Episode 22! Happy New Year! We're taking the opportunity to reflect on 2024 - our first full year of pursuing our creative pursuits - to see if we've achieved the goals that we set for ourselves at the beginning of the year. It's definitely been a big year for us, but did we achieve everything we set out to? What comes next?

2025 is going to be a monumental year for us: we've left our full-time jobs behind, we've (almost) finished renovating our new home, which is going to give us the time, space and resource we need to fully commit to our ambitions. In order to do that, we'll be taking a short break from the podcast while we move into our new house, spend time perfecting our new studio space and tech setup and then we'll be back for Season 2 with a fresh new look, a new format, and a new mission! So make sure you subscribe and follow our Social channels for news on our comeback in the next few months! Thanks for all your support!

If you're new here; we're Raven and Faranir and we are on a quest to break free from the 9-5 grind and live a more fulfilling life. This podcast is basically our progress journal. We can't give you all the answers on how to achieve your creative goals, as we haven't done it yet ourselves! We're still finding our feet, starting from the beginning and working our way up. Let us break down what kind of things we cover:

- Creating YouTube videos: how we record our streams and create videos from them - editing in Premiere Pro, creating thumbnails, monitoring analytics, etc.

- Streaming on Twitch: What kind of gear do you need to get started? How have we improved our streams over time? Monitoring growth through analytics, How to become a Twitch Affiliate and start making money and even better, how to become a Twitch Partner and make even more money! We're still working on that last one...

- Building a social media presence across Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok: comparing results across each platform to see which ones can yield the best results as well as what impact paid advertising has through each one.

- Art and design: Raven creates all of our art assets herself; all the logos, title cards, intros, outros, thumbnails, etc. so we often dive into how important this is and what tools are available to help.

- Motivation and Encouragement: We often dig into motivational rants and encourage our listeners to pursue their passions in life and to not let anything hold them back.

- We also dive into topics such as Photography, Audio Engineering, and general tech talk for platforms like OBS, Canva, Lightroom, Photoshop, and Premiere Pro.

Making this podcast keeps us on track and holds us to account: it pushes us to keep doing better and improving ourselves and our results, and our hope is that it will also help you in your own creative endeavours. We can show you what's working for us, and what absolutely does NOT work for us; so that you can spend your time and money on the things that will give you the most benefits.

If you have any questions about our work or processes, any requests for topics to cover in future episodes, or any feedback at all (good or bad! It all helps!), please don't hesitate to reach out! Email us at [email protected] and we'll get back to you. We'd love to hear from you! If you want to follow us on any other channels or socials, you'll find them all at the link below!

https://beacons.ai/green_fae_raven

Thanks again! We'll catch you next time!

Episode 21! This is a big one for us! Over the last 18 months we've had this dream of cutting out the 9-5 grind in jobs that we have no passion for, and seeking a more fulfilling, creative life instead. We started to hold ourselves accountable to that goal just over a year ago when we started our podcast, journaling that journey. Now, Raven has quit her job and moved into a part time job that's in line with her beliefs and goals, and now I have also quit my job and have just one week left until I leave it for good. This is an absolutely massive moment for us, as it means we're able to take the next steps towards achieving our dreams, but what will that actually look like? What comes next? In this episode, we take a deep look at how we got to this point and what the future will hopefully look like. We'll be upping our game in so many ways, including how we develop the podcast. After all, now that we're achieving our initial goals, it makes sense that the podcast evolves with us! So, take a seat and enjoy. This is a good one!

If you're new here; we're Raven and Faranir and we are on a quest to break free from the 9-5 grind and live a more fulfilling life. This podcast is basically our progress journal. We can't give you all the answers on how to achieve your creative goals, as we haven't done it yet ourselves! We're still finding our feet, starting from the beginning and working our way up. Let us break down what kind of things we cover:

- Streaming on Twitch: What kind of gear do you need to get started? How have we improved our streams over time? Monitoring growth through analytics, How to become a Twitch Affiliate and start making money and even better, how to become a Twitch Partner and make even more money! We're still working on that last one...

- Building a social media presence across Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok: comparing results across each platform to see which ones can yield the best results as well as what impact paid advertising has through each one.

- Art and design: Raven creates all of our art assets herself; all the logos, title cards, intros, outros, thumbnails, etc. so we often dive into how important this is and what tools are available to help.

- Motivation and Encouragement: We often dig into motivational rants and encourage our listeners to pursue their passions in life and to not let anything hold them back.

