Letters From A Hopeful Creative

Just Jen here today popping into your feed to share 3 free resources with you that I hope can be a dose of encouragement and support in your business in this season. 📞 The Simple & Spacious Hotline + listen to the first responses here , here , and here 🎙 Listen to Simple & Spacious Stories 🖥 Register to join me for my free workshop: The Three Brave Decisions To Bring More Simplicity, Spaciousness...

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 thrivi...

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. Get the Design Your Part Time Business Model Toolkit sent to your inbox for free Submit your Q for the office hour - deadline is Wednesday 23rd April Find out more about Your Simple & Spaci...

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 grou...

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 agai...

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 busi...

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...

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, i...

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...

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...

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. Join Sara for her Instagram Summer School Would you love some encouragement and support in your business? Submit your letter...

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...

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 our...

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, sh...

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. Links mentioned: Sara has some availability for 1:1 clients Get 100 Hell Yes...

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...

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 g...

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...

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...

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 projec...

In today’s episode, for our last episode of 2023, we’re diving into four listener questions covering stepping into a new arena in our work, feeling lonely in our business, structuring our days with intention, and the main challenges we’ve seen others and ourselves overcome in our business journey too. And today is the last day to join The Substack Soirée for the Christmas class! * Letters From A H...

Is selling something that you feel overwhelmed by and often shy away from in your business? If so this episode is for you. In today’s episode Jen is sharing with you a sneak peak of one of the coaching sessions inside her group program, Your Simple & Spacious Business on Gentle & Joyful Sales Experiments To Generate Cashflow In Your Business . I’ll be walking you through the five gentle guideposts...

In today’s episode we dive into this letter from a listener: Despite having a chronic illness, I show up fully to my clients - so how can I explain that I am 100% there for my clients at the times I make for them - but also be real about the reality of days where I can't even muster to have a shower? How can I share, in my communications - that I can be both of these things, all at once? - Bo In t...

As I gear up for the next enrolment of my flagship group program, Your Simple & Spacious Business , I’m sharing a behind the scenes launch diary over on my solo podcast so that I can bring you along the journey with me and share all of the messy middle that comes with embarking on a launch in our business. I’m sharing the first episode of this launch diary with you today on the LFAHC feed if it ca...

In today’s episode we dive into this letter from a listener: I am writing you from probably the lowest point I have encountered in my creative journey. This year has been hard for me. I feel a bit lost in my business and so so tired. I have been making pottery for over a decade, selling for about 6 years and working full time as an artist for 2. And the struggle just never ends. I feel like I am p...