This week on The Candid Creative Podcast, Manda and Lys are diving into how to handle negative feedback. To start the show, Manda jumps right into the current trend of people being overly sensitive when money and pricing are talked about on social media. Lys shares how she sees people continuously being slightly dishonest about doing their services for free, or better yet, WHY and HOW they are able to do certain services for free. As they get into this week’s main topic the two share how you can determine if it is truly negative feedback or is it just you being upset at the feedback you got from a client that you may just not have liked hearing. Manda and Lys also share how they have reacted to negative feedback, what you can learn from it, and how you can use it to further evolve and grow your business. This episode is a must-listen if you find yourself having difficulties receiving or responding to negative feedback within your creative business, and even your own personal life.

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This week on The Candid Creative Podcast, Lys and Manda are diving into your listener submissions! Lys narrates the questions as Manda tries to keep it together during some of these wild stories while they both give their advice, commentary, and laugh along with you all. Listen in on the conversation with Manda and Lys as they share your submissions including DJs with a “Vegas Vibe”, rowdy grooms, children going missing, and much more!

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This week on The Candid Creative Podcast, Lys and Manda are fully pulling back the veil on the idea of a “Work-Life” balance. As the show starts, Lys shares her recent experience with “cold plunging” before they get into this week’s topic. They dive into the listener submission that inspired the episode and the two elaborate on how they see the idea of “work-life” balance being different for everyone’s situation. Manda and Lys talk about how the idea of work coming in the way of living a fulfilling life may not be the case for everyone’s job, and how sometimes you may need to imbalance the scale of your “work-life” in order to reach the business or life goals that you have set out to reach. If you have been struggling with handling the stress and balance of work and life together, then listen to this week’s episode as it may just ease your worries or give you a fresh outlook on your situation!

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This week on The Candid Creative Podcast, Lys and Manda and talking all about whether or not you should sell digital products as a creative business owner. They start the show by diving into listener submissions as they give their thoughts on a number of “unpopular opinions” before they get into the episode’s main topic. Manda and Lys really unpack what it can take to create and sell a digital product or if it is even right for your business. They even talk about the fact that there may be better ways to earn that extra income in your business depending on your industry. Listen in on the conversation today to get some insight before you make the leap into selling digital products.

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This week on The Candid Creative Podcast, Manda and Lys are diving into an incredible marketing tool, ManyChat. ManyChat allows you to automate two-way, interactive conversations in Instagram dm’s, Facebook Messenger, and SMS to grow your brand and audience reach. Lys jumps into some of the different use cases and features of ManyChat while Manda asks about who could benefit from it most. They talk about how offering a digital product of some sort is a good idea for most brands, and how Lys is utilizing ManyChat currently with her brand. Lys goes over the benefits of ManyChat compared to simple email lists, and Manda brings up her thoughts on using SMS marketing features with her experience of being on the other side of them. Check out this bonus marketing episode that is all about ManyChat and what it can possibly do for you and your brand. 

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This week on The Candid Creative Podcast, Manda and Lys are continuing their conversation on personal branding vs business branding. Last week they focused a bit more on the personal side of branding, and this week they dive into the business side. To start the show, Manda shares an interaction she had been having with an Instagram bot page, and Lys gives a short recap on last week’s episode. The two talk about the best way to build trust with your audience, and what kind of content you could be putting out there or as a creative business owner that is more than just showing your face and talking to the camera. Manda shares her thoughts on a fairly negative reel that one of her followers asked her to respond to where a photographer goes through all of the reasons why they get “burnout”. Lys and Manda break down where the photographer could improve and change their outlook to have more positive and engaging branding, and even a better work system that would eliminate a lot of the things that the photographer is not happy about in their business and life. Listen in on this week’s conversation as Manda and Lys wrap up their discussion on branding! 

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This week on The Candid Creative Podcast, Manda and Lys start the show by diving into their thoughts behind Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s relationship, and what may possibly be happening behind the scenes of it all. As the conversation pivots into the subject of branding, they lay out the difference between personal branding and more business faced branding. Lys talks about how someone who maybe isn't fully comfortable with showing their face with their business can take tangible steps towards that goal, and Manda shares how she sees the world of marketing always changing in the creative entrepreneurial space. The two share what some major brands out there today are doing right, what they could improve on, and how they implement personal branding strategies in their own companies today. Listen to part 1 of the conversation this week as they look closer at the personal side of branding before jumping into more of the business branding side of marketing next week! 

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This week on The Candid Creative Podcast, Manda and Lys jump right into each other’s completely unique Instagram explore pages and Manda is blown away by Lys’s algorithm. The two go back and forth reading listener submissions asking about vendor responsibility, revamping venue spaces, and what do you do when you have fallen out of love with your business but you can’t just close up shop? During the enlightenment of the week, Manda reflects on starting group coaching calls and how they have already evolved quickly, and Lys dives into how much fun she is having learning Shopify.

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This week on The Candid Creative Podcast, Manda and Lys laugh about a surprising effect that occurred after a boosted post on Manda’s post involving the feet enthusiast community. Manda feels indifferent about it, and Lys has a business opportunity planned. They dive into the mindset of “community over competition”, and how each side can affect your personal and business lives. (#LetsCompete). Manda brings up how comparison may actually be the bad guy in the whole situation, and Lys talks about how she sometimes puts up the blinders to other florists on social media to help her stay true to her own inspirations.

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This week on The Candid Creative Podcast, Lys and Manda are diving into “Wedding Tax” and letting you know exactly where they stand on the subject. They two talk about when and how they raise their prices, and they jump into their comment sections filled with plenty of opinions and give us the play by play on how they responded back. Lys snaps back at trolls who can’t let the world NOT hear what they wouldn't spend on a wedding, and Manda tells us something else she is giving up yet again.

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