- We also dive into topics such as Photography, Audio Engineering, and general tech talk for platforms like OBS, Canva, Lightroom, Photoshop, and Premiere Pro.

Making this podcast keeps us on track and holds us to account: it pushes us to keep doing better and improving ourselves and our results, and our hope is that it will also help you in your own creative endeavours. We can show you what's working for us, and what absolutely does NOT work for us; so that you can spend your time and money on the things that will give you the most benefits.

If you have any questions about our work or processes, any requests for topics to cover in future episodes, or any feedback at all (good or bad! It all helps!), please don't hesitate to reach out! Email us at [email protected] and we'll get back to you. We'd love to hear from you! If you want to follow us on any other channels or socials, you'll find them all at the link below!

https://beacons.ai/green_fae_raven Thanks again! We'll catch you next time!

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Episode 20! ONE YEAR PODCASTAVERSARY! How has it already been a whole year since we started this?! We started this podcast with three main objectives in mind: to journal our creative quest, to keep ourselves accountable and to share all the helpful tips we learn along the way, and so far, it's worked out pretty damn well for us! Thankfully, by sheer coincidence, we arrive at this one year milestone with our biggest cause for celebration so far by smashing one of our major goals! So hit Play and find out what's happened! We also discuss:

• How amazing Disneyland Paris is
• How wonderful French baguettes are (Can you guess where we've just been?)
• How well the house is coming along
• The insane amount of hard work we have laid out over the next month

If you're new here; we're Raven and Faranir and we are on a quest to break free from the 9-5 grind and live a more fulfilling life. This podcast is basically our progress journal. We can't give you all the answers on how to achieve your creative goals, as we haven't done it yet ourselves! We're still finding our feet, starting from the beginning and working our way up. Let us break down what kind of things we cover:

- Creating YouTube videos: how we record our streams and create videos from them - editing in Premiere Pro, creating thumbnails, monitoring analytics, etc.

- Streaming on Twitch: What kind of gear do you need to get started? How have we improved our streams over time? Monitoring growth through analytics, How to become a Twitch Affiliate and start making money and even better, how to become a Twitch Partner and make even more money! We're still working on that last one...

- Building a social media presence across Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok: comparing results across each platform to see which ones can yield the best results as well as what impact paid advertising has through each one.

- Art and design: Raven creates all of our art assets herself; all the logos, title cards, intros, outros, thumbnails, etc. so we often dive into how important this is and what tools are available to help.

- Motivation and Encouragement: We often dig into motivational rants and encourage our listeners to pursue their passions in life and to not let anything hold them back.

- We also dive into topics such as Photography, Audio Engineering, and general tech talk for platforms like OBS, Canva, Lightroom, Photoshop, and Premiere Pro.

Making this podcast keeps us on track and holds us to account: it pushes us to keep doing better and improving ourselves and our results, and our hope is that it will also help you in your own creative endeavours. We can show you what's working for us, and what absolutely does NOT work for us; so that you can spend your time and money on the things that will give you the most benefits.

If you have any questions about our work or processes, any requests for topics to cover in future episodes, or any feedback at all (good or bad! It all helps!), please don't hesitate to reach out! Email us at [email protected] and we'll get back to you. We'd love to hear from you! If you want to follow us on any other channels or socials, you'll find them all at the link below!

https://beacons.ai/green_fae_raven Thanks again! We'll catch you next time!

Episode 19! We're back from a little weekend away and straight back to work to make sure we're not too far behind schedule with this mid-week episode!! So make a cup of tea, sit down and dive in! What do we have in store for you this week?

- We dive deeper into the YouTube advertising rabbit hole and come back with our best results so far! But what does this really mean for us moving forward? Does it make a difference?

- We talk about the importance of having a system and sticking to it with every client, whether it's a friend, an acquaintance or a friend of a friend - don't get caught out by crushing miscommunications and a total change of plans like Faranir just experienced!

- The importance of having a Plan B and being able to adapt in the face of that crushing defeat.

So what are you waiting for? Press Play and dig in!

If you're new here; we're Raven and Faranir and we are on a quest to break free from the 9-5 grind and live a more fulfilling life. This podcast is basically our progress journal. We can't give you all the answers on how to achieve your creative goals, as we haven't done it yet ourselves! We're still finding our feet, starting from the beginning and working our way up. Let us break down what kind of things we cover:

- Creating YouTube videos: how we record our streams and create videos from them - editing in Premiere Pro, creating thumbnails, monitoring analytics, etc.

