Who is Mandy?
Mandy is a creative genius who runs the Creative Business Academy - ‘Launch your dream creative business’
Key Takeaways
1. There's a concept of the poor artist and the starving artist, which is embedded through society, which means that many of the creative women have a real lack of self-confidence, and a lack of business knowledge, leading to living and working on the poverty line, creating small thinking small and not able to think outside that box. This isn't a true reflection of reality.
2. They are often caught in the making / marketing cycle, where they are more comfortable in the making cycle.
3. Don't believe the naysayers - completely believe in yourself and not let the comments of others, the naysayers of society, those people that will tell you that you will never make money from your creativity.
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Transcript
Note, this was transcribed using a transcription software and may not reflect the exact words used in the podcast)
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
mandy, programme, creative genius, question, creating, talking, creative, people, artists, spending, nice, website, women, understand, business, launch, genius, space, selling, live
SPEAKERS
Stuart Webb, Mandy Nicholson
Stuart Webb 00:38
Hi again and welcome back to it's not rocket science five questions over coffee. It's normally coffee, but I've got a nice glass of hot water at the moment because I've had enough coffee this morning to keep me going. So I'm going to be doing this with a nice lemon in water honey. Welcome back to, to everybody watching. Welcome to Mandy Mandy is going to talk us through her creative genius author. Today. Mandy, as I said, is creative genius, artists and author, she helps people really discover how to launch their creative genius business. And I'm really looking forward to this conversation. So welcome to It's not rocket science, five questions over coffee mandate.
Mandy Nicholson 01:18
My pleasure to be here is to it. I'm always happy to talk.
Stuart Webb 01:21
Oh, well, that's what we need when we're doing these things. So let's start off with the obvious first question. So what's the problem that you help creative genius is such as yourself to solve.
Mandy Nicholson 01:34
And I think in the creative space, there's this concept isn't there of the poor artist and the starving artist, which is embedded through society, which means that many of the creative women that I work with have a real lack of self confidence, and a lack of business knowledge. And when you combine the two of them, they're kind of caught in this cycle of constantly living and working on the poverty line, creating small thinking small and not able to think outside that box. It's not their fault.
Stuart Webb 02:07
I love that I love the way that you describe that. So what are the common mistakes that those people have made when they're trying to solve that problem without the help that you provide?
Mandy Nicholson 02:18
I call it they're kind of caught in this making marketing cycle, because they're really safe in their place of making. So whether they're painting, writing, creating things, that's where they're happy, that's what they love doing. And that's where they're safe. They know they've got to do marketing and business strategy, but they don't like it. So they avoid it. And they end up referring going back and reverting to tight and creating more and more stuff, without ever selling it or without selling it in any volume to change their lives. And I see this all the time.
Stuart Webb 02:52
It's a shame, isn't it when we feel uncomfortable in a space, and I've said this on so many occasions, I've said it before, you know, we worry about whether or not putting ourselves out by by going out there and saying something somehow we're either offending somebody, or we're going to get rejected. In actual fact, there's nothing to fear or nothing to worry about being rejected. I keep saying to people, you know, selling is just about you explaining to people that you've got the solution to their problem, even if that problem is a gift or a a really nice present that they're trying to find. If you can go and say I've got this as the solution to a problem. People won't, you won't need to sell it, they'll come and buy it because they want it and it's a case of just finding the right person to present it to that's all it is, isn't it? Totally. Yeah. It's just it's just it's just understanding how you do that in the best way. So So you have got lots of valuable free stuff on your website. I know because I've had a look, let's what can you do to help people to begin to sort of break down some of that barrier of understanding how they make the thing valuable to other people.
