Episode 38: Emily McDowell – Writer, Illustrator, and Founder of Emily McDowell & Friends

Habits and Hustle

Jen Cohen and Habit Nest

Education, Health & Fitness, Business, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship

4.4 • 763 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Emily McDowell is a writer, illustrator, speaker, teacher, and founder of Emily McDowell & Friends. After spending a decade working in advertising, she founded Emily McDowell Studio, a company that creates greeting cards that speak to the human condition with honesty, humor, and heart. Emily talks about how she started off on Etsy hitting sales of over $500,000 in her first year. She also discusses what her greatest motivator is and what the most important attribute to being an entrepreneur is…constant problem-solving. Youtube Link to This Episode Emily’s Website Emily’s Instagram ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Did you learn something from tuning in today? Please pay it forward and write us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts. 📧If you have feedback for the show, please email [email protected] 📙Get yourself a copy of Jennifer Cohen’s newest book from Habit Nest, Badass Body Goals Journal. ℹ️Habits & Hustle Website 📚Habit Nest Website 📱Follow Jennifer – Instagram – Facebook – Twitter – Jennifer’s Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Knock, knock, who's there? It's the land of same day.
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0:11.6	Delivery from £2 minimum more than £25 to your restrictions in terms of life.
0:18.0	Welcome to the Habits and Hustle Podcast.
0:20.6	A podcast that uncovers the rituals, unspoken habits and mindsets of extraordinary people.
0:26.6	A podcast powered by habit nest.
0:29.2	Now here's your host, Jennifer Cohen.
0:34.8	This is Emily McDowell and she has the brand called Emily McDowell and Friends,
0:41.7	which is a phenomenal greeting card company brand. I should call it.
0:47.2	She writes some of the funniest things. You probably see it all over Instagram and basically
0:51.5	all over social media because there's empathy, there's comedy and I literally see all your stuff
0:57.4	everywhere. People repost through post repost.
0:59.6	It's my whole marketing strategy.
1:00.8	I don't have no money if you make stuff people want to share.
1:03.0	It's working. Well, thank you.
1:04.4	Yeah, you're welcome. So you're just naturally a really good writer or a copywriter?
1:09.4	Well, it worked in advertising for 10 years. I've always been a writer.
1:14.2	I was a creative writing major in college and then I worked in advertising.
1:18.2	I was actually an art director first and then I switched and became a writer because I was
1:21.7	a better writer than an art director. I really learned how to write
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