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Creativity & Entrepreneurship
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As a new member of the Networking Entrepreneurial Women of Marin, I was so honored present an in-person talk on Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at the Left Bank Brasserie in Larkspur, CA on the topic of Creativity & Entrepreneurship: Bringing Whole Self Expression Into Your Business.
I began with the question: What does creativity mean to you and your business?
We all have preconceived ideas and stories that we tell ourselves which allow us to live our lives. Some result in wonderful outcomes. . .some not so much. In business, sometimes we might have to go along with what benefits others, even when we may not agree with or believe in it. By taking the time to inquire into what our own experience is, it can have the effect of empowering, validating, and connecting us with all the parts of ourselves that want and need expression.
Outcomes from this talk:
Explore and reflect on how you currently express yourself in business.
Learn new ways of defining what creativity means for you
See your creative power and inner wisdom reveal itself personally and professionally.
The talk was much more informal than I had planned, and it was so much fun! I decided to upload the slides I had prepared to give you a taste of what happened and help you express your full self in your business.
A Daily Business Practice
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For those of you on the way to becoming a boss babe, solopreneur, philosopreneur or other creative title for your role as a business owner, I have created a PDF exercise to help you get clear on what you would like to have happen each day of your business life—which I can tell you is pretty much every day!
One of my mentors and the founder of The Academy for Soul-based Coaching, Annemiek van Helsdingen, told us in my Invoke Your Client’s Magic training that we should do a minimum of 3 tasks each day relating to our business.
These activities, or actions, could be anything to do with your business. Get as creative and elaborate as you want, but it’s not necessary. It can be simply meditating on what you would like to have happen for your business today.
Or, you could send a direct message on social media to a potential ideal client, investor or simply network with someone in your field. Or, how about working on your website, social media promotion, flyer or graphic? Or, journaling about what you envision for the future sustainability of your business? The possibilities are so numerous it can be fun to see what happens each day.
I love Annemiek’s advice because it begins to instill the kind of daily commitment to your work that will be necessary for growing your business.
Routine is difficult for me, so be gentle with yourself about the “daily” aspect of it. However, in my experience, the times I do practice every day, it generates more structure, productivity, self-awareness, consistency, output and momentum!
Get inspired by influential industry leaders, top entrepreneurs and expert coaches!
Brainz. is a branding and digital media group with a free subscription to their weekly business periodicals. They focus on featuring appealing stories of interest to inspire and empower. They publish interviews, articles and information about business, mindset, innovation, leadership, technology, lifestyles and personal development. Listed 7th in the Best Business Magazines by Business Pundit, Brainz offers a wide range of stories on holistic approaches to business, spirituality and well-being.
I am an Executive Contributing Writer to the magazine in the personal development section, so be sure to check out my articles!
Thoughts
Here are some of my blog posts about my path of healing, leadership, creating this business, and the transformative practices I’ve trained in to get to where I am now. Check all of them out at the thoughts links or just click on the business-focused posts I’ve featured.
The Awakened School
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Helping World Changers Create their Vision with Cutting Edge Educational Experiences
When you take part in a program with Rachael Jayne Groover, the founder of The Awakened School, not only do you make yourself more valuable as a person who can make important contributions to a business, project, or community. . .but you’ll be supported in breaking through what is holding you back from COURAGEOUS SELF-EXPRESSION and lasting INNER PEACE.
This is a badass community working together for inner peace and outer purpose!
Success Design
Jasmine Ivy Myers has created a Success Design Formula to help you market, niche and promote your business using strategies that are in line with the way you are uniquely designed. Her system has Oracles, like me, Fixers and Impressionists. Our type gives flavor to how we enjoy marketing and structuring our businesses.
Jasmine is a “recovering” Silicon Valley marketing exec turned business coach to women entrepreneurs all over the globe. Over the last 8 years, she’s helped thousands to grow their businesses by creating success on their own terms. She teaches her clients and students how to do business in a way that works WITH their design and not against it.
