The Indie Creative Ledger podcast is an audio diary documenting Wize Grazette, Founder of The Indie Creative Network as he navigates building out The Indie Creative Network. The podcast channel will also feature interviews with members of The ICN community, members of the podcast community, members of the entrepreneurship community and tons of other amazing people in the universe. Hosted by Wize Grazette, Chief Product Officer at The Indie Creative Network. Follow our host Wize Grazette on T ...
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Welcome to the Indie Made Biz Podcast! I’m Cheryl Ham, and after growing my handmade businesses to 7 figures, I’m sharing the strategies that helped me turn my passion into a full-time income. If you’re making the products you sell, you need to do things differently—tune in for actionable tips and proven strategies to help you launch, scale, and thrive as a creative entrepreneur.
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32: Flip the Script on Fear: A Practical Guide to Busting Limiting Beliefs for Makers
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Do fear and self-doubt ever hold you back from reaching your business goals? In this episode of The Indie Made Biz Podcast, we uncover the hidden barriers that limit your potential: your limiting beliefs. These sneaky thoughts—like “I’m not good enough” or “I can’t charge more”—aren’t truths; they’re stories you can rewrite. Join me as I walk you t…
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On this episode of The Indie Made Business Podcast, we’re tackling the endless to-do list that every handmade business owner knows all too well. Overwhelm ends here! We’re diving into five actionable tips that will help you take control of your day, focus on what truly matters, and build real momentum in your business. Each tip is designed to help …
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30: It’s Okay to Dream Big (And Why You Should)
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In this episode, I’m kicking off 2025 by sharing an important mindset shift that has completely changed the way I approach my business. I’m diving into how you can design a business that works for you and supports the life you want, rather than feeling like you’re working for your business. I’ll take you back to my early days as an entrepreneur, wh…
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Welcome to the Indie Made Business podcast, where I help creative entrepreneurs design businesses that truly serve their lives. In this trailer, I’m excited to share some big changes happening in 2025 and talk about how I’m setting my business up to fit into the life I’ve always dreamed of. If you’re ready to join me on this journey of growth, mind…
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29: Surviving Holiday Beast Mode
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We’ve made it all the way to the end of the year and more than likely, you’re super busy right now. In my business, we call it Beast mode because inevitably this time of year we’re working our tails off with different projects and fulfilling orders to keep up with seasonal orders. It’s very easy to stress yourself out, so on this week’s podcast I’m…
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BONUS: Is It Time To Hire Help? (Replay)
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Are you so busy working IN your business that there’s no time left to work ON your business? We’ve all said it, “There aren’t enough hours in the day.” It really does feel that way when you’re wearing all the hats in your creative business. And it can be downright impossible to embrace the visionary role that your business requires of you when you’…
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28: Find Yourself a Business Bestie
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After weeks apart doing solo podcast episodes, the stars have aligned, and fate has finally reunited us! It’s a double the flavor, double the fun episode with both Cheryl and Nicky back from our solo journeys and we’re happy to be together again. This happy meeting has reminded us how important it is to have a business friend to share all the feeli…
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27: Keeping a Healthy Work / Life Balance through the Seasons of your Life
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We hear about it all the time: how do we, as creative entrepreneurs, maintain a healthy work / life balance? We want to dedicate as much time as we can to making our business successful, but how much of our personal life should we sacrifice to achieve that result? On this episode of the podcast, Cheryl’s sharing her experience building her business…
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26: A Behind the Scenes Look at Hiring Help While Growing Your Business (with a special guest!)
