LISTEN - HEIRLOOM

In episode seven we welcome Kiley Bennett to the show. Kiley is a successful artist and author. She runs her own business Kiley in Kentucky where she blogs about art and creativity, teaches numerous classes about hand lettering and has written two books on the topic. Her second book, Super Simple Hand Lettering is available for pre-order now.

Her real superpower though?? Well, that’s teaching. She has numerous outstanding courses on Skillshare and teaches with passion, patience, and enthusiasm. She is also SUPER knowledge about HOW to teach an online course (in-fact, she is working on a course about that exact topic!)

Kiley shares with us SO MANY awesome tips and ideas about creating your own online course. How to figure out what to teach, planning and putting it together, even how to get started if you feel overwhelmed at the idea that creating a course will just be too hard. She’s done it successfully (many times!) and shares how you can create sometime truly wonderful for your audience.

In this episode we cover:
+How to know when you are ready to teach
+What steps are needed to put together an in-person or online course
+How to make teaching fun

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Mentioned in this episode:
+ Skillshare (get two months free HERE)
+ Kiley’s newsletter to hear first about her upcoming course
+ Kiley’s online courses

To be honest, I felt kind of bad interviewing the lovely Amy Eaton for this podcast. You see, I love photography so I kind of asked her all the questions I wanted answers for about photographing your handmade goods. Being the kind soul that she is, she answered them all.

Amy is an outstanding photographer and teacher and through her photography course Snap, Sell, Succeed she has helped thousands of students learn how to take their product photography to the next level. She is funny, approachable, and determined to see her students succeed.

Mentioned in this episode:

Amy’s YouTube Channel

Adobe Light Room App

Snap, Sell, Succeed

Wow. Life can sure change quickly. The new ‘normal’ for a lot of us involves a lot less people contact out of the house, and for some of us, a lot more people contact with our families at home. As creatives working thought this, I speak this week with Amy Dixon. Amy is a talented visual artist who has teamed up with Brittany from Peak Paper Co. to help inspire creativity and staying positive to everyone at home right now. I also share ideas to of things you could use this time for, and ways to support your friends and creative community.

Do you have any business women that you really admire? Janine Vangool from Uppercase magazine is one of these people to me. Janine is the creator, publisher, editor, and designer of the magazine which means she is pretty much a super-hero. In a digital world where more magazines are moving away from print, Janine fills each issue full of inspiration and creativity and makes it truly magical to hold in your hands and dig into every three months. I deeply admire her passion and commitment to her work.

In this episode we talk about how Janine came to start the magazine and some of the things she has learned over the 40+ issues that she has put out. She speaks about her other publications including Little U and the Encyclopedia of Inspiration. I also ask her how YOU can be featured in her weekly newsltters and in the magazine itself (how amazing would that be?!)

We’ve all been there right?

You finally get the time make something but the magic just ain’t happening. It can be super disheartening. This was me earlier this year. Feeling burnt out from the craziness that is the holidays as a maker and trying to feel jazzed to get back into the studio. I shared this struggle this one day on Instagram - how does one help the creative juices to flow? And I received SO many great ideas that it seemed like the perfect thing to share. If you have more ideas, I’d love for you to share in the comments.

Some of the ideas covered in this episode:
+ cleaning and organize your studio space
+ listen to podcasts
+ get outside
+ make something just for yourself, with no commitment for it to have to be good

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Mentioned in this episode:

PODCASTS:
Laura Horn Art
Amy Porterfield
A Beautiful Anarchy
Building a Story Brand with Donald Miller

COMPASS: The Society of Makers and Dreamers

GET READY TO ROCK A YEAR OF CRAFT MARKETS

In this episode I am joined by my girl-wonder business partner from Makers North, Tracy Baker. Tracy and I met back in 2015 and formed Makers North as a way to bring makers and artists together with our awesome community here in Northern Ontario. Since that first year we have hosted 10 handmade markets that celebrate the amazing talent that is right here in our backyards (or lake shores, city, etc. you get what I mean). After our most recent market (holiday 2019) we got together to chat all things craft markets; from how to get it accepted into a show to how it feels when you sell nothing (it happens to us all, really). It’s half about the insider peek into planning a craft show and half about what we’ve learned as makers applying and taking part in shows. It’s good. I promise.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Makers North
Yellow House

I love the excitement I hear from makers when they are thinking about moving into wholesaling their wares to retail shops. This is such an exciting step. However, I also hear a million questions about well, how does one actually do that? For me this shift meant doing a ton of research (that’s just kind of my thing, I get made fun of by my friends for starting sentences with ‘In my research I found….) but in this episode I’m basically saving you all that work by interviewing girl-wonder Emily Arbour about just this: how to get your beautiful handmade items into retail stores.

Now. This lady know what she’s talking about. Emily runs Cheerfully Made, the cheeriest little shop that focuses on handmade goods in one of the cutest towns in Ontario (It’s in Almonte and if you haven’t been there yet I highly recommend it.) She has been organizing and running highly-successful craft shows in the Ottawa area for ten years, and most recently started working with ETSY Canada as the new talent curator. I sat down and had a lovely chat with her about all things wholesale.

In this episode we cover:

+ How to know when you are ready for wholesaling your handmade goods

+ When to contact stores

+ How to figure out pricing for profit

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Mentioned in this episode:

Cheerfully Made in Almonte, Ontario

ETSY Canada