Explore Your Enthusiasm

Are you friends? Are you terrified by it? Do you feel gross when we talk about it? Today I’m going to explain what I meant when I said in a recent episode that I improved my relationship with money. I’m also going to give you some ways to work on your own relationship with money.

• Episode 159: What I would change in my biz if I could go back
• Episode 147: The 5 accounting terms you need to know in your creative biz
• YouNeedABudget.com
• Godaddy Bookkeeping (If you wanna see how this works for other bookkeeping software, sign up for the transcript of this episode in the box below!)
• The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks
• Playing Big by Tara Mohr
• Desire Map by Danielle LaPorte
• Denise Duffield-Thomas (her newest class is now open + it looks great!)

Watch or listen to this episode at TaraSwiger.com/podcast161/

Each year on my birthday, I look back at the past year, and at past birthdays, and try to make sense of it all. So today I'm going to share the big lessons of this last year, and well, the last 35 years.

It's important to celebrate even the small wins, but sometimes it's hard to actually make yourself do it!

I have written online about my birthday for the last 8 years - this will be the ninth!

• 34
• 33
• 32
• 31
• 30
• 29 (I opened the Starship!)
• 28 (I launched this site!)
• 27

• Mindset: the key to your success
• Affirmations and mindset with Joeli
• Map Your Business

Listen to or watch the episode right here: TaraSwiger.com/podcast160/

Today I'm answering questions from my Instagram followers (to get your questions answered, be sure you're following me!). In fact, I received so many questions, I split them into two podcasts! Today we'll cover:

• Email List Growth
• Self-Publishing
• What I'd do differently

Listen to the episode or watch it at Taraswiger.com/podcast159

Today I'm answering questions from my Instagram followers (to get your questions answered, be sure you're following me!) In fact, I received so many questions, I split them into two podcasts.  Today we'll cover:

• Coming back after illness
• Finding time for everything
• Handling discouragement

Watch or listen to the episode at: TaraSwiger.com/podcast158

There is one thing that so many people get wrong about marketing, and it drives me crazy.

Today we're going to talk about what people get wrong and how YOU can get it right, to ensure everything you're doing on social media is effective.

• Mission, strategy and tactics - Podcast episode 89
• Find your right people podcasts
  • Episode 117
  • Episode 94
• find your right people articles:
  • https://taraswiger.com/customers-changed-business/
  • https://taraswiger.com/connection-your-right-people/
• Elevate Your Business

Watch or listen to the episode at TaraSwiger.com/podcast157

In 2009 I read an article that totally changed the way I thought about my small business and shaped the way I do… everything in my business and how I make every decision.

Today we're going to talk more about the article I read, how it shaped my decisions, and how you can use the same concepts to grow and improve your creative business.

• 1000 True Fans by Kevin Kelly,
• Tim Ferris's book, Tools of Titans.

Watch or listen to this episode at TaraSwiger.com/podcast156

In this episode I'm talking to Joeli about mindset - how to get your mind in the right place so that you can do the work you need to do in your business. Do you struggle to do what you actually need to do in your biz? Do you get to a point where you feel so stuck that you get bogged down in feeling bad, and then you don't take any action? If so - you're not alone! Watch or listen to the episode for commiseration from Joeli and I and some tips for getting in the right mindset to do your best work.

• Join the Elevate your Instagram challenge! (It starts May 8!)
• My last conversation with Joeli about 3 Common Instagram Mistakes
• Invisible Gorilla
• Shawn Achor's books
• Joeli's Lessons Learned
• Fixed vs. Growth Mindset

Watch or listen to the episode here: http://taraswiger.com/podcast155/

Are you focused on the long term or short term?
Are you making decisions based on this week or next year? Do you have patience or are you going to quit if it doesn’t all turn out like you want in three months? This is another tough-love episode where we make your biz a little more sustainable by looking at the big questions.

• Map Your Business - Think about the long term and then plan for the short with this guidebook!
• Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending

Listen to or watch the episode at TaraSwiger.com/podcast154/

About a year ago, I realized: This isn't normal. I want to get better. I'm going to have to face this head on.

I realized I had been living with anxiety, panic attacks and depression… for pretty much forever. A year ago I made that realization and last September, I talked about it with you in episode 123. Since then I've gotten so many emails, comments and conversations about your own struggles and the question: So what do you DO?

Today I'd like to share what I've found works for me.

Listen to the episode or watch it at TaraSwiger.com/podcast153/

What was your income last month? What’s the average listener to the podcast making in their business? How long have they been in business? I’m sharing it all in today’s episode.

All told, there were 80 responses, and of those 37% make handmade products and 47% sell patterns or designs I've split up the answers into two sections and will talk about each of them separately. Watch or listen to the episode to hear all about it!

• Have you looked at your numbers? Are you ready to take control of your business finances? Sign up for Pay Yourself, where I'll walk you through the whole process of finding your profit margin (and tweaking it as needed), determining the profitability of prospective projects, and how to adjust your finances so that you can regularly begin to pay yourself. You'll find it right here: TaraSwiger.com/profit
• Of all the people who are rocking their goals, their secret formula was consistency. More on that here.

Watch it or listen in right here: TaraSwiger.com/podcast152/