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I took a Brother home sewing machine and a $30 craigslist desk and built a six figure sewing business that supports a life I love… while generating hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue each year.
I’m sharing every tool, trick, and business process I’ve learned from costuming celebrities, manufacturing clothing, and selling products... aka, what I WISH I knew when I first started out building a craft-based business.
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episode 1: Reverse engineering success
episode 2: How bra makErs put a man on thE moon
As we move into 2021 (and away from 2020 as quickly as possible), it’s the perfect time to define what success looks like as a creative, and set your three most important goals for your life this year. In this podcast, I’ll be diving deep into topics surrounding entrepreneurship that matter to me, and answering questions like:
- How do I make my craft profitable?
- How do I market my craft based business?
- How do I brand a craft-based business?
- How do I get my clients to pay more?
- How do I know I’m producing my craft as profitably as possible?
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episodE 3: 5 Things I wish I whEn i first startED my sEwing businEss
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Just a few years before sewing the first American flag, Betsy Ross ran away across the river to get married in a bar against the wishes of her entire family. She sat near George Washington in church and built a friendship with him that lead to her legacy-filled role as the first seamstress of the American flag.
After sewing the flag, she went on to operate a successful business for decades. I wonder what advice she'd have for us sewing business owners today? Would it be the importance of choosing a good church pew?
I'm no Betsy, but I know what I wish I did. In this episode, I highlight five things I wish I had done when I first went into business, as well as some important things to note in doing business in a craft-based industry.
If you’re an Astronaut, the process of getting dressed for work is labor intensive. You might have known the spacesuits Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, and Neil Armstrong were expensive… but I bet you didn’t know the seamstresses who made them came from Playtex.
The success of those suits were a matter of life and death. I’d imagine the phrase ‘good enough’ was not one that was said that day about their uniform.
What if I told you, that the spacesuits these astronauts wore only passed half of their field tests?
How do you know if your handmade work is good enough to sell? In this episode, we go behind the scenes at NASA and pull the thread on imposter syndrome, taking imperfect action, and learning how to let the market decide what's good enough to sell. I teach you how to let the market decide, and why.
