Creatives Making Money with Jamie Jensen

Today I had the great pleasure of speaking with none other than Cailen Ascher.

Cailen is THE queen of helping you set up your life and business so you make full-time income working just 3 days per week (or… however many days and hours best suit you).

But our conversation took so many fun and fascinating twists and turns.

She shared that it was SO helpful for her in the “early days” of her business (the first few years) to learn as MUCH as she possibly could. She took tons of courses and absorbed as much info as possible, including B-School and Creating Fame.

Cailen also talked about working as a freelancer and having “bridge jobs,” which is basically another way of saying… temporary work you do while you’re building up your future ideal income from your creative pursuits or business.

But at some point, she recognized that in order to make a SHIFT, it was necessary to hire more support. She decided to work with Nisha Moodley as a coach, and making that decision and investment was the turning point for her business.

We also talked about….

• How she uses The Desire Map every year to get clear on how she wants to feel FIRST, and then set intentions based on those feelings after.
  
  
• Why meditation and mindset work is SO important to success, and how “We think we’re accomplishing something by worrying.” #brilliant
  
  
• The power of taking INSPIRED action instead of just slogging through work.
  
  
• Connecting with your FUTURE SELF to check in on big decisions, possible freak outs, or what to do when you’re feeling ANTSY about work, etc.

And, of course, we talked about some of the most common negative beliefs around money… namely, that working more or harder equates to earning more. Can you relate?

Cailen has a kick ass 3 Day Work Week Template you can download at cailenascher.com.

Follow Cailen on Instagram at @Cailen_Ascher, or join her facebook group called “3 Day Work Week.”

Create like you mean it,
Jamie

P.s. Don’t forget about our weekly AFTERPARTY either, where I’ll share MY biggest takeaways and action steps for YOU from each episode -- at creativesmakingmoney.com/afterparty.

Is it rude to say that this was my favorite episode of all time? ;)

So, I love and value ALL of my guests -- but the power with which Kelly Ruta can zero in on what’s really going on in and with your MIND is unparalleled.

She is clear, powerful, brilliant, and such a talented psychotherapist that I truly believe EVERYONE needs a little Kelly in their life.

We talked about SO many topics, including…

• Undercharging (and how to STOP)
• Holding back on being VISIBLE (and what that’s really about)
• Boundaries and how to set and hold them as a CREATIVE and/or entrepreneur

And her advice for how to cultivate self-awareness and take your power back over your mind:

1. Learn the difference between conscious and subconscious mind. And learn HOW the subconscious actually works.
   
2. Reverse engineer where you’re suffering and struggling. Find the limiting BELIEFS behind the thoughts. Most people have 3 to 5 core limiting beliefs to address.
   
3. Take the time and space to acknowledge your deepest desires. This is about going deeper than wanting something, it’s about being clear on WHY you want it.

Yeah, we went IN. :) There aren’t a ton of notes to share here. My recommendation is to... 

1. Listen to this episode in its entirety. And then again. And then again. :)
   
   
2. Of COURSE go follow Kelly at kellyruta.com, https://www.facebook.com/KellyRutaMentor/, and @kellyruta71 on Instagram.
   
   
3. Head over to http://creativesmakingmoney.com/afterparty where I jam on ALL the action steps I suggest you take in order to get the most out of the episode.

Today, we’re talking about the COST of pursuing your calling -- whether it’s the pursuit of knowledge and mastery over an academic subject OR creative or artistic mastery.

Dr. Lindsay Padilla and I go INNNN on the pressure of student debt.

This week on the podcast, I met with my dear friend Dr. Lindsay Padilla to talk about something that both academics and creatives (and, like, 71% of Americans) can relate to: STUDENT LOAN DEBT. *insert crazy sound effect here*

Lindsay and I jammed hard on what’s SO screwed up about the academic system in the first place, including…

• The heartbreaking reality of being told “WHY study that? There’s NO money in it…”

• How education struggles to keep up with technology (aka “The Culture Lag”)

• Being “tricked” into taking on debt with the promise of “making money someday”

• Why universities are scaling back teachers’ hours and therefore pay, to the detriment of the student’s experience

Plus so much more…

Lindsay is pretty incredible, and helps TONS of creatives and entrepreneurs become incredible teachers with her program Build A Better Beta. If you’re curious and want to learn more about how she can help YOU with your course, you can follow Lindsay on ALL the socials (Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook) at @Lindsaympadilla!

Yeah… this is one WOKE AF episode, and I’m SO excited to hear what it shakes up for you!

Please share your AHAs in a review here or post them on Instagram and tag me at @jamielynnjensen. I’m so curious to hear!

Create like you mean it,
Jamie

This week, I had the great pleasure of chatting with Meghan Hartman of Crafting Creative.

I’m extra excited to share this interview with you because Meghan is not only an incredible website designer who teaches other entrepreneurs to create websites that really STAND OUT, she’s also got a full-time day job.

