Dear Creator

Morgan Markowski
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Dear Creator is a reflective space hosted by Morgan Markowski, created for creatives and entrepreneurs searching for answers in the chaos of business, creativity, and life. Here, you’ll find unfiltered stories, pivotal lessons, actionable strategies, mindset shifts, and lifestyle systems that help you evolve into a life-backed brand. This isn’t about pretending to have it all together — it’s about honoring your truth, embracing your next evolution, and finding freedom in the way you create, work, and live.

  1. 5 days ago

    What Happens When a Brand Designer Rebrands Herself? With Eva Couto

    Even the people who design brands for a living aren't immune to rebrand chaos. In this episode of Dear Creator, brand designer Eva Couto (Flying Colours Creative®) breaks down her own total brand overhaul. New name, new website, new offers, new visual identity and the lessons she learned the hard way, including the newsletter logo mistake she didn't catch until it was already sent. We cover: How to know when it's actually time to rebrandWhy creative constraints make your work better, not worseWebsite vs. social media: which one actually deserves more of your timeThe real reason "building in public" feels performativeHow to keep your personal brand and business brand aligned as a solopreneurCommon rebrand mistakes (and how to avoid them)Common questions this episode answers: Is my website or social media more important for my business?Does having creative rules limit creativity or help it?How long should a rebrand actually take?How do I know when it's time to rebrand?Eva is a Brand & Marketing Designer, and the Ringleader behind Flying Colours Creative®, where bold brands step onto the main stage to own their weird. She helps personal brands & service providers bring their personality into the spotlight of their brand, by designing and implementing bold brand identities, so they can command attention, and succeed with Flying Colours. She's on a mission to bring colour back into the online small business world & make beige, boring brands sweat along the way. Connect with Eva 🎪 The Extravaganza: 12-week, all-inclusive brand transformation that gives you all the visuals, website & marketing assets it takes to succeed with Flying Colours.https://www.flyingcolourscreative.com/extravaganza 🐅 Uncaged: The weekly newsletter for service providers who refuse to be tamed.https://www.flyingcolourscreative.com/newsletter 🎙️ The Freak Show: Step right up to the show where you own your weird & turn your unique personality into your biggest brand asset.https://www.flyingcolourscreative.com/podcast Eva’s Website: https://www.flyingcolourscreative.com

  2. 4 Aug

    Carving Your Own Path: Astrology, Creativity & Building a Business on Your Terms with Ayu Sutriasa

    Ayu didn’t wait for opportunities. She carved her own path after being laid off from her magazine editing career. She turned to astrology, a lifelong passion, and built a business helping multi-passionate creatives use their birth charts to unlock their creativity and trust their own direction. Ayu is an astrologer + guide for multi-passionate creatives. Formerly a magazine editor, her work centers on empowering creatives to LIVE from their boldest, most honest creative expression (perfectionism be damned) and actually execute + finish the work they care about most. During the few occasions she gets some alone time (MILF probz) she enjoys writing smutty fanfic and making zines about void-walking. In this episode of Dear Creator, we talk about her journey from editor to astrologer, what she calls "creative exile," using the fifth house to understand how your creativity shows up, and why sometimes the boldest business moves start with spite instead of a plan. Connect Ayu Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/astralpathways/Freebie: How to Resource Yourself for Creative Work Using Your Birth Chart https://ayu-astral-pathways.myflodesk.com/freebie-resourcing-for-creative-work/checkoutHOLOGRAPHIC waitlist: https://ayu-astral-pathways.myflodesk.com/holographic-waitlist

  3. 28 Jul

    The Truth About Pivoting Careers After Motherhood with Georgia Lyons

    Georgia helps ambitious women redesign how they work — taking their knowledge, passions, and strengths and turning them into flexible, purpose-driven work on their own terms. She’s spent 14 years building an incredible career in project management, helping lead the regeneration of Christchurch after the devastating 2011 earthquake. She was good at it. She wasn't burnt out. So why did returning to work after having her first baby leave her feeling claustrophobic and unsettled? In this episode, Georgia shares her honest, unfiltered story of pivoting from project management into becoming a career pivot coach for mothers and why her own career change had nothing to do with hitting rock bottom. We talk about the awareness stage of a pivot, why "good on paper" isn't the same as "feels right," her go-to 3 Ps framework (Possible, Practical, Priority), the ladder of believability, and how to block out the noise when everyone online seems to have it figured out. If you've ever felt the pull to change your career but couldn't quite name why, this conversation is for you. Connect with Georgia Website Instagram Group Program

