The Creative Visionary

Storytelling is at the core of every brand message. We hear it everywhere, "Tell your story". But what does that really mean? How do you really do it? What stories do you tell?

In this episode, Caroline breaks down 3 Key Storytelling Elements that you can use in your content creation to connect deeply with your people and turn them into paying clients.

Grab your journals because this episode is essentially a masterclass on storytelling!

Are you ready to quiet the noise of social media and unearth the power of your unique voice and story? Book a CORE session with Caroline and use the code: STORYLOVE to get over $555 off.

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• Prompts to journal on to begin unearthing what stories to tell in your content

• How to structure your stories to grab the attention and curiosity of your audience

• How storytelling and flirting have a lot in common

• What feeling a good story should leave your audience with and how to make sure your content invokes this within them

Resources:

1:1 Biz + Brand Storytelling Mentorship with Caroline - Apply Here

Core Sessions - use the code STORYLOVE for over $500 off

SPOKEN - waitlist for the Fall '23 round

VIP Podcast Intensive with Caroline

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Have you been feeling disconnected from your business? Burnt out? Like you're not quite sure how to show up right now? This seems to be the vibe in the collective right now.

The IG algorithm, the constant flood of content and the pressure to create have got entrepreneurs feeling drained. Or maybe there's something unfolding in your life that feels a little uncertain or ungrounding.

This episode will give you permission to move through exactly what it is that's unfolding for you, to trust it deeply and how to support yourself as you ride the wave.

Are you ready to launch your authentic af podcast? Download Caroline's Free Podcast Starter Guide

And don't forget to join MIC CHECK: Our FREE Private Facebook Podcasting Group for Coaching and Networking

• 4 ways to re-access your creative energy and stay grounded during times of chaos

• How to allow yourself to feel what you're feeling vs forcing yourself to feel good

• Leveraging the power of what you've already created

• The incredible power of taking time off and resting to reconnect with your purpose

Resources:

1:1 Biz + Brand Storytelling Mentorship with Caroline - Apply Here

Core Sessions - use the code STORYLOVE before 6/3 for over $500 off

SPOKEN - waitlist for the Fall '23 round

VIP Podcast Intensive with Caroline

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As a multi-dimensional entrepreneur, you don't fit into the typical "box of business". You do things differently and your Soul craves that. You are an artist at heart and oftentimes find the rinse and repeat content strategies on social media disheartening.

Sound like you? You better BUCKLE UP because this episode with Tonie Zamora is going to blow your mind.

Get ready to understand exactly how your unique astrology and human design lay out the map (or hold the "cheat codes" as Tonie says") for your brand's most authentic expression and path.

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• How your creative energy is birthed from your most authentic expression

• Using your astrology to identify your creative style and the most aligned way to show up in business.

• Where to look in your chart to understand your creative style and apply it to your brand

• Blending your passions together to create your most aligned, authentic business

• What areas of your Human Design Chart to focus in on to learn how you operate creatively in your business

Tonie Zamora is a Brand Creator, Astrologer and Creative Director who weaves in the unique design of your natal and human design chart into your brand aesthetic, identity and business as a whole.

Reach out to Tonie via her IG or website for her Cosmic Brand Mapping, 1:1 and design offers.

IG: toniethecreator

Toniezamora.com

Resources:

Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

Chani Nicholas App - Astrology

Caroline's First Podcast: Get A Helmet Podcast

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From hustling as a freelancer to a powerful entrepreneur, Diana Davis shares her story of becoming a business coach for Creative Entrepreneurs. She shares the value in getting support in all areas of her business, which would ultimately fuel her podcast's rise to the top 50 in her category (which she launched with Get A Helmet Studio!!).

Vulnerability and authenticity are pillars of how Diana runs her business and how she shows up on her podcast, Pollen. If you're a a current or aspiring entrepreneur or looking to hear the behind the scenes of producting your podcast with us - you will definitely want to press play on this one.

Join our FREE 3 Day Podcast Training: Launch + Grow Your Authentic AF Podcast! Happening over on Instagram Live and inside of our private facebook group: MIC CHECK. Join today and get access to our Podcast Launch Starter Guide. The training runs from 5/2-5/4!

Or save your spot inside of the May round of SPOKEN (a 6 week live program to launch your podcast) before the doors even open! Space is limited for this round.

In this episode, you will be able to:

• How Diana launched her top-rated podcast with Get A Helmet Studio and uses her podcast as a creative outlet.

• What happens when you challenge the status quo by chasing your dreams and bringing them to life.

• Living nomadically while running a successful coaching business.

