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Podcast: Live Chat with Joy & Naomi

Freelance Journey

For this week’s personal podcast challenge I listened/watched the live chat between bloggers/moms, Joy of Of Joy and Naomi of Rockstar Diaries. I listened to the live chat while at work and took a few notes along the way. I really enjoyed hearing some insights who got in on the blogging train around the time that blogging was actually becoming something. You can watch the live chat here.

Highlights:
1. There is no one way to go about blogging and creating original content. Most importantly, be consistent, stay focused, and be passionate about what you’re blogging.
2. While striving to gain new readers, no neglect the readers you already have! Engage them in more than one way with support from Twitter and Pinterest.
3. When you’re strapped for time, choose quality over quantity.
4. Lastly, finding a “balance” is near impossible, but learning to “juggle” is much more manageable

If you have 30 min, I think you would really enjoy hearing their insights.

Volume designed by Dmitry Baranovskiy from The Noun Project

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Inspired By: Ryo Takemasa

ART & DESIGN

Ryo is an illustrator based out of Tokyo Japan. I absolutely love these modern illustration that have a unique vintage vibe. So great!

These veggie illustration felt very fall to me and with Thanksgiving right around the corner, I thought they were just perfect.

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A project for my temporary self

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Until I can figure out exactly how I’m going to rebrand myself, I chose to make some temporary business cards for those “just in case” cases. Remember how I was in a really great networking situation and I didn’t have anything to pass along? Yeah….That’s not going to happen again.

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Podcast: A New Personal Challenge

Freelance Journey

As a freelance designer I feel it’s important to constantly seek more information. I think it’s extremely important to take the time to learn more and specialize in what you do. Starting this week, I’ve decided to challenge myself to listen to a few podcasts each week. In my opinion, podcasts are amazing ways to learn new things WHILE doing other things. I’m a big fan of multi-tasking, so if your excuse is that you don’t have time to dedicate to soaking in new information, podcasts are the way to go!

For this week’s challenge I listened to Grace Bonney’s (After the Jump) podcast series that focused on “Becoming Your Brand”. Listen Here.

Highlights:
1. Come up with a personal mission statement that is ownable. Who are you and what do you stand for?
2. Become an expert and own that expertise.  Don’t misrepresent yourself, but use your expertise to set you apart from others.
3. Practice your elevator pitch. How would you introduce yourself and your business to a complete stranger in a 20 sec elevator ride. Are you relatable?

All great things to think about as I rebrand myself. Love it!

Volume designed by Dmitry Baranovskiy from The Noun Project

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Mineralia

ART & DESIGN

I’ve been super interested in Minerals lately and I think it’s solely based on their beautiful colors. I don’t know anything about rocks/minerals except that as a kid I used to collect them and keep them as the most precious things I owned. Thinking about investing in one of these beauties from Mineralia.

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