Mandy Nicholson 03:58
I like to offer loads of free value. And I do that through my social media sites all the time. I go live every week, and I always do a lot of value posts. But on my website, I really wanted to focus on a few areas. The first one being identity because I think it's really important when you know yourself and you know your talent and you know what your area of genius is that you can really live up to it. It helps you to understand how you can show up so I created a free quiz called my creative archetype quiz. And you get to find out who you are a little bit more enough young. I've used the Jungian archetypes and for artists as avatars, so you're either going to be Van Gough, Mani Picasso or Salvador Dali. And I want you to understand why you fit into those personality types and how you can show up better on social media because of it. And I also have a free mini money mindset on there and a couple of other freebies that help you get past those mindset issues around money, but that's probably the thing that can help you the best first
Stuart Webb 05:00
To understand if you're a moron, or you're a Dali, and then use that to your advantage in order to help people find the thing that you can help them solve.
Mandy Nicholson 05:09
Yeah, and you know, showing up with confidence as the expert in your area of genius and understanding where your strengths are, is everything, isn't it when you're, you're showing up on social media,
Stuart Webb 05:20
I love it. I love it. So once the concept book or programme that's been most impactful in your experience.
Mandy Nicholson 05:27
And my signature programme, the creative mastermind helps women the best, particularly creative women, because it's a 12 month programme. And in order for a big transformation, particularly when you're in that headspace of not owning your worth, I think you need to work with someone over a period a longer period of time. So that's why I've created a 12 month programme, I see my clients coming out the other end flying, I've just taken a load of women into that programme. My next launch is in January, and I'll be launching with a five day free five day challenge on the 10th of January. So that's going to be the best way I can help.
Stuart Webb 06:06
Get that date in your diary. And we'll talk later Monday about how we can make sure that that's put back into people's memories so that they can get into that space, just at the right space of time. So So we've had a really good introduction, I think, to how you could help people in that space. But I guess there's one question you're thinking to yourself, Stuart, I wish you'd asked me this. And so I'm going to give you that time. Now, this is what I always call my Get Out of Jail Free card. This is where I don't have to think about a fifth question. I can say to you, Mandy, what's the fifth question I really should have asked you. And obviously, after you pose that question, please answer it. Otherwise, you leave us wanting to know what we should have?
Mandy Nicholson 06:43
Absolutely, I think I would always like to be asked this question. If you could give your younger self one piece of advice, what would it be? And obviously, I'm 57. Now so I know a bit of stuff. And I would go back and give my younger self one piece of advice it would be to completely believe in myself in my area of genius and not let the comments of others are the naysayers of society, those people that were telling me that you will never make money from your creativity. It's a nice hobby, but you've got to get a proper job to pay the bills, and all of that stuff that I heard and really believed because it's so ingrained in society, then it perhaps it wouldn't have taken me decades, to go back to my creativity and start helping other women and I wouldn't have spent, you know, I had some great time I spent, you know, 30 years, nearly 25 years in retail as a senior leader, which taught me a lot about business, which enabled me to show up in a better way. But for those decades, there was a void in me. And that void was caused by a lack of belief, because I believed too much of what other people said,
Stuart Webb 07:58
We could spend many hours I suspect talking about how we are limited and held back by other people's comments when we're younger. And it's such an important concept, such an important discussion that so many people are somehow held back by those limiting beliefs. But if you can help them to bust through those with some of those tools that we've got on the Mandy Nicholson website, and I think that's a wonderful thing, Mandy, thank you so much for spending a few minutes talking to us. I wish you every success with that. With that, that launch that you're talking about early in the new year. And we'll find a way of making sure that we get this in front of people so that they can hear about that. So let me just remind you all you can get onto the newsletter website, the newsletter mailing list, sorry, by going to this and then you will get an email before we record these so that you can join in live and if necessary, ask questions and hear about what's going on in our discussions here. So use the following website. If you go to https colon forward slash forward slash TCA dot FYI, forward slash subscribe, that will get your to the newsletter and you can get on and hear wonderful things from people like Mandy Mandy, it's been an absolute pleasure talking to you today. Really, really appreciate you spending a few minutes with us. We're going to try and help get even more people to know about that launch in January so that you can help more people discover their creative genius. Thank you so much for spending spending a few minutes with us on it's not rocket science. Five questions over coffee.
Mandy Nicholson 09:33
Thank you. Thanks very much.
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