• How the convenience of an all-in-one podcasting team made Diana's podcast launch soar to break the top 50 in her category.

• The power of unwavering self-trust and resilience as an entrepreneur with supportive connections.

Diana is a business coach that empowers creative entrepreneurs to ditch the hustle, land their dream clients, and scale to new heights. Formerly a photographer and graphic designer in the hustle of NYC, she's out to debunk the idea of the "starving artist" and the idea that you have to have a traditional job to make the money you want and have the life you desire. She is currently traveling the world living her nomadic dream. If you really know her, you know she's a good mix of woo woo and realistic, is a Gemini to the max, and is a community builder at her core.

Resources:

Spoken Pre-Sale! Make a $222 deposit and claim your spot today.

Listen to Diana's Podcast: Pollen and leave a review!

Launch and Grow Your Authentic AF Podcast - FREE 3 Day LIVE Training

Follow Diana on Instagram

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Thank you so much for listening! It truly means the world.

The key moments in this episode are:

00:00:00 - Introduction 00:02:15 - Learn to launch your podcast for free with Caroline 00:07:22 - Free Podcast Training happening 5/2-5/4 00:09:34 - Creativity and Business Strategy 00:15:27 - The Pollen Podcast and launching with Get A Helmet Studio 00:16:48 - The Importance of Cross-Pollination and Coaching 00:17:39 - Naming the Podcast 00:21:33 - The Importance of Support 00:25:38 - Authenticity and Vulnerability in Podcasting 00:29:21 - Embracing Uncertainty and Taking Leaps 00:32:48 - Empowering Women Entrepreneurs 00:36:07 - Self-Trust Muscle

00:42:38 - Confidence, Cash, and Clients 00:47:06 - Answering the Call 00:49:02 - Finding Your Voice 00:53:00 - Practice & Imperfection 00:57:48 - Retreats & Real Life

01:01:18 - Choosing to Believe

01:03:19 - Connecting & Communicating

Grab your pens and notebooks! This episode is a training on growing your podcast and converting your podcast listeners into your dream clients.

To be totally honest, this episode is valuable whether you're starting a podcast or not. This will help you get crystal clear on your messaging and your ideal client. Because your ideal client is usually your ideal podcast listener.

Caroline walks you through the top 3 steps for you to follow to make sure that your podcast listeners are following a path directly to your offers. Your podcast is a beautiful opportunity to share your unique voice and to warm up your audience to ultimately buy from you.

Join our FREE 3 Day Podcast Training: Launch + Grow Your Authentic AF Podcast! Happening over on Instagram Live and inside of our private facebook group: MIC CHECK. Join today and get access to our Podcast Launch Starter Guide. The training runs from 4/25-4/27!

Or save your spot inside of the May round of SPOKEN (a 6 week live program to launch your podcast) before the doors even open! Space is limited for this round.

Topics we dive into on this episode:

• Monetizing your podcast

• The important questions to ask when starting your podcast AND when starting your business so you can speak directly to your ideal client

• Being a deeply creative, spiritual multi-passionate entrepreneur and how to show up authentically

• Exactly what questions to be asking yourself when launching your podcast

Resources:

Spoken Pre-Sale! Make a deposit, save $$$ and claim your spot today.

Listen to Caroline's first podcast: Get A Helmet

Book your Core session and tell your story

Launch and Grow Your Authentic AF Podcast - FREE 3 Day LIVE Training

If you enjoyed this episode of The Creative Visionary Podcast, help us spread the love by leaving a 5 star review! We loveeeee hearing your thoughts. Or share this episode with a friend who you know it would resonate with.

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Thank you so much for listening! It truly means the world.

"My story isn't pleasant. It's not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories. It tastes of folly and bewilderment. Of madness and dreams. Like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves." - Herman Hesse

This quote beautifully encapsulates what today's episode is about. Rainier Wylde is a Writer, Author, Teacher and Mentor whose words so accurately describe the human experience.

Rainer has had success as a multidimensional human, artist and entrepreneur. And that alone is something to draw inspiration from.

If you've pressed play on this episode, you are craving more storytelling in your life and business. But how? Where do you begin? This episode is the permission slip you're looking for to fully own the life you lead and drop any shame, societal expectations or guilt. Your life and your story are yours to live. Only yours.

Are you ready to finally launch your authentic af podcast? Download Caroline's Free Podcast Launch Starter Guide or save your spot inside May round of SPOKEN (a 6 week live program to launch your podcast) before the doors even open!

