Books & Podcasts
General Biz • Branding • Design • Marketing • Strategy • Pricing • Selling
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Books
General Business
COMPANY OF ONE 🇨🇦*
Book – Business
Canadian author Paul Jarvis provides refreshing new advice about staying small & avoiding growth, for any size business. By staying small, we can have the freedom to pursue more meaningful pleasures, and avoid the headaches from dealing with employees, long meetings, or worrying about expansion. Company of One introduces a life/work balanced strategy and explains how to make it work for you.
START WITH WHY *
Book – Business
Most of you have heard of Simon Sinek and his famous TedTalk How Great Leaders Inspire Action . In this book Simon discusses how business owners should put the Why (purpose) before the How (Process) and the What (Product or Service) in order to gain new clients without the pushy sales tactics. If you don’t know why clients should and would choose you over the competition, it’s time to read this book!
BUILDING A STORYBRAND *
Book – Business
Many business owners can explain what they do, but have difficulty 1) explaining it in a simple way and 2) explaining the value it brings to their clients. Miller gives readers his tried and true formula for writing a StoryBrand, which is the key messaging to show potential clients that you understand their problem, that your business will solve that problem and overall make their lives better.
DESIGN IS A JOB *
Book – Business
Co-founder of Mule Design and raconteur Mike Monteiro wants to help you do your job better. From contracts to selling design, from working with clients to working with each other, this brief book is packed with knowledge you can’t afford not to know.
CREATIVE STRATEGY AND THE BUSINESS OF DESIGN *
Book – Business
The problem is that design school doesn't teach the strategic language that is now essential to getting your job done. Remaining relevant as a creative professional takes more than creativity--you need to understand the language of business.
BURN YOUR PORTFOLIO
Book – Business
It takes more than just a design school education and a killer portfolio to succeed in a creative career. Real-world practices, professional do's and don'ts, and unwritten rules of business that most designers, photographers, web designers, copy writers only learn after putting in years of experience on the job.
THE E MYTH REVISITED
Book – Business
For many people who dream of starting a small business, the biggest thing that keeps them from getting started is fear. This bestseller takes a look at some commonplace myths about starting a small business and how some common thought and beliefs that easily get in the way of success.
Building a joyful business 🇨🇦
Book – Business
After two decades in sales and marketing and thousands of hours coaching businesses of all shapes and sizes, Canadian Author - Lianne Kim shares her insights in this game-changing book!
BRUTALLY HONEST
Book – Business
No bullshit strategies to evolve your creative business. Exploring the critical business challenges including case studies, pricing, contracts, and industry trends. Designed for those who benefit from learning visually instead of just the written word, making understanding and retaining the practical points made in the book easier to understand.
Freelance, and Business & Stuff
Book – Business
This freelance book is a crash course made for creatives by creatives. Freelancing can feel overwhelming. But it’s not as hard as you think! In this down-to-earth, no fluff, easy-to-read book, you’ll learn exactly what steps to take to start and run your own creative studio without selling out or starving. Written by the founders of Hoodzpah based on what they’ve learned across 10 years running their own studio.
The 1 Thing
Book – Productivity
The One Thing explains the success habit to overcome the six lies that block our success, beat the seven thieves that steal time, and leverage the laws of purpose, priority, and productivity. You want fewer distractions and less on your plate. The daily barrage of e-mails, texts, tweets, messages, and meetings distract you and stress you out. And what's the cost? Second-rate work, missed deadlines, smaller paychecks, fewer promotions--and lots of stress.
How to Influence People & Win Friends
Book – Relationships
For more than sixty years the rock-solid, time-tested advice in this book has carried thousands of now famous people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives. Learn: * Three fundamental techniques in handling people * The six ways to make people like you * The twelve ways to win people to you way of thinking * The nine ways to change people without arousing resentment
Canadian Small Business Owners Guide to Financial Independence 🇨🇦
Book – Business
Addresses the unique transition needs of small business owners and independent professionals. We cannot simply attend a retirement dinner and leave work; there is a business to manage and a business to sell, and there are no systems in place for deferred consumption such as a pension plan. In addition, increased cash flow and asset sales create more complexity in tax planning and cash flow management. This book places you in the driver's seat, allowing you to take control and create the transition you want on your terms.
Business & Legal Forms for Graphic Designers
Book – Business
This classic industry tool, now in its fourth edition, brings together more than fifty essential and ready-to-use forms for graphic designers. All forms are accompanied by thorough explanations and are made available on CD-ROM so that they can be easily customized. Business and Legal Forms for Graphic Designers also provides step-by-step instructions, advice on standard contractual provisions, and unique negotiation checklists so you can deal correctly with clients and manage your office efficiently.
