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.
Michael Janda is an award-winning Creative Director, agency veteran, and author. He founded Riser, his own creative agency, which boasts high profile clients such as Google, Warner Brothers, FOX, NBC…
Writing is the #1 unicorn skill that will advance your career faster and make it stronger as a creative professional.
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In the branding space, it’s common knowledge and even canon to set up a solid market-centric brand strategy first before launching a product or service.
This episode’s guest begs to differ.
We discuss…
These are the interesting questions Kathy Oneto, a renowned Business and Career Strategist, explains in today’s episode. A former colleague and a long-time partner of Verhaal Brand Design, Kathy is t…
While it’s true that some struggle to make ends meet, others are actually making great money. Brigette Callahan, a slide-presentation designer, turned her expertise in PowerPoint into a 6-figure busi…
Being a jack-of-all-trades has a negative connotation, but not in content creation. Do you want to be visible all over the digital world?
Amy Woods, founder of Content 10x, will make your brands stand…
The design industry is always changing and it’s changing fast! Businesses should be resilient with technology and creative people do just that.
Joining me in this episode is an exceptionally talented …
Oliver Duffy Lee, a copywriter slash salesman turned Account Director for superbrands like Volvo and Porsche, answers that question in today’s podcast. He runs a program called “Launch Pad”, a 10-wee…
This episode's guest loves questions! Michele Ronsen, founder of Curiosity Tank, explains in detail how to understand your brand’s audience through really simple yet very effective probing techniques…
By being separated from each other, losing access to our places of work, and watching our networks shrink, we do not have the kind of feedback and input to our decision-making that we used to. This l…
Anne LaFollette, a former colleague from one of the companies I used to work at, is now a (late)blooming surface pattern designer and the founder and CEO of AnneLaFolletteArt. In this episode, she op…
Radio.co and Podcast.co offer full-service management tools for broadcasters and podcasters. Radio.co provides easy to use cloud-based packages while Podcast.co includes a hosting platform and agency…
In this episode, I speak with Zach Hesterberg; a Sales Process Consultant who helps successful, owner-operated businesses increase profits while decreasing overwhelm. The pioneer of the “Lever Pullin…
In this episode, I’m joined by one of the leading pioneers of building the human cloud. Matthew is the Co-Founder and CEO of Venture L, a freelancer-focused platform that offers them efficient busine…
Joining me on the podcast today is Stephen Houraghan of the Brand Master Academy. He helps designers and brand builders learn the art of brand strategy to enhance their career all while better helpin…
Today on the podcast, I speak with one of the most decorated pillars of brand strategy, Marty Neumeier. Marty is a bestselling author, designer, and sought-after brand consultant best known for his b…
In this episode, I talk with Jacob Cass, principal of award-winning branding agency Just Creative which boasts an impressive list of clients including Disney, Nike, Redbull, OMEGA, and Nintendo.
Jaco…
In this episode, I reconnect with Jonathan Christian, who I first met at a conference in London, to talk to him about his incredible story of surviving not one but two near-death experiences that led…
Identified in CMO.com’s Top 10 Marketing Thought Leaders and Forbes’ Top 50 Social Media Power Influencers, Neal is a social media strategy consultant, speaker, and podcaster. He works with companies…
Today’s podcast guest, Andy Storch offers sage advice on how to network successfully and make connecting easier so you can reap all the benefits and opportunities out of them.
Andy Storch is a talente…