Onward Creatives

We have it all wrong!  We've been told the key to success is to study someone and copy them....become their little disciple and that this will lead to success.  The issue is....you're not them....you are you!   Each one of us is uniquely wired, skilled and gifted to do certain things in a way just as unique as we are.  This is what I call your magic, the thing you do unlike anyone else.  When you find it and are brave enough to own it....amazing things happen!     Ready for some help on the journey? Let's Talk! Welcome to the Onward Creatives podcast. A weekly podcast that helps you find clarity and take action so you can build and grow your brand. Each week we go beyond all the hype and the noise and we help chart a course to make a living doing what you love. Don't do it alone!  Join the community! Onward Creatives Facebook

Are you feeling drained?  Are the long hours taking their toll?  Are you possibly questioning your own sanity?  Welcome to entrepreneurship!  It's all exciting on Instagram but in reality it can be exhausting and if we're not careful we can lose the joy that we first launched with.   Here are eight ways to stay energized: 1. Build a business that matters to you 2. Stick to your values 3. Don't compare yourself to others 4. Focus on the customers 5. Remove the toxicity 6. Embrace the pivot 7. Celebrate everything 8. Remember, it's just business   Ready for some help on the journey? Let's Talk! Welcome to the Onward Creatives podcast. A weekly podcast that helps you find clarity and take action so you can build and grow your brand. Each week we go beyond all the hype and the noise and we help chart a course to make a living doing what you love. Don't do it alone!  Join the community! Onward Creatives Facebook

The "burn" is key to the life of the creative entrepreneur.  The burn is a high energy season that moves us from one level to another.  It can be both rewarding and draining because it devours an intense amount of resources.  Here are three things that will help you make it through the burn. 1. Commitment 2. Mindset 3. Community   Ready for some help on the journey? Let's Talk! Welcome to the Onward Creatives podcast. A weekly podcast that helps you find clarity and take action so you can build and grow your brand. Each week we go beyond all the hype and the noise and we help chart a course to make a living doing what you love. Don't do it alone!  Join the community! Onward Creatives Facebook

Failure, we will all deal with it at some point.  Most of us will deal with it many times throughout our lives and careers.  Regardless of whose fault it is, it stings and if not careful can paralyze us to ever risk again. Bumper sticker answers don't really help us truly deal with failure.  The only true way to change how we respond to failure is to change how we respond to success.   Ready to move past failure and unlock your true potential? Let's Talk! Welcome to the Onward Creatives podcast. A weekly podcast that helps you find clarity and take action so you can build and grow your brand. Each week we go beyond all the hype and the noise and we help chart a course to make a living doing what you love. Don't do it alone!  Join the community! Onward Creatives Facebook

Are you ready for a breakthrough? Clarity around next steps?  The key is to move beyond "what you do" to "who you are and what you love." You're not a painter, you're more than that.  You're not a coach, you're more than that.  The power of who you are lies in the second half of those sentences. Discovering who you are is like breaking through the clouds....everything becomes clear.  So if you're ready for a breakthrough in your life and business, press into your identity and get ready for the game to change!   Ready to discover your identity? Let's Talk! Welcome to the Onward Creatives podcast. A weekly podcast that helps you find clarity and take action so you can build and grow your brand. Each week we go beyond all the hype and the noise and we help chart a course to make a living doing what you love. Don't do it alone!  Join the community! Onward Creatives Facebook

Big decisions face all of us and knowing which way to choose can be difficult.  However, there are two things that will help us make the best decisions possible: vision and values. Vision: Where do you want to be and what do you want to be known for? Values: What is important for the phase of the journey that you're on.   Have big decisions to make? Let's Talk! Welcome to the Onward Creatives podcast. A weekly podcast that helps you find clarity and take action so you can build and grow your brand. Each week we go beyond all the hype and the noise and we help chart a course to build a business your customer will love.  Don't do it alone!  Join the community! Onward Creatives Facebook

Human centric business strategy is the latest revolution to in business and most are either unaware or unsure how to engage it. Whether you’re a business of one or of one thousand placing the customer at the center of everything you do makes all the difference. Here are for benefits to having a human centric business strategy: It helps you develop your product. When you know your customer and their needs it gives you significant clarity for product development. The idea isn’t the goal, solving their problem is the goal. You have clarity for marketing. Once you know your customers needs, you simply speak to it. To be honest, most people don’t care about the details, they care about the results. You can create an experience. Digital is no longer the Holy Grail in business, experience is. We want our brands to remove all the obstacles and friction and lead us on a well developed experience. It helps create a healthy culture. Your culture influences everything. When you please people at the center of ever

