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Tired of bending over backwards for the Instagram algorithm? Yeah, me too. In this first episode of Creative Business Rebellion, I'm sharing how I hit a breaking point with social media last year and what happened when I stopped following all the "rules" I'd been told I had to follow. Spoiler: my business got better, not worse. This is the intro to what I'm calling the anti-strategy. It's not another marketing strategy you have to learn. It's actually about unlearning a lot of the crap we've been told about how we "have" to run our businesses. If you've been feeling boxed in by all the things you think you're supposed to be doing in your business, this one's for you. ----------------------- Join me on Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/amy.takes.pictures Watch on YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/amyeaton ----------------------- Subscribe + leave a review! I'll love you forever. Seriously, it means so, so much.

You ready, Rebels?! We're so over following someone else's script, strategy, or formula. We're doing business our way, on our terms, and guess what? It's gonna be GREAT. Because when we shed all the pressure put us on to do or be certain things and start following our own path? That's where the magic really starts to happen. We enjoy our running our businesses more. We connect better with our target audiences. We're less vulnerable to burnout. We make more money. We're happier human beings and live fuller, richer lives. Welcome to the Anti-Strategy. I'm your guide, Amy, and I'm a multi-six-figure creative business owner and mentor. Let's get weird and blaze our trails, shall we? ----------------------- Join me on Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/amy.takes.pictures Watch on YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/amyeaton ----------------------- Subscribe + leave a review! I'll love you forever. Seriously, it means so, so much.

Hey, Amy here! The Bold Company podcast is going on hiatus for the summer. But never fear! We'll be back in the fall with new guests, new insights, and lots more to share. Over the summer, we'll be busy working with our course creators on Brioka to get their courses ready to launch. Want to join us? Sharing your craft with the world is not only fulfilling, but a great way to make your creative business more profitable and sustainable. Plus, there are zero startup or monthly fees. Learn more and join us at www.brioka.com. Follow Amy on Instagram 👉 @amy.takes.pictures Follow Brioka on Instagram 👉 @createwithbrioka ----------------------- Join me on Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/amy.takes.pictures Watch on YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/amyeaton ----------------------- Subscribe + leave a review! I'll love you forever. Seriously, it means so, so much.

Over the next few weeks we're revisiting some of our favourite episodes related to creativity and creative self-care. This week we're revisiting Amy's chat with Jenni Kowal, a fantastic self-care and creative exploration coach!  Original Description: In this episode I am chatting with Jenni Kowal of Anytime Creative. In addition to being a visual artist, Jenni is a self care and creative exploration coach. How cool is that?  Listen in to hear us talk about bringing joy and a sense of play into your creativity, running a successful Kickstarter campaign, and the importance of boundaries when it comes to self care. Plus we talk about her awesome Self Card Aventure Card Deck, which you are definitely going to want to check  out! About Jenni: Jenni Kowal is a multi passionate, visual artist and personal development coach specializing in self care and creative exploration. Founder of Anytime Creative, she offers a variety of life coaching services, mindfulness support. Her flagship product is the Self Care Adventure Cards - an intuitive card deck that sparks inspiration for every step of your self care journey. Her mission is to help scattered and multi-passionate creatives use self care to fuel their creative expression, get out of their own way and spend more time in flow! Links: Jenni's Website: https://anytimecreative.com Jenni on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/anytimecreative   Amy's Website: https://www.amytakespictures.com Amy on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/amy.takes.pictures   Brioka's Website: https://www.brioka.com Brioka on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/createwithbrioka ----------------------- Join me on Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/amy.takes.pictures Watch on YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/amyeaton ----------------------- Subscribe + leave a review! I'll love you forever. Seriously, it means so, so much.