- Streaming on Twitch: What kind of gear do you need to get started? How have we improved our streams over time? Monitoring growth through analytics, How to become a Twitch Affiliate and start making money and even better, how to become a Twitch Partner and make even more money! We're still working on that last one...

- Building a social media presence across Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok: comparing results across each platform to see which ones can yield the best results as well as what impact paid advertising has through each one.

- Art and design: Raven creates all of our art assets herself; all the logos, title cards, intros, outros, thumbnails, etc. so we often dive into how important this is and what tools are available to help.

- Motivation and Encouragement: We often dig into motivational rants and encourage our listeners to pursue their passions in life and to not let anything hold them back. - We also dive into topics such as Photography, Audio Engineering, and general tech talk for platforms like OBS, Canva, Lightroom, Photoshop, and Premiere Pro.

Making this podcast keeps us on track and holds us to account: it pushes us to keep doing better and improving ourselves and our results, and our hope is that it will also help you in your own creative endeavours. We can show you what's working for us, and what absolutely does NOT work for us; so that you can spend your time and money on the things that will give you the most benefits.

If you have any questions about our work or processes, any requests for topics to cover in future episodes, or any feedback at all (good or bad! It all helps!), please don't hesitate to reach out! Email us at [email protected] and we'll get back to you. We'd love to hear from you! If you want to follow us on any other channels or socials, you'll find them all at the link below!

https://beacons.ai/green_fae_raven

Thanks again! We'll catch you next time!

Episode 18! We're on time, just as promised, after a turbulent couple of months! We've had a really busy couple of weeks but we made a special effort to make sure we stuck to our schedule so make a cup of tea, sit down and dive in! What do we have in store for you this week?

- Our Super Mario Bros. Wonder series is FINALLY complete! After all that work, what do we have to show for it? Was it worth it? Would we do it again? What would we do differently? We answer all this questions in this project review!

- We ran another YouTube advertising test and saw some pretty spectacular results that could make a huge difference moving forward!

- Raven makes the most of her extra free time now that she's moved to a part-time job by taking up a new hobby that could prove to be quite lucrative!

- The house renovation is coming along smoothly and the future is looking bright!

So what are you waiting for? Press Play and dig in!

If you're new here; we're Raven and Faranir and we are on a quest to break free from the 9-5 grind and live a more fulfilling life. This podcast is basically our progress journal. We can't give you all the answers on how to achieve your creative goals, as we haven't done it yet ourselves! We're still finding our feet, starting from the beginning and working our way up. Let us break down what kind of things we cover:

- Creating YouTube videos: how we record our streams and create videos from them - editing in Premiere Pro, creating thumbnails, monitoring analytics, etc.

- Streaming on Twitch: What kind of gear do you need to get started? How have we improved our streams over time? Monitoring growth through analytics, How to become a Twitch Affiliate and start making money and even better, how to become a Twitch Partner and make even more money! We're still working on that last one...

- Building a social media presence across Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok: comparing results across each platform to see which ones can yield the best results as well as what impact paid advertising has through each one.

- Art and design: Raven creates all of our art assets herself; all the logos, title cards, intros, outros, thumbnails, etc. so we often dive into how important this is and what tools are available to help.

- Motivation and Encouragement: We often dig into motivational rants and encourage our listeners to pursue their passions in life and to not let anything hold them back. - We also dive into topics such as Photography, Audio Engineering, and general tech talk for platforms like OBS, Canva, Lightroom, Photoshop, and Premiere Pro.

Making this podcast keeps us on track and holds us to account: it pushes us to keep doing better and improving ourselves and our results, and our hope is that it will also help you in your own creative endeavours. We can show you what's working for us, and what absolutely does NOT work for us; so that you can spend your time and money on the things that will give you the most benefits.

If you have any questions about our work or processes, any requests for topics to cover in future episodes, or any feedback at all (good or bad! It all helps!), please don't hesitate to reach out! Email us at [email protected] and we'll get back to you. We'd love to hear from you! If you want to follow us on any other channels or socials, you'll find them all at the link below!

https://beacons.ai/green_fae_raven

Thanks again! We'll catch you next time!

We're sorry, guys. Things got on top of us again and caused ANOTHER big gap between episodes! We'll run you through exactly what came up in this week's episode and it's (mostly) for good reasons! What else have we got in store for you in this comeback episode?

• We bring you some fantastic, wonderful news that represents the biggest milestone in our long-term goals so far!

