4.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Caroline Zook is an artist and creative entrepreneur. In this episode we talk about getting swept up in the rat race, the importance of authenticity, and how to change the way you think about failure.
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Episode Highlights:
00:56 - Introduction: Ad agency and starting to make money online
04:47 - Starting to listen to her creative side and redefining success
11:55 - Getting swept up in the rat race
18:01 - Balancing pleasing your audience and your creative desire
21:43 - The mindset required to follow your own path
25:10 - Developing confidence through action
33:17 - If you are making 1k a month you can make 10k a month
39:10 - The importance of authenticity
45:43 - The book
53:19 - Minimalism
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0:00.0 | Welcome back to the ground up show. My name is Matt Diavella, and this is the podcast about starting |
0:05.1 | something from nothing. This week, I'm joined by creative entrepreneur and artist Caroline Zook. |
0:12.3 | We talk about getting swept up in the rat race, the importance of authenticity, and how to change |
0:17.6 | the way you think about failure. Failure doesn't become as scary because you go, it's a win-win. |
0:22.5 | Either I experiment and it works and this is great and the business thrives and we move forward |
0:27.5 | or we experiment and we learn and we try something and we move forward. |
0:31.9 | You know, so it's like you can't fail if you're just viewing it through the lens of experimenting |
0:35.4 | and finding out things. |
0:36.9 | This podcast is ad-free thanks to listener support. |
0:40.1 | Go to patreon.com slash Matt Diabella to help keep it independent |
0:43.5 | and get access to exclusive videos on filmmaking and lifestyle design |
0:47.0 | with new content coming every month. |
0:49.6 | Again, that's patreon.com slash Matt Diabella. |
0:52.9 | Enjoy the show. |
0:56.9 | So to start things out, can you just give me like a little bit of an introduction, |
1:00.5 | people who aren't familiar with your work? |
1:02.2 | What do you do these days? |
1:03.4 | What do you do? |
1:04.5 | What do you do? |
1:05.6 | Okay. |
1:06.1 | I'm Caroline Zuck. |
1:07.9 | And I guess nowadays I would best call myself an artist and a writer and I |
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