849: Turning Creativity into Profit: How to Monetize Your Art

The Goal Digger Podcast

Jenna Kutcher | Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy & Marketing

Business, Marketing

4.8 • 12.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

What if I told you there’s a career where your creativity isn’t just a side hustle—it’s the main event? Learn how to achieve time, location, and financial freedom through surface design in Bonnie’s FREE class at jennakutcher.com/design! Bonnie Christine is an internationally renowned surface pattern designer, entrepreneur, and award-winning educator. Today, she’s pulling back the curtain on what it takes to transform your art into a sustainable business! We’re diving into the biggest mistakes creatives make when trying to monetize their work, how to overcome imposter syndrome, and why she believes there’s room for everyone in the creative industry. If you’re ready to unlock your creativity, take actionable steps toward your dreams, and finally believe there’s space for YOU in the world of design, this episode is for you. And don’t forget to save your seat in her FREE class:Your Pattern Design Playbook: 7 Industry Secrets to Accelerate Your Success as a Surface Pattern Design at jennakutcher.com/design! Goal Digger Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/goaldiggerpodcast/ Goal Digger Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goaldiggerpodcast/ Goal Digger Show Notes: https://www.jennakutcherblog.com/bonnie-christine Thanks to our Goal Digger Sponsors: Run your first payroll with Gusto and get three months free at http://Gusto.com/goaldigger! Make B2B marketing everything it can be and get a $100 credit on your next campaign. Go to https://www.linkedin.com/goal to claim your credit! Cancel unwanted subscriptions and reach your financial goals faster at https://www.rocketmoney.com/goaldigger. Get 10% off your first OSEA order sitewide with code GOALDIGGER at https://oseamalibu.com/. Get all the Goal Digger goodness you love COMPLETELY ad-free. Visit jennakutcher.com/adfree to subscribe today!

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0:00.0	If you're running a business and you do not have an email list, you have just nailed down your
0:05.6	biggest goal for this brand new year. Because without one, you're missing out on serving your
0:11.0	audience, on making sales, and on growing an asset that you own and can rely on. It is time to focus
0:17.9	on growing an email list and creating a direct line to your ideal clients
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0:33.4	live master class from zero subscribers to an email list of engaged buyers in three easy steps,
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1:02.0	me for free to learn how to algorithm proof your business with email marketing. That's grow
1:07.1	an email list.com.
1:14.4	We are all creative.
1:18.0	Even those of you who are listening who don't feel it, you are.
1:19.4	It is there.
1:22.2	It may be expressed in a million different ways.
1:23.6	It doesn't have to be art.
1:25.6	But we are creative.
1:31.0	I think we were created to create. We have that innate desire to build,
1:37.5	right, to create, to make, to build. I'm Jenna Guter, your host of the Gold Digger podcast.
1:43.7	I escaped the corporate world at the age of 23 with nothing more than a $300 camera from Craigslist and a dream. Now I'm running a seven-figure
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