Audio Inspiration

How are you creating experiences and memories in your life? Have you thought about how you are connecting, gathering, learning, experiencing?

What is creativity? How do we stay in a state of growth? Why is audio the new content king? Where do we go to grow ourselves and our businesses?

You don’t need a big team to have effective marketing. The right marketing strategy means that even TINY teams can have great results.

What does it mean for a brand to connect with its audience on an emotional level? Go behind the scenes with award-winning brand creative expert Charisse McAloon as she explores what it means to design with purpose. After listening to these fascinating little nuggets, you will have a newly heightened awareness and look at brands, maybe even your own, differently.

Delivering phenomenal creativity and seeing the business goals of your client by learning to ask more questions and to TRULY listen.

In this episode, host Pat Helmers meets with Chris Askew to discuss digital creativity. Chris has a mantra of “You either grow daily or you die gradually,” and he outlines how this path of constant self-education has transformed his career.

Chris shares how rebranding a business can be a lot like business therapy as well as the #1 mistake ad agencies make. Chris also talks about the top tactics he uses to slow down and uncover the TRUE needs and goals of a business while creating their marketing strategy.

In this episode we meet fitness coach Jackie Errico. Jackie shares how she sees her coaching and fitness as creative work. She believes it's a creative art to start your own business. Being an athlete all her life, she draw from her experience with training, nutrition, and mindset. Collegiate basketball in NCAA has prepared her for becoming a business owner. She's wholly focused on helping people meet their fitness aspirations on multiple levels. Terrific conversation with a true creative spirit.

In this episode Dhariana and Pat talk about the many forms of creativity and how it expresses itself in Dhariana's social media business. We talk about event planning, restaurants, B2B vs B2C differences and how to show up on Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter. Throughout the conversation we discuss the power of mindfulness, keeping a child's mind on new opportunities and the possibilities that crayon books provide.

In this episode we meet Megan Wenstrup. Mega is a fitness instructor and spinner of stories both on and off the spin bike. Her creativity is expressed through the journey of spin class: across the windswept prairie and heart pumping mountain ascents, taking students on a panoramic trip, yet the bikes remain stationary, not moving an inch. Megan divulges her latest ventures in events and her passion about non-profits. She is our creator for today.

In this episode Dean introduces the Orange Squad to the world. The Orange Squad is a collective of creative talent for ambitious brands and people who believe in democratizing creativity. Making is not for the chosen few. We are all born creative.

When we problem-solve or make decisions, we are creative. When we parent or start a business, we are creative. Creative = freedom.