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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.
Change and growth come from disruptions. Commonality creates comfort but differences create growth. Whether it's in our own personal journeys or in the business's that we lead significant change and growth cannot happen without disruptions. The Humanitas home in the Netherlands is a great example of how revolutionary thinking changed the conversation from death and sickness to youth and parties. If we want to make life change or take our business to the next level we need to change the conversation and this change in conversation requires disruptors.
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Welcome to the Onward Creatives Podcast. This is the place for anyone who is dreaming of making a change in their lives, taking a leap into a new adventure, or wondering if their idea is worth pursuing.
We are creative entrepreneurs, Valentina and Jack Fussell and in Season Two, we continue to share from the midst of a total life relaunch. After 12 years living in Africa and Europe we are relaunching our life in the US.
Each week we share insights from our personal journey and the inspiring people we meet along the way. The journey onward starts here!
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There are six common myths about pursuing your dreams. To be honest, I've believed a few of them along the way and maybe you have too. Today we'll be your entrepreneurial Myth Busters, here they are:
1.You have to quit your job
2.You can finally focus 100% of your time on your passion
3. You cannot work for someone else
4.You will get rich quick
5. You will be guaranteed happiness
6.You can't be a grown up and have a dream
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Welcome to the Onward Creatives Podcast. This is the place for anyone who is dreaming of making a change in their lives, taking a leap into a new adventure, or wondering if their idea is worth pursuing.
We are creative entrepreneurs, Valentina and Jack Fussell and in Season Two, we continue to share from the midst of a total life relaunch. After 12 years living in Africa and Europe we are relaunching our life in the US.
Each week we share insights from our personal journey and the inspiring people we meet along the way. The journey onward starts here!
For more inspiration and resources for your life visit us at:
You can follow Valentina at:
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You have to break out of the drift. The drift is the subtle, gentle current that slowly takes you far from where you want to be. If we don't break out of the drift we will wake up one day and say "This isn't the life that I wanted." In this Motivation Monday we talk about the need to break free of the drift.
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Welcome to the Onward Creatives Podcast. This is the place for anyone who is dreaming of making a change in their lives, taking a leap into a new adventure, or wondering if their idea is worth pursuing.
We are creative entrepreneurs, Valentina and Jack Fussell and in Season Two, we continue to share from the midst of a total life relaunch. After 12 years living in Africa and Europe we are relaunching our life in the US.
Each week we share insights from our personal journey and the inspiring people we meet along the way. The journey onward starts here!
For more inspiration and resources for your life visit us at:
You can follow Valentina at:
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We're all leaving one place and heading towards another. The journey requires that we set out on a path that will require a lot from us. In addition to the difficulties we face in starting a business, changing jobs, getting healthy or changing relationships we also feel the continual pull of gravity to return back to where we came from. We need a group of people who will not only help us navigate the journey itself but who will also fight gravity and beckon us onward towards our best life. For many of us this process of building a new network can seem daunting but there are five simple things that we can do to build our new support network.
Key Points:
1. Introduce yourself to people
2. Connect with an existing group
3. Join a learning group
4. Attend a conference or event
5. Hire a coach/mentor
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Welcome to the Onward Creatives Podcast. This is the place for anyone who is dreaming of making a change in their lives, taking a leap into a new adventure, or wondering if their idea is worth pursuing.
We are creative entrepreneurs, Valentina and Jack Fussell and in Season Two, we continue to share from the midst of a total life relaunch. After 12 years living in Africa and Europe we are relaunching our life in the US.
Each week we share insights from our personal journey and the inspiring people we meet along the way. The journey onward starts here!
For more inspiration and resources for your life visit us at:
You can follow Valentina at:
House of Valentina Instagram Twitter Facebook
You can Follow Jack at:
Welcome to Motivation Monday! Every journey has a starting point and a destination. The beginning of the journey is marked with excitement and the end of the journey is exhilarating because you can see the end. The middle though, when we can't see land on either side of us, this is where it gets difficult. It's in this season that we must remember two things: 1. We must remember why we started. What was it that caused us to embark on this life change? What is it that we want to leave behind? 2. What is the desired outcome? What does change look like?
I hope you'll join our Facebook group and share your "2 things" with us this week.
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Welcome to the Onward Creatives Podcast. This is the place for anyone who is dreaming of making a change in their lives, taking a leap into a new adventure, or wondering if their idea is worth pursuing.
We are creative entrepreneurs, Valentina and Jack Fussell and in Season Two, we continue to share from the midst of a total life relaunch. After 12 years living in Africa and Europe we are relaunching our life in the US.
Each week we share insights from our personal journey and the inspiring people we meet along the way. The journey onward starts here!