Topics we dive into on this episode:

• How creativity is birthed from authenticity

• The art of conscious relationships

• How reading your writing out loud will help you feel it in your body

• Staying true to what YOU desire to do in this life

• How Rainier had an affair, went through a divorce and why he vulnerably shared his experience

• How you pay your bills doesn't have to be your passion, it's just funding

• How our relationships are an extension of who we really are

• Telling good stories can only happen when you drop the need to look good

Resources:

The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin

Love Like Hell the Podcast

Into the Wylde Substack

Rainier Wylde is a writer, teacher & coach who has inpsired, directed, and taught others for the past 20 years about transforming their lives.

Website: https://www.rainierwylde.com/

Instagram: @rainierwylde

If you enjoyed this episode of The Creative Visionary Podcast, help us spread the love by leaving a 5 star review! We loveeeee hearing your thoughts. Or share this episode with a friend who you know it would resonate with.

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Thank you so much for listening! It truly means the world.

When nothing feels like it's working, you feel stuck or like everything is just flat out hard - this is your invitation to create space to let the light in. Something big is trying to come through. Something bigger than you could ever imagine. Can you hold trust and surrender?

I was nervous and excited to finally share what's been unfolding over the past 3 months during this Rebirth meets dark night of the soul meets existential crisis and what has started to unfold on the other side of it. A new way of showing up in my business, more storytelling, a trip to Europe and leaning heavily on Spiritual guidance to name a few.

This Instagram Live turned podcast episode is a first of many attempts in me telling more of my story here with you while I continue to help you in telling yours. Its raw and its real.

If you've been moving through some crunchiness in your life, this episode serves as inspiration to remind you that you are exactly where you need to be.

Are you ready to launch your podcast? Download Caroline's Free Podcast Starter Guide or Join the SPOKEN waitlist for May 2023

Topics we dive into on this episode:

• Surrendering control and staying anchored in trust when things feel hard

• Bringing more creativity and authenticity to your business and making more art

• Moving through a big, expansive relationship portal

• Using my Irish Passport and heading to Europe this summer

• What my psychic told me about my Ancestors trying to communicate with me and where I have to go to hear this

• Connecting to my Spirit Team and asking them for guidance

Resources:

VISIBLE: my brand new video offer

In This Body: a short film dedicated to Women's body image and self worth (my directorial debut)

Holly Sloof: Psychic and Intuitive Reiki Reader

Hanna Lena Christensen: Rebirth Journey and Connection to Your Spirit Team

Sarah Buckner / Blood, Bone and Honey: Higher Self Embodiment

SPOKEN: Join the waitlist for my signature Podcast Launch Course (next round starts in May!)

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Thanks for listening! xx

In the world of online business, pumping out content to keep algorithms happy and hitting 8539257238k months - Janne Robinson is a breath of fresh f*cking air.

If you're listening to this particular podcast, you are a creative visionary. An artist. A passionate, heart-centered being looking to change the world. But how? How do you show up authentically? How do you make money and grow your business? What really matters?

If any of this is resonating you are going to want to hit play on this interview with Janne Robinson - writer, coach, surfer and overall truth teller.

Are you ready to launch your podcast? Download Caroline's Free Podcast Starter Guide or Join the SPOKEN waitlist for May 2023

Topics we dive into on this episode:

• Expressing your Truth in your Business vs Making Content

• How to keep energy moving so you can access your creativity.

• Following what makes you feel most alive over all else.

• Living your LIFE to spark your creativity and not having a strict plan for content creation.

• Her abortion story, making the right decision for her and turning it into art.

• How our ideas choose us to bring them into the world.

• Not putting your work in a box and showing up exactly as you are, telling stories. You are not "one" thing.

• Feeling the burnout of entrepreneurship and following your gut to realign

• Being $80k in debt, following her intuition to launch a mastermind she felt lit up about and making $370k

Resources:

My Instagram Live - "My Last Few Months: Loss, Rebirth, Spiritual Guidance and a Trip to Europe"

Louise Hay

Elephant Journal: Aborting Shame

Boyd Varty

Tara Brach's Podcast

Elizabeth Gilbert Ted Talk: Your Elusive Creative Genius

Join Janne for a free five day experience Meet Yourself in truth March 18-22nd: Meet Yourself in Truth

Join Janne's Online Program: Your Truth is Your Medicine

This is for the Women Who Don't Give a Fuck

There's Cobwebs on Her Vagina

Work with Janne 1:1

Janne Robinson: Blunt, raw, and immediately accessible emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually to all who read her words, Janne Robinson is a societal visionary, author, film director, and coach who swings from the very first sentence. Robinson's work as an artist and facilitator is to encourage people to become accessible to their truths. She believes that our world is sick—and truth is our medicine. Janne also works as a corporate coach doing purpose work and capacity and creativity workshops with C-suite and Executive teams.