Over the next few weeks we're revisiting some of our favourite episodes related to creativity and self-care. This week we're revisiting Amy's chat with Mari Reisberg, creativity coach and host of the Sustaining Creativity Podcast!   Original Description: In this episode, I'm speaking with Mari Reisberg: therapist, performer, creativity coach, and host of the Sustaining Creativity Podcast.  Mari and I talk about her journey as a very creative child, to the world of performing, and then onto her role supporting other creatives. We talk about rejection as a creative (something we all experience), creative self-care, and creating on your own terms.  Words you'll hear… "Affirmations lead us to goals, they lead us to the changes we want to make in our life." "When we give our mind space to relax, answers show up." "Creativity is a present moment experience." "I think we forget how important mindfulness is to creativity." About Mari Mari Reisberg, LPC is a therapist, performer, podcast host of the Sustaining Creativity Podcast and creativity coach. She holds a BFA in Acting from the University of Hartford's Hartt School and an MA in Somatic Counseling Psychology, Dance/Movement Therapy, from Naropa University. She currently splits time between the traditional 9-5 world as the director of utilization review and internship programming for a substance abuse treatment center, and her own Sustaining Creativity coaching business where she works 1:1 with performers and non-performers to spark, grow, sustain, share and transform creativity in their lives. She has shared her Sustaining Creativity work at conferences, Universities and in workshops across the country. Mari believes we are all creative and life is way more fun when we can find creativity.   Links Mari's Facebook: facebook.com/sustainingcreativity Mari's Instagram: instagram.com/sustainingcreativity Mari's Podcast: https://sustainingcreativity.buzzsprout.com/ Amy's episode of the Sustaining Creativity podcast: https://sustainingcreativity.buzzsprout.com/1028026/9485614-amy-eaton Mari's LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/marika-reisberg-b1320151 Mari's 7 Day Creativity Challenge: https://courses.skillfulmeans.life/7-day-Awakening-Creativity Mari's Free Creativity Guide: https://courses.skillfulmeans.life/Awakening-Creativity Brioka: https://www.brioka.com Brioka on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/createwithbrioka Amy's website: https://www.amytakespictures.com/ Amy's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amy.takes.pictures   ----------------------- Join me on Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/amy.takes.pictures Watch on YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/amyeaton ----------------------- Subscribe + leave a review! I'll love you forever. Seriously, it means so, so much.

Over the next few weeks, we're revisting some of our favourite episodes related to creativity and self-care. This week we're revisiting Amy's chat with Becca Rich, our favourite Holistic Time Coach! Original Description: In this episode I'm chatting with Becca Rich, a holistic time coach who helps busy, ambitious entrepreneurs reclaim their time and combat time scarcity. How many times have you said or thought "there's never enough time"? I've thought it MANY times - today. While scarcity mindset in terms of money is something we hear about often, time scarcity was a brand new concept for me and one I really needed to hear. What Becca shares in this episode is absolutely game-changing for entrepreneurs and creatives who feel like they're always struggling with time. Time is finite, but the way we view our time can make it feel like there truly is more hours in the day. About Becca Becca Rich is a holistic time coach and consultant supporting conscious yet ambitious business owners heal time scarcity and leverage their unique way of operating, so they can unapologetically live and work their way. As an engineer turned mindfulness teacher and holistic coach, her mission is to blow up the hustling status quo and help folks discover tools and mindsets authentic to them. Becca's deeply committed to the ripple effect that happens when we begin to reclaim our time. If you're interested in her work, be sure to connect with Becca!   🔗 Links 🔗 Website: https://www.theholistictimecoach.com/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theholistictimecoach/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theholistictimecoach/ Amy's Website: https://www.amytakespictures.com/ Brioka: https://www.brioka.com Join the free Brioka Creators Group: https://creators.brioka.com Amy on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amy.takes.pictures Brioka on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/createwithbrioka ----------------------- Join me on Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/amy.takes.pictures Watch on YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/amyeaton ----------------------- Subscribe + leave a review! I'll love you forever. Seriously, it means so, so much.

Over the next few weeks we're revisiting some of our favourite episodes related to creativity and creative self care. This week we're revisiting Amy's chat with Lauren Saunders, an entrepreneur and business mentor for heart-driven entrepreneurs.    Original Description:   In this episode of Bold Company I'm chatting with Lauren Saunders, business mentor and entrepreneur who shares with us how mindset and manifestation aren't just buzzwords - they're important, valuable, and legitimate pieces to the success puzzle.   There's a lot of talk about mindset and manifestation in the online business world, and sometimes they're romanticized concepts that don't seem like they carry much weight. Lauren shares with us how mindset and manifestation, when combined with action that is in alignment with what feels good to us, is the key to unlocking forward momentum in your business.   Listen now to hear about how you can change your way of thinking to begin making serious strides in your business.   Lauren Saunders is a Business Mentor who coaches ambitious, heart-driven entrepreneurs to align with their desired success. At the age of 28, she left her career as a high school art teacher for a life of entrepreneurship, and she's built two full-time businesses by implementing mindset, marketing, & manifestation strategies that actually work. Her experience and success has allowed her to coach business owners all over the world into full-time entrepreneurship. As an entrepreneur, she's quadrupled her income as a teacher and lives a life of travel, freedom and passion. She is lit up when providing ambitious business owners with the tools they need to manifest the success and lives they truly desire. Links ⤵️   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laurencsaunders/  Website: https://www.laurencsaunders.com/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/3wpu3QJln0Tcq5unwqTWuW   Amy's Episode on Lauren's Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7E85Ae7C3Mntdcl33lrr08 Amy on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amy.takes.pictures Amy's Website: https://www.amytakespictures.com ----------------------- Join me on Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/amy.takes.pictures Watch on YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/amyeaton ----------------------- Subscribe + leave a review! I'll love you forever. Seriously, it means so, so much.

