For the last episode of this season of Make It Happen I'm joined by the awesome and incomparable Laura Jane Williams...

I've been reading Laura's blog for years, and I loved her memoirs Becoming and Ice Cream For Breakfast too, so I was ridiculously excited to have the opportunity to connect with her for this episode. 

We explore what it means to be a storyteller not a writer, her own writing process, taking control of your creative career by thinking of yourself as an entrepreneur and so much more. Laura is one of my favourite people to follow on the internet - she has this wonderful way of just telling the truth about her life and holding space for other women to find their own too.

If you'd like to listen along to our conversation you can below, and you can also find the show notes for this episode this way too.

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I'm so excited to share this episode of Make It Happen with you today...

Cat Byrne is a designer who runs her own branding and web design studio over at Gatto Web, a podcast host, and a past client and wonderful friend of mine too.

In this episode together we explore Cat's journey of choosing more for herself in her creative business and life, how she pivoted her business to work better for her so she could work less, earn more, and find more freedom and fulfilment along the way too.

I had the pleasure of walking with Cat in this journey as her coach, and I was so excited to bring her onto the show this season to share her story with you and have a really honest conversation together about what it looks like to really choose more for yourself in your creative work and life and the work and courage it takes to make that happen too.

If you'd like to listen along to our conversation you can below, and you can also find the show notes for this episode this way too.

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Today's podcast episode is one of my favourites of the season...

Yasamin Al-Tiay is a musician based in New Zealand, and an awesome client of mine too. A few months ago in one of our coaching calls together she shared a recent a-ha moment that her creative happiness can only ever truly come within. I knew that I had to bring her onto the show this season to explore this together more as it's something I think it's such an important message for creative humans as we pursue big goals in our work and our life. 

In this episode we dive into her journey as a musician, how she's recently discovered that her creative happiness comes from within, and how she makes opportunities for herself in an industry full of gatekeepers too.

If you'd like to listen along to our conversation you can below, and you can also find the show notes for this episode this way too.

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If you've been reading these letters for a while now you'll know that I don't believe in growth just for the sake of it.

I don't believe that bigger always means betters.

That we should always be striving for more, more, more.

I truly believe that a whole lot of magic can happen when we discover and embrace what 'enough' looks and feels like for us.

So this letter isn't here to tell you that you're playing small, or that our lives are meaningless if we're not always pushing for bigger and better things.

But this letter is here to talk about how easy it is to get stuck in a cycle of just being responsive in our business. About the trap we can fall into of just existing within the echo chamber of our own creative industries. 

We all know how oversaturated things can feel online right now. And it's so easy to feel like we have to run our business in response to everything that's happening around us, that there's a certain box we have to fit ourselves into to make it in our industry.

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I have an awesome episode of Make It Happen to share with you today...

Fiona Barrows is a brand storyteller, podcaster, awesome human, and a friend and client of mine too.

We first connected over 18 months ago now when she hired me as her creative coach, and I have had the pleasure ever since of walking with Fiona in her creative and business journey and see her really move forward with so much courage and integrity in the direction of the creative work and life that feels most meaningful to her. 

In this episode we talk about her journey so far, from leaving a her life in London as a literary agent three years ago to travel around Asia and become a freelance copywriter, to where she is now as a big-hearted business owner living in Frome, UK. We dive into her mindset shift from being a freelancer to being a business owner, the message behind her podcast all about living life a little differently, and the philosophy that shapes her work as a brand storyteller too. 

If you'd like to listen along to our conversation you can below, and you can also find the show notes for this episode this way too.

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A question I'm often asked by many of my clients is whether or not I think their industry (or the online world in general) is too oversaturated now for them to have any chance of actually building the business, creative career, or platform that they're dreaming of.

Maybe they want to be a coach, or a designer, or start a podcast, or a blog, or write an awesome book but they're afraid that there's no more space for them. 

And my answer? Is the industry oversatured? Yes, of course it is.

But does that mean they can't build their own thriving business, creative career, and digital platform? Hell no. 

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I have a brand new episode of Make It Happen to share with you today...

This podcast would not exist if it wasn't for today's guest. Alex Kontis-Carrington is a freelance podcast editor, the producer of this show since day one, and my wonderful husband too. 

I knew I had to have him on the show this season to talk all things podcasting, as I see so many of my clients and creative friends wanting to start their own show and sometimes feeling really overwhelmed by what it takes to take their awesome idea and turn it into a living, breathing podcast. So for this week Alex and I have an awesome conversation about podcasting, bringing a show to life, how to make it work for your business, and what we've learned from making Make It Happen together for the past three years too. 

We also talk a little at the beginning about Alex leaving his job last year to work for himself full time, and what I learned about navigating the anxiety that came from taking that risk when we decided that I would take care of us financially so Alex would have space and time to pursue his own creative work. 

If you'd like to listen along to our conversation you can below, and you can also find the show notes for this episode this way too.

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There are a few words and phrases I would use to describe my approach to, and vision for, my business and creative life.

Wholehearted. Purpose-driven. Lifestyle business. Big-hearted.

As you can probably already tell from how much I talk about it, big-hearted is the one I always tend to come back to. Recently I shared with you What It Looks & Feels Like To Run A Big-Hearted Coaching Business, and today I want to dive a little deeper and share with you my own personal manifesto for my business and creative life. 

My hope is that some of these will resonate with you and encourage you to run your business in a big-hearted way too, but more than anything my hope is that it can hold some space for you to explore what a manifesto for your own business could look like too. 

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I have one of my favourite creative humans on Make It Happen today...

Sara Tasker is the creative powerhouse behind Me & Orla. She's a writer, photographer, creative coach, and incredible podcast host too. We first connected almost three years ago now when she hired me as her creative coach, and since then we've become wonderful friends and I am always so inspired by the work she puts out into the world and the heart behind everything she does too.

In the past few years Sara has made some incredible things happen - a book deal, a sells-out-in-just-an-hour creative class, and a multiple six figure income just to name a few. But so much more than that, she's changed so many creatives lives through the advice and content she shares through her courses, podcast, blog and more. Sara is one of the most tenacious, encouraging, and wonderful humans I've had the pleasure of meeting and I was so excited to invite her back onto the show for this season. 

In this episode we talk about what it's taken for her to make these incredible things happen, the lessons she's learned along the way, we both share our experience of becoming the breadwinner in our marriages, and Sara shares how she creates awesome courses that really deliver and delight. 

If you'd like to listen along to our conversation you can below, and you can also find the show notes for this episode this way too.

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