Explore Your Enthusiasm

Explore Your Enthusiasm

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Explore Your Enthusiasm episodes

  • The Four Tendencies: How to make real change in your life and business

    How do you make change in your business or life that sticks? In today's episode, we'll explore  the kinds of habits your business needs, how your reaction to expectations impacts your habit-formation, and how to finally do what you want to do (no matter what "type" of person you are!).

    Links Mentioned
    • The Starship is now open! 
    • The 4 Tendency Quiz
    • Better Than Before
    • To listen to the episode, visit https://taraswiger.com/podcast61/

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    • Interview with Fiber Artist Sasha Torres

      Today I'm thrilled to have fiber artist and Starship Captain Sasha Torres on the podcast, sharing her business journey! Sasha makes gorgeous breed-specific yarn and fiber, which you can find at SheepSpot.

      We discuss:

      • What inspired her to start her business
      • The major turning points and epiphanies that changed her business (you can apply them to yours!)
      • How "No one is thinking about you" helped her marketing
      • The wonderfulness of email UNsubscribers
      • Feeling satisfied with what you've accomplished
      • How a survey helped shape her new offer
      • Links to what we mentioned: 

        • Survey Monkey
        • Fleece and Fiber Sourcebook
        • Deb Menz
        • Indigo Dragonfly
        • SheepSpot!
        • Market Yourself
        • Sasha mentions our one-on-one sessions and Map Making, which come as part of her Starship membership. Sign up here to be notified when it opens next!

          Listen to the full episode at TaraSwiger.com/podcast60/

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        • The most effective way to grow your business

          How do your grow your business? 

          This question seem like a big one, with a million answers, but the truth is, you can narrow your focus on just four levers to create massive growth in your business. In today's episode I'll discuss these four levers and how they impact your business growth.

          Listen in at TaraSwiger.com/podcast59

          22 min
        • Lessons I've learned in 33 years

          Today's my birthday! In today's episode, I look back at all the awesomeness of the last year and share what I've learned about my business (and life).

          Past birthday posts:
          • 2014
          • 2013
          • 2012
          • 2011 (The birth of the Starship!)
          • 2010 (The birth of this site!)
          • 2009
          • Listen to the episode at TaraSwiger.com/podcast58/

            38 min
          • The difference between effective and sleazy

            If you wonder why you're not making more sales, no matter how much you blog, tweet, or email, the answer is probably that your marketing isn't effective. But how can you be effective without feeling like you're being salesy or gross? We're going to talk about how to do that today.

            We'll cover:

            • Why you should link to your products (no, it's not gross)
            • How to ask for the sale
            • The spectrum of gross/effective, with some examples along the spectrum.
            • Now, with transcripts!

              Get access to transcripts of this and all future episodes by subscribing (if you're already subscribing, look for it at the bottom of this email!)

              Listen to the episode at TaraSwiger.com/podcast57/

              19 min
            • What you can learn from Income reports

              Today we're going to talk about the phenomenon of income reports and how you can learn from them without being distracted or deterred from your own work.

              Links mentioned:
              • Abby Glassenberg's income reports at While She Naps
              • Pinch of Yum’s income reports.
              • PBS story on income reports
              • Entrepreneur on Fire's Income Reports
              • Real Numbers Project
              • Income Report: Knitting Designers
              • Listen to the episode here: TaraSwiger.com/podcast56/

                15 min
              • Kim Werker is Enthusiastically Making it Ugly

                I am super squealingly excited about today's podcast: it's a snippet of a conversation with my good friend and the all-around awesome person, Kim Werker. We talk about the great advice she got as a freshman and the spiral that brought her where she is now, as an author, editor, teacher and maker.

                This was recorded at Craftcation, by the fantastic Mike of MB Studio Services (if you're in SoCal, hire him to produce your podcast!).

                You find more Kim Werker on Instagram, her website, on Craftsy, and in her book, which I adore. 

                Listen to the episode here: TaraSwiger.com/podcast55/

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              • Blair Stocker is enthusiastically quilting

                I am so delighted to have Blair Stocker on this week! I had the oppurtunity to chat with her at Craftcation and after about 15 minutes I said: I want to record every word you say! My listeners need to hear this! So we scuttled off to the podcast lounge and the fantastic Mike recorded (and engineered! so fancy!) our conversation.

                Blair was one of the first craft bloggers I became addicted to, way back in 2005 when I discovered the crafty internet, and over the last 10 years I've loved following her quilts (and kids).

                In this episode we discuss: 

                • WiseCraft, her gorgeous crafting book
                • WiseCraft, the blog
                • Her quilt patterns
                • What she's enthusiastic about right now
                • To listen to the full episode, visit http://taraswiger.com/podcast54/ ‎

                  16 min
                • Have More Time

                  How can you have more time to do the stuff you want to do (and all the stuff you have to do?) That's what we're going to talk about in today's episode.

                  Build a system that works for you, and have more time for work AND fun with my newest class, Wrangle Your TIme.

                  Find links to the show notes here: http://taraswiger.com/podcast53/

                  19 min
                • 3 lessons from 52 weeks of podcasting

                  Yay! This is the 52nd episode of my weekly podcast ... Explore Your Enthusiasm is one year old! (Tomorrow's exactly one year from the first episode.)

                  In this episode I share:

                  • 3 lessons that I've learned from podcasting, that you can apply to your own creative business
                  • What podcasting has done for my business
                  • What's coming up next (including big news!)
                  • Top 10 episodes (by downloads) in the first year:
                    1. Episode 1: the beginning!
                    2. How to Get Stuff Done, Part 1
                    3. How to use Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest in your Creative Business
                    4. Marketing for Introverts
                    5. Navigating an art career, with Claudine Hellmuth
                    6. Turn Readers into Buyers: Craft a Customer Path
                    7. Reviewing 2014
                    8. How to launch anything
                    9. How to get stuff done, part 2
                    10. What your customers care about
                    11. Want to watch the bonus Ask Tara  episodes? Subscribe via YouTube here. 

                      Listen to this week's episode here: TaraSwiger.com/podcast52/

                      29 min

                    About Explore Your Enthusiasm

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                    Tap into what makes you feel like YOU by following your enthusiasm. Each week we’ll discuss finding joy, mental wellness and enthusiasm by finding time and energy to do more of what feels fun. Yes,…