Money Wisdom Coaching
Susan Shloss is an incredible guide through the intricacies and nuances of how to learn the practical aspects of tracking and managing your money, as well as the larger emotional, psychological and spiritual patterns. She helped me understand the shifts and changes within my own approach to money over the years, alleviated some of my fears around how to manage money, and helped me get more realistic about tracking my money to build a stronger foundation for my financial independence and growth. I highly recommend Susan if you’re looking for clarity, insight and wisdom into how to go about managing or growing your relationship to wealth and money!
Susan is a Certified Money Coach (CMC)® and Founder of Money Wisdom Coaching. With more than 25 years in the financial services industry and a lifetime of spiritual practice, Susan supports clients to grow their financial literacy, confidence and fulfillment by offering powerful tools that create deep shifts in a transformative environment of compassion and respect. It is her intention to create a safe container to guide people of all ethnicities, stages of life, sexual orientation and backgrounds to change their generational patterns around money and live a truly abundant life.
Inspiring Promotions
Suzanna Gratz is a genuinely artistic creator, independent thinker, generous and adventurous spirit. She brings her whole heart to her relationships, her work and her content creation. Her artistry, professionalism and knowledge is front and center in all the websites and branding materials she designs to help her clients shine.
She has new clients that often come to her overwhelmed with options and plagued with limitations about how to build their brand, birth their product, launch or relaunch their website, generate a digital marketing campaign, or engage their market. Suzanna takes the time to understand your goals, research the market and your competition, discover what makes you unique, create an intelligent and integrative marketing strategy, and explore fresh and innovative ways to help you reach your goals affordably and with ease. With 20 years of promotional expertise, 12 years in publishing, digital marketing skills and focused attention, she’ll help you stand out in your competitive market.
StoryVault
Elise Darma’s StoryVault is a comprehensive, resource-packed vault of prompts to use as a starting off point for social media stories and posts!
Don’t let her claims to being lazy fool you! Elise has literally hundreds of ideas that are offered to you in various formats: spreadsheet, Trello boards, Asana. You can copy & paste her prompts for reaching clients or collaborating with other solopreneurs in your field. And, Elise has already organized the voluminous stories into four functional categories: visibility, engagement, leads and sales.
Use them as a fill-in-the-blank and post or take the idea and make it your own. It’s totally up to you, but the best part is that the majority of the work is already done for you.
Therefore, you can spend more of your time on the actual services you offer and connecting with your clients, rather than coming up with that perfect content to attract people to your social media.
Many people offer vaults similar to this, but I chose Elise’s because of the simplicity of her system, the thoroughness and sheer number of options that are available for connecting to the people you need to grow your business!
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More Resources
GoForth Institute has several Free Resources on how to build a successful small business. They offer templates, guides, an empathy map, a business calculator and an entrepreneur library of information to help you achieve your business dreams!
Canva Designs
LadyStrategist has created thousands of done for you Canva template designs for Instagram posts, stories, service-based PDF packets and more!
If you want to save some time or upgrade the look of your brand to a more professional and engagement-based style, then this is for you!
These looks are specifically designed to attract ideal clients and boost engagement, and I’ve found in one week, I’m already seeing improvement in organic growth and post engagement. And, my favorite part is how pretty it all is.
Check out a couple of templates I used as a base on the right!
Creative Market empowers creators around the world to make their ideas a reality.
If you’re ready to showcase and market your talent, there is a world of design at your fingertips!
Find the perfect template, pair it with a striking image, and overlay beautiful type. There are more than 4 million quality resources created by artists in over 190 countries around the world.
You can join forces with talented designers to make your projects stand out. There are font faces, posters, graphics, Canva template sets, as well as Canva template packages specifically designed for coaches, wellness practitioners, artists, entrepreneurs, etc.
Check out a couple of templates I used as a base on the left!
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