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Creating a personal brand

by Carla | Blog, Brand Photography Notes, Branding your business, Building a business

Creating a personal brand can be the key to supercharging your business. You might have started your business or your freelance work because you hated working in an open plan office full of people (hi, fellow introvert and HSP!), but your business really is more about...

Business mentoring 101 – how can a business mentor help?

by Carla | Blog, Mentoring, Multipod Life & Business, Multipoddery

All business owners sometimes have hiccups – starting and running a business is a constant rollercoaster with plenty of unexpected WTF moments along the way. (Though we wouldn’t change it for the world, would we?!) Juggling all the hats you have to wear,...

How to improve your online presence

by Carla | Blog, Brand Photography Notes, Branding your business, Building a business, Multipod Life & Business, Tips, Tricks and Tools

Your online presence is like your living room (or reception desk, if you’re feeling formal) on the internet. It’s the very first impression many of your clients, collaborators and contacts will have of you and your business, and it’s crucial that...

A year of morning pages

by Carla | Behind the scenes, Blog, Mindset, Product Photography, Tips, Tricks and Tools

31st May marks an anniversary – a whole year of morning pages! What are morning pages? Created (in the form I’m familiar with, at least) by Julia Cameron in The Artist’s Way, morning pages are three A4 pages, or approximately 750 words, of long form,...

Take me home, Bothwell gnomes… throwback to real life wizard school!

by Carla | Behind the scenes, Blog, Creativity, Festivals & Events, Journal

This time exactly a year ago, I was experiencing crewing my very first Bothwell School of Witchcraft, a real life wizard school larp in Sussex. While I knew going to wizard/witch/witchard school would be, well, wizard, Bothwell was magic beyond my wildest dreams. I...

Ways I can help you and your business during the coronavirus pandemic

by Carla | Blog, Building a business, Improper Jobs, Mindset, Multipassionate Entrepreneurs, News, Tips, Tricks and Tools

Well, shit – isn’t this a turn up for the books? Every small business I know is struggling massively, through no fault of their own – and I don’t know about you, but I feel a lot like I’m on that scary Willy Wonka ride right now…...
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