And She Looked Up Creative Hour
Each week The And She Looked Up Podcast sits down with inspiring Canadian women who create for a living. We talk about their creative journeys and their best business tips, as well as the creative and business mindset issues all creative entrepreneurs struggle with. This podcast is for Canadian artists, makers and creators who want to find a way to make a living doing what they love. Your host, Melissa Hartfiel, left a 20 year career in corporate retail and has been happily self-employed as a working creative since 2010. She's a graphic designer, an illustrator, writer and a multi-six figure a year entrepreneur in the digital content space. She resides just outside of Vancouver, BC.
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No this is not a real estate episode! Today we"re talking about the dangers of building your business on the backs of other businesses - namely social media platforms and marketplaces - like Etsy. These are platforms where the customers and users are not yours, where you can be removed at any time and where algorithms
Subscriber-only episode Play is an important part of a creative practice and creating for a living. It"s also hard work (that doesn"t sound right, does it? But it is!). Collaboration can be a form of play for creatives and has it"s own set of benefits aside from play. Collaboration and play (together or separately) can
EP155: Creative Canadian Women: Alexandra Newbould - Illustrator & Courtroom Sketch Artist
Alexandra Newbould is an artist whose work you know. As a Toronto based freelance courtroom sketch artist and fashion and architecture illustrator, her work has appeared all across North America on newscasts, in newspapers and print, online and in brand marketing campaigns. She joins the show this week to talk about th
You’re an artist or a creative or a maker. You’ve made or created the thing, you’re selling the creative services. You’ve put it on social media and your website or Etsy. But nobody has bought it. So how the heck are you supposed to find your customers?? Melissa and Heather do a deep dive into how to find your peop
I"m going back into the archives this week because it"s been a bit of madness around here this month (in a good way!). This is a replay of EP 128 from last year where Heather and I asked past guests and audience member to share some words of wisdom that they"ve learned through being working creatives and/or running the
Subscriber-only episode I have a great podcast recommendation for you this week that also tied into three big things I"ve had on my "to talk about" list: marketing goals, the line between positivity and negativity and gatekeeping creativity. Hope you all enjoy! You can connect with the podcast on: Instagram at @andshel