Over the next few weeks, we're revisiting some of our favourite episodes related to creativity and creative self-care. This week we're revisiting Amy's chat with Nicola Taylor, which is still one of Amy's favourite convos to date. Original Description: In this episode of the Bold Company podcast, I'm chatting with Nicola Taylor of Makers Business Toolkit. Nicola is a fine art photographer and mentor for makers and artists running their own businesses. She and I had one of my favourite conversations to date - all about finding your unique voice as a creative, maintaining your creativity and inspiration as a professional creative, and how there's no "right" or "wrong" way to go about it. If you are a creative professional of any kind, you are going to LOVE this conversation. ----------------------- Join me on Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/amy.takes.pictures Watch on YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/amyeaton ----------------------- Subscribe + leave a review! I'll love you forever. Seriously, it means so, so much.

Over the next few weeks, we're revisiting some of our favourite episodes related to creativity and creative self-care. We thought there'd be no better place to start then with Amy's own personal journey of creative rediscovery. Original Episode Description: Last summer, I hit a breaking point. I had stifled my creativity out of fear for so long that I firmly believe I was "not a creative person". Until it began bubbling up out of me in the most unexpected of ways - anxiety, mood swings, tears randomly bursting out of my face at the oddest of times. I couldn't keep it locked away any more. At the time, I didn't even know what "it" was - only that I was really struggling. I was disconnected, lost, unsure of where to go with my business and how to "fix" whatever it was that felt broken inside me. One conversation changed everything for me, and in this episode I share what was said that made me really evaluate my beliefs that I "wasn't creative", and how that began a beautiful, painful, and transformative quest to finding myself and my voice as a creative. Follow Amy on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amy.takes.pictures Follow Amy on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/amyeatonphotography Go to Amy's website: https://www.amytakespictures.com/ Music: Happy Life by FREDJI https://soundcloud.com/fredjimusic https://www.facebook.com/fredjimusic/ Music promoted by Audio Library  ----------------------- Join me on Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/amy.takes.pictures Watch on YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/amyeaton ----------------------- Subscribe + leave a review! I'll love you forever. Seriously, it means so, so much.

In this, the 50th episode of Bold Company Amy answers another awesome question from a listener. And this one is near and dear to Amy's heart because it's about books! "What are your favourite business books or authors?" Listen in as Amy shares her favourite recommendations as well as a list compiled from her Instagram followers!  The book list: Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve More by Doing Less by Michael Hyatt Embrace Your Weird: Face Your Fears and Unleash Creativity by Felicia Day You Are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth by Jen Sincero All Along You Were Blooming by Morgan Harper Nichols Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert Driven to Succeed: From Poverty to Podium - A First-Nation Success Story by Kendal Netmaker It's About Time: The Art of Choosing the Meaningful over the Urgent, by Valorie Burton Atomic Habits by James Clear (Instagram recommended as well) We Should All Be Millionaires: A Woman's Guide to Earning More, Building Wealth, and Gaining Economic Power by Rachel Rodgers (Recommended by Julieanne from Heirloom Island) Words that Sell: The Thesaurus to Help You Promote Your Products, Services, and Ideas by Richard Bayan The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life by John Daido Loori Trust the Process: An Artist's Guide to Letting Go by Shaun McNiff Stories That Sell: Turn Satisfied Customers into Your Most Powerful Sales & Marketing Asset Donald Miller: Marketing Made Simple, Business Made Simple, Hero on a Mission Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Scott Links: Leave us a review - www.ratethispodcast.com/boldcompany Amy's Website - www.amytakespictures.com Amy's Instagram - www.instagram.com/amy.takes.pictures  Brioka's Website - www.brioka.com Brioka on Instagram - www.instagram.com/createwithbrioka   ----------------------- Join me on Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/amy.takes.pictures Watch on YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/amyeaton ----------------------- Subscribe + leave a review! I'll love you forever. Seriously, it means so, so much.