Website: www.jannerobinson.com

Instagram: @jannerobinson

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Thanks for listening!

Have you been wondering how to show up authentically in your business among the obsession with "viral content creation", non-stop launching and the noise of social media?

How can you create from your heart AND build a successful brand? WE'VE GOT YOU.

The first interview on the Creative Visionary Podcast is finally here and it's with Robyn Savage, one of Caroline's Brand Coaches. Together, they dive into the power of dialing up your authenticity in your brand and why your unique story is your most important asset.

(Ready to launch your podcast? Download Caroline's Free Podcast Starter Guide)

Topics they dive into on this episode:

• Why you don't need an elevator pitch

• How trying to niche down can actually confuse you even more about what you do

• What you need to focus on first foremost in your brand before you even start making content

• Why you should lean all the way into your differentiating factors in your brand and offers.

• Why people will spend $5 on a bracelet at Walmart and $500 on a bracelet at Tiffany's.

• How Caroline worked with Robyn to separate her personal brand from Get A Helmet Studio and why

• Giving yourself, your offers and your brand permission to evolve

Robyn Savage is a brand coach & copywriter helping entrepreneurs create stand out brands that clearly communicate who they are & what they have to offer.

She has been an entrepreneur for over 10+ years and created multiple six & seven figure brands along the way. Her gift is articulating your ideas, visions & unique skills in a way that truly connects with your ideal clients so that your brand can become recognizable & sought after.

Instagram: robyn_savage

Robyn's Podcast: The Brand is You

Looking for 1:1 support on your podcast launch, strategy and growth? Caroline has 2 spots open for VIP Podcast Intensives for 50% off with the code "PODCAST". Check it out.

Join the SPOKEN waitlist for April 2023.

Resources:

Sun Yi - Content + Brand Expert on Instagram -

Seth Godin Ted Talk - How to Get Your Ideas to Spread

"Is starting a podcast worth it?" This episode was inspired by a DM we received. Someone reached out and said they really want to start their podcast but were doubting how helpful it would be for their business and brand awareness.

In this episode, Caroline breaks down exactly how to launch and sustain your podcast so that overwhelm doesn't creep in AND exactly why launching your podcast is one of the best things you can do for your business growth and getting new clients. And if you're ready to start your own show but you don't know where to start, download Caroline's FREE Podcast Launch Starter Guide here!

1. Identifying your own podcast production schedule that matches your capacity and schedule.
2. How to keep listeners coming back to your show for more.
3. Turning your podcast into a business funnel that lands you new soulmate clients.

LAUNCH YOUR AUTHENTIC AF PODCAST FREE 3-DAY LIVE SERIES:

Join Caroline for a 3 Day Podcast training that will teach you exactly where to begin on your podcasting journey. The creative, the technical, and the strategy.

When you sign up, you'll get a free copy of the Podcast Launch Starter Guide (or click here to download it for free if you missed the live series!).

Claim your seat here!

AND, we're giving away a free spot inside of SPOKEN: Caroline's Signature Podcast Launch Course! Here's how to enter:

1. Sign up for the 3 Day Training
2. Make sure you're following Caroline on Instagram
3. Like + save this post
4. Share the post to your IG Story and tag Caroline (if your IG is private, send me a screenshot of your story or switch your account to public for the giveaway)
5. Comment on this post tagging your friends that would be interested in this podcasting live series (each tag is 1 entry!)

Good luck!

Resources:

• SPOKEN: Get in on Early Bird Pricing for Caroline's signature podcast course until 1/22!
• Get A Helmet Studio IG
• Brand Documentaries: Reach out to us at [email protected]
• Free Podcast Launch Starter Guide
• Podcasts: Check out our offerings here
• Connect with Caroline on Instagram
• Other podcast training episodes to listen to on The Creative Visionary Podcast: Episode 8 - I Want To Launch My Podcast. Where Do I Even Start? and Episode 7 - How to Turn Your Podcast Into a Powerful Business Funnel

The Creative Visionary is a podcast for all of you powerful, heart-centered, fiercely passionate, paradigm-shifting, bad*ss women on your entrepreneurial journey. It's here to tell stories that inspire you to lean into what lights you up most as you create art through the channel of your brand. This show was created to give you a consistent drip of inspiration and unshakeable faith as you hold the duality of entrepreneurship. "Together, we can empower more humans to take up space with their stories, visions, and missions - and from here we change the world."

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