Business & Legal Forms for Photographers
Book – Business
Business and Legal Forms for Photographers contains 34 forms for photographers, each accompanied by step-by-step instructions, advice on standard contractual provisions, and unique negotiation checklists to guide professionals to the best deal. Included are contracts for wedding, portrait, and assignment photography; publishing, collaboration, and licensing contracts; property and model releases; assignment estimate/confirmation/invoice; delivery memo; stock photography invoice; stock agency agreement; permission form; and more.
Atomic Habits
Book – Productivity
Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results. No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving--every day. Practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviours that lead to remarkable results. If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system.
Branding & Design
BRAND CHEMISTRY 🇨🇦
Book – Branding
Canadian author Laura Beauparlant. To be seen, to be heard, and to be successful, you need to get clear on who you are, why you do what you do, what’s in it for your customers, and why they should hire you over the other guy. Using this proven formula, no matter where you’re at now, you can build a brand that allows you to become a happier, more fulfilled and prosperous business owner.
HOW TO LAUNCH A BRAND *
Book – Branding
How can you possibly launch as a brand if you don’t have any customers or marketing outreach and—obviously, since you just launched a new offering—you have no legacy or advocates? The simple answer is by design. Design relates to the systematic process you have to adhere to. From positioning to naming to brand identity.
THE BRAND GAP
Book – Branding
The first book to present a unified theory of brand-building. Whereas most books on branding are weighted toward either a strategic or creative approach, this book shows how both ways of thinking can unite to produce a “charismatic brand”—a brand that customers feel is essential to their lives.
The Secret Lives of Colour *
Book – Colour Theory
Every colour has a story, and here are some of the most alluring, alarming, and thought-provoking. The Secret Lives of Color tells the unusual stories of seventy-five fascinating shades, dyes, and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague
The Little Book of Colour *
Book – Colour Psychology
The definitive guide to using the power of colour to improve your happiness, wellbeing and confidence. What if I told you that all around you is something that can increase your motivation and positively influence how you feel? It's called colour.
Logo Design Love
Book – Logo Inspiration
There are a lot of books out there that show collections of logos. But David Airey’s “Logo Design Love” is something different: it’s a guide for designers (and clients) who want to understand what this mysterious business is all about. Written in reader-friendly, concise language, with a minimum of designer jargon
Pretty Much Everything *
Book – Design
Esquire. Ford Motors. Burton Snowboards. The Obama Administration. While all of these brands are vastly different, they share at least one thing in common: a teeny, little bit of Aaron James Draplin. Draplin is one of the new school of influential graphic designers who combine the power of design, social media, entrepreneurship, and DIY aesthetic to create a successful business and way of life. Pretty Much Everything is a mid-career survey of work, case studies, inspiration, road stories, lists, maps, how-tos, and advice.
How To *
Book – Design
Protégé of design legend Massimo Vignelli and partner in the New York office of the international design firm Pentagram, Michael Bierut has had one of the most varied and successful careers of any living graphic designer. How to features more than thirty-five of his projects, it reveals his philosophy of graphic design—how to use it to sell things, explain things, make things look better, make people laugh, make people cry, and (every once in a while) change the world.
Identity Design *
Book – Design
Ideal for students of design, independent designers, and entrepreneurs who want to expand their understanding of effective design in business, Identity Designed is the definitive guide to visual branding. Written by best-selling writer and renowned designer David Airey, Identity Designed formalizes the process and the benefits of brand identity design and includes a substantial collection of high-caliber projects from a variety of the world’s most talented design studios.
The Brand Gap
Book – Branding
All the secrets to creating a brand identity that resonates across every aspect of a business--including its Web site and overall strategy! Quick, easy approach and a wealth of case studies give readers a crash course in the difference between good and bad branding. Tons of tips and real-world advice plus a new branding dictionary help readers turn brand strategy into brand design and execution.
Zag
Book – Branding
"When everybody zigs, zag," says Marty Neumeier in this fresh view of brand strategy. Drills deeper into the question of how brands can harness the power of differentiation. The author argues that in an extremely cluttered marketplace, traditional differentiation is no longer enough - today companies need "radical differentiation" to create lasting value for their shareholders and customers.
