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Growing Steady | Intentional Creative Business Podcast

We’re Jason and Caroline Zook, a husband and wife team running two businesses together and trying to live out our version of a good life in the process. In this business podcast, we share with you our lessons learned about how to run a calm, sustainable business—one that is predictable, profitable AND peaceful. Join us every Thursday if you’re an online creator who wants to reach your goals without sacrificing your well-being in the process.

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Average duration
52 minutes
Episodes
264
Years Active
2018 - 2025
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138 - Tiny things that have helped our relationship

138 - Tiny things that have helped our relationship

In this week’s episode, we share a lot of the tiny “isms” and phrases we’ve come up with that help us work through different parts of our relationship.

Whether it’s a simple question to make sure the …

01:10:40  |   Thu 25 Aug 2022
137 - Welp... we're moving to PORTUGAL! (we hope?)

137 - Welp... we're moving to PORTUGAL! (we hope?)

Holy moly this is an exciting episode to share! So much so, we just pushed the rest of our podcast (and pramvel) schedule so we could record in real-time and talk through everything that’s been happe…

01:12:00  |   Thu 18 Aug 2022
136 - You DON'T have to

136 - You DON'T have to "dent the universe"

The famous Steve Jobs quote goes something like this: “We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Why else even be here.” And while that’s inspiring for some, it’s not the only perspective in life. Al…

00:57:42  |   Thu 04 Aug 2022
135 - Trying to cultivate more satisfaction

135 - Trying to cultivate more satisfaction

When was the last time you caught yourself scrolling through IG, Pinterest, etc, and wishing you had the exact kitchen, outfit, aesthetically “perfect” office, completely passive income business, etc…

00:47:22  |   Thu 28 Jul 2022
134 - Are you playing the game of life on hard mode?

134 - Are you playing the game of life on hard mode?

When you’re a person who lives with an “invisible illness” (anxiety, depression, chronic fatigue, Binocular Vision Dysfunction, etc) it can be very difficult for the rest of the world to see how much…

00:50:38  |   Thu 21 Jul 2022
133 - Surviving the summer business slump

133 - Surviving the summer business slump

In this week’s episode, we’re talking about surviving the summer business slump. We’ve learned to embrace this season as sales, attention, and growth all comes to a screeching halt. We want to normal…

00:51:44  |   Thu 14 Jul 2022
132 - Do you HAVE to niche down to succeed?

132 - Do you HAVE to niche down to succeed?

For all our multi-passionate business owners out there, this episode is FOR YOU. We hope our discussion this week helps you in one of two ways:

1. Either you’ve been wanting to stay more generalized a…

00:59:53  |   Thu 07 Jul 2022
131 - Business Nemesis (aka dealing with comparison)

131 - Business Nemesis (aka dealing with comparison)

This episode was inspired by a message we received from someone who said a version of the following, “What do you do when someone does something very similar to you and reaches a level of success or …

00:56:07  |   Thu 30 Jun 2022
130 - Being a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) in a relationship

130 - Being a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) in a relationship

The term Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) is becoming a lot more well-known and we think that’s GREAT! This trait is something that can be seen as a detriment, but we also know it provides a lot of bene…

01:01:54  |   Thu 23 Jun 2022
129 - Reflecting on 40 years in life and 4 years in biz

129 - Reflecting on 40 years in life and 4 years in biz

Every “milestone” birthday has you reflecting on life and your previous years. Jason left his 30s behind and moved into the 40s, sharing five life/biz lessons with you.

For WAIM, our little entreprene…

00:50:15  |   Thu 16 Jun 2022
128 - Where we've been the past 8 weeks

128 - Where we've been the past 8 weeks

In this episode, we catch you up on our time moving from Croatia to France and then spending Jason’s 40th birthday in Greece.

Hope you enjoy reliving some of the highs and lows of our full-time travel…

00:50:54  |   Thu 09 Jun 2022
127 - When something has to give...

127 - When something has to give...

We don't want this update to come off as us complaining, more just sharing the REALNESS of what it takes to travel full-time while continuing to run two businesses (and trying to stay alive and healt…

00:09:33  |   Thu 21 Apr 2022
126 - How do we handle a full day of travel?

126 - How do we handle a full day of travel?

In this episode, we’re going to chat about what a full day of travel adventures looks like. One of us (Caroline) deals with flight anxiety, and the other of us (Jason) deals with an incredible urge t…

00:50:42  |   Fri 08 Apr 2022
125 - 5 essential business mindsets

125 - 5 essential business mindsets

Let’s have a chat about five key mindsets we believe every business owner needs, especially when getting started (but also as your business evolves and changes!)

This week, we want to talk to you abou…

01:06:53  |   Thu 31 Mar 2022
124 - What self-imposed rules are you placing on your biz?

124 - What self-imposed rules are you placing on your biz?

Just because you’ve done something in the past with your business doesn’t mean it has to be a hard and fast “rule” forever. We should embrace working less hours, doing fewer things, and striving for …

00:54:39  |   Thu 24 Mar 2022
123 - What we've learned after 2 months of full-time travel

123 - What we've learned after 2 months of full-time travel

It feels like the first two months of our year of full-time travel have gone by fast AND slow. We’ve experienced so much already on this journey and we wanted to share a bunch of that with you!

In the…

01:11:00  |   Fri 18 Mar 2022
122 - Embracing YOU: Selling (and Kinsale, Ireland stories!)

122 - Embracing YOU: Selling (and Kinsale, Ireland stories!)

It’s so easy to get swept up in all the sales tactics. The manipulative wording, the guilt-tripping, the urgency, the scarcity, and so many of those things happen without even realizing it because we…

00:52:54  |   Thu 10 Mar 2022
121 - Embracing YOU: Decision Making (and our next travel destination revealed!)

121 - Embracing YOU: Decision Making (and our next travel destination revealed!)

This week, we’re talking all about decision-making. And when it comes time to make a decision, people often look to others for advice, and people LOVE to give their advice. But unfortunately, advice …

01:06:01  |   Thu 03 Mar 2022
120 - Embracing YOU: Productivity (and final Lisbon stories!)

120 - Embracing YOU: Productivity (and final Lisbon stories!)

Productivity is such a loaded word. For a long time it was just used synonymously with working. But we have a different definition. To be “productive” doesn’t just necessarily mean working. It means …

00:54:41  |   Thu 24 Feb 2022
119 - Embracing YOU: Social Media (and more Lisbon stories)

119 - Embracing YOU: Social Media (and more Lisbon stories)

In this week’s episode, we tackle the monkey that can sit on all our backs from time to time: social media.

We all know that social media can be valuable for our businesses but is it causing more harm…

00:54:39  |   Thu 17 Feb 2022
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