• We talk through the house renovation and how it's snowballed into much more work than we'd ever expected.
• We FINALLY catch up on some of our Twitch maintenance work.
• Now that our Super Mario Bros. Wonder series is coming to an end - with only a couple of episodes left to go - Faranir runs through some of the project's biggest takeaways!
• We look ahead to the next few months, that are now looking brighter than ever.

If you're new here; we're Raven and Faranir and we are on a quest to break free from the 9-5 grind and live a more fulfilling life. This podcast is basically our progress journal. We can't give you all the answers on how to achieve your creative goals, as we haven't done it yet ourselves! We're still finding our feet, starting from the beginning and working our way up. Let us break down what kind of things we cover:

• Creating YouTube videos: how we record our streams and create videos from them - editing in Premiere Pro, creating thumbnails, monitoring analytics, etc.
• Streaming on Twitch: What kind of gear do you need to get started? How have we improved our streams over time? Monitoring growth through analytics, How to become a Twitch Affiliate and start making money and even better, how to become a Twitch Partner and make even more money! We're still working on that last one...
• Building a social media presence across Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok: comparing results across each platform to see which ones can yield the best results as well as what impact paid advertising has through each one.
• Art and design: Raven creates all of our art assets herself; all the logos, title cards, intros, outros, thumbnails, etc. so we often dive into how important this is and what tools are available to help.
• Motivation and Encouragement: We often dig into motivational rants and encourage our listeners to pursue their passions in life and to not let anything hold them back.
• We also dive into topics such as Photography, Audio Engineering, and general tech talk for platforms like OBS, Canva, Lightroom, Photoshop, and Premiere Pro.

Making this podcast keeps us on track and holds us to account: it pushes us to keep doing better and improving ourselves and our results, and our hope is that it will also help you in your own creative endeavours. We can show you what's working for us, and what absolutely does NOT work for us; so that you can spend your time and money on the things that will give you the most benefits.

If you have any questions about our work or processes, any requests for topics to cover in future episodes, or any feedback at all (good or bad! It all helps!), please don't hesitate to reach out! Email us at [email protected] and we'll get back to you. We'd love to hear from you!

If you want to follow us on any other channels or socials, you'll find them all at the link below!

https://beacons.ai/green_fae_raven

Thanks again! We'll catch you next time!

We're back! We warned you at the end of Episode 15 that our schedule was about to get particularly hectic, and it ended up even worse than expected. It was practically impossible for us to record the podcast through June, so we ended up not releasing a single episode for the entire month...and yet June was our most successful month ever! So we'd like to thank you all for taking the time to join us and get caught up on the journey so far!

If you're new here; we're Raven and Faranir and we are on a quest to break free from the 9-5 grind and live a more fulfilling life. This podcast is basically our progress journal. We can't give you all the answers on how to achieve your creative goals, as we haven't done it yet ourselves! We're still finding our feet, starting from the beginning and working our way up. Let us break down what kind of things we cover:

• Creating YouTube videos: how we record our streams and create videos from them - editing in Premiere Pro, creating thumbnails, monitoring analytics, etc.
• Streaming on Twitch: What kind of gear do you need to get started? How have we improved our streams over time? Monitoring growth through analytics, How to become a Twitch Affiliate and start making money and even better, how to become a Twitch Partner and make even more money! We're still working on that last one...
• Building a social media presence across Facebook, Instagram and TikTok: comparing results across each platform to see which ones can yield the best results as well as what impact paid advertising has through each one.
• Art and design: Raven creates all of our art assets herself; all the logos, title cards, intros, outros, thumbnails, etc. so we often dive into how important this is and what tools are available to help.
• Motivation and Encouragement: We often dig into motivational rants and encourage our listeners to pursue their passions in life and to not let anything hold them back.
• We also dive into topics such as Photography, Audio Engineering, and general tech talk for platforms like OBS, Canva, Lightroom, Photoshop, and Premiere Pro.

Making this podcast keeps us on track and holds us to account: it pushes us to keep doing better and improving ourselves and our results, and our hope is that it will also help you in your own creative endeavours. We can show you what's working for us, and what absolutely does NOT work for us; so that you can spend your time and money on the things that will give you the most benefits.

Now that we're back, what's on the agenda this week? It's an unusual one as we haven't had much time for the work that we usually discuss, so let's jump into this month's curveballs.

• We dive into Raven's mystery second job that suddenly demanded so much more time than usual and caused the schedule chaos.
• We revisit how important it is to find surprising uses for your creative skills, and how you could end up doing something totally outside the box,
• We follow up with some BIG personal news that will change everything for us over the next 6 months. We've hit a massive milestone!
• We run through some changes to Faranir's photography site and systems.