Steal like an artist
Book – Design
You don’t need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. Creativity is for everyone. New truths about creativity: Nothing is original, so embrace influence, collect ideas, and remix and re-imagine to discover your own path. Follow your interests wherever they take you. Stay smart, stay out of debt, and risk being boring—the creative you will need to make room to be wild and daring in your imagination.
Marketing & Strategy
THIS IS MARKETING *
Book – Marketing
“A brand’s value is merely: the sum total of how much extra people will pay for or how often they choose one brand over the alternatives.” Most of us think marketing is just advertising; Seth Godin helps to break down those myths. This book teaches you how to identify your smallest viable audience; draw on the right signals and signs to position your offering; build trust and permission with your target market; spot opportunities; and give people the tools to achieve their goals.
PURPLE COW *
Book – Marketing
A marketing concept developed by marketer and entrepreneur Seth Godin that states companies must build things worth noticing right into their products or services. A purple cow describes something phenomenal, something counterintuitive, exciting and flat-out unbelievable.
Shipping Creative Work
Book – Marketing
Creative work doesn't come with a guarantee. But there is a pattern to who succeeds and who doesn't. And engaging in the consistent practice of its pursuit is the best way forward. Godin insists that writer's block is a myth, that consistency is far more important than authenticity, and that experiencing the imposter syndrome is a sign that you're a well-adjusted human. Most of all, he shows you what it takes to turn your passion from a private distraction to a productive contribution, the one you've been seeking to share all along.
Positioning *
Book – Marketing
It's about the power of branding in social life. Positioning describes a revolutionary approach to creating a "position" in a prospective customer's mind-one that reflects a company's own strengths and weaknesses as well as those of its competitors.
The 1-Page Marketing Plan
Book – Marketing
To build a successful business, you need to stop doing random acts of marketing and start following a reliable plan for rapid business growth. Traditionally, creating a marketing plan has been a difficult and time-consuming process, which is why it often doesn't get done. Allan Dib reveals a marketing implementation breakthrough that makes creating a marketing plan simple and fast. A single page, divided up into nine squares you'll be able to map out your own sophisticated marketing plan.
The Pumpkin Plan
Book – Marketing
So what is the Pumpkin Plan?
Plant the right seeds: Don’t waste time doing a bunch of different things just to please your customers.
Weed out the losers: In a pumpkin patch small, rotten pumpkins stunt the growth of the robust, healthy ones. The same is true of customers.
Nurture the winners: Once you figure out who your best customers are, blow their minds with care.
Pricing & Sales
WIN WITHOUT PITCHING 🇨🇦*
Book & Workshop – Sales
We help creative professionals + agencies learn how to get new clients and close the sale through live and online sales training programs and tools. Learn to derail the ad agency pitch process with this best selling book. It's loaded with proven insights into how to sell creative services. Canadian author.
PRICING CREATIVITY 🇨🇦*
Book – Pricing
Everything you thought about pricing is wrong. Your value lives beyond the billable hour. Learn to get out of your own way, land bigger deals and profit for the value you deliver. Full Moneyback Guarantee. Tested, Proven Strategies. Book Plus Training Videos. Canadian author.
The Psychology of Graphic Design Pricing
Book – Pricing
Learn how to price creative work with confidence. Win more bids. Make more money. When it comes to pricing their work, far too many freelance designers and agencies merely guess what to charge their clients. As a result, profitable projects have as much to do with luck as they do anything else.
Graphic Design Guild *
Book – Pricing
For the past 48 years, the Graphic Artists Guild Handbook: Pricing & Ethical Guidelines has been an indispensable resource for professionals who create graphic art and for those who buy it. The content has been reorganized, topics have been expanded, and new chapters have been added to create a resource that is more relevant to how graphic artists work today:
Value-Based Pricing
Book – Pricing
When customers feel they are getting good value from your product or service, they are more than happy to pay more―which is good news for you and your business. Even in today’s global market―with its aggressive competitors, low-cost commodities, savvy consumers, and intangible digital offerings―you can outsell and outperform the rest using Value-Based Pricing.
Exactly How to Sell
Book – Pricing
Exactly How to Sell walks you through a tried and true process that draws on time tested methods that are designed to attract and keep more customers. No matter what you are selling (yourself, your product or your services) this simple read is certain to provide you actionable strategies to deliver you more of the sales results you are looking for.
Never Split the Difference
Book – Negotiating
Life is a series of negotiations you should be prepared for: buying a car; negotiating a salary; buying a home; renegotiating rent; deliberating with your partner. Taking emotional intelligence and intuition to the next level, Never Split the Difference gives you the competitive edge in any discussion.