People matter.  You become like the 5 people you spend the most amount of time with.  If you're serious about success in business and life, you've got to curate your relationships. How do you attract better people into your life? 1. Clear out some room 2. Define what you want 3. Be the person you want to attract 4. Be brave and go meet people   Are you ready to take action today? Let's Talk! Welcome to the Onward Creatives podcast. A weekly podcast that helps you find clarity and take action so you can build and grow your brand. Each week we go beyond all the hype and the noise and we help chart a course to build a business your customer will love.  Don't do it alone!  Join the community! Onward Creatives Facebook

Do you want to be successful?  There are three traits that are consistent in those who build successful businesses. 1. Be Curious 2. Be a learner 3. Invest in yourself   Are you ready to make 2020 the best year ever? Let's Talk!   This is day five of "Your Best Year". A five day podcast series on Onward Creatives.   Welcome to the Onward Creatives podcast. A weekly podcast that helps you find clarity and take action so you can build and grow your brand. Each week we go beyond all the hype and the noise and we help chart a course to build a business your customer will love.  Don't do it alone!  Join the community! Onward Creatives Facebook

How do I get started?  This is always one of the biggest questions and always where people get stuck.  So let's make it easy....here's how to get started: If you are: Discovering:  Take the personality test Take the Strengths Finder test Discover your Enneagram Launching: Develop your business plan Growing: Research and develop the customer journey  Pivoting: Determine which type of pivoting you're wanting to do in 2020   Are you ready to make 2020 the best year ever? Let's Talk!   This is day four of "Your Best Year". A five day podcast series on Onward Creatives.   Welcome to the Onward Creatives podcast. A weekly podcast that helps you find clarity and take action so you can build and grow your brand. Each week we go beyond all the hype and the noise and we help chart a course to build a business your customer will love.  Don't do it alone!  Join the community! Onward Creatives Facebook

When we start the year we think of words like: goals, action, go, strategy, change but the one word we overlook is the one word we so badly need....no.  Highly successful people don't run around in madness and busyness....they're laser focused and say "yes" to a few things while saying "no" to everything else. 1. Say no to other opportunities.  They may be good, but they're a distraction. 2. Say no the toxic, drama-filled, negative people.  They're not heading where you are you don't need them. 3. Say no to yourself.  We are all superheroes mixed with kryptonite.  Say yes to the Ironman within but give no voice to the Joker within. Are you ready to make 2020 the best year ever? Let's Talk!   This is day three of "Your Best Year". A five day podcast series on Onward Creatives.   Welcome to the Onward Creatives podcast. A weekly podcast that helps you find clarity and take action so you can build and grow your brand. Each week we go beyond all the hype and the noise and we help chart a course to build a busines

You can't wait!  Once you know what you want to do this year: discover, launch, grow, pivot you need to take some type of action.  Every idea has a rot rate, the longer you wait the greater the chance of the idea never happening.  The sooner you act on your why and what, the greater the chance of it becoming a reality. So today, do something.  Buy a book, do research, sign up for a conference, buy a domain, make the call, book a coaching session.  If you're serious about seeing your "why" and "what" become a reality this year, take action now! Are you ready to make 2020 the best year ever? Let's Talk!   This is day two of "Your Best Year". A five day podcast series on Onward Creatives.   Welcome to the Onward Creatives podcast. A weekly podcast that helps you find clarity and take action so you can build and grow your brand. Each week we go beyond all the hype and the noise and we help chart a course to build a business your customer will love.  Don't do it alone!  Join the community! Onward Creatives Faceboo

Most of our resolutions and goals fail for one big reason....they are "what's" and "what's" don't inspire us.  Our goals of self-discovery, launching a business, growing sales or influence or career pivots are great, but they're just the "what's." Simon Sinek says "There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you and inspire it."  The way to inspire your own behavior is to discover the why behind the what.   Every one of us in this group is either discovering, launching, growing or pivoting.  We all have a goal or two, some small and some large within those areas that we want to see become a reality this year.  That's awesome and I celebrate it.  But if you want to increase the odds of it becoming a reality you need to push deeper to the "why?"  Why do you want to discover, launch, grow or pivot?  Whatever this answer is, this becomes your rallying cry for the year.     Move beyond a simple goal...put a date on it and define the why.     This is the first day of "Your Best Yea

Sometimes the idea you have doesn't work like you hoped it would.  What do you do when it's not working? Here's a checklist of questions to work through to determine what your next steps are: 1. What is the ultimate goal? 2. Is the business a good fit for your life? 3. Is it selling? 4. Does your product/idea/art help people? 5. Is it a product or pipeline issue? 6. Is the issue a lack of attention or a lack of trust?   Are you ready to make 2020 the best year ever? Let's Talk! Welcome to the Onward Creatives podcast. A weekly podcast that helps you find clarity and take action so you can build and grow your brand. Each week we go beyond all the hype and the noise and we help chart a course to build a business your customer will love.  Don't do it alone!  Join the community! Onward Creatives Facebook

