The Peaceful Creatives Podcast

In this episode, I’m talking about how knowing your dream clients can replace the traditional idea of a business niche and help you gear your business towards working with the right people who will make your workload much happier! Think clients who fit your style, who are super easy to work with and who completely love everything you do - sounds like the dream! I also talk about my new email chall...

You may or may not know that I am currently on maternity leave as I’m having my first baby this month! As soon as I found out, I was straight into planning mode trying to figure out how I could fit maternity leave around my business and managing things like paying my bills and not leaving clients hanging. In this episode, I wanted to pull together all of my tips for taking an extended break, wheth...

Over the past few years, I’ve experimented with quite a few different additional income streams including courses about design, coaching programmes both one to one and in groups, e-books, design elements, website templates, graphic templates and a few more - yes I’ve tried a lot of things! Because of the income streams I’ve added into my business, I’ve been able to cut down to working 3 days a wee...

Today’s episode is another fab guest interview! And I’ll be talking to beauty branding & website designer, Chloe Ford. Chloe and I chat about how she’s recently pivoted her business to focus just on working with beauty and wellness brands and how that’s improved her workload and meant she can work with dream clients! If you’re a designer who is considering niching down into a specific industry...

So for any service-based business, you are likely to run into some client issues along the way - it's perfectly natural for this to happen every now and then! But what do we do when we run into these issues? And is there a solution for the most common client problems? Before we jump into the advice I have for a few designer-specific client issues, it's important to know that most of the time and I...

I’m talking today about something which haunted me for a while when I first set up my business and something I know a lot of designers feel a bit apprehensive about and that is sales calls! I know when I just started working with clients I dreaded jumping on any type of calls and would end up getting so nervous that I’m pretty sure they ended up being more of a hindrance than a help when it came t...

I’m talking today about something that people ask me about often which is booking up your schedule in advance! I think the reason people ask me quite often is that for the past few years, I’ve been regularly booked up in advance from anywhere between 2 and 6 months. At the moment, as I’ll be taking some maternity leave for a few months, I’m booking projects 6 months in advance and still managing t...

Today’s episode is the first ever guest interview on The Daring Designers Club Podcast! And I’ll be talking to WordPress expert and Web Developer, Holly Pryce. Holly and I have been working together for around three years and she has been able to take a lot of my more complex designs and turn them into beautiful, functional websites. If you’re a designer who either doesn’t have websites as part of...

In a few different episodes and through a lot of what I talk about in The Daring Designers Club, I mention working towards your version of success instead of anyone else’s. This for me is the best bit of advice I can give when it comes to avoiding comparison or getting stuck with what goals to work towards.  But, what if you don’t know what your version of success looks like? This is perfectl...

Being a 100% authentic business owner can be really difficult - it’s not like just being yourself as a person or showing your personality. It’s about making decisions in your business and building your business in a way that feels really comfortable and helps you reach any goals you have without compromising who you are and what feels like it will work for you.  I feel very strongly that ther...

I wanted to jump back into the podcast by talking about a topic I think about and talk about with coaching clients so much and one which I think can be really crucial to running a successful business and getting yourself to where you want to be and that is dream clients. Thinking about who your dream clients are, even if they’re huge, huge businesses or people who have hundreds of thousands of fol...

As we’re at the end of the year, I had to chat all things goals just like everyone else in the world right now! But now is a really good time to think about our goals for the year ahead because we’re winding down and thinking forward to where we would like to be this time next December. The reason I wanted to create this particular episode about goals which is making your goals achievable instead...

I’m so excited about today’s topic and I have a lot to say! And that topic is organisation. More specifically my favourite organisation tools which help me run my business and keep up with day to day tasks. I am such an organisation lover that I could make 10 different episodes on this but let’s start with some tools to ease us in and if this is a topic you enjoy, be sure to let me know so I can r...

I’m jumping into one of my favourite topics to talk about with coaching clients, other designers and actually anyone who is self-employed and that is the subject of boundaries. I very passionately believe that we as business owners should be in total control of first of all our businesses but second of all, the lives that we lead around our businesses. It can be so incredibly easy to let boundarie...

Thanks for coming back to listen to me talk all about design and running a design business! I’m super excited about today’s topic, it’s definitely one that I’ve mentioned before even with just the couple of episodes I’ve put out and something which can be really important when you’re thinking of taking things a bit more seriously or if you feel like you’re stuck in a rut with your business but you...

If you go back to episode 5, we talked about marketing and selling ourselves authentically and in a way that feels really good for you, and I really hope this helped you figure out a way to talk about your services in a way that feels natural and authentic and can help you create some great habits with your marketing. So in this episode, we’re going to talk about taking that a little further and c...

If you’ve been catching up over the past few weeks, you’ll know that we’ve been working one by one through my three P’s of your design business. We started with portfolio and pricing and today we’re finishing the trio off with process. Once you get your pricing and portfolio sorted, it feels like you have everything sorted and ready to go ahead with your business but I would urge you to spend a go...

If you listened to last week’s episode all about portfolios, you’ll know that I’m doing a little series based on my Three P’s of your design business which are Portfolio (all covered last week), Pricing and Process. And today we’re going to talk about pricing! Pricing is so incredibly important in any business but in a design business, we can find it a little harder to price our services because a...

Hello and welcome back to the Daring Designers Club Podcast! I’m so happy to have you here after an unexpected and much longer than anticipated break from me so thank you so much for your patience and sticking around whilst I had some time off. If you listened to the second episode of the podcast which was the three P’s of running a design business, you may be itching for a little more information...

Welcome to today’s episode and I’m so excited to have you back! If you follow me on Instagram, you will have seen that I recently celebrated my five year anniversary of working in my business full-time which means that for five whole years (which is longer than any job I had, longer than my degree and nearly as long as my current and longest relationship) I have been running this little business t...

It’s a big topic today and one which I’m sure we can stretch over lots of different episodes and talk about all different aspects but what I want to talk about today is marketing. Now we all hate it and fair play to those who don’t but we don’t have to hate it. There are ways to work your marketing and talk to your audience and build an audience without it feeling icky or not genuine and that’s th...

Today’s topic is a bit of a juicy one and that is talking about niches!  The reason it’s a bit of a juicy topic is because a lot of people are dead set on you needing a niche and that being the key to your success as a designer. And while having a niche that works for you is a great tool, my worry is that if you’re a designer starting out and you see a blog post or listen to podcast saying yo...

Today I’m going to talk about taking your design business to the next level. Maybe you’ve been self-employed for a few months or a year or so and you feel like you want to step it up. You might want to raise your prices or attract better clients or make the move from feeling like a freelancer to being a business owner or design studio. When you start out freelancing as a designer, there are so man...

Welcome back to The Daring Designer Club Podcast! I can’t wait to dive in to today’s topic because it’s something I have talked about before in blog posts and workshops and I really feel like this is something which is a good round up of the essentials of a design business. The three P’s are Portfolio, Packages and Process and I feel that getting these three things in order is the first step to ma...

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