Letters From A Hopeful Creative This is a podcast for small business owners ready to feel encouraged, inspired, and less alone in your entrepreneurial journey

In today’s episode we dive into listener questions all about Instagram - from building engagement up, feeling hopeful and excited about the platform again, coming back after a long break, adapting to creating more video content, whether to use hashtags anymore and lots more.
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In today’s episode we dive into this letter from a listener:
Lately, I've been inspired to grow my non-client work and my unpaid projects into a bigger part of my business. I have a published book, a podcast, and regular events - but they're not closely related to each other!
This makes it really hard to grow any one of them, let alone all of them, when my client work is what pays the bills.
I end up prioritizing client work above all these other projects, and I end up with very little time to spend on growing these other projects that I'd prefer to be the focus of my future. I have a gigantic list of ideas and dreams related to these projects, but it's felt like my paying client work is "getting in the way."
Do you have any ideas on how I could create the time or space to grow my lesser-paying work when my client work isn't the dream?
In today’s episode Sara and Jen explore how we can balance the work that pays the bills and the creative projects that truly light us up and create more space for all of the things we want to create, explore, and experience in this journey.
Would you love some encouragement and support in your business? Submit your letter for an upcoming episode here.
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In today’s episode we dive into this letter from a listener:
Please can you talk more about the failure/success connection and how we can pick ourselves up and move past the failures when we’re struggling with our confidence and self belief?
In today’s episode Sara and Jen dig into their relationship with failure in their business, why highs and lows are normal in this journey, and how to hold ourselves through the emotional rollercoaster along the way.
Would you love some encouragement and support in your business? Submit your letter for an upcoming episode here.
Find out more about Sara’s The Insta Retreat
Find out more about Jen’s gentle mastermind for small business owners: Steady
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In today’s episode we dive into this letter from a listener:
I am not great at the IG game, and I prefer to focus on sharing quality work versus creating reels that don't resonate with me and my style. Do you have any ideas on how to continue to build my audience without sacrificing my quieter style, "not in your face" approach, and build an email list?
In this episode we dig into the question, share our experience with gently and sustainable growing and nurturing our audience, and our encouragement for doing so in your business too.
Would you love some encouragement and support in your business? Submit your letter for an upcoming episode here.
Find out more about Jen’s gentle mastermind for small business owners: Steady
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In this episode we catch up for spring and dive into what’s been going well in our businesses, what we’ve been finding challenging in this season, and what we’re working towards in our businesses right now too.
If you’d love to listen to a really honest chat between two business besties, we recorded this episode for you.
Links mentioned:
Sara has some availability for 1:1 clients
Get 100 Hell Yes People - Jen’s new free toolkit
And Jen’s group program, Your Simple & Spacious Business, is open for enrolment until Friday 24th May if you’d love to never do business alone again
And you can listen to Jen’s interview on the Off The Grid podcast
What Jen’s simple and spacious workweek looks like
What Jen’s learned about running a gently thriving group program
Laurel Denise planners
Dr Becky
And our inbox is open for new letters for upcoming episodes if you’d love our encouragement and support in your business


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Jen here with two supportive resources for you today ✍🏻
First up: I have made an awesome and free new toolkit called 100 Hell Yes People to support you to make a gentle, joyful, and sustainable plan for reaching 100 hell yes people at a time in your business.
I have been fully booked and thriving in my business since 2015 all thanks to this approach to marketing, by opting out of the lie that we have to build as big an audience as possible, and you can have the toolkit sent straight to your inbox (for free!) this way.
I also recently recorded a free office hour that I’m sharing in today’s episode covering topics such as clarifying the deliverables of our offers, what to do when our business is successful but we’re not happy, how to navigate a downturn in enquiries, navigating stress and anxiety in our work and more. If you’d rather watch the video with timestamps you can here.
And my group program for business owners who want to bring more ease, joy, and intentional growth into your work and life is opening for enrolment again very soon on Monday 13th May and waitlist subscribers will get early access and an awesome 1:1 bonus and discount code too. You can find out more and join the waitlist this way.
I hope these free resources can be supportive and encouraging for you in your business!
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