The Writing at the Red House Podcast

For this fifth week of August, we are bringing you a re-release of one of our best episodes! Kathi Lipp and Michele Cushatt get together to talk about practical tips for daily self-care for your creative self. Creative people have a unique set of circumstances for when, how, and where they work; and we need creative ways to recharge, rest, and take of our body and mind. Listen in as Michele and Ka...

Kathi Lipp and Shannon Popkin are back for episode 3 of this 4-part series about comparison. Have you ever felt discouraged because someone has already written about the subject you are writing about? Why keep going if what you’re writing has already been covered? Kathi and Shannon are back talking about the importance of getting out of isolation and connecting with other writers. Others may be wr...

Kathi Lipp is back with author Shannon Popkin for episode 2 of this 4-part series about comparison. Have you ever felt like you are too different to belong in a particular space? Maybe your audience isn’t as large as someone you follow on social media, or your platform isn’t as far-reaching. Kathi and Shannon talk this week about how the things that make us feel as though we don’t fit in can actua...

Kathi Lipp is joined by author Shannon Popkin this month for a series about comparison. It’s so easy to fall into the trap of looking sideways and comparing our progress and success to the person next to us, but as Shannon describes it, comparison is a dangerous distraction from what God has called you to do. She and Kathi talk about the tendency to compare ourselves with people we follow on socia...

Kathi Lipp is back with husband, Roger Lipp, for the fourth and final episode in this series about Profit First. In this episode, the couple explains the roles of the people they rely on to help them with their finances. Creatives are typically not in a traditional situation where they receive a regular paycheck from the same place every week or month. Often your income might be from several place...

Kathi Lipp and business/life partner Roger Lipp return for part 3 of this series about Profit First, and how the system has brought peace to their financial lives.  Last week , the couple described the framework of the Profit First financial system and explained what role each of the five accounts serve. Today, they are here to tell you how their own Profit First system is set up. Roger and Kathi...

How to Set Up Your Business Finances

Kathi Lipp and partner in all things, including business, Roger Lipp are here to introduce this month’s series on money management. There are so many different methods of managing money, and some people are very adept at putting together, and following, budgets. For a lot of creatives though, spreadsheets and envelopes aren’t always successful systems for money management. Listen in as Kathi and R...

Kathi Lipp and Clutter Free Academy co-founder Tonya Kubo return for the last episode in the Taking Care of Business series. This week, the duo is talking about how to make the best use of a to-do list. We can all agree that to-do lists are a great way to keep track of the things we need to accomplish from day to day, but have you ever found yourself wondering if there is a more efficient way to k...

Kathi Lipp and Tonya Kubo are back with more tips for taking care of your business. Today they are discussing how to tackle the seemingly impossible task of managing your calendar without the existence of a time-turner (Harry Potter friends will get the reference). Kathi and Tonya reflect on how their strategies for scheduling their time has evolved from taking appointments as they were offered to...

Kathi Lipp is back with her partner in crime Tonya Kubo with more great tips on how to slay the email dragon. In  last week’s episode , the duo shared several tips, including using tools like Streak, creating separate email accounts for different purposes, and using the “sort by” tool. This week, Kathi and Tonya continue to help us get control of our inbox by sharing how they keep their own under...

This month, Kathi Lipp and Tonya Kubo are sharing their resources, tactics, and strategies for taking care of business. In this first episode, the two tackle the issue of staying on top of email. There is no one right way to handle email. Kathi strives to have a “zero inbox” by Friday, while Tonya operates on an infinite loop of email. Kathi has several email accounts that serve different purposes...

This week, Kathi sits down with Hannah Stolze, author of the new book “Wisdom-Based Business: Applying Biblical Principles & Evidence-Based Research for Purposeful & Profitable Business,” to talk about what it means for us as Christians to have a profitable business. Oftentimes, we tend to feel a little uncomfortable with the idea of making a profit. We want to do the things we’re passiona...

Kathi Lipp and Podcast Producer Tiffany Jo Baker, are back to wrap up this 4-part series about how to be an awesome podcast guest. Being a guest on a podcast can be a great experience, and a huge win for your business or ministry, the host’s business or ministry, as well as your communities. But did you know that once you’re finished with the interview, your role as a podcast guest is not finished...

Kathi Lipp and Podcast Producer Tiffany Jo Baker, return for episode 3 of this 4-part series about how to be an awesome podcast guest. In today’s episode, Kathi and Tiffany Jo talk all about what to do during your podcast interview to be the kind of guest your host wants to invite back (as well as the one thing that drives Kathi batty, and will almost ensure you are not invited back). Listen in to...

Kathi Lipp and Tiffany Jo Baker, author of The Guest Podcasting Workshop, are back for episode 2 of this 4-part series about how to be an awesome podcast guest. Last week, the duo talked about  how to get booked as a guest on a podcast . So, you’ve gotten the booking – now what? In today’s episode, Kathi and Tiffany Jo give some valuable tips on how to prepare for your upcoming podcast appearance...

In this month’s series, Kathi Lipp and podcast producer Tiffany Jo Baker are talking about what it takes to be an awesome podcast guest (and why you want to). With over 1,500,000 podcasts in production, and 60% of podcast listeners having purchased something they heard about on a podcast, being a podcast guest is a great way to get your words into the world. But how do you get booked to be a podca...

Kathi Lipp, and creative partner Roger Lipp are back to wrap up their conversation about capturing creativity in the final episode of this month’s 4-part series. The Lipps explain that we, as creatives, are called to have an impact in the world through our creativity. In this episode, Kathi and Roger explain the idea of turning the ABCs of creativity – Always Be Creating, into ABCDs – Always Be Cr...

Kathi Lipp and Roger Lipp are back to continue their creative conversation about creativity in part 3 of this month’s 4-part series. In part 1 , the couple talks to us about incorporating creativity into our day to day lives. Then last week in part 2 , they explain how to avoid creative procrastination by finding creativity in the cracks of our everyday lives. This week, Kathi and Roger explain th...

Kathi Lipp is back with her favorite co-creator Roger Lipp to continue the conversation about how to up your own creativity factor. In part 1 of this series, the pair gave an overview of what is coming up in this series and introduced us to the idea of increasing your “Creative Quotient.” In this second episode, Kathi and Roger talk more about planning for creativity and the importance of putting...

Kathi Lipp sits down with her favorite podcast guest and fellow creative Roger Lipp for this first episode of our April series on "Putting the Create in Creativity – How to Be More Creative Every Day to Produce Content.” Have you ever been told you are a creative person, but you’re not sure how to increase your “CQ” (Creative Quotient)? In this 4-part series, Kathi and Roger will give ways to impr...

In the final episode of this month’s “best-of” series, Kathi is inviting us to the virtual kitchen of co-host and stealth platformer Michele Cushatt. In the first episode of this series we learned about where to start when we want to be a writer, followed by how to wake up and write 500 words . The third and fourth episodes were all about finding our niche. Now, the wisdom continues as we close th...

Last week in  part 1 of Finding Your Niche , Kathi and Michele explained to us why it is so important to find your niche, and today they give us the how. Finding your niche all begins with two things: your passion and your audience’s needs. But what if you don’t know what those two things are? Kathi and Michele explain how to identify your passion (hint: what is it you can’t stop talking about?),...

Kathi and her amazing and very nichey co-host, Michele Cushatt are encouraging us in finding our niche today! Sometimes communicators struggle to narrow in and get very specific about our niche. In this very candid “best of” episode Kathi and Michele take us through seven reasons for finding our niche, as well as some reasons why we may resist a specific niche. Listen in to find out what these are...