Craftsman Creative
Daren Smith
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A show that aims to help artists, creatives, contractors, freelancers, and small business owners better understand their businesses so that they can survive the present and thrive in the future.
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Nov 27, 2020
BCC 014 - Validating A Product Idea
When you get a new idea, do you immediately start building it out because you're a creative and that's the fun part??? Yeah, me too. This time, though, I'm taking a different approach.
Nov 27, 2020
BCC 013 - The Power Of Leverage
What got you to where you are won't get you to where you're going.
Nov 27, 2020
BCC 012 - RPM Planning For Creatives
How to implement the RPM Planning System from Tony Robbins into your creative life and business.
Nov 27, 2020
BCC 011 - The Overwhelming Feeling That You Should Just Give Up
Ever have a moment where you feel like just giving up? In this episode, I talk about why you need to keep going.
Oct 30, 2020
BCC 010 - Structure Your Life Around Moments Of Joy
What are you optimizing for? More money? More business? More followers?
When you change what you're optimizing to find more moments of Joy, your entire life gets better.
In today's episode we talk about how to do that.
Oct 16, 2020
BCC 009 - Your Business Can Only Have One Goal
After reading the book The Goal this week, I discovered two important principles that apply to all creative businesses, and are essential to their success.
Oct 9, 2020
BCC 008 - Winter Is Coming
In this episode, I cover how to instantly prepare your business to survive the winter months
Oct 2, 2020
BCC 007 - How One Breakthrough Can Save (Or Double) Your Business
Breakthroughs can be created, and often come from some combination of changing your State, your Story, or your Strategy.
Sep 25, 2020
BCC 006 - Charting A Course
The point of the journey you're on is not just to get to the destination, but to chart a course along the way...
Sep 25, 2020
BCC 005 - Where You Are Is Not Where You're Going
What to do when, like your children, you start asking "are we there yet?" with your business.
Sep 25, 2020
BCC 004 - The Future Belongs To Creators...(But Only If They Survive The Present)
The convergence of a few different things this week led to a major "aha" moment for my businesses
Sep 25, 2020
BCC 003 - Exact Change Required
When we're not getting the results we want from our lives, we often just need to look at the actions we're taking to see if they will actually get us what we want.
Sep 25, 2020
BCC 002 - Slow Down To Go Faster
When you're operating like someone else rather than yourself, you're wasting energy that could be put into growing your company and getting the results you really want.
Sep 25, 2020
BCC 001 - Why Newsletters?
Why the recent resurgence in newsletter popularity? In today's episode I give you MY reasons for writing newsletters, and why our reasons for doing anything are important to discover in our creative lives.