We Should All Be Millionaires
Book – Money
A realistic, achievable, step-by-step path to become a millionaire within the next three years. Whatever is stopping you from having seven figures in the bank this book shows you how to clear every obstacle in your way, show up, and glow up. We Should All Be Millionaires will forever change the way you think about money and your ability to earn it.
Podcasts
General Business
Business in thinking Big 🇨🇦
Podcast - Business
Hosted by Canadian business coach and founder of Mamas & Co., Lianne Kim. In this podcast, we talk all things business mindset, strategy, and hustle. So, if you're looking to grow your revenue, serve more dream clients and create amazing new possibilities, then you my friend are in the right place!
Scaling Up
Podcast - Business/Brand
Elizabeth Hartke, a Business Scaling Strategist, brings you all the tools you need to create a life of true freedom and fulfillment by scaling & monetizing your personal brand!
School of Greatness*
Podcast - Business
Episodes range from interviews with incredible world-class game changers in entrepreneurship, health, mindset, and relationships, to solo rounds with the host, Lewis Howes.
Systems saved me
Podcast - Business
Help business owners navigate their way to success through systems. If you want an action-packed podcast with step by step chatter from a variety of industries, this is the show for you!
The Creative Empire
Podcast - Business
Reina + Christina bring you up close with the influencers you dream of meeting at conferences and workshops, but maybe don't have a budget to attend yet. Sprinkled in between these are teaching episodes, and mentoring that walks show listeners through common problems with solutions during their early days of business.
Get Paid
Podcast – Money
The podcast that’s dedicated to giving you an honest look at the reality of running an online business! The Get Paid Podcast is Claire's attempt to pull back the curtain on the reality of running an online business.
Money 101
Podcast – Money
Join Bea Duncan as she sets out on a mission to learn about money, clear up the confusion and hopefully get the answers to the questions we all have.
2Bobs
Podcast – Entrepreneurship
Anyone who's seen the Office Space movie will immediately get the reference for “2 Bobs”. Conversations on the art of creative entrepreneurship with David C. Baker and Blair Enns.
The 1 Thing
Podcast – Productivity
The ONE Thing is the surprisingly simple truth behind extraordinary results. That truth: time is our most valuable resource. What's the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be ... ONE Thing stands between you and your goals.
Entrepreneurs on Fire
Podcast – Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurs on Fire is an award winning Business Podcast where John Lee Dumas chats with todays most successful Entrepreneurs. Pat Flynn, Seth Godin, Tim Ferriss, Tony Robbins and Gary Vaynerchuk are just 5 of the over 2000 interviews to date. EOFire was created for YOU, the Entrepreneur, Side-Preneur, Solo-Preneur and Small Business Owner.
Goal Digger *
Podcast – Entrepreneurship
Host Jenna Kutcher brings you the the productivity tips, social media strategies, business hacks, and inspirational stories that can help YOU design your dream career. Jenna shares tangible tips and hacks that she used to become a self-made millionaire in photography, online courses, Instagram sponsorships, and navigating the world of being a #girlboss social media influencer.
How I Built This
Podcast – Business
Guy Raz dives into the stories behind
some of the world’s best known companies.
How I Built This weaves a narrative journey about innovators, entrepreneurs and idealists—and the movements they built.
Best Boss Ever 🇨🇦 *
Podcast – Business
Christine Laperriere interviews leaders and successful professionals about their experiences with their Best Boss Ever. Listen to how their best bosses shaped their careers and influenced who they have become today.
iDigress
Podcast – Business
This podcast focuses on eliminating complexity, complications, and confusion from the business equation to create clarity to streamline strategy solutions that achieve scalable and sustainable success. Episodes are under 30-minutes to give an optimized listening experience to maximize value.
Real Creative Leadership *
Podcast – Leadership
Real Creative Leadership was born out of a passion to foster real leadership opportunities for people in creative fields. Now that creativity has a seat at the table, creatives need to show they have the skills to lead. Elevating the importance of creative work in your organization requires a calculated effort. The most effective creative leaders know how to generate the right environment for creative work. We’ll share practical insights and guidance on the day-to-day of building smart creative teams, as well as learning how to advocate for creativity as a means to grow your business.
Creative Elements
Podcast – Business
Creative Elements explores how your favourite creators do what they do. Through narrative interviews, Jay Clouse dives into the nitty-gritty of how the world's best creators like Seth Godin, James Clear, Austin Kleon, and Lauren Hom make a living from their art and creativity. You'll hear the specific elements of their personality, style, or approach that have helped them thrive – elements like focus, vulnerability, revision, and constraints. By learning how these creators make a living with their art and creativity, you'll gain the tools and confidence to do the same.
