Creative Cues

Your inbox shouldn’t run your day — you should. In this episode, Brianna shares practical steps to help you clear the clutter, reclaim your focus, and finally hit zero inbox without losing your mind.

From ruthless unsubscribing to time-blocking and smart folder systems, learn how to manage email like a pro and protect your time for the work that really matters. You’ll walk away with five actionable hacks, a simple zero inbox system, and the motivation to stop letting unread emails steal your peace of mind.

Creative work comes with moving pieces, shifting deadlines, and more tasks than one person should juggle. In this episode, we’ll unpack three powerful tools—project management, time-blocking, and a quarterly dashboard—that bring order to the chaos. Plus, I’ll share two bonus habits for taming distractions and getting into a flow with your work. If you’ve ever felt scattered or stretched thin, this episode will help you find clarity, focus, and breathing room again.

Before you listen, be sure to download the Episode Guide so you can plan ways to incorporate these tools into your time management journey.

Visit www.creative-cues.com for blog posts, creative solutions, a template and resource shop, and more podcast episodes.

On this episode, Brianna shares 10 tips to effectively present analytics with impact. She also gives real-world examples of how she has used data to educate, tell a story and justify a cause. Read the corresponding blog post, Data That Speaks, to see these examples and learn more.

Visit www.creative-cues.com for tips on time management, communications, design and branding. There, you'll find blog posts, creative solutions, a template and resource shop, additional podcast episodes and more!

Do you juggle a variety of roles and struggle to prioritize your tasks and deadlines? On this episode, Brianna shares how she successfully prioritizes her projects by asking the question, "What's your deadline?". She dives into the importance of establishing timelines before starting a new task or project and encourages listeners to control their calendars wisely.

Visit www.creative-cues.com for tips on time management, communications, design and branding. There, you'll find blog posts, creative solutions, a template and resource shop, additional podcast episodes and more!

Looking to streamline communications using email marketing software? On this episode, Brianna shares her four favorite features of Mailchimp — the software she has been utilizing for over six years. She dives into the importance of automation and analytics while discussing features like Landing Pages, Customer Journeys and more. Before you listen, be sure to download the Episode Guide so you can plan ways to incorporate these features into your communications strategy.

Visit www.creative-cues.com for blog posts, creative solutions, a template and resource shop, more podcast episodes and more!

On this episode, Brianna shares four practical productivity tools that help her achieve her goals, mission and purpose. Inspired by the fact that our time on earth is limited, Brianna strives to make each moment count. In order to do that, she implements these four practices to stay organized, mission-driven and focused. Download the Episode Guide to put these practices into action yourself and start living on purpose today! 

Visit www.creative-cues.com for blog posts, creative solutions, a template and resource shop, more podcast episodes and more!

Do you ever feel like your days are spent going through the motions? You want to live a purposeful life, but you don't quite know where to start. In this episode, Brianna shares her three-step process to approaching her days with intentionality and focus. Download the episode guide and complete the creative "cues" to get started living a more intentional life.

Visit www.creative-cues.com for blog posts, creative solutions, a template and resource shop, more podcast episodes and more!

On this episode of the Creative Cues podcast, author, realtor, speaker, business owner and mom of 5 Ashley Schubert of Flourish Real Estate Group joins Brianna to talk all things Enneagram. Enneagram is a popular personality assessment that helps identify strengths and opportunities for improvement in those who take it. While it, like many other personality assessments, is inward looking, Ashley and Brianna talk about how to use the results as tools of empowerment and encouragement for others.

Be sure to subscribe to the Creative Cues podcast wherever you listen, and if you like it, share it! You can also subscribe to the Creative Cues Blog and follow Creative Cues on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter for more ways to simplify your work so you can create time for what matters most!

On this episode of the Creative Cues podcast, marketing guru Chris Fox of Fox Strategies joins Brianna to share a plethora of tips and ideas for brands to effectively tell their stories in ways that speak to different generations. He shares free resources communicators and marketers can use so their brands can capture committed audiences who become brand loyalists.

In the first part of the episode (1:30-8:26), Chris discusses ways we can identify what our brand’s story is by using literary features like the protagonist, the hero and the antagonist. Hint: Our brand’s story isn’t its history.

In the second part of the episode (8:27-15:38), Chris and Brianna discuss the benefits our companies could receive by effectively promoting our brand’s story, as well as what we need to avoid.

In the next part of the episode (15:39-20:52), Chris talks about how brand perceptions have evolved and how being able to tell our brand’s story speaks to generations ranging from Baby Boomers all the way to Gen Z.

In the next part (20:53-26:51), Chris provides insight and helpful tools for those who wear many hats to make identifying and consistently sharing your brand easy and free (like this step-by-step Brand Script)!

In the final part of the episode (26:52-40:20), Chris and Brianna ponder ways a sales or marketing funnel can be adopted in the strategic planning of your brand’s communications. Chris also offers practical ways to deploy all we’ve learned from this episode.

If you’re looking for brand coaching, website content creation or script writing, and/or videography, Chris is your guy! Hear about his services (40:21-42:15) or check him out on Instagram or at www.chrisfox.co!

Be sure to subscribe to the Creative Cues podcast wherever you listen, and if you like it, share it! You can also subscribe to the Creative Cues Blog and follow Creative Cues on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter for more ways to simplify your work so you can create time for what matters most! 

I'm Brianna Wall from the Creative Cues Blog, and I'm excited to share conversations with people from my worlds to hopefully inspire all of us. Follow along as we share ideas, hacks and lessons we've learned along the way for those looking to prioritize their time and improve the effectiveness of the work they are doing. If you're in communications, nonprofits, small business, professional or personal development, or anything in between, I think you'll find some ideas here and at www.creativecuesblog.com to help you create time for what matters most.

Be sure to subscribe to Creative Cues and follow along on social media for new content alerts, time management hacks, InDesign shortcuts, encouragement and inspiration.

0:30 — Welcome and introduction