This is all about finding the creative and financial fulfillment that works for YOU.

Meghan and I jammed about…

If you LOVED today’s episode, you’ll love checking out Meghan’s course ELEVATE and following her design journey at craftingcreative.com.

She’s @meghancreative on Instagram, or you can stalk her on Facebook at https://facebook.com/craftingcreative.

This week, I had the great pleasure of chatting with Meghan Hartman of Crafting Creative.

I’m extra excited to share this interview with you because Meghan is not only an incredible website designer who teaches other entrepreneurs to create websites that really STAND OUT, she’s also got a full-time day job.

This is an important conversation because I think that not all businesses or creatives need to operate the same way. It’s perfectly OKAY to have a day job and take your time building your ‘side hustle,’ and it’s perfectly OKAY to keep a day job and use your ‘side hustle’ to make even more money.

This is all about finding the creative and financial fulfillment that works for YOU.

Meghan and I jammed about…

• How she created 10 websites in 10 days and landed a full-time web design job with no previous experience (true story)

• Why she, a math and science nerd, decided to enroll in NYU’s film school

• The “3 years” rule of online business success

• A concept called “Polymath,” where you master multiple crafts instead of just ONE

• And SO MUCH MORE…

If you LOVED today’s episode, you’ll love checking out Meghan’s course ELEVATE and following her design journey at craftingcreative.com.

She’s @meghancreative on Instagram, or you can stalk her on Facebook at https://facebook.com/craftingcreative.

If you want straight-shooting answers about your business messaging, packaging, or pricing look no further than Rebecca Tracey.

As the head (and only) honcho at the Uncaged Life, Becca has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs (including ME) launch their business on the right foot. She has an extra special skill for cutting through the B.S. and getting straight to the answers and this episode was no different!

Becca shared tons of awesome tips and tricks, like…

• Her “GUT pricing method,” which you can learn all about in her Pricing Guide here

• When it’s the right time to raise your prices (also known as: when it feels right)

• How she started charging for her work in the “early days” of her biz (when she was living out of a van with her ex-boyfriend and traveling and climbing all across the U.S.)

• Why it’s important to recognize what your money shit is and HOW to move through it -- do you need validation? a push? to face some limiting beliefs?

We also jammed on why it’s a great idea to spend the $30 you need for a software to make business easier for you (simple ROI) and why having an “easy” attitude towards money makes the process of receiving cash into your business and life WAY smoother.

And, if you’re accepting Becca’s challenge of coming up with 50 ways you could make money in the next week, SHARE!

We always love to continue these convos in the Creatives Making Money group too.

Don’t forget to download Becca’s pricing guide and join her group to share those ideas here too:

https://theuncagedlife.com/pricing

Create like you mean it,

Jamie

This week, I was thrilled to interview my good friend, former filmmaking partner, and incredible embodiment coach Nadia Munla.

We went IN on how your relationship with your body really impacts your ability to flow creatively, access your intuition, and feel charged up and ready to create like you mean it.

And, it’s tough to get us together and NOT talk about SEX. (Listen, the film we worked on together WAS, after all, a raunchy romantic comedy -- which you can also watch in iTunes here or Amazon here.) So we covered a lot -- from sexuality to sexual trauma -- and what that even has to do with your creative and financial flow. (Hint: It’s a lot!)

Nadia typically works with women on the three core messages they receive from society regarding their feminine body that isn’t serving them.

1. “Our erotic is dangerous.”
2. “Play is unproductive.”
3. “Emotionality is weak.”

I love that we touched on all of this because these three things: sexual energy, playfulness and pleasure, and emotionality are ALL aspects of your creative process -- so learning HOW to be with these parts of yourself without judgment or shame is a huge step towards more creative and financial fulfillment.

We also talked about how the seat of your Sacral Chakra (the womb space on women) is a center of creativity as well as work, so it’s imperative that YOU find balance with your life-force energy and it’s not contracted or “stuck” in any particular area.

Yes, this is quite the woo-woo (but also science-y and pragmatic) episode.

Here are some of my other favorite parts:

• Nadia’s 4 Pillars of Embodiment, which all begin with feeling SAFE in your body and learning how to self-regulate your sense of safety.

• How PAIN in the body is a sign that something is off or wrong -- not a signal to numb, push, or self-punish. Instead, it’s an opportunity for deep healing and growth.

• Why becoming a MASTER of your own nervous system by developing a personalized set of tools for your body is critical to ecstatic embodiment.

• The various ways of getting into your body and managing negative energy like “shaking it off” or touching yourself -- and how actions and tools like these are super important to your sense of feeling safe in your body and allowing for optimal creative flow.

• For women -- how learning how to “cycle sync” and arrange your schedule and expectations of yourself according to your monthly flow week by week can be a window into super powers you never knew you had!

Plus SO much more. I really adored this episode and hope that you did too!

