Are you running your business with ease and enjoyment, or do you find yourself procrastinating, getting anxious, and trying to fill your hours with tasks that keep you busy?

Creativity is an energy and it needs space to breathe – when it’s forced, it shuts down.

Today, we’re talking about embracing a slow-business mentality while giving creativity the space it needs to thrive.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• The recent major shifts in the landscape for creative small businesses
• What leaning into your feminine energy and slow business looks like
• The importance of regularly pausing, reassessing, and bravely changing what doesn’t feel right
• Everyone is creative, it’s about exploring ways that you can bring that out
• You are allowed to grow and change your business as you grow and change
• What slow business is really all about
• Creativity needs time to breathe so give yourself permission to pause
• Recognizing the cycles of your creativity and how to support it

Kate Carman is the Founder & Creative Director of Studio Wilding, a full-service digital design studio in Melbourne, Australia that creates heartfelt branding, packaging, and website design for purpose-driven brands. She is an advocate for conscious creativity and is passionate about empowering fellow creatives with the knowledge, resources, and inspiration to realize and achieve their business goals and dreams. Kate applies elements of slow living and mindful design to everything she does because creativity needs space to breathe (and so do we).

NOTE: Since recording this episode, Kate put what we talked about into practice and shook things up in her business. She changed the name from Rabble Rouse, which you’ll hear mentioned in the episode, to Studio Wilding.

RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE

Access Kate’s mini-workbook Create An Ethical Brand to help you create a little brand manifesto, leaning into all of that nice juicy feminine, creative energy, as well as two other valuable free resources.

Join the Gutsy Collective – The Gutsy Collective is a community of energetically driven female entrepreneurs + visionaries who desire meaningful growth – mentally, physically, and energetically. Join us online or in person for monthly mentorship to reignite your fire and get the answers you seek.

Alignment Sessions: get fast + clear answers –  Sometimes, you simply need a fresh set of eyes and clear direction on what step to take next. Alignment Sessions are 90-min individual coaching sessions designed to help you realign your energy and get a clear action plan so you can save time and start growing.

1:1 Coaching with LauraAura – My mission is to help you align and simplify so you feel confident, trust your intuition, and expand in ways that make you feel alive. I combine energy work with grounded, practical action, and together we’ll acknowledge the limiting beliefs and habits that may be holding you back while leaning into who you truly are and how you work most efficiently.

NOTEWORTHY QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE

“We can’t be on all of the time. But there is, in the traditional business sense, that masculine energy, that hustle culture, that’s kind of what’s been expected of us and that’s what we’ve been trying to work towards and it’s not working.”

“Everyone is creative. Everybody on the planet is creative, whether they think it or not. Creativity is not just limited to artists, and designers, and musicians… Everyone has a creative streak within them.”

“It’s never just kind of too late to shake things up. Like, if you’ve changed and evolved, don’t just keep doing the things you’ve been doing because that’s what you’ve established and that’s what’s expected of you. You have permission to change your business and to do business the way that you want in the way that’s going to best serve you and your customers.”

“Creativity isn’t a linear process. It’s not an A to B straight line, it zigs and zags, and swells, and all kinds of stuff. The process to get there is like traveling, it’s not about the destination, it’s about the journey.”

“It’s very easy to get into that cycle of just keeping busy with the small tasks, but those small administration, bottom-level tasks in your business aren’t going to be the things that move the needle.”

CONNECT WITH KATE CARMAN

Facebook: @studiowildling

Instagram: @studiowildling

Website: studiowildling.com

CONNECT WITH LAURAAURA

TikTok:  @thatlauraaura

Instagram: @thatlauraaura

Website: LauraAura.com

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