selling products for a higher price range
(01:09:22) - Insecurities and fears that lead to really good business decisions
(01:10:22) - Why she keeps building businesses from scratch
(01:11:43) - Identity shifting and how it works
(01:15:15) - Top 5 identity shifts she made that helped her to achieve so much success in business
(01:19:16) - How she jumps to the next version of herself
(01:21:44) - What are the things she subtracted to go from 1 million to the current revenue
(01:25:06) - How creators with small audiences can earn millions in revenue
(01:28:06) - Customer progression from a stranger to membership in her busi...

Jane Ko — The Impact of COVID19 on Influencer Marketing, Knowing Your Brand Voice and Doing Good As An Influencer
Conscious Creators — Make A Life Through Your Art Without Selling Your Soul
05/13/20 • 67 min
“You’re placing an ad on my platform in my voice, and I know my audience the best.” –Jane Ko
Welcome to the Conscious Creators Show; where through intimate and insightful interviews with authors, actors, musicians, entrepreneurs and other podcasters, you'll learn tools and tactics to 10x your creativity and strategies to grow and monetize your audience.
Jane Ko is the blogger behind A Taste of Koko, Austin's top food and travel blog featuring the hottest restaurants and weekend getaways. A Taste of Koko has been featured in O Magazine, InStyle Magazine, OWN TV Network, and The New York Times.
A Taste of Koko launched Shop Koko, her very own line of foodie tees that help support local non-profits in Austin and her first book, Koko's Guide To Austin."
On today’s episode of the Conscious Creator podcast, host Sachit Gupta speaks with food and travel blogger and social media influencer Jane Ko. They discuss the Austin food scene, how influencers are being impacted by the pandemic, and the insider perspective on brand deals. They also talk about how Jane’s childhood in a tiny Texas town impacted her career, self-publishing a book, and more.
Episode Highlights:
- Jane introduces herself as a blogger rather than influencer because she started her blog before that term existed.
- The “free stuff” you get as an influencer isn’t actually free because it requires hours of work to leverage for content.
- Jane works 80-100 hours per week, from restaurant tastings to brand deals.
- It took Jane about 3 years before she started getting paid through brand deals, but it may take someone less time now because the market has changed.
- The main thing Jane has learned about brand deals is how much money brands have to spend.
- Her biggest frustration is brands not listening when Jane brings her own ideas and expertise to the table.
- Jane has an agent, but she still does her own first round vetting of clients who reach out directly to her.
- Jane was supposed to work with GoDaddy, which has hosted her website for 10 years, on featuring Austin businesses during SXSW, but the event was canceled due to the pandemic.
- Instead, Jane presented an idea to GoDaddy around the domain hireacreative.co, which she had been paying for but not using and saw this as an opportunity to finally launch it to support the freelancers like her who had just lost all their income.
- Measuring KPIs for influencer marketing is almost impossible; the only metric you can track is impressions.
- Everything Jane does for local businesses is done for free and is only for the sake of supporting her community.
- Jane grew up in a small town in Texas and never believed she was going to amount to anything.
- Jane works hard to make the process as easy as possible for brands because that makes it easier for her.
- She always communicates her idea for the content fully so she doesn’t end up in the position of having to redo anything.
- Travel blogging is the most time consuming work; it isn’t a vacation.
- Jane spends time sourcing outfits for posts while traveling, planning an itinerary of locations and shots and posts.
- Jane self-published her first book last year in 5 weeks, but she had been doing research and planning for years.
- Jane was surprised at how easy it is to do brand deals and how hard it is to sell a product.
- Her goal for her book was to sell just one copy but she sold over 3,000 copies in 5 months.
- Jane believes her book had good product-market fit.
- It’s a common misconception that authors make money on book deals; almost no books make profit.
- Because Jane self-published, she’s able to brand books for companies who want to buy in bulk and give them as gifts.
- The first quarter of the year is always the slowest for influencers.
- Jane launched hireacreative.co and Hundred for Hospitality to support local businesses and freelancers in Austin in response to COVID-19.
- Hundred for Hospitality provides 100 meals a day for free for any service industry person who has been laid off by a restaurant in Austin due to COVID-19, while being able to pay the restaurant for those meals.
- Jane’s income is down 80% right now.
3 Key Takeaways:
- There is no secret to getting brand deals other than working hard for a long period of time and waiting for the right opportunity to emerge.
- Communication is key in brand deals to make the process as easy as possible for both parties.
- Nothing can replace the impact of building relationships over time.
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“So for brands, they’re thinking, we’re getting 2 in 1. We need exposure & we need content, which is something that we were going to pay an ad agency easily $50-...
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FAQ
How many episodes does Conscious Creators — Make A Life Through Your Art Without Selling Your Soul have?
Conscious Creators — Make A Life Through Your Art Without Selling Your Soul currently has 61 episodes available.
What topics does Conscious Creators — Make A Life Through Your Art Without Selling Your Soul cover?
The podcast is about Entrepreneurship, Podcasts, Arts and Business.
What is the most popular episode on Conscious Creators — Make A Life Through Your Art Without Selling Your Soul?
The episode title 'Steven Kotler — Exponential Technologies, Achieving Flow States and The Art of Asking Great Questions' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Conscious Creators — Make A Life Through Your Art Without Selling Your Soul?
The average episode length on Conscious Creators — Make A Life Through Your Art Without Selling Your Soul is 73 minutes.
How often are episodes of Conscious Creators — Make A Life Through Your Art Without Selling Your Soul released?
Episodes of Conscious Creators — Make A Life Through Your Art Without Selling Your Soul are typically released every 7 days, 1 hour.
When was the first episode of Conscious Creators — Make A Life Through Your Art Without Selling Your Soul?
The first episode of Conscious Creators — Make A Life Through Your Art Without Selling Your Soul was released on Dec 18, 2019.
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