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What happens when you’ve built your business to the point where in order to keep up with everything, you need to hire some help? What happens when you need help even though you’re still working out of your home? It might be time to find your first employee! Today Cheryl is talking about what happened when she hired her General Manager Jess to help …
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BONUS: Breaking Into An Oversaturated Market (Replay)
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Are you worried that the market you're trying to break into is oversaturated and there’s no room for you to stand out? Or maybe you think that getting ahead means you need to outshine the competition? If you’ve ever struggled with how to get noticed and feel like you’re attempts to be seen are falling on deaf ears, it’s not your fault. It super har…
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25: Three Things to Help you get a Business Breakthrough
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Are you finding that you’re in a rut with your business? That you feel like you’re almost to that next level, but something is holding you back? This is a feeling that is way too common for first time entrepreneurs. We’ve all felt it, that feeling that something has got to give, and you just need a win to get you to that next level. That’s what tod…
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24: Serve Before You Sell - How to Serve Your Audience on Social Media When Selling Feels Weird
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Today’s podcast is about a subject that we mention frequently when we’re talking about how to be successful as a maker entrepreneur. In our type of business, we thrive when we build and develop our relationship with our audience. Without that relationship, without that trust between us and our audience, we wouldn’t have a consistent place to sell t…
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23: Don't Let the Fear of Copying Stop You From Trying
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It’s almost inevitable that if you’re a creative person, there’s going to be a time when you create something and find another thing that looks very close to what you made. We’re not talking about actively copying other people’s creations, but those coincidences when two things look similar. For creative people, this can be a real moral dilemma! No…
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22: Invest in Your Business by Investing in Yourself
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When you’re starting out, every cent you make counts. Any money that you make is either put back into your business or used to keep your personal life afloat. The thought of using any extra money that you have to better yourself seems frivolous, at best. But investing in business courses or signing up to be part of a professional group, or really a…
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21: Identifying your Ideal Customer by Being True to Yourself
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So, you’ve started your business by posting your crafts online and building an audience, and now you’re ready to start expanding. That’s the subject of this week’s podcast: identifying your ideal customer so that you know exactly who you’re attracting and how best to expand your reach. It’s not just a numbers game where any customer is a good custo…
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20: Collaborating with Brands: Where to Start and What to Look Out For
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When a big brand notices you for the first time, it’s hard not to think that you’ve finally made it in the makers business! Sometimes these collaborations can come organically with them contacting you, or maybe you’ve reached out to them and now you’re communicating… either way the clout from your collaboration is worth whatever you need to do to g…
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19: The Most Important Secret to Running Your Own Business: Rest – Makers Gotta Rest!
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We became business owners to have the freedom to determine our own success. Since we are now our own bosses and sometimes even our only employee, we tend to see all of our time as potential work hours. You hear about “the hustle” from influencers and how as an entrepreneur, all your time must be devoted to achieving success. Look y’all, we’re here …
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18: Dealing with Mistakes and Shifting from “I can’t” to “How can I?”
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We’re all going to run into situations when running our business where we don’t make the best decisions. The reality is, we’re going to mess up and make mistakes y’all, it’s a fact of life that we all need to come to grips with. It’s how long it takes us to get our heads back on straight and deal with those mistakes that we’re discussing and hopefu…
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17: Creating Effective Email Lists
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So much of our marketing is centered on posting on social media that sometimes tried and true methods of marketing are cast aside. If there’s one thing we can convince you, one thing for you to get the most out of, it’s building and maintaining and well-crafted email list. There are just so many advantages to having an effective email list for enga…
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16: Growing Your Social Media Audience with Paid Ads
