It's Part of the Process
With over 20 years of experience running creative businesses, your host, Nicole Stevenson knows the joy and the struggles of being your own boss. Join her and her guests for business insights, life lessons and the stories behind their successes and lessons of their missteps so you can work smart, get creative inspiration, live joyfully and feel connected.
Nicole is the CEO and Creative Director of Dear Handmade Life which produces Patchwork Show: Makers Festival and Craftcation Conference as well as a blog, online learning and this podcast.
If you’re a creative misfit or a passionate small business owner, grab a drink and take a seat because you’re exactly where you need to be!
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 52 minutes
- Episodes
- 159
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2022
153: Winter Break
Nicole shares a special announcement, a thank you gift for all of you and closes out the season before our podcast goes on winter break. We'll see you all again in January 2023 for a new season.
152: How to Create a Soul-aligned Instagram
Nicole chats with Instagram branding strategist Kat Coroy about how to create an authentic brand on Instagram that attracts your ideal customers, ways to create content without feeling overwhelmed, a…
151: Intuitive Finances
What does a visionary relationship with your finances look like? Nicole talks with Jessie Susannah Karnatz aka the Money Witch about healing your relationship with money, creating change in your fina…
150: Radical Authenticity in Your Life & Creative Business
How are radical authenticity and self-acceptance drivers in the growth of creativity and business? Healer, Licensed Therapist, Ritualist, Yoga Instructor Shirley Johnson joins Nicole for a conversati…
149: Making a Living From Your Art
What sets doers apart from dreamers? How do you know if you should take the leap and turn your artistic passion into a business? Ilana Griffo & Katie Johnson, artists, published authors and co-owners…
148: Clarifying and Sharing Your Brand Story
What is your brand story? How do you clarify your vision and create branded purposeful content that supports it? Brand, Content Marketing Strategist and avid storyteller Vivienne Okafor joins Nicole …
147: Crafting a Life You Love
How does gratitude play a role in goal-getting? How can realizing that as Jack Canfield said, “there are only three things you can control: what you think, what you visualize, and what you do” change…
146: 6 steps to handle your inner critic
Whats's the biggest thing that’s holding you back in your creativity and business? It's actually YOU or more specifically your mindset. Your mindset can limit you and keep you in your comfort zone wh…
145: Get Unstuck & Find Your Flow
How can practices like breathwork, human design, EFT and the law of attraction help you find the flow and get unstuck in your life, creativity and business? That’s what we talk about with author and …
144: Passion to Product to Profit
If you’re a maker who is just starting your business, this episode is for you. Business owner, podcast host, educator and bestselling author Sue Monhait shares insights from her 30+ years in business…
143: Common Mindset Spirals & How to Crush Them
Even the most successful business owners deal with impostor syndrome, negative beliefs, limiting mindsets and other underlying issues that can sabotage their path from where they are to where they wa…
142: Wealth, Living Authentically and Spirituality
141: Being Authentic & Impactful on Instagram
How can you be authentic and impactful on Instagram for your creative business without spending all your time planning content, mastering every new feature and feeling overwhelmed? KatieMac our onlin…
140: Transitions in Business & Art
139: Showing Up as Your Unapologetic Self Online
138: Brand-aligned Content
137: Being Here, *For Now
136: Uncovering Your Brand Story
135: Financial Planning for Creatives
