This week Elin had the pleasure to talk to Instagram Queen Sara Tasker, from the Hashtag Authentic podcast and @me_and_orla on Instagram. She has dedicated the past five years to explore human communication through visual images on Instagram. How to grow a genuine audience and create authentic connections on a platform that is known to be everything but authentic? Sara invites us into her approach of making the most out of Instagram both personally and professionally. An approach which she also teaches in her book "Hashtag Authentic" as well as her online Instagram courses on meandorla.co.uk 

You can read the full show-notes at https://charlesandelin.com/hashtag-authentic-instagram

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This is a very personal episode where we dig deep into the roots of  anxiety through personal experiences. Why do we get anxiety? How can we  get out of it? And how can our anxieties be the greatest teachers for  both our lives and business endeavours? 

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This past week many Instagram users experienced a massive drop in  followers over night. It proved to be due to a glitch in Instagram's  system and got restored later the next day. However, the event gave us  all an important reminder: To not put all of our cards in the same  basket. How can we set up our artistry for long-term sustainability and  without being too dependent on Instagram alone? 

This episode  highlights some key steps you can implement already today, to secure  yourself for an uncertain social media future. 

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This is an incredibly valuable and informative interview with  Instagrammer and Creative photographer Veronika (Kika) from @kutovakika  on Instagram. We dig deep into understanding creativity, how to be  creative and how to get out of creator's block and to find your own  authentic voice. Kika has been featured on Instagram's page a full 6  times in just the past year, which has given her hands-on expertise on  how to continuously cut through the clutter and create unique and  outstanding imagery. 

Follow her on https://instagram.com/kutovakika 

Visit her website: https://kutovakika.com 

Watch her youtube videos on creativity: https://youtube.com/kutovakika 

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In this episode we invite you into a personal conversation about  the overwhelm of being an artist and entrepreneur at the same time. When  do you make time for what? And how to balance your work with your  personal life? To just have a to-do list isn't always enough. Instead,  we explore the strategy of scheduling our time more carefully. We also  discuss the idea of habits as being a natural part of your schedule, and  how you can create better habits and thereby a more successful  schedule. 

Book : James Clear - Atomic Habits

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Music: https://instagram.com/banjo_jimmy

Niamh is currently live on BBCtwo as the embroidery representative in  the new series “The Victorian House of Arts and Crafts”. It’s an  inspiring series where artists and craftsmen get to live and work as  authentically to the Victorian arts and crafts movement as possible,  while recreating typical arts and crafts as they would have been made  back in the day. Listen to Niamh’s experience of being on the show and  how this historical era has enriched her artistry and deepened her  connection with embroidery as an art-form as well as all the  needleworkers that have come before her.

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 In this episode Elin had the chance to talk to embroidery artist  Jessica Long from @namaste_embroidery on Instagram. Jessica ventured  into embroidery as a way of expressing her creativity during maternity  leave, only to find herself building her own artistic dream life. Along  with arts, she also has a strong passion for Yoga, which she finds to be  closely related to her art practise with respect to the meditative  movement of the body and the needle respectively. She even gets into a  certain breathing rythm when she embroiders for longer periods of time,  which helps her stay concentrated. Today she has over 260k on Instagram  and closer to 500k unique monthly viewers on Pinterest. Make sure to  follow Jessica on: https://instagram.com/namaste_embroidery 

Visit her website: https://namastehandembroidery.com 

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https://instagram.com/petronella.art and https://instagram.com/_charleshenry_ 

Learn from Charles and Elin: 

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 In this episode we interview Polina, a Russian fiber artist that  shares her insights and experiences as a full time artist in the past  couple of years. She also explains how she managed to find her own style  and how she works to develop it on a continuous basis (and how you can  do it too!). Furthermore, Elin gives some behind the scenes tips on how  she does most of her video posts... It's a technique that you might not  have thought about at first but that can work for anyone who wants to  make a closeup video without an assistant. 

Follow Pola on Instagram: https://instagram.com/polalab 

Visit her beautiful website: https://www.polalab.com 

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Learn from them: https://charlesandelinacademy.com

 A New Year means a fresh start to get going on all the things  you've dream of. But to be able to know where to start and how to  continue, you must set your intentions straight. Use them as your  baseline with regards to decisions and actions that you will have to  take throughout the year. Does accepting a specific offer or opportunity  bring you closer or further away from where you intend and want to go?  In this episode we discuss our intention with Charles and Elin the  podcast, the brand and how we want to develop our artistry during 2019. 

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