Business Mindset And Pivoting Your Author Career With Holly Worton

The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers

Joanna Penn

Self-improvement, Arts, Books, Entrepreneurship, Business, Education

4.8 • 745 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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How can you prevent self-doubt and fear from blocking your creative expression? What if you've built an audience for your books, but then you want to change direction? I discuss these issues and more with Holly Worton. In the intro, Draft2Digital introduce payment splitting; Long-term and ‘wide' thinking with Sarah Painter on the 6 Figure […]

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Creative Pen podcast. I'm Joanna Penn, thriller author and creative entrepreneur,
0:09.0	bringing you interviews, inspiration and information on writing, publishing options and marketing ideas for your book.
0:17.0	You can find the episode show notes, your free author blueprint and lots more information at
0:23.0	TheCreativepen.com. And that's Pen with a double N. And here's the show.
0:30.6	Hello creatives. I'm Joanna Penn and this is episode number 517 of the podcast and it is Sunday
0:37.4	the 22nd of November 2020 as I record this.
0:41.5	Today I'm talking to Holly Wharton about cultivating a successful creative business mindset and
0:47.9	pivoting on the journey. Now Holly's been on my books and travel show talking about long
0:53.4	distance walking solo,
0:55.0	and she combines her love of nature with business principles. We actually recorded this back in
0:59.9	August, so it's really interesting. I recorded all my interviews up until Christmas back in, back
1:05.7	then. So it's interesting to hear how we've both made changes since then. So, for example, Holly's, the discussion with Holly and the interview on books and travel inspired my solo six-day walking pilgrimage, which, as we'll now know, was fantastic.
1:21.1	And she really helped me with that during the interviews. I was very much helped me take the step to go alone. She's also taken
1:29.8	action on rebranding her business books separately to her nature and travel books. So you get to
1:35.5	hear this conversation as we sat at these pivot points between different sides of our creative
1:41.4	lives. And we talk about letting go of an old identity and
1:44.7	stepping into a new one. So that might give you some insight into how these conversations
1:50.0	emerge and how you can take action, how we've both taken action. Perhaps that's something
1:54.1	you're thinking about as the pandemic year heads toward the end. It's only, what, six weeks
1:59.6	until 2021. And it feels, I certainly feel like there's some hope for the end. It's only, what, six weeks until 2021. And it feels, I certainly feel like
2:03.7	there's some hope for the year ahead. That is coming up in the interview.
2:10.1	In publishing news, this is a pretty big segment this week, so much going on as we head
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