The Hidden Creative Podcast
Welcome to the Hidden Creative Podcast where your host Taylah Maree is dedicated to helping rural creatives build a business that unearths your hidden talents and allows you to make a big impact in the world! So often we let fear of failure, lack of confidence or limiting beliefs stop us from achieving our dreams + making an impact as a rural small business owner when it doesn’t have to be this way! In this podcast, we will cover the practical tools you need to help grow your confidence, lean into your creativity, embrace being rural and build an impactful crea...
33 - Seasons Of Stillness And The Power They Hold
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In my stillness over the past few months I have been closely watching, curiously listening and piecing together a puzzle that forms our online business world as it is right now. As I’ve been slowly putting it all together, I’ve noticed a few pieces of the puzzle that are missing…
In this episode I share with you a personal manuscript for the season of stillness I have been in and the changes I want to help make in our small town creative business space. It includes a very raw recoun...
32 - It's Time For Serious Conversation
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Are you too sick and tired of the tasteless marketing that promises the "be all and end all" tactics to help you do something freaking amazing! And then actually doesn't deliver on the thing it promised in the first place? Me too and do you know what, I am so ready for real conversation it's not funny!
Today's episode is more like a candid chat with a friend over a good cuppa - haha, almost literally - as I share with you why a cup of tea has been so healing...
31 - The Biz Skills They Don't Tell You About!
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When you think of the skills that’s needed to run a business, what do YOU think of? Marketing + sales, branding, financial management, the list goes on.. These ARE skills that everyone advertises and promotes to those wanting to grow a business.
These, let’s say formal set of skills, are certainly skills we can work on to help our business grow. However, they are not the only areas we should place our focus.
And rather than relying heavily on gaining knowledge around these more formal set of skills, there’...
30 - The Superpower In CONSISTENTLY Providing What Your Clients Know They Will Get
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I feel like consistency is a dangerous word when chatting with a room full of creatives. Because the second consistency in business becomes the topic, I know most of you tune out. But before you do….
Being consistent is something that we are not. If anything, we creatives are consistent at being inconsistent. That’s our thing. It allows us to get creative, move on to something else quickly, produce ideas, create something magical that others didn’t see, it's our mojo.
However, and here’s the penny drop moment… co...
29 - How To Receive The Benefits Of Feedback Without Feeling Deflated
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Opening the floor for feedback can be scary. We worry that by asking people their thoughts, that it will bring about a scurry of emotions, opinions and a harsh reality we aren’t ready to hear. But, here’s the thing. If you don’t do this, you will never know what they’re thinking. And if you don’t do this, you may be pouring your heart and soul into something that people don’t actually want. So today, we are chatting about how you can seek constructive, useable feedback that doesn’t leave you fee...
28 - How To Create A Deeper Impact + Meaningful Relationship With Your Clients
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In this episode we are talking about the things in business that actually allow you to stand out and create more meaningful relationships and a deeper impact. I am sharing a real life example of where I witnessed these things in action and how a particular business is creating a unique experience for their clients to talk about! This episode is full of action inspiration, so make sure you have your notes open on your phone or a notepad and pen nearby.
In Today's episode I mentioned Mjolner, a r...
27 - Unexpected Opportunities and Amazing Outcomes Because Of Them!
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“If I had of known who this lady was before I reached out to see if she was free to catch up, I probably never would have had the courage to reach out to her in the first place. Little old me, a photographer from a small town with big ideas, but who certainly did not have her sh*t together, sitting in front of this amazing woman who had accomplished all these things I could only dream about, talking to me about her story.
It was such a privilege, and on...
26 - Lost Your Confidence? I've Got You!
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Confidence is the emotion that guides you as a business owner in EVERYTHING that you do. It is what allows you to serve, create, nurture, sell, grow, etc… If you don’t feel confident within your self, it shows and will be the thing that stops you in a heart beat.
Today, I share with you honestly how a lack of self confidence stopped me for the past 6 months in my business. Why, how, what and where I am at right now and some insights that I have learnt that will hopef...
25 - What Is Success With Louise Holliday
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Yes, we need money to pay the mortgage, the rent, the electricity.
Yes, our business needs money to buy new stock, to pay for the subscriptions, to pay for website hosting, etc.
BUT, have you found yourself thinking - I’m not in it for the money?
Do you shy away from the 10x, or 6 figure promise that is splashed across the internet?
I do too :) And that’s why I invited Louise Holliday from Theodore & George as our guest on the podcast today because her...
24 - The Real, The Raw + The Honest With Keira Gifford
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Today we get incredibly real, raw and honest with intuitive brand + web designer, creatress of the amazing small business Raw Confetti and Mumma of one, Keira Gifford!
I am so excited that we have finally done this, because during our coffee catch ups we have often said it would be great to turn our chats into an episode for the Hidden Creative. So we did, and we can't wait for you to hear it!
This episode touches on many different aspects of being a business owner and a Mother; t...