In this episode Amy talks to Emma Freeman, an incredibly talented intuitive artist and poet. Amy and Emma dive deep into their respective creative journeys and practices.    Listen in as they discuss their spirituality and how it affects their creativity, their shared love of objects with rich histories and healing through creativity. You are definitely going to want to hear this fantastic and fascinating conversation.    Bio:   Emma Freeman is an artist, poet, and teacher who uses creative and spiritual practices to heal and unearth deeper knowing and meaning in her life. Her practice is  contemplative, slow and focused on quiet play and intuitive listening. She loves creating community spaces that encourage deep conversation, intuitive self-expression, spiritual discovery and collective healing. She's a Buddhist, queer, highly sensitive and sober. She lives in Wisconsin with her two rescue beagles.    Links:   Emma's Website: www.creativeunearthing.com Emma's Instagram: www.instagram.com/emmafreemanart   Amy's Website: www.amytakespictures.com Amy's Instagram: www.instagram.com/amy.takes.pictures    Brioka's Website: www.brioka.com Brioka's Instagram: www.instagram.com/createwithbrioka  ----------------------- Join me on Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/amy.takes.pictures Watch on YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/amyeaton ----------------------- Subscribe + leave a review! I'll love you forever. Seriously, it means so, so much.

In this episode Amy answers a listener's question about setting up email marketing. She talks about the ins and outs of email marketing and exactly why you need to have an email list set up. Hint: you TOTALLY need to!   Listen in to hear Amy's best recommendations for content, frequency and building your email list. Plus she talks about which program she uses now and why she recommends it so highly.   Thanks to Ayla at Ruya Creations for the question. And if you want to submit your own question to be answered in a future episode you can send Amy a DM or submit it at the link below. We'd love to hear from you.   Links:   Ruya Creations Website: www.ruyacreations.com    Question Submission: www.amytakespictures.com/submitaquestion    Shine Bright Registration: www.amytakespictures.com/shinebright Amy's Website: www.amytakespictures.com Amy on Instagram: www.instagram.com/amy.takes.pictures   Brioka's Website: www.brioka.com Brioka on Instagram: www.instagram.com/createwithbrioka ----------------------- Join me on Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/amy.takes.pictures Watch on YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/amyeaton ----------------------- Subscribe + leave a review! I'll love you forever. Seriously, it means so, so much.

In this episode Amy answers the first of the questions listeners have submitted! Melissa asked "How did you approach hiring your assistant and how did you know it would be a good fit? Where did you start looking and where did you find her?"   Listen in to hear how Amy hired Megan, who started out handling her customer service but has grown into Amy's invaluable right hand assistant. Amy talks about how you know it's the right time to hire a Virtual Assistant (VA), what it can do for the growth of your business and her most important tips for how to go about finding and hiring the right person!   We would love to hear your questions - you can submit them at amytakespictures.com/submitaquestion    Amy's Website: www.amytakespictures.com Amy on Instagram: www.instagram.com/amy.takes.pictures  Question Submissions: www.amytakespictures.com/submitaquestion   Brioka's Website: www.brioka.com  Brioka on Instagram: www.instagram.com/createwithbrioka    ----------------------- Join me on Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/amy.takes.pictures Watch on YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/amyeaton ----------------------- Subscribe + leave a review! I'll love you forever. Seriously, it means so, so much.

In this episode Amy talks about what you, the listener can do to help shape future episodes and three things you can do right now to help grow your business.   Wondering how to expand your audience? How to grow your business and get people to buy your products or services as a small business? Listen to Amy's three biggest tips on how to show up authentically and earn that all important "know, like and trust" factor. It's all about YOU!   Have you got a question or a topic you'd like Amy to talk about? Feeling stuck in your business or creatively? Amy would love to help. You can send your questions or voice recording to [email protected] or via DM on Instagram   Link:   Amy's website: www.amytakespictures.com Amy on Instagram: www.instagram.com/amy.takes.pictures   Brioka's website: www.brioka.com Brioka on Instagram: www.instagram.com/createwithbrioka    ----------------------- Join me on Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/amy.takes.pictures Watch on YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/amyeaton ----------------------- Subscribe + leave a review! I'll love you forever. Seriously, it means so, so much.

In this episode Amy talks about how to navigate social media as an overwhelmed, introverted or highly sensitive person. Because guess what, she's all three!   Social media can be exhausting and overwhelming, and we are all under this external pressure to post every day or to post a certain way. It feels like our businesses depend on getting it just right. But it's just not true. It's far more important to be true to yourself and to decide what works for you and for your business. So listen in to hear some of Amy's tips for cutting down on the mindless scrolling, setting boundaries and figuring out how to do social media your own way.    Links: Amy's newly rebranded website: www.amytakespictures.com Amy on Instagram: www.instagram.com/amy.takes.pictures   Brioka's website: www.brioka.com Brioka on Instagram: www.instagram.com/createwithbrioka    ----------------------- Join me on Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/amy.takes.pictures Watch on YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/amyeaton ----------------------- Subscribe + leave a review! I'll love you forever. Seriously, it means so, so much.