  4. 21 Jul

    Trusting the Process: Astrology, Rebrands, and the Messy Middle with Jess Ellen

    In this episode of Dear Creator, Jess Ellen joins me to talk about the messy middle of a business rebrand.. She’s an astrologer and integration coach who helps people make sense of who they are, where they are, and what's being asked of them in this season of life. Through a blend astrology and coaching, she helps clients move from overthinking and uncertainty to deeper clarity, self-trust, and aligned choice. We dig into why your moon sign is one of the most useful tools for navigating change, the spectrum of the different energies you experience when you lean into your earth energy or water energy, and how Jess moved from outsourcing advice to now insourcing her own trust and decision-making. This conversation is full of grounded, practical wisdom on how to show up for the rebrand, transition, pivot, or rebrand in your own way. Jess offers birth chart reading, birthday readings, and integration coaching — all linked below! Connect with Jess Website: www.jessonhumanterms.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/jessonhumanterms Work With Jess: www.jessonhumanterms.com/work-with-me

  5. 14 Jul

    You Can't Put Grief on Your Content Calendar | Solo Entry 6

    I’ve been thinking about timing lately and about the things that happen to use that don’t make sense until much later. Around the same time as my grandpa passed away, my dog also was diagnosed with cancer. Through all of it, I kept running my business — marketing, selling, showing up and doing the entrepreneur thing. Until I wasn’t able to even do that fully anymore. It wasn’t until months later, when everything slowed down, that the grief caught up to me. A dream brought it up to the surface and it made me wonder if I was avoiding it or I just didn’t have the capacity to feel it all at the same time. And did it have to pule up that much before something in me finally broke? This episode is a reflection on grief, timing, and the quiet cost of staying in motion especially as a creative business owner who’s used to pushing through. Listen for an honest look at why we can’t schedule healing the way we schedule a launch, and why what hasn’t happened for you yet might not mean somethings wrong but might just not be the time. PS. Solo entries are moving to my Substack, Soft Pivot. If you feel like the podcast deserves a follow 5-star rating, please leave a review and subscribe! Can't wait for you to hear future guest episodes. Website YouTube Soft Pivot substack Weekly newsletter Morgan's instagram Dear Creator instagram

  6. 30 Jun

    How to Deconstruct the System and Become the Most Feral, Creative Version of Yourself With Giana Cerasia

    Giana left corporate when we recorded this episode! She’s worked as a teacher, in government, as a prison, and in corporate. She breaks down why most creative entrepreneurs unknowingly recreate corporate culture in their own businesses, how to identify the conditioning running your decisions, and offers exercises that help you finally build from who you actually are. Giana Cerasia is a teacher, systems change expert, and anthrophilosopher whose work sits at the intersection of human behavior, power, and transformation. She has spent her career studying systems that shape us — from corporations and institutions to families, relationships, governments, and culture. Now, she works with the people who power every system we live inside: the humans carrying the stories, grief, power, rage, and possibility that make change either repeat or rupture. Her work blends systems thinking, embodiment, breathwork, and witchy elder-wisdom practices to help people descend beneath the performance of growth and return to the wild, ungovernable, honest intelligence of their own aliveness. This episode is an invitation to go deeper than any course ever could. Connect with Giana Website: ravish.life/apprenticeship Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/giana.cerasia/Podcast: Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6RA1zd2Oyp756h4X2bzhB3?si=a6bdb1abbc084021 Substack: https://atomsinmeatsuits.substack.com/ Free Women’s Circle: https://www.notion.so/Free-Women-s-Circle-29439179192f80a3ba9fed0395f30f8f?source=copy_link

  7. 16 Jun

    Building a Six-Figure Creative Business from Your Limitations with Sarah Edwards

    Sarah Edwards is a creative success coach who has taught over 8,000 creatives worldwide how to build businesses that work with their brains and bodies — not against them. In this episode, she shares her Storyline Method, nervous system tools, and why your limitations might be your greatest business asset. Connect with Sarah Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/setapart_company/ Creative to Cash Strategy Audit: https://www.setapartcompany.net/creative-audit E-Book "Unscrambled: The Creative's Guide to Clarity & Cash": https://www.setapartcompany.net/unscrambledcreativebook

  8. 2 Jun

    I Don't Want To Work... I Want To Build Something | Solo Entry 5

    this month felt like a turning point in how i think about motivation and work itself. in this may reflection, i’m getting honest about something i rarely say out which is how i don’t feel motivated. i don’t really want to work. but i keep showing up anyway… not because of discipline or hustle, but what i’m building feels like something bigger than just a job. this episode is for the creators and entrepreneurs who are tired of being asked “what keeps you motivated?” when the real answer is messier and more human than that. it’s about purpose, freedom, fulfillment and about the quiet, sustaining feeling of helping others even on the days you’d rather do anything else. Kelsey Guest EpisodeTaylor Guest Episode

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Dear Creator is a reflective space hosted by Morgan Markowski, created for creatives and entrepreneurs searching for answers in the chaos of business, creativity, and life. Here, you’ll find unfiltered stories, pivotal lessons, actionable strategies, mindset shifts, and lifestyle systems that help you evolve into a life-backed brand. This isn’t about pretending to have it all together — it’s about honoring your truth, embracing your next evolution, and finding freedom in the way you create, work, and live.

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  • Creator
    Morgan Markowski
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    35
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Morgan Markowski
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