Joyful Selling for Creative Professionals

Mar 04 2025 45 ep. 31 mins 47

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Leona Baker is the joyful sales coach for creative professionals. She teaches practical tools for creatives to grow financially successful businesses. Combine the simple marketing and selling strategies with self-coaching techniques to start making the money you want sooner than you think.

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Ep. 46: How to Stop the Juggle: Embrace Your Own Cycle

Mar 04 2025 31 mins

Are you a creative professional struggling to balance your creative passion with the demands of running a business? In this episode, learn practical tools from creative sales coach Leona Howard (not Baker - I got married, reminds self!) to cultivate your business on your own terms without the feelings of guilt or overwhelm. Discover how working with your own life cycles can mirror

Ep. 45: Crafting Success: Finding the sweet spot between creativity and selling

Jul 17 2024 47 mins

Welcome to today's episode, featuring an inspiring interview with Joyful Selling member Susannah Brookes, a talented silver jewellery designer from Nottingham who transforms sentimental pieces like a mother's wedding dress into bespoke pieces. Susannah shares her journey of transitioning from a part-time side hustle to a full-time business. We delve into her approach to time manage

Ep. 44: I'm back!

Jul 02 2024 9 mins

After a year long podcast pause I'm ready to speak up again and share my inner thoughts and musings about the world of independent creative business from the angle of generating revenue and having fun with it! Today I simply share getting back on the horse in the simplest way possible. What do you need to get back on track with?

Ep. 43: It’s Another Joyful Selling Success Panel

Jun 06 2023 56 mins

Our success panel of 3 Joyful Selling for Creative Professional program members includes a small batch skincare and soap maker, a designer/maker of vegan accessories and a lino cut artist. We dive into the specifics of the thought work that has made an incredible difference to all of their businesses with actionable ways they are creating more cash.

Ep. 42: The Simple Selling Cycle

May 31 2023 29 mins

I know you feel overwhelmed quite a bit and part of that is because of all the creativity that's bursting through your veins which you want to release to the world. How amazing! Yet, if you want to run a sustainable business that creates customers and sales then please channel some of this awesome creative energy into the other areas that you might be labelling 'boring'. Today I re

Ep. 41: Instagram Audit

May 23 2023 30 mins

In today’s episode I offer a 3 step process to audit your Instagram content over the past 7 or 30 days. The steps: 1, Quantity 2, Quality 3, Expectation Once audited you will have a series of specific actionable tasks to get on with to work towards creating the revenue you want to create with your social media marketing. You can utilise these steps as an end of the month evaluati

Ep. 40: The Number One Way to Increase Sales

May 16 2023 20 mins

Today we focus on selling. I share with you an overarching mindset shift that will impact the words you write and the visuals you share that will hugely improve your ability to sell your work. Rather than asking yourself ‘what do I need to do?’ or saying to yourself ‘I don’t know what to do’ you get the opportunity to ask yourself ‘What do THEY need right now?’ The tr

Ep. 39: Movement May with Sam Bratby

May 10 2023 56 mins

In May, Joyful Selling member, artist and dance instructor, Sam Bratby is inviting us Rollers into her Kitchen Dance Club on Instagram to learn a series of micro-movements to boost up with whilst we work. On today’s episode we decide to record one of our meetings on Zoom as we decide how to approach our social media collaboration, why it’s important to both of us and how to mak

Ep. 38: Tangled Thoughts

May 02 2023 23 mins

I know what it feels like to wear a lot of hats in creative entrepreneurship and feel like the head that’s wearing the hat has too much in it. Most of my members join us with a flavour of this happening so I help them empty it all out for focus and clarity. You’ve probably heard of journaling and maybe even Thought Downloading which is the term coined by the coaching school I t

Ep. 37: What are you making your numbers mean?

Apr 25 2023 26 mins

What type of relationship do you currently have with the numbers in your business? The two main groups of numbers are your sales and revenue figures and your social media and selling platform numbers. What thoughts are you having right now when you think about these sets of numbers in your business and how do this thoughts make you feel? What I’ve noticed is that so many of us hu