And, when you’re ready to start connecting with your body in a powerful new way, you can always check out Nadia’s Embody Dance Class at embodydanceclass.com or learn new ways of working with her at nadiamunla.com.

She also suggested following her on Instagram to get even more of the wisdom and advice she shared on today’s episode!

Remember, that you can “use your body as a compass for creativity” and Nadia’s tips from today’s episode are a great start.

Create like you mean it,

Jamie

What an excellent episode with Kate Anthony.

If you don’t know Kate, let me tell you a little bit about her --

She shared her whole story on this episode, from transitioning from actor to coach, wife to single mom, and artist to entrepreneur --- and how she’s worked on her “money mindset’ in the process and continues to grow in new ways with her relationship with money.

Some of my favorite highlights...

We also mentioned…

But here’s where you really wanna go to get more of Kate’s brilliance:

Here’s to healthy marriages, healthy relationships with money, and creating like you mean it.

xx Jamie

What an excellent episode with Kate Anthony.

If you don’t know Kate, let me tell you a little bit about her --

1. She’s a badass, certified life coach who helps women decide if they should stay in or leave their marriages.

1. Kate especially empowers women to find their strength, passion, and confidence and helps them move forward with concrete plans by putting their children at the center (not in the middle) of all decisions.

1. In addition to all of this, Kate has also trained as a relationship coach and is an expert in communication, co-parenting, and emotional intelligence.

1. Also awesome? Kate had a 30 year career as an actor before venturing into becoming a coach.

She shared her whole story on this episode, from transitioning from actor to coach, wife to single mom, and artist to entrepreneur --- and how she’s worked on her “money mindset’ in the process and continues to grow in new ways with her relationship with money.

Some of my favorite highlights...

• The steps Kate took to expand her money mindset and overcome her the belief that being creative equaled “poverty,” based on what she learned from her parents.

• How being an “over-sharer” has helped her cultivate a powerful social media presence and connect with her clients.

• The hot pink sweater she wore on Grey’s Anatomy on her very first episode.

• Why starting a business has allowed her to be immensely creative and the journey of building a business.

• The concept of charging your ‘worth’ versus pricing for your market (and beyond).

• “The Jamie Jensen Mindset” -- I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY. LOL. I didn’t even know that was a thing but now it is.

We also mentioned…

• Denise Duffield Thomas of Lucky Bitch [right here]
• Amy Smith of The Joy Junkie [right here]
• Kira Sabin of The League of Adventurous Singles [right here]

But here’s where you really wanna go to get more of Kate’s brilliance:

• Her Podcast: Divorce Survival Guide Podcast with Kate Anthony [right here]
• Her Program: “Should I Stay Or Should I Go?” [right here]
• Her Instagram: @coachkateanthony

Here’s to healthy marriages, healthy relationships with money, and creating like you mean it.

xx Jamie

“Know thyself.” - Socrates

“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.” - Lao Tzu

“To thine own self, be true.” - Shakespeare

To really dig deep and know yourself is a timeless, classic, and necessary piece of advice.

So why the EFF do we find that so hard? Why do we run around trying to please other people by being something or someone we’re not. And how do we stop that madness and just BE ourselves.

My very definition of success is “the ability to be 100% truly yourself.”

But where do you begin? Knowing yourself, of course!

If you haven’t caught the CMM After Party yet over on my Facebook page here, Erin and I do a run down of our FAVE personality tests to dive into when you want to go down the rabbit hole of DEEPLY “knowing yourself.”

It was a real treat to interview one of my best friends and favorite people, Erin Lindstrom, the president of the Shiny Bitches on this episode of Creatives Making Money.

We had a blast covering topics like…

• How do we find our “give-back” threshold? In other words, how much cash do YOU need in your life/bank account/pay check before you feel “safe” giving back and contributing to causes and human beings you care about?

• What are the best ways to creatively make money? I asked Erin what she does to generate revenue (a.k.a. create money) when cash is feeling “tight” and she shares some really awesome tips:

• First, get quiet with yourself and become aware of the discomfort.

• Acknowledge the discomfort without judging it.

• Take your power back. (Hopefully she can come back on to talk with us more about HOW to do this exactly. Or maybe we’ll dig into it on our other show, The Erin + Jamie Show over here.)

• What IS a Shiny Bitch?

• BITCH = Brilliant, Intentional, Conscious, Healer

• SHINY = Positive, Conscious, High-Vibe, Supportive of Others’ Success

• Where can you stalk Erin and join the Shiny Bitch Club?

• erinlindstrom.com

• And, as promised, what personality tests do we love and use?

• Kolbe A
• Human Design
• Fascination Advantage
• Strengths Finder
• Myers Briggs
• Enneagram
• Astrology
• The Four Tendencies
• Love Languages

Don’t forget to subscribe to Creatives Making Money on iTunes here, and if you’re enjoying these episodes don’t hesitate to leave a glowing review! :)

Create like you mean it,

Jamie