More Money 🇨🇦
Podcast - Money Management
Canadian Money expert, Accredited Financial Counsellor Canada® and podcast host Jessica Moorhouse is here to guide you on your personal finance journey and share the stories, expertise, and wisdom from top personal finance and business experts, celebrities, entrepreneurs, authors, and influencers to help simplify and demystify the "complex" world of money.
Creatives & design
InDesign Secrets
Podcast - Design Tricks
Join David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepción for their fun and insightful discussions about Adobe InDesign. Each episode includes news, in-depth feature discussions, and the Obscure Feature of the Week
Design Matters *
Podcast - Creatives
Hosted by Debbie Millman, one of the very first podcast. The show is about how incredibly creative people design the arc of their lives.
Get back to design *
Podcast - Creative Business
Growing a successful design business is hard work. There's so much to do and so little time to get it all done. Not to mention, the actual design work. The good news is that we're here to help.
The Ellechat
Podcast - Design
Lauren Hooker from Elle & Company transparently shares all of her online business and blogging strategies, branding and design tips, and marketing tactics to help creatives start and scale their business. Whether you’ve just taken the leap into entrepreneurship or you’ve been in the game for years, Lauren’s easy-to-understand, step-by-step teaching will help you pursue your passion on your own terms.
Creative Biz Rebellion
Podcast - Product Design
Two product based biz owners who want to connect with and help other product-based business owners. The product based business world is shrouded in mystery... why? Why is it so easy to get information about starting a service-based business, but when you ask people questions about their product-based business they run and hide.
Creative Pep talk
Podcast - Creatives
Time to fill up your tank with a generous helping of PEP! Open up your ears and get that breakthrough perspective you need, the second you need it!
The Accidental Creative
Podcast – Creatives
Where do brilliant ideas come from? And, is it possible to do great work under pressure every single day? The Accidental Creative podcast explores how to stay prolific, brilliant and healthy in life and work as a creative pro.
League of Moveable Type
Podcast – Typography
Your new favorite weekly design podcast — for nerds who love talking type as much as we do. The Weekly Typographic Podcast is our weekly newsletter + podcast combo — where we collect neat, new, and interesting type & design-related links, and then talk about them each week with extra insights.
Designed for the Creative Mind
Podcast - Interior Design
Your designs are beautiful, but you’re struggling with the business of your interior design business. Join successful interior design business owner, Michelle Lynne, of ML Interiors Group each Monday morning as she shares the processes she has found useful in growing her own 7-figure design firm, interviews industry related guests, and brings her own team of designers on for lively conversations.
The Futur *
Podcast – Creative Business
A weekly show that explores the interesting overlap between design, marketing, and business. Listen to host Chris Do hold candid conversations with guests.
Just Branding *
Podcast – Design Business
The JUST Branding Podcast, hosted by Jacob Cass & Matt Davies, is the only podcast dedicated to helping designers & entrepreneurs grow brands.
The Honest Designers Show
Podcast – Design
Are you a designer struggling to find your way in the modern world? Learn how to make a dent in the creative universe. You’ll discover actionable tips to land more clients, find your style, successfully brand yourself, and ultimately find satisfaction in your work.
INterior Design
A Well-Designed Business
Postcast – Interior Design
Luann set high standards when it comes to her podcast both in terms of topics and guests. The goal of the podcast is to allow designers to learn from the best in the industry. Listeners can also learn how to build an interior design company ground up and set healthy foundations for a profitable business. The podcast is live throughout the workweek. Every Friday, Luann features a new “Power Talk Friday” episode.
Design You
Podcast – Interior Design
The Design You Podcast will take you on the road of self-discovery. While the focus of the podcast is interior design, the often explores other topics relevant to designers. Get the confidence and learn the skills to become a better professional and get more clients. Other topics you can hear about encompass lifestyle choices, healthy lifestyle, and overall well-being. Learn how to build connections and gain visibility, how to survive feeling uncomfortable, and how to use Facebook Live to reach and connect with more people.
The Interior Design Business
Podcast – Interior Design
"The Interior Design Business" is a monthly podcast for professional interior designers. We hear from practitioners, educators and influencers who appreciate the day-to-day and longer-term challenges that designers face and offer practical, first-hand advice on how to deal with these issues. "The Interior Design Business" enables you to learn from others in the design community so that you can develop the skills you need to succeed as an interior designer.
