Anyone else overwhelmed with how many tech products there are out there to run your business?Today I'm breaking down everything I currently use to run my biz and giving you insight on how it all helps me work! I'll start with the highest pric

102: Skating & Designing in Buenos Aires | EFDOT

Jun 25th, 2018 38m 15s

I came across Eric's work while on an Instagram scroll. Oddly enough, I'd just gotten a message from a girl wondering how to get into the surf/skate industry of design (something I'd worked on doing about 10 years back), and on this Instagram p

101: Easy Ways to Sell More Art | MARIA BROPHY

Jun 18th, 2018 41m 49s

Back in the day, selling your art meant getting into galleries and doing all the same things as everyone else. Luckily today, you can get wayyy more creative - which is good, since that's probably your specialty as an artist! What might not be

100: How 100 Episodes of Podcasting Changed Me

Jun 11th, 2018 35m 37s

In 2013, I had found the podcast, The Lifestyle Entrepreneur by Kris Gilbertson, and became obsessed with listening every chance I had. I was kind of early for podcasting and hearing about lifestyle entrepreneurs and it was basically the only p

099: Growing a Calligraphy Biz While Traveling the World | BECCA COURTICE

Jun 4th, 2018 27m 13s

I met today's guest last year at ConvertKit Conference, which could be the nerdiest beginnings ever - a conference for people that use the same e-mail service HA! Becca is super fun and outgoing so it was cool to hear her talk about how she'd q

098: How One Ohio Woman is Creating Change Globally | AMBER RUNYON

May 28th, 2018 28m 11s

Today's guest is truly incredible. It's one thing to travel, but another to travel and be so touched that you take your whole life in a new direction. Amber did just that after she visited Ethiopia and saw how much change was needed. On this ep

097: How to Conquer Shiny-Object Syndrome in your Biz!

May 21st, 2018 13m 36s

My 31st birthday was over the weekend (yippee!) and I thought that called for a solo show of one of the topics I talk about that gets the most response: Shiny Object Syndrome. If you don't know what it is, consider yourself lucky! Or maybe you

096: Keys to Being an Artist in Demand Around the World | GEMMA O’BRIEN

May 13th, 2018 17m 12s

You all are in for a treat today! I've got Gemma O'Brien on the podcast today, an artist who's wowed me for a while on Instagram and in a fun turn of events, I flew across the country last week to help her paint her latest mural at Google Headq

095: How to Price Your Artwork & Strengthen your Money Mindset

May 7th, 2018 20m 31s

Okay Passion Designers, I see you out there, shrinking back & becoming clammy every time someone asks you what the price of something is. It seems that we all feel like we are each the worst at selling our stuff. Can't we just do it for free an

094: What’s Worked & Hasn’t Worked in the Past Year as a Full-Time Artist

Apr 30th, 2018 22m 2s

A few people have messaged me lately asking how to get started in the art world and what my trajectory has been like. Although I think it's an ever-evolving world as an entrepreneur, with the world moving SO FAST, on this episode I'm talking

093: My Favorite Method to Finding Your Most Profitable Niche

Apr 23rd, 2018 17m 24s

I've been thinking a lot about Niche-ing down lately. For the longest time, I worked hard to stay as open as possible so that I could get as many potential clients as possible. The weird thing about my method is that it almost ALWAYS backfires.

092: What To Do When You Feel Like You Aren’t Doing Enough

Apr 16th, 2018 19m 54s

Anyone have a case of the "I'm not doing enoughs?" Thought so!Here are 10 things to remember when you find yourself anxious about being behind or that you'll never get to where you want to be. Listen in as I talk in detail about each one and

091: Creating a Fashion Company with a Cause | MOLLY FULLER DESIGN

Apr 9th, 2018 25m 22s

I met Molly in Fashion school back at the University of Cincinnati. She was always creating extremely innovative designs, pushing design limits way past simply "next season's style." So I was super amped to see that she is in the midst of creat

090: Why You should plan a Trip out of your Comfort Zone

Apr 6th, 2018 8m 19s

On the Passion Design Project website, I not only have the podcast but also keep a Travel Blog on there. I love writing about exploring different places and hope that others can find the blogs handy if they find themselves in the same spots!P

089: 5 Simple Ways to Get Started

Mar 26th, 2018 8m 2s

About 5 years back I started a "company," more like a blog called "Thee Bold." Spoiler alert: it stopped almost as quickly as it started, but the funny part about it is that I took forever to launch it. And by launch it, I mean, simply make the

088: Working for Something MORE than just “Work”

Mar 19th, 2018 9m

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Starting and running your own business can and usually is a daunting task. People on Instagram love to show the beautiful, exotic, freeing part of working for yourself, but what's usually lost in that

087: Leaving the Tech Start-up Grind to Lead a Life He Loves | CHRISTIAN PIUMA

Mar 12th, 2018 59m 3s

Recently I met Christian at a Silicon Couliour meeting in Jackson Hole. As someone who left a secure (yet intense) life in the tech start-up world in San Francisco, I was anxious to hear how this change to a totally different lifestyle (snowboa

086: Having More Success by Adding More Value

Mar 5th, 2018 8m 51s

If you're an entrepreneur or have a business or want to have a biz, what do you think about the most? I'm guessing you probably think about money quite a bit and how you're going to make it.I'm real guilty of putting my sole focus on how I ca

085: Getting over the Emotional Side of Rejection

Feb 26th, 2018 7m 47s

When was the last time you were rejected? Maybe it was today or yesterday, or maybe a year ago and you're still upset and mad about it. Whenever it was, I surely can relate and am guessing most listeners can. I hate rejection. I really do. It's

084: How to Create a Podcast from Start to Finish

Feb 19th, 2018 41m 56s

Today I go over all of the details on how I started a Podcast. Kara wrote in with the following questions and I answer every single one in great detail. Enjoy and let me know if you start a Podcast!!What equipment did you start with? Where

083: Creating a Product that Sells + Learning as you go | BUBBA ALBRECHT

Feb 12th, 2018 49m 30s

On this episode, I'm talking with Bubba from the company Give'r. Starting as just an idea from an adventure back in 2011, this company has grown in recent years and is now regularly featured in some of the outdoor industry's biggest publication

082: Why Giving Matters

Feb 5th, 2018 9m 17s

Do you ever have a book sitting around for a long time but never make the time to get around to reading it?Okay, I have more than a few of these, but The Go-Giver is probably the shortest book that has been. Yesterday, I gave myself a rare of

081: How to make your One Life Count

Jan 29th, 2018 7m 1s

Yooooolo!That's right, I'm bringing back that obnoxious cliche phrase that went viral a year or two ago. But to be honest, I wish it hadn't been simply a fad.If you weren't in the YOLO loop, it stands for You Only Live Once, and people used

080: Winning by making Others Feel Awesome

Jan 22nd, 2018 5m 59s

Do any of you have an Alexa Echo? I got one for Christmas and even though I thought I wouldn't use it that much, I'm constantly talking to her. She tells me the weather, gives me morning inspiration, helps me study Arabic, and reads me free Aud

079: How to Thrive with your specific Personality

Jan 15th, 2018 14m 6s

Oooooh! This is a fun one! So I recently helped launch a church campus and as part of Fresh Life Church's Crash Course, you go through a series of personality tests, one of which is 16personalities.com. I'm sure most of you have done personalit