Creative Freedom with Lisa Robbin Young

While nearly every creative entrepreneur I meet talks about wanting to build a legacy, very few of them think about what it really means: that, at some point, you have to leave the company and entrust it to others to carry on the vision. Are you ready, willing, and able to do that? Not everyone is. This week's episode explains.

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This is the third in a special "Fix This Next" series of bonus episodes for Season 5 of the podcast. This episode walks you through level 4 of the Business Hierarchy of Needs, as outlined by Mike Michalowicz in his book, Fix This Next. I'm a certified Fix This Next advisor, and I have permission from Mike to share this information with you ahead of the book's release.

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Theme music: “Welcome to the Show” by Kevin MacLeod, incompetech.com. Music licensed under creativecommons.org

This is the third in a special "Fix This Next" series of bonus episodes for Season 5 of the podcast. This episode walks you through level 3 of the Business Hierarchy of Needs, as outlined by Mike Michalowicz in his book, Fix This Next. I'm a certified Fix This Next advisor, and I have permission from Mike to share this information with you ahead of the book's release.

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Theme music: “Welcome to the Show” by Kevin MacLeod, incompetech.com. Music licensed under creativecommons.org

This is the second in a special "Fix This Next" series of bonus episodes for Season 5 of the podcast. This episode walks you through level 2 of the Business Hierarchy of Needs, as outlined by Mike Michalowicz in his book, Fix This Next. I'm a certified Fix This Next advisor, and I have permission from Mike to share this information with you ahead of the book's release.

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Theme music: “Welcome to the Show” by Kevin MacLeod, incompetech.com. Music licensed under creativecommons.org

In this bonus episode, I lead you through the Business Hierarchy of Needs as developed by Mike Michalowicz in his upcoming book, Fix This Next . I talk about how I almost burned my house down as a kid, and how that relates to running your business today. You'll also get an in-depth look at the lowest level of the business hierarchy: Sales. I'm a certified Fix This Next advisor, authorized to share this information before the book release.

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Theme music: “Welcome to the Show” by Kevin MacLeod, incompetech.com. Music licensed under creativecommons.org

This is bonus episode 5 in a series of lessons learned from 25 years as a creative entrepreneur. You're getting 4 big lessons in a single episode. Can ya handle it? President Eisenhower was right: plans are useless, but planning is everything. That said, you can't control the outcome, you can only influence it by what you do and what you choose not to do. Remember, too, that your goal isn't always THE goal, and if you want to achieve it, you need to be consistent. It isn't sexy, but it works. This episode explains more.

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This is bonus episode 4 in a series of lessons learned from 25 years as a creative entrepreneur. No one is coming to save you. You're a business owner, and you need to act like one. If you don't like the way the system works, the only way to change it is from the inside. In this episode, I'll take you behind the scenes in my biggest business failure and share examples from Apple, Denise Duffield-Thomas, and Leonie Dawson, to show you why you need to take control of your business and act like a business owner if you want it to grow - and how growing for growth's sake is only going to make you miserable.

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This is bonus episode 3 in a series of lessons learned from 25 years as a creative entrepreneur. Your business is NOT the Field of Dreams. If you built it, ya gotta market it or people ain't coming - or BUYING! At the core, marketing is sharing your message with an interested audience. But what's that message? And where do you find an interested audience? That's what we're looking at in this episode! You'll also hear about some real-world marketing examples and my "SIMPLE" framework for marketing and launching your offers.

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Special thanks to our Patrons for your continued support.Theme music: “Welcome to the Show” by Kevin MacLeod, incompetech.com. Music licensed under creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

I've been teaching this concept for decades now. I started sharing it when I was in direct sales, but it's no less true today for creative entrepreneurs. In a world where there are lots of people doing things similar to you, the truth is that YOU are the competitive advantage your business relies on most. As the face of your company, you were what your audience is buying into every time they make a buying decision. This week's bonus episode fills in the details and helps you get a handle on it even further.

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This is episode one in a special bonus series I've created to share the most important lessons I've learned over the past 25 years. Yep. I've been an online entrepreneur for over 25 years now - back when the World Wide Web was a new-fangled thing and the Internet itself was a young upstart barely old enough to drink. This episode talks about the single most important lesson I've learned in my 25 years online - how your mindset is more important than the mechanics of being a creative entrepreneur... and how to set yourself up for success.

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