For designers, creatives, entrepreneurs, and content creators who want to level up their careers and creative businesses. Hosted by Philip VanDusen, Brand Consultant and founder of BONFIRE, this show explores personal branding, content creation, freelancing, and creative career growth.
Philip and his guests deliver practical coaching, strategies, and inspiration to help you market your work, attract new clients, grow your influence, and build long-term success. Covering personal branding, content creation, freelancing, digital marketing, and creative entrepreneurship, every episode is designed to support your growth as a creative professional in the Creative Economy.
The business world is a crowded place and it’s easy to get lost in the shuffle. It’s not enough to be really great at one thing anymore. The current professional environment requires us to master a m…
Time management and productivity are critically important to the professional success of any creative or entrepreneur. In today's business environment, we are exposed to ever-increasing amounts of st…
In this episode of the Brand Design Masters Podcast, I share ideas about how you too can build fundamental frameworks that will help you authentically feel you have everything you need to succeed. We…
He was previously 3M’s first chief design officer. Over the years Porcini has been the recipient of many honors, among them Fast Company’s 50 Most Influential Designers in America, Fortune’s 40 under…
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In this episode, Richard talks about the power of LinkedIn and why creatives need to improve on how they are using the platform. He shares how LinkedIn can be used for business networking, content di…
Janine also shares insightful tips on how to drive traffic to your website, what the future of graphic design holds, and her personal mantra for becoming a successful creative professional.
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Bob Gentle is the Owner and Managing Director of Amplify. His company helps business leaders worldwide set, deliver and achieve their goals online and build a business they love.
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Kathy and I share how we each started our businesses and announced it to our networks. We also discuss visibility as one of the critical aspects of a successful launch.
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In this episode, Kathy and I share how we started building our business with the resources that were available to us at that time. From planning on which social media platforms to leverage, to consid…
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In this episode Kathy and I share our own experiences in leaving corporate and the decisions we faced and the signals we received before we decided to leave and strike out on our own.
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Kathy Oneto, host of the Sustainable Ambition podcast, and founder of Sustainable Ambition has spent 20 years in the “big corporate” and “big agency” worlds as a brand strategist and senior marketing…
Olesya's work is beneficial and highly relevant today given the Covid Pandemic. Listen and learn how she helps her audience manage their psychological needs and reduce stress during these trying time…
As the company he built imploded, Mark learned hard lessons about persistence and efficiency that all agency owners and entrepreneurs can benefit from hearing.
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Kristin is the living proof of a "jack of all trades, master of none." She didn't focus only on one thing; instead, she explored everything she wanted to try without hesitation. We will hear her uniq…
From working in the corporate world that provided him a comfortable living Brandon risked it all and followed his intuition to build a successful business, becoming a well-known podcast coach who hel…
Chris is the owner of FlyRyde LLC, a custom automotive lighting company. He works social media better than almost anyone I've ever seen. Chris has now become a full-time content creator and recently …
Louise Karch is an award-winning author of Word Glue: Find Your Million-Dollar Brand Name. She names and renames brands, doubling clients’ income. Louise also just finished the first book on strategi…