CREATIVE STRENGTHS

Pricing your work is one of the most quietly stressful things you do, and I don't think the problem is confidence or your numbers. I think it's that you sit down to price one thing, when your clients are actually paying you for four. This week I'd love to show you the four separate kinds of value you deliver every single time, and why three of them have perhaps been invisible to you all along.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL DISCOVER:
◼️ The quiet pricing wobble almost every creative knows, and why it has nothing to do with confidence or arithmetic
◼️ The four separate things a client actually pays for, and why 
◼️ Why the layers holding most of your value are the very ones you genuinely cannot see from the inside
◼️ What a client really means when they tell you "you were so easy to work with"
◼️ The twenty-minute exercise that shows you what you've been giving away for free
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Florian Gadsby, @floriangadsby

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Of the four layers, which is the one you're not accounting for? Send me a DM on Instagram or reply to the Thursday newsletter. I'd genuinely love to hear and open up a dicussion.
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"What feels effortless feels like nothing. And so it gets left out." — Philippa Craddock

Have you ever asked someone what they think of your business and they come away with a warm but bland "oh, you're doing so well, keep going!", and honestly nothing you could actually use?
There's a real reason you received this answer, and it's completely within your power to change it through the questions you ask. 
This week, to close the summer series, I'd love to show you the small shift that turns kind but useless reassurance into answers you can genuinely act on.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL DISCOVER:
◼️ Why "what do you think?" almost always gets you a kind compliment but nothing you can actually use
◼️ The small change to a question that turns a shrug into real, specific, useful help
◼️ Why the most valuable thing about you is so often the very thing you can't see 
◼️ The one vague worry to turn into a single precise question this week  and why the answer might surprise you
RESOURCES MENTIONED:
Free Training: The Missing Piece
The Bright Line: Application
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So here's my question for you: If you could ask one specific question about your work this week, what would it be? Send me a DM on Instagram or reply to the Thursday newsletter and maybe I can help sharpen it so it gets you the best possible feedback.
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The single most important way a business like ours grows isn't posting more, or being everywhere, or finally cracking the algorithm. It's something much quieter, something you're very likely already brilliant at, even if you'd never think to call it a strength.
This week, I'd love to show you why it matters more than almost anything else, and how to do it in a way that feels entirely like you.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL DISCOVER:
◼️ Growing through relationships, not algorithms and why it's the opposite of the cold thing it sounds like
◼️ Why being gentle, thoughtful and maybe a little quietly spoken makes you especially good at it
◼️ The quiet distinction between working for Instagram and doing the thing that's actually yours
◼️ Three women inside The Bright Line, three completely different styles and what each of them did that changed everything
◼️ The step almost everyone skips and why silence is almost never the rejection it feels like
RESOURCES MENTIONED:
Free Training: The Missing Piece
The Bright Line: Application
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Who's the one client you'd most like to reach or the collaboration you would love to form if you were feeling brave? Send me a DM on Instagram or reply to the Thursday newsletter, I'd so love to hear and help where i can.
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It can feel genuinely lonely running a creative business, making the decisions, working it all out with no one to talk it through, sitting with the doubts, quietly wondering if you're getting it right, all in a way people on the outside rarely understand. 
So this week I'm stepping out of the summer series for an episode I just couldn't hold back on: because you really don't have to do this alone, and I woke up this morning wanting to show you how.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL DISCOVER:
◼️ What I hear from creatives most, and why it's so rarely said aloud
◼️ What's extraordinary, and why it's never what people expect
◼️ Where the biggest breakthroughs really come from, and the four quiet words that change everything
◼️ The mistake I realised I'd made five days in
◼️ The free thing I've just opened up, and the slightly exposing ask that comes with it
RESOURCES MENTIONED:
Free Training: The Missing Piece
The Bright Line: Application
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What's the thing you're quietly working through on your own right now?
Be alone no longer! send me a DM on Instagram or reply to the Thursday newsletter, I'd genuinely love to hear.
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This is about the peculiar problem of having too many good ideas. Not too few. Too many. And why letting some of them stay exactly as they are, ideas, or hobbies, rather than folding every single one into the business, might be one of the most quietly confident things you can do.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL DISCOVER:
◼️ The one thread running quietly through everything you offer and why it matters more than any single idea on its own
◼️ What actually happens when you fold one more exciting idea into your business and why it often works against you
◼️ Why being known for one thing is never the same as only doing one thing
◼️ Why letting a good idea stay a hobby isn't playing small at all 
◼️ The simple question to ask the next time an potentially exciting idea comes knocking 
RESOURCES MENTIONED:
Summer series started at Episode 148
Free Training: The Missing Piece
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What's your 'One Thing' and which idea are you going to happily let stay a hobby?
Send me a DM on Instagram or reply to the Thursday newsletter, I'd genuinely love to hear.
 NEVER MISS AN EPISODE:
My weekly newsletter is where I think out loud. It's where you'll find my behind-the-scenes thinking, where I share the tools I'm currently trying/using, where new resources are shared first and where the conversations happen that often form future episodes. I'd love you to join the many creative business owners already benefitting and joining the conversations.