If you have any questions about our work or processes, any requests for topics to cover in future episodes, or any feedback at all (good or bad! It all helps!), please don't hesitate to reach out! Email us at [email protected] and we'll get back to you. We'd love to hear from you!

Don't forget to follow or subscribe across our Socials!

https://beacons.ai/green_fae_raven

See you next time!

Here we are with our slightly delayed Episode 15! We had a slight delay due to spending the weekend at MCM Comic-Con in London so we weren't able to record on Sunday as we normally would! We had an absolute blast but it's great to be back home and have a little catch up with you guys! On this week's episode:

• Celebrate a major milestone, as we received a Creator Pass for Comic-Con! So, I guess that makes us official creators, right?!
• We discuss Raven's cosplay prep for Comic-Con; how she built the wig and ears and how she recorded the whole process so there'll be a video tutorial on that on the horizon!
• We talk about about photography: diving into Pixieset - a photography service provider that I use to build and host my website, blog, client galleries, shop and studio management facilities. Getting all this back in order for a bit of a 2024 relaunch after months of silence and just how daunting that can be after taking a break!
• We also look at what's coming next with a lot of upheaval on the way. Raven has some major work commitments over the next six weeks that will have to be her main priority, so we'll be running a reduced streaming schedule but fear not, Creative Quest will still be with you every two weeks! We'll also (hopefully) FINALLY be getting the keys to our new house, which will bring a whole lot of extra work with it as well!

We've got a very busy time ahead, but we're more committed than ever to our creative endeavours so we'll be pouring our all into keeping all these plates spinning through our busiest summer ever! Thanks once again to each and every one of you that tunes in each week for more updates! May has so far been our second-most successful episode ever despite us only so far releasing one episode in May! So that's fantastic! If enough of you jump on this one before June, May may just break our records!

If you have any questions at all, or have any feedback for us, feel free to reach out at [email protected] and we'll get back to you!

If you want to follow us on any other channels or socials, you'll find them all at the link below!

https://beacons.ai/green_fae_raven

Thanks again! We'll catch you next time!

Another Sunday, another episode! How are you all doing out there? Are you making progress in your own Creative Quests or are you running into roadblocks? We'd love to hear from you! Leave a comment below or email us as [email protected].

This week we run through our latest analytics with (mostly) positive results! We have a busy time ahead preparing for Comic-con at the end of May, so most of Raven's time is being spent on con prep at the moment but we're still keeping things moving along!

We also discuss:

- The importance of coming up with a workflow for maximum efficiency and actually sticking to it: I FORGOT to stick to mine and it caused chaos and took several hours to fix and almost made me miss a deadline!

- Finally getting back out to take some new photos to prepare for some shoots next month Thank you so much to all of our listeners, whether you join us for every episode or you're just tuning in for the first time!

We really appreciate you spending your time by following our journey! If you want to follow us on any other platforms such as YouTube, TikTok or Instagram, you can find all our channels at the link below!

https://beacons.ai/green_fae_raven

As always, if you have any feedback or questions for us, don't hesitate to email us at [email protected] or leave comments on our YouTube channel!

Hello and welcome! We've had a fantastic couple of weeks that turned out to be surprisingly productive and wonderful! This week's episode is a bit longer than usual, as we take some time to reintroduce ourselves and our intentions to any new listeners that have joined us along the way! We then move on to discuss creativity and the many ways you can potentially use yours if you just think outside the box! We're always told, "That isn't a real job" when discussing our love for art, but the truth is, that it can absolutely be a real job. So many aspects of our daily life simply wouldn't exist without art and creativity, so we take some time to discuss that!

We also discuss:

• Twitch resizing tools - a great time-saving efficiency tool
• The launch of Masterpiece Mondays and some great first results!
• Suffering a terrible video launch, but turning it from a worst-performer to a best-performer with a simple six second edit
• Enjoying the sun and finally getting behind the camera again!
• Fulfilling a life-long dream

Thank you so much to all of our listeners, whether you join us for every episode or you're just tuning in for the first time! We really appreciate you spending your time by following our journey! If you want to follow us on any other platforms such as YouTube, TikTok or Instagram, you can find all our channels at the link below!

https://beacons.ai/green_fae_raven

As always, if you have any feedback or questions for us, don't hesitate to email us at [email protected] or leave comments on our YouTube channel!