2020 starts now!  Don't wait until the calendar changes to start moving towards your goals, do it now.  The next few days and weeks can be an incredible combo of relaxation and creativity.  A great way to get a jump start on 2020 is to create some dissonance.  Give yourself a few things to wrestle with so in those quiet moments your mind can start to solve these problems.   Here are a few questions to ask to help create the dissonance: 1. What was your biggest obstacle in 2019? 2. What derailed you from achieving your goals? 3. If you could solve one issue, what would it be?   Are you ready to make 2020 the best year ever? Let's Talk! Join Valentina for her 25 Days of Christmas series on Youtube. Welcome to the Onward Creatives podcast. A weekly podcast that helps you find clarity and take action so you can build and grow your brand. Each week we go beyond all the hype and the noise and we help chart a course to build a business your customer will love.  Don't do it alone!  Join the community! Onward Creativ

These four questions will help you honestly assess your year. 1. Where did I succeed? 2. Where did I flop? 3. What gaps do I see? 4. What surprises did I experience?   Are you ready to 2.0 yourself and your business? Let's Talk! Join Valentina for her 25 Days of Christmas series on Youtube. Welcome to the Onward Creatives podcast. A weekly podcast that helps you find clarity and take action so you can build and grow your brand. Each week we go beyond all the hype and the noise and we help chart a course to build a business your customer will love.  Don't do it alone!  Join the community! Onward Creatives Facebook

Chances are if you're listening to this podcast you are driven.  This isn't the type of podcast that complacent people listen to.  Being driven is awesome and necessary if you want to succeed, but it can also have a dark side.  If all we see is the gap between what is and what can be, it's easy to be miserable. Gratitude is the best way to balance this out make it all make sense.  Drive is what gets you up in the morning, gratitude gives you a reason to smile when you do.  Adding gratitude to your life allows you to keep the drive in place but enjoy the journey.   This episode is a must for everyone wanting to grow and evolve to the next level.   Are you ready to 2.0 yourself and your business? Let's Talk! Join Valentina for her 25 Days of Christmas series on Youtube. Welcome to the Onward Creatives podcast. A weekly podcast that helps you find clarity and take action so you can build and grow your brand. Each week we go beyond all the hype and the noise and we help chart a course to build a business your cu

Knowing an owning your differences is the key to success in life and business.  You owe it to yourself, your business and your customers to discover and build around your differences.   It will feel strange at first because we've been programmed to be just like every one else but no one ever stands out by being the same. Are you ready to go big and own the differences? Let's Talk! Join Valentina for her 25 Days of Christmas series on Youtube. Welcome to the Onward Creatives podcast. A weekly podcast that helps you find clarity and take action so you can build and grow your brand. Each week we go beyond all the hype and the noise and we help chart a course to build a business your customer will love.  Don't do it alone!  Join the community! Onward Creatives Facebook

You're an amazing individual, uniquely skilled, amazing at certain things....and so much more than a job or role.  Every person has an identity or magic to them.  It doesn't live on the surface like a job or hobby but is hidden deep inside.  If we want to live a successful and meaningful life we have to discover our identity, it's the key to everything. How do we do it? Get to know you Personality Test Strength Finders Test Enneagram Look at your history What have you enjoyed in each job? What haven't you enjoyed? What comes naturally, with minimal effort? Own the rebellious What have you gotten in trouble for over the years? Are there any trends?   Ready to discover your identity? Let's Talk!   Welcome to the Onward Creatives podcast. A weekly podcast that helps you find clarity and take action so you can build and grow your brand. Each week we go beyond all the hype and the noise and we help chart a course to build a business your customer will love.  Don't do it alone!  Join the community! Onwar

Helicopters, Ferraris, non-stop content creation and endless energy. This is what the entrepreneur life is all about. My reality is a beat up iPhone 7, forgetting to post on IG and bags under my eyes so large they wouldn’t even fit in the overhead compartment. I am the world’s worst entrepreneur. My IG feed is full of amazing quotes pushing me onward, pics of entrepreneurs in the most exotic locations and countless rags to riches stories. It sounds awesome and some days I feel like I come close to touching this ideal but many days (and late nights) I feel like this life is a million miles from my reality. To be honest, I'm fairly certain that I'm the world's worst entrepreneur.  I don't have a helicopter, I don't always exhibit the "Top Ten Entrepreneurial Habits", and I probably work way too much. To be honest I drink too much coffee, don't sleep enough, buy more books than I read, and sometimes I simply want to chill out with a Moscow Mule and watch a few episodes of the Office. So I'm either the worst....o