Photography
Bokeh
Podcast – Photography
A terrific, regularly updated podcast hosted by Nathan Holritz. In the hour-long interview format, Holritz comes off a little cheesy sometimes, but his industry knowledge and interviewing skills are top-tier, and the subject matter ranges from broadly philosophical (“How to Leave a Mark on the World”) to pragmatically specific (“How to Up-Sell Your Wedding Packages”).
6 Figure Photography
Podcast – Photography
Host Ben Hartley built a six-figure photography business and wants to teach you how to do the same. He digs deep into details, specific numbers, digital marketing techniques, and brand-building exercises, peppering in personal inspiration along the way. It’s fundamental stuff for photographers who want to learn how to run a successful business.
The Business of Photography 🇨🇦
Podcast – Photography
High-quality podcast. Bryan Caporicci and Rob Nowell, primarily wedding photographers based in Canada’s Niagara region, translate their career experience into amiable, well-produced, and tightly edited episodes that deal with the nuts and bolts of running a studio business. They talk taxes, incomes, marketing strategies, and client relationships. It’s critical listening for professional photographers, but also useful for self-employed artists of any stripe.
Copy Writing
Hot Copy
Podcast – Copy Writing
The Hot Copy podcast is a collaboration between seasoned Australian copywriters Belinda Weaver and Kate Toon. Tune in for copywriting tips, shortcuts, writing resources, interviews and laughs. All focused on helping you become a better copywriter.
Copywriter Club
Podcast – Copy Writing
What if you could hang out with seriously talented copywriters and other experts; ask them about their successes and failures, their work processes and their habits; then steal an idea or two to inspire your own work? Each new episode is an in-depth discussion with a different successful copywriter or content creator—packed with copywriting advice and ideas worth stealing and using in your own copy practice. They talk real numbers, rates and what writers are charging for work.
The Creative Penn
Podcast – Copy Writing
Interviews, inspiration and information on writing and creativity, publishing options, book marketing and creative entrepreneurship. If you need help with writing your book, or you want to learn how to navigate the new world of publishing and book marketing, then join Joanna Penn and her guests every Monday. Also covers the business of being a writer and how to make money with your books.
Just for Fun
We can do hard things
Podcast – Glennon Doyle (life)
(weekly) Host Glennon Doyle and her sister Amanda drop a hard and uncomfortable topic each week and talk honestly about the hard. They help each other carry the hard so we can all live a little bit lighter and braver, more free and less alone.
The Mom Room 🇨🇦
Podcast - Family & Kids
(weekly) Your new mom friend, Renee Reina, says what every mom is thinking but doesn't want to say out loud. From the good to the bad, to the outright ugly, Renee finds the humour and relatability in everything about being a mom.
Drama Queens
Podcast - TV & Film
(weekly) Follow along with Joy, Hilarie and Sophia as they rewatch the popular 2005 drama One Tree Hill. Hear about the behind-the-scenes while filming and the reality of growing up in your 20s together in a small town on a TV set.
Your own backyard
Podcast - True Crime
(10 Part series) A documentary podcast series investigating the 1996 disappearance of Cal Poly student, Kristin Smart.
Crime poppers 🇨🇦
Podcast - True Crime
Established in 2011, this married couple "pops" open cases in the most unfiltered way imaginable. Listen in for your weekly dose of us spending quality time while covering true crime.
Live Beautifully
Podcast - Lifestyle & Business
Katrina Scott is a mom, a passionate female founder, and a creative brand builder. This podcast features advice and stories from female founders who have pioneered their space— brilliant entrepreneurs who started movements and built successful empires around their vision and dream.
Lemon Water🇨🇦
Podcast - Health & Wellness
Michelle Siman invites leaders from Canada’s health and wellness community to chat about intimate, thought-provoking conversations about their own journeys.
YouTube
Business of Creativity
YouTube Channel
Business of Creativity is committed to helping you make a living AND have a life doing work you love. We share weekly content on: Marketing Your Creative Services Pricing & Proposals for Creative Freelancers Mindset of Entrepreneurship Productivity and Time for Freelancers
Building a Brand
YouTube Series
“Building a Brand” is a series where we take you behind the scenes as Blind helps to rebrand Hamilton Family Brewery. In this series, we'll give you a behind the scenes look at this process, from start to finish. You'll see how ideas are shaped and take the form of a new identity system, packaging, messaging, website, and ultimately see the brand launch.