Letters From A Hopeful Creative

In today’s episode Jen is sharing a recent free office hour recording diving into questions all about how you can build and run your business in a way that works best for you.

Questions cover topics such as how to follow your renewed enthusiam for your business after recovering from burnout, how to launch a new membership when you’re afraid no one will join, what to do when your business is thriving but feeling like a lot to mainta...

A short and sweet solo episode from Jen today to encourage you to run your business in a way that truly works best for you and some gentle ways you can tap into support from Jen in your business this month too.

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In today’s episode we dive into a letter all about how to build and grow your business at a slower and gentler pace and actually believe that it’s possible for you too when you’ve been taught that hustling and burning yourself out is the best path to reaching your goals.

Would you love some encouragement and support in your business? Submit your letter for an upcoming episode here.

And Jen’s group program Your Simple & Spacious Busi...

Jen here today to share the audio of a recent coaching session from inside her group program all about the rules & norms we have permission to opt-out of in our business.

If you feel overwhelmed by all of the noise and ‘should dos’ and are craving doing business in a way that feels sustainable, joyful, and aligned for you - this episode is for you.

And if you’d love to never do business alone again and join Jen inside Your Simple & ...

A quick check-in episode from Jen to share that Sara and I will be recording new episodes together soon if you’d love to submit a letter for an upcoming episode.

And while you wait for new episodes you can listen to Jen’s new mini private podcast series The Slow Business Sessions 🐢 with eight short and sweet episodes to support you to bring more ease, joy, and intentional growth into your business journey this year.

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In today’s episode Jen dives into eighteen questions covering topics such as making space for the needs of your health in your business, moving from 1:1 to 1:many work, marketing and messaging, preparing your business for starting a family, aligning your offers with your capacity and more.

If you’d prefer to watch a video with timestamps of each question you can find that here.

And if you’d love to have guidance, encouragement, and s...

In today’s episode we dive into this letter from a listener:

“I am a small business owner with chronic illnesses who loves your podcast tremendously. I've learned so much from you, and I come to you today with a question: what happens when you've deeply invested in a business that once did quite well, but is now floundering?

How do I figure out my next steps? I run an online writing school that, in the flush years of 2020 and 2021, e...

Do you currently feel overstretched, burned out, or like there’s not enough space for your needs and your humanness in your business? If so, today’s episode is for you.

We’re doing things a little differently today and sharing an interview Jen did on one of her favourite business podcasts, Off The Grid, where the wonderful host Amelia asks Jen some really insightful questions around reshaping her business to truly work best for her,...

In today’s episode we’re switching things up a little and sharing a recap and debrief from Sara’s recent launch, the biggest lessons she learned, and our thoughts and experience on launching in our business and some encouragement for you if you have a launch you’re bringing to life soon too.

Would you love some encouragement and support in your business? Submit your letter for an upcoming episode here.

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In today’s episode we dive into listener questions all about Instagram - from building engagement up, feeling hopeful and excited about the platform again, coming back after a long break, adapting to creating more video content, whether to use hashtags anymore and lots more.

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Would you love some encouragement and support in your business? Submit your letter for an upcoming episode here.

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In today’s episode we dive into this letter from a listener:

Lately, I've been inspired to grow my non-client work and my unpaid projects into a bigger part of my business. I have a published book, a podcast, and regular events - but they're not closely related to each other!

This makes it really hard to grow any one of them, let alone all of them, when my client work is what pays the bills.

I end up prioritizing client work above all...

In today’s episode we dive into this letter from a listener:

Please can you talk more about the failure/success connection and how we can pick ourselves up and move past the failures when we’re struggling with our confidence and self belief?

In today’s episode Sara and Jen dig into their relationship with failure in their business, why highs and lows are normal in this journey, and how to hold ourselves through the emotional rollerc...

In today’s episode we dive into this letter from a listener:

I am not great at the IG game, and I prefer to focus on sharing quality work versus creating reels that don't resonate with me and my style. Do you have any ideas on how to continue to build my audience without sacrificing my quieter style, "not in your face" approach, and build an email list?

In this episode we dig into the question, share our experience with gently and su...

In this episode we catch up for spring and dive into what’s been going well in our businesses, what we’ve been finding challenging in this season, and what we’re working towards in our businesses right now too.

If you’d love to listen to a really honest chat between two business besties, we recorded this episode for you.

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Jen here with two supportive resources for you today ✍🏻

First up: I have made an awesome and free new toolkit called 100 Hell Yes People to support you to make a gentle, joyful, and sustainable plan for reaching 100 hell yes people at a time in your business.

I have been fully booked and thriving in my business since 2015 all thanks to this approach to marketing, by opting out of the lie that we have to build as big an audience as p...

In today’s episode we dive into this letter from a listener:

How do you handle navigating the grief of feeling like your chronic illness has held you back in so many ways - and yet know that there's nothing else you'd rather do? I have so many ideas, so many things I want to create, and yet with my health recently being so challenging at times, I've found myself feeling stuck in the grief of not getting to do everything I want to i...

In today’s episode we dive into this letter from a listener:

Like a lot of people, I’ve moved my newsletter from a more traditional email software product over to Substack. As a writer, I also host a lot of my work on my website in a blog. The intention was always for the blog to host SEO friendly pillar content and for the newsletter to speak to more distinct, current or personal topics.

I’m now unsure as to what my website is fo...

In today’s episode Jen dives into twelve questions covering topics such as buiding your business in a way that honours your energetic needs, prioritising your goals with intention, routines and habits to work less and still get your important work done, simplifying marketing, recovering from burnout and more.

If you’d prefer to watch a video with timestamps of each question you can find that here.

And if you’d love to have guidance...

To kickstart 2024 together we sat down for a business bestie chat where we asked each other:

What are your goals and desires for your business and creative life this year?

And where would you love to be five years from now and how do you want to work towards that vision in 2024?

We talk about how it feels to be a decade into our business journey, the growth we’re prioritising this year, new projects that we want to work on and so much...