For more inspiration and resources for your life visit us at:
You can follow Valentina at:
House of Valentina Instagram Twitter Facebook
You can Follow Jack at:
Life change is easy! Ok, no one ever said that. In fact, when you decide to change something in your life you'll quickly find that it can be more difficult than you've ever imagined (which is the very reason so few people do it). Here are 5 things that you can do when the doing gets difficult.
1.Realize it's always difficult
2.Remember why you're doing this
3. Pick one thing to work on today
4. Find community (such as our Facebook group )
5. If necessary, pivot a bit
Join our Private Facebook Group!
Welcome to the Onward Creatives Podcast. This is the place for anyone who is dreaming of making a change in their lives, taking a leap into a new adventure, or wondering if their idea is worth pursuing.
We are creative entrepreneurs, Valentina and Jack Fussell and in Season Two, we continue to share from the midst of a total life relaunch. After 12 years living in Africa and Europe we are relaunching our life in the US.
Each week we share insights from our personal journey and the inspiring people we meet along the way. The journey onward starts here!
For more inspiration and resources for your life visit us at:
You can follow Valentina at:
House of Valentina Instagram Twitter Facebook
You can Follow Jack at:
Are you ready for action today? In the next five minutes I'm going to help you embrace a two letter word that will change your life. This week is all about action so we're going to take the first step towards our dreams becoming a reality. Once you've listened to the podcast I want you to visit our Facebook Group and share your step for this week. This gives us all the chance to encourage and celebrate these most important first steps to each others dreams becoming a reality.
Welcome to the Onward Creatives Podcast. This is the place for anyone who is dreaming of making a change in their lives, taking a leap into a new adventure, or wondering if their idea is worth pursuing.
We are creative entrepreneurs, Valentina and Jack Fussell and in Season Two, we continue to share from the midst of a total life relaunch. After 12 years living in Africa and Europe we are relaunching our life in the US.
Each week we share insights from our personal journey and the inspiring people we meet along the way. The journey onward starts here!
For more inspiration and resources for your life visit us at:
You can follow Valentina at:
House of Valentina Instagram Twitter Facebook
You can Follow Jack at:
Do you like waiting? I hate it! Whether in it's line, traffic or for the next Star Wars movie. It's even worse when I have an idea that I want to act on. Unlike Jerry Maguire we can't just quit our jobs and start over in the night. Sometimes we need to wait for a season until we can pursue the idea. In this episode we talk through four ways to get ready while waiting.
Key Points:
1. Get rid of the excess baggage
2. Make a plan
3. Get prepared
4. Enjoy where you are
Welcome to the Onward Creatives Podcast. This is the place for anyone who is dreaming of making a change in their lives, taking a leap into a new adventure, or wondering if their idea is worth pursuing.
We are creative entrepreneurs, Valentina and Jack Fussell and in Season Two, we continue to share from the midst of a total life relaunch. After 12 years living in Africa and Europe we are relaunching our life in the US.
Each week we share insights from our personal journey and the inspiring people we meet along the way. The journey onward starts here!
For more inspiration and resources for your life visit us at:
You can follow Valentina at:
House of Valentina Instagram Twitter Facebook
You can Follow Jack at:
Ever feel like on the road to success you're in a Fiat and everyone else is in a Ferrari? We live in the instageneration so this feeling is quite common. You have the idea and the skill but patience and practice are what you need to make your dream a reality.
Welcome to the Onward Creatives Podcast. This is the place for anyone who is dreaming of making a change in their lives, taking a leap into a new adventure, or wondering if their idea is worth pursuing.
We are creative entrepreneurs, Valentina and Jack Fussell and in Season Two, we continue to share from the midst of a total life relaunch. After 12 years living in Africa and Europe we are relaunching our life in the US.
Each week we share insights from our personal journey and the inspiring people we meet along the way. The journey onward starts here!
For more inspiration and resources for your life visit us at:
You can follow Valentina at:
House of Valentina Instagram Twitter Facebook
You can Follow Jack at:
How do we stay hopeful with tragedies occurring every day?
How do we solve problems which seem to increase daily?
We can fight hopelessness and despair with two words...."What if"
Welcome to the Onward Creatives Podcast. This is the place for anyone who is dreaming of making a change in their lives, taking a leap into a new adventure, or wondering if their idea is worth pursuing.
We are creative entrepreneurs, Valentina and Jack Fussell and in Season Two, we continue to share from the midst of a total life relaunch. After 12 years living in Africa and Europe we are relaunching our life in the US.
Each week we share insights from our personal journey and the inspiring people we meet along the way. The journey onward starts here!
For more inspiration and resources for your life visit us at:
You can follow Valentina at:
House of Valentina Instagram Twitter Facebook
You can Follow Jack at:
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