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This podcast is for the creative entrepreneur, the one’s who dare, dream and do.
Each week I help you find clarity and take action so you can make a living doing what you love. The journey onward starts here.
Gratitude is a key component of successful business. It's not taught in business school and there aren't too many books written about it but at the end of the day....being grateful is good for business. There are three ways gratitude is good for business:
1. It makes you a better person
2. It makes you more positive and helps you dream
3. It helps combat the negative energy of comparison
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Welcome to the Onward Creatives Podcast. A space to develop and grow your creative potential. Each week we provide inspiration and resources to you, the creative entrepreneur so that you can live out your greatest life story.
We're Jack and Valentina Fussell, creative entrepreneurs just like you, and each week we share insights from our personal journey and the inspiring people we meet along the way.
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We have so much to be grateful for! As we (Americans) celebrate Thanksgiving it's a great reminder to be grateful three key things in both our personal and professional lives. Here are three things to be grateful for!
1. The things you wanted and got.
2. The great things you received that you didn't expect.
3. The things you wanted but DIDN'T get.
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Welcome to the Onward Creatives Podcast. A space to develop and grow your creative potential. Each week we provide inspiration and resources to you, the creative entrepreneur so that you can live out your greatest life story.
We're Jack and Valentina Fussell, creative entrepreneurs just like you, and each week we share insights from our personal journey and the inspiring people we meet along the way.
Your journey Onward starts here!
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We all have ideas to sell. For some of us we need to sell our idea within our company to a boss, team or group of key stakeholders. For others we need individuals, friends and family to buy into our idea. Regardless of the context the process is the same and it requires us to know how to sell.
Robert Louis Stevenson said "Everyone lives by selling something."
There are three key steps to selling our ideas.
1. Develop the idea
2. Determine who needs to know
3. Share the plan and involve others
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Welcome to the Onward Creatives Podcast. A space to develop and grow your creative potential. Each week we provide inspiration and resources to you, the creative entrepreneur so that you can live out your greatest life story.
We're Jack and Valentina Fussell, creative entrepreneurs just like you, and each week we share insights from our personal journey and the inspiring people we meet along the way.
Your journey Onward starts here!
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We're all brand builders. We're all managing the brands or reputations of our businesses, relationships and our family. These brands are built in both the long term and the instant. Great brands are built with a long term focus and in awe-inspiring moments. So as we build these reputations we have to make sure that we utilize both the long term and the short term.
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Welcome to the Onward Creatives Podcast. A space to develop and grow your creative potential. Each week we provide inspiration and resources to you, the creative entrepreneur so that you can live out your greatest life story.
We're Jack and Valentina Fussell, creative entrepreneurs just like you, and each week we share insights from our personal journey and the inspiring people we meet along the way.
Your journey Onward starts here!
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Struggling with fear in this election cycle? Tired of being afraid?
The solution is more simple than you think....Feed the Courage and Starve the Fear!
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Welcome to the Onward Creatives Podcast. A space to develop and grow your creative potential. Each week we provide inspiration and resources to you, the creative entrepreneur so that you can live out your greatest life story.
We're Jack and Valentina Fussell, creative entrepreneurs just like you, and each week we share insights from our personal journey and the inspiring people we meet along the way.
Your journey Onward starts here!
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Cirque De Soleil, Waze, Starbucks, Curves, iTunes....these are all game changers and they've all used blue ocean strategy to get where they are.
Blue Ocean Strategy is a radical change from the traditional way of thinking about business. Most industries still focus on the same customer base, in the same overall way. That traditional approach is red ocean thinking. Like sharks, everyone is trying to live off the same prey (customers.) Blue ocean turns away from the crowded space and looks for new opportunities.
If you're tired of doing business like everyone else, here's how to develop Blue Ocean Strategy.
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Welcome to the Onward Creatives Podcast. A space to develop and grow your creative potential. Each week we provide inspiration and resources to you, the creative entrepreneur so that you can live out your greatest life story.
We're Jack and Valentina Fussell, creative entrepreneurs just like you, and each week we share insights from our personal journey and the inspiring people we meet along the way.
Your journey Onward starts here!
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A few weeks ago I spoke about the importance of imagination in our lives. (Listen here). The fact is that we only have a certain amount of hours, skills, finances and resources. So when we imagine something new, we also have to deal with sacrificing something old. Simply put....Imagination requires sacrifice!
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Welcome to the Onward Creatives Podcast. A space to develop and grow your creative potential. Each week we provide inspiration and resources to you, the creative entrepreneur so that you can live out your greatest life story.
We're Jack and Valentina Fussell, creative entrepreneurs just like you, and each week we share insights from our personal journey and the inspiring people we meet along the way.
Your journey Onward starts here!
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Seven Steps to Making Better Decisions
1.Know where you're going
2. Know the first problem
3. Know Yourself
4. Get the input of trusted others
5. Ask which solution aligns with your goal/purpose
6. Act, go for it!
7. Don't expect perfection
Remember:
Good decisions come from experience, and experiences come from bad decisions.
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Welcome to the Onward Creatives Podcast. A space to develop and grow your creative potential. Each week we provide inspiration and resources to you, the creative entrepreneur so that you can live out your greatest life story.
We're Jack and Valentina Fussell, creative entrepreneurs just like you, and each week we share insights from our personal journey and the inspiring people we meet along the way.
Your journey Onward starts here!
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"....and wisely." Elizabeth Thompson was an artist in the late 19th century in the UK. She was not only a women in a man's world but she also painted their subject matter....war. Her painting "The Roll Call" broke onto the art scene and ushered Elizabeth from obscurity into the limelight. The Royal Academy was forced to notice and she was nominated to join the Academy (all male at this time). She lost the vote and in spite of incredible follow up paintings she never made it into the academy and eventually drifted into obscurity again. The worst part is that she seemingly gave up and accepted defeat.
In her memoirs she wrote "As it turned out, in 1879, I lost my election by two votes. Since then I think the door has been closed and wisely."
These are two words that we can never allow ourselves to say!
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Welcome to the Onward Creatives Podcast. A space to develop and grow your creative potential. Each week we provide inspiration and resources to you, the creative entrepreneur so that you can live out your greatest life story.
We're Jack and Valentina Fussell, creative entrepreneurs just like you, and each week we share insights from our personal journey and the inspiring people we meet along the way.
Your journey Onward starts here!
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Lauren Glass is the southern entrepreneur behind Throw Pillows, a give back company. This 25 year old entrepreneur is already seven years into her journey and there's no stopping her. At the age of 18 she was wrestling with her purpose and the work she wanted to spend her life doing. Being 5' 0" she ruled out being an olympic volleyball player, and quickly realized that there was no career in watching Netflix so she set out to discover her "thing". One day she asked herself the question "If I were to die right now, what would people say about me?" and her life changed forever.
Lauren founded Beds4kids to help provide mattresses for children who were without. She was in the process of writing grant proposals and soon realized that this process was risky and slow to produce results. Her entrepreneurial spirit jumped in and she decided to fund her non-profit by launching the give back company Throw Pillows. Lauren is on the journey towards changing the world around her by combining business with giving. She's fearless, she's driven and she's accomplished by 25 what many of us hope to accomplish before retirement.
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Welcome to the Onward Creatives Podcast. A space to develop and grow your creative potential. Each week we provide inspiration and resources to you, the creative entrepreneur so that you can live out your greatest life story.
We're Jack and Valentina Fussell, creative entrepreneurs just like you, and each week we share insights from our personal journey and the inspiring people we meet along the way.
Your journey Onward starts here!
For more inspiration and resources for your life visit us at:
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