Ep. 106: Jen Bilik of Knock Knock on Creative Businesses
Unperform with Tiffany Han (formerly Raise Your Hand Say Yes)
Tiffany Han
4.7 • 525 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2016
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Jen Bilik is the founder and head honcho at Knock Knock and is a self-proclaimed reluctant entrepreneur. She (and her company!) are on a mission to bring humor, creativity, and smarts to everyday life through some of my favorite products.
This week on the podcast, we talk about Jen's path to being both a successful creative and successful business owner, how she evaluates products, her advice to anyone who wonders if they should start a business, and her tips for finding the right kind of creative idea.
We also talk about the value of your inner critic (gasp!), the kinds of pitches they love hearing at Knock Knock and how to (really) create space in your life so that your business doesn't completely overtake everything!
This episode is jam-packed with entrepreneurial wisdom, humor, and tough love!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of Raise Your Hand Say Yes with Tiffany Hahn, a podcast all about the creative adventures of extraordinary people. |
| 0:10.9 | To get information on today's episode and past episodes, visit Tiffanyhan.com slash podcast. |
| 0:17.2 | Now on to the show. |
| 0:20.8 | Hey guys, welcome back to another week of Raise Your Hand Say Yes. |
| 0:23.9 | Super excited about this episode. |
| 0:25.8 | If you can recall, last month I talked with Susie Barrett, who is an improv comedian and a writer and a creative and brilliant. |
| 0:35.2 | And one of the things that Susie and I talked about were her affirmator cards. |
| 0:39.7 | Well, this week I am talking with Jim Billick, who is the CEO, the head honcho, over at Knock Knock, |
| 0:46.7 | who produces products like the Affamator Affirmator cards and so many other wonderful things. |
| 0:53.9 | I'm like such a fan, such a |
| 0:56.3 | fan girl. And so it was really, really fun for me to talk to Susie about kind of that process of |
| 1:02.9 | creating the cards and then be able to sit down and talk with Jen about her business, about her |
| 1:08.5 | work, about her creative work, and everything she's learned in the 10 |
| 1:12.3 | plus years that she has been running knock knock. |
| 1:16.0 | And not only is Jen as funny as knock knocks everything would have you to believe she is |
| 1:22.1 | also whip smart and describes herself as a reluctant entrepreneur, a reluctant businesswoman. And we're |
| 1:30.9 | going to talk about that in the episode. We also talk about what she's learned in her business |
| 1:37.5 | and how Knock Knock Approaches their product development, which I found to be fascinating. |
| 1:43.0 | As somebody who is constantly coming up |
| 1:45.7 | with ideas and wondering, like, could this be a thing? Could this be a thing? Jen gives some |
| 1:50.9 | really, really great advice, both about how to think about your product, how to come up with |
| 1:56.9 | different ideas and then evaluate them, but also the things to keep in mind when you are |
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