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Once you get to a certain point in your business, you’re going to have to start thinking about using paid ads to reach a wider audience. Investing money into advertising is a big step, and you want to be able to get the most bang for your buck, but where do you even start to have a strategy that is going to win for you? If these questions and worri…
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15: Growing Your Social Media Audience by Building Community
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It’s one of the biggest mysteries to entrepreneurs when they’re first starting out: how do I build an effective social media community? We’ve all been there, creating content and sending out posts into the wild hoping beyond hope that someone will see it and give it a like. It can be disheartening when our posts don’t get the likes you were hoping …
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14: How to Build Your Business and Push Past Perfectionism - Perfection is the Enemy of Progress
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This week we’re talking about something I’m sure we’ve all felt at one time or another. You’ve started your own business, you have a great idea or craft that you’re ready to share with the world, but then the details on how to share or get your idea out there paralyze you. We want our content to be perfect and compare ourselves against other entrep…
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13: How to Make More Sales Creating the Products You WANT to Create
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This week we’re rolling up our sleeves and welcoming Erica from the Lopsided Crafter on to the podcast for a little up close and personal coaching. When you’re first starting out, you might have more ideas for new products than you have space or money. So as a business owner, you have to be able to sell any product that you make. But how do you kno…
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12: How We Manage Our Money as Motivated Makers
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In today's episode, we are sharing a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most important topics of creative entrepreneurship: MANAGING THE MONEY. So much of what we do as makers is DIY and scrappy, but don't neglect your money management! This week we are sharing some of our best tips about keeping track of dollars in and dollars out. Don’t forget …
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11: Defining what success looks like for YOUR business
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Meeting self-set goals help grow your business. However, to set goals, you first need to define what your success looks like. The definition will vary from small business to small business and even change year to year. Defining what success looks like for your small business will help you, well…be successful! Topics discussed in this episode: 2:35:…
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10: 5 Top Tips We Almost Forgot to Tell You About
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Episode 10 ALREADY? Say what?! We've covered a ton of awesome content in the first 10 episodes, so we decided to dive deeper on some of the bigger concepts so far. Make sure to find us on social media and let us know what YOU want to hear more of on the podcast! Don’t forget to share YOUR Needle Mover with us on Instagram by posting it to your Stor…
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09: Is It Time To Hire Help?
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Are you so busy working IN your business that there’s no time left to work ON your business? We’ve all said it, “There aren’t enough hours in the day.” It really does feel that way when you’re wearing all the hats in your creative business. And it can be downright impossible to embrace the visionary role that your business requires of you when you’…
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08: Getting Started With Wholesale (part two) with Lorri from Arkansas Yarn Company
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Receiving wholesale inquiries is SOOO exciting, but once the excitement wears off it can also be a little scary. We’ve invited a special guest, Lorri Helberg of Arkansas Yarn Company, to sit down with us to discuss all things wholesale and to answer some questions like: Do I need a contract? How do I price wholesale? Is wholesale beneficial to my c…
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07: Getting Started With Wholesale (part one) with Lorri from Arkansas Yarn Company
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Receiving wholesale inquiries is SOOO exciting, but once the excitement wears off it can also be a little scary. We’ve invited a special guest, Lorri Helberg of Arkansas Yarn Company, to sit down with us to discuss all things wholesale and to answer some questions like: Do I need a contract? How do I price wholesale? Is wholesale beneficial to my c…
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06: A Behind The Scenes Look At Our Workflows
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If your business is a one person show and you find yourself struggling to get all the things done (in business and in life), then we know exactly how you feel. We all want our businesses to run like a well oiled machine - each day, week, and month set up for success with a strategy in place to conquer every task that needs doing. But sometimes that…
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05: Is Etsy the right Platform for your Business?
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Shopify, Wordpress, Etsy, oh my! If you’ve been stressing over your businesses online forever-home, you’re not alone. It’s a big decision, and it can be scary deciding which platform is best for your business. Etsy’s ease of use makes it a popular choice when starting out, but it’s important to know the pros and cons before making this important de…
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04: Breaking Into An Oversaturated Market
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Are you worried that the market you're trying to break into is oversaturated and there’s no room for you to stand out? Or maybe you think that getting ahead means you need to outshine the competition? If you’ve ever struggled with how to get noticed and feel like you’re attempts to be seen are falling on deaf ears, it’s not your fault. It super har…
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03: Top Productivity Hacks to Help You Smash Your Business Goals
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Do you ever feel like there aren't enough hours in the day? If so, you're not alone. As business owners, we set big, lofty goals for ourselves but then struggle with being productive and accomplishing everything we need to get done. Life gets busy and there’s a lot of background noise we need to tune out if we’re gonna stay focused and concentrate …
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02: What The Tech? Our favorite apps, softwares, and gadgets to grow your creative business
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Are you addicted to trying every app, software, and gadget out there - hoping to find that perfect solution to your productivity woes? If that sounds like you, then we’ve got you covered in today's episode. We may have gotten a teeny bit carried away, spilling the beans on all our favorite things. You’ll definitely want to take notes because we cov…
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01: Courage Over Confidence: Action is the cure for fear
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Welcome to our very first episode of the Makers Gonna Sell podcast! In this episode, we're talking about why you don't need confidence to start a business and how we can still do big, scary things, even when we're terrified. We all know that starting a business is hard. But what if you're not confident enough to start? Most people are afraid of fai…
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S2E6 - 007 - Meet Brianna Grazette - The Rona Arc
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On this episode my superstar daughter Brianna joined me to talk about the experience of remote learning, being creative during the pandemic and we played a fun question game that I know y’all will love! Y’all, My big girl is all grown up (in her head) so check out her pod debut and support her YouTube show Brianna’s Toy Stories (links below). Brian…
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S2E7 - 006 - We Got Trump'd - The Rona Arc
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On Episode 6, Wize shares his raw feelings about the Covid-19 response by the World and the United States of America. We Got Trumped is the 2 month update since the 'Stay At Home' order has been in place here in NYC. Wize also updates the listeners on what's happening in The ICN and how the association has adjusted since the world has changed. Foll…
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S2E4 - 005 - The Rise of the Micro Influencer - The Rona Arc
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On Episode 5, Wize shares some coronavirus tips for creatives who want to make money online during the 'Stay at Home' orders many of the states are under. I talk about what platforms help creatives and small business owners to cut through the corona-related news in their day-to-day. Follow our host Wize Grazette on Twitter @TheRealWize, on Instagra…
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S2E3 - 004 - CoronaMeWorried
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On Episode 3, Wize talks about how to manage content creation and running your business when a lot is going on in your life. I planned to record this episode before the Coronavirus (COVID-19) but... life so yeah 🥴. I shared some pretty interesting tips and information about how I manage with stuff happening IRL and with the Coronavirus. Below are s…
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S2E2 - 003 - The 1,000 year month
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On Episode 2, Wize shares how the month of January felt like a lifetime! The 1,000 year month that was January put a few things in to perspective for me, but none more than being accountable for those in my life. On this episode I talked about FOUR ways I stay accountable to the people and things I hold near to me. Follow our host Wize Grazette on …
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S2E1 - 002 - Oh Shxt it's 2020
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On the Season 2 Premiere of The Indie Creative Ledger Wize shares how his 2020 started, how I ended 2019 talking to the podcast members on The ICN and the FOUR main aspects of health and wellness that I'll be focusing on this year. Follow our host Wize Grazette on Twitter @TheRealWize, on Instagram @TheRealWize and on LinkedIn by searching for Wize…
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On the Season Opening trailer of the Indie Creative Ledger podcast, host Wize Grazette gets vulnerable about what he's been going through, what the podcast is going to be about in Season 2 and etc.Indie Creative Podcasts
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S1E3 - My Hair Truth by Jamal Weekes
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On Episode 3 we sat down with Jamal Weekes, Storyteller at Prism Multimedia Inc for The POC Report. Jamal shared with us his journey as a creative artist and how that journey led him and his team to create the popular Web Series #HairTruth. Follow our host Wize Grazette on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn Support Digital Media Industry development f…
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S1E2 - A Declaration by Tianna Arredondo
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On Episode 2 we sat down with Tianna Arredondo, Co-Founder at The Indie Creative Network for The POC Report. Tianna shared with us her story and how she has blossomed into the Powerful Leader she is today. This episode also features our April Top 10 Getaways of the month sponsored by Indie Creative Travel, an Indie Creative giveaway and and The POC…
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On Episode 1 we sat down with Rita Bunatal, the Founder of Malaika Apparel for The POC Report. Rita shared with us her journey from being a college student to launching a Small Business before she graduated. This episode also featured our April Top 10 Getaways of the month sponsored by Indie Creative Travel, a